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Elizabeth Warren’s lessons for campaigning
Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren took a victory lap on Tuesday night after her commanding victory in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate race, laying out her advice for running a progressive campaign to an adoring crowd of liberal activists.
“I was up against a popular incumbent who had $10 million in the bank and a nifty pickup truck,” Warren told a supportive crowd of roughly 100 people at the annual Midwest Academy Awards, who greeted her with a standing ovation. “That’s a pretty formidable combination.” …
1. You can run a campaign on the issues…
2. It’s important to explain the vision…
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Lie your head off.
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM
3) Run as a progressive in Massachusetts.
Notorious GOP on December 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Elizabeth Warren’s lessons for campaigning
Lie, and Lie some more?
ToddPA on December 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM
“God damn AmeriKa” — The Rev. Wright
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM
4) Lie about lying about being a minority for personal gain
Chuck Schick on December 5, 2012 at 1:54 PM
Be a mediocre Democrat candidate in an overwhelming Democrat state in a good year for Democrats?
forest on December 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM
1-5: Promise everything at little cost to every halfwit within earshot.
Bishop on December 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM
And don’t talk about the Red Sox unless you know what you are talking about.
forest on December 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM
“I was up against a popular incumbent who had $10 million in the bank and a nifty pickup truck,” Warren told a supportive crowd of roughly 100 people at the annual Midwest Academy Awards, who greeted her with a standing ovation. “That’s a pretty formidable combination
Scott Brown’s assessment:
“I was up against a Socialist from Academia who had
high Cheek bones, and a nifty Tomahawk.”
ToddPA on December 5, 2012 at 1:59 PM
You have GOT to have ‘high cheek bones’ and make that your main whole lying campaign? Oh, having a cook book helps also!
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letget on December 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM
6. Lying your ass off your whole life doesn’t matter, in fact nothing at all matters including your campaign, as long as you’re a socialist running for office in a socialist state.
It’s really arrogant of her to take credit– she was just copying Dick BLumenthal’s playbook from CT: pathologically lie about everything, check “D” behind your name in a socialist state, throw victory party
thurman on December 5, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Next up: lottery winner to offer wealth building advice.
Kataklysmic on December 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Carpetbag a blue state seat, complaining about the middle class being “hammered” while pulling for tax increases, and while occupying a $350K academic slot (as the trailing professor in the household), claim that education costs are too high. While you’re at it, flip some real estate.
Chickyraptor on December 5, 2012 at 2:06 PM
She’s MA’s first female Native American Senator. How cool is that?
So what if she is a lying scum bag she’s MA’s first female Native American. You know what would be even cooler? If she was MA’s first black, female, Native American, lesbian, Muslim Senator. Now you have to admit we here in MA would be the envy of every other state if it were so. Wait! She could just lie about it like she lied about everything else. Yeah that’s the ticket. Now how do we get her to lie about it? I’m crossing my fingers for the first black, female, Native American, lesbian, Muslim president. It would just make my living in MA so cool. People would say, “like your from MA?” and I would say “Yeah” and they would say “you come from the same state as our wicked cool first black, female, Native American, lesbian, Muslim president.!” and I say “Yeah” and they would say, “How cool is that dude.” And I would just walk along with that satisfied look knowing I’m way cool. Well I can only dream.
Frank Enstine on December 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Next up: Obama teaches decency, unity, intelligence, accountability, leadership, the US constitution…
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM
In AmerKa all things are possible.
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Don’t be seen in the same room as Obama.
Cindy Munford on December 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Wrong! It was well planned and thought out. She even had the balls to stand beside an asbestos victim and claimed she was on their side against the evil cooperation. She figured that nobody would challenge her with the fact she litigated against the victims of asbestos related issues. She was right in everyone’s face with bald faced lies and dared someone to challenge her. Nobody did and I have no understanding way.
Frank Enstine on December 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM
With guest lecturers Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill. That would be a fun course to take.
Kataklysmic on December 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Campaign like your lying SQUAW PARTS depend on it.
Pork-Chop on December 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM
When you get called out on a lie, act like the cat that fell in the fish tank.
“Nobody saw that. It didn’t happen.”
CurtZHP on December 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Nice comment about the pickup truck.
This is the thing about leftists. When they win, they just can’t do so graciously and congratulate their opponents for running a good campaign. They have to use snark and insults even after they win. And they strut around saying things like “I won,” as if we didn’t already know that.
Because they don’t view their opponents as just rivals for an elected position, they really see them as the enemy.
It’s not only immature and unprofessional, it’s divisive and harmful.
UltimateBob on December 5, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Lesson: Massachusetts will vote for the D candidate even if proven to be a liar in claiming Indian ancestry.
mwbri on December 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Decency is dead in AmerKa.
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM
I hope she Fails.
Del Dolemonte on December 5, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Lesson: Blue states elect Captain Renaults.
mwbri on December 5, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Bark is going to hold a series of lectures on setting up proper embassy security, and a separate series on keeping guns away from drug gangs.
Bishop on December 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM
This is why I think Ashley Judd will be elected if she runs.
WeekendAtBernankes on December 5, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Indian doing Victory Dance. What’s next? Brown’s scalp?
faraway on December 5, 2012 at 3:18 PM
What is Judd’s Cherokee percentage?
Pork-Chop on December 5, 2012 at 3:32 PM
The Land of Oz
Schadenfreude on December 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Not a chance./ Kentucky ain’t Massachusetts, and Judd is even less plausible as a Kentuckian than Warren is as a Native American.
rockmom on December 5, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Bottom line: run as a Democrat in a heavily Democratic state and count on labor unions to get out the vote.
Can anybody tell me what her “vision” consists of, other than her being a Senator?
flataffect on December 5, 2012 at 4:03 PM