Via Mediaite. The good news? If even this crowd is snickering at it, it won’t be nearly the political liability with women that Democrats are fantasizing about.

The bad news? If Warren’s fundraising stays as hot as it was this past quarter, that won’t matter.

In just a few weeks, Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren has raised $3.15 million for her Senate campaign — another sign that the Massachusetts race will be one of the most hotly-contested of 2012…

Assuming she wins the primary, Warren will face a well-funded opponent. Brown raised $1.55 million in the third quarter, far less than Warren, but he has $10.5 million on hand…

According to an email to supporters from Warren’s campaign, 96 percent of contributions were of $100 or less, with 11,000 donors coming from in-state.

Warren launched her exploratory committee on Aug. 30 and the third quarter ended on Sept. 30, meaning she raised all of this money in a single month. Campaign sources say that the vast majority of the funds came in the last two weeks, after her official campaign announcement.

Well, look. Even with a huge cash advantage for Brown and a weaker Democratic opponent, he was always going to be a Republican running in a bluer-than-blue state. The fact that Warren is the left’s new hero for her “those are our roads you’re driving on, rich man” schtick means now it’ll be war to the bitter end, with Brown under even more intense electoral pressure to break with the GOP caucus on key Senate votes. That’s a gift to the left no matter who ends up winning. The silver lining is that the more popular she becomes with grassroots liberals, the more likely they are to divert their donations to her instead of to the DNC, DSCC, or vulnerable swing-state Dems like McCaskill and Tester who really need the money. Let Warren bleed the entire nutroots dry; even if we don’t hold Massachusetts, we may make up for it elsewhere.

Here’s the clip, with Whoopi giving the likeable Brown the benefit of a doubt that virtually no other Republican in politics today would get. Exit question: How heavily should the RNC and NRSC back Brown if, as expected, this becomes a high-profile, high-spending race? He doesn’t have many fans left among the base and that money will be needed elsewhere.