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In reply to the discussion: Is there trolling going on here in regards to Obama? Like [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Ted's term, less than three years in the job. And he was an unknown too, who, as people got to know him, they realized he was a DUNCE. The guy was an inarticulate buffoon, he didn't respond to the needs of his constituents, he was LAZY, and he didn't have a grasp of the compelling issues of the day. He was CLUELESS.
It should have been a walk in the park for Warren, but it wasn't. And she handled that NA thing POORLY--don't, for a second, think that business is "asked and answered" once and for all, because it wasn't, her heritage is apparently NOT Native American (many suspect she did the DNA and got back the bad news) and it will be revisited by the right wing, and trussed up to look like the CRIME OF THE CENTURY if she ever stands for national office. Even if she gets nominated to an appointed position, count on some wingnut revisiting it.
The false claim that she 'only got her job because she wrongfully claimed minority preference' will be repeated over and over again. Facts be damned, she'll be swift-boated with vicious efficiency, and the wingnuts won't make the same mistakes they made the last time (they did some racist demonstrating that turned stomachs). Next time around, they'll be very 'serious' and talk about 'integrity' and 'trust' and other loaded words to try to suggest that she's a liar. She knows this, too--she wasn't born last night.
The wingnuts won't even have to look very hard for their talking points--it's all been categorized and organized for them, and it's not going away. Make no mistake--that was a HUGE stumble and it could have been fatal. Had Brown not overreached on the issue (and by so doing, turned out a disinterested minority population who knew what that shit was about and didn't care for it) he might have pulled it out. Thank goodness he was such an idiot.