It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street

[ProSense]

It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street

By Greg Sargent

Wow, this is going to be good: Occupy Wall Street is now officially an issue in what may be the highest-profile and most polarizing Senate race in the country.

National Republicans are now attacking Elizabeth Warren for embracing the protests, seeking to make a liability out of the fact that Warren, a longtime critic of Wall Street excess, has now aligned herself with the movement’s intellectual underpinnings. What this means: The conservative effort to turn blue collar whites and independents against the protesters and their broader populist message — exploiting a traditional cultural fault line in our politics — will now unfold in the context of a high profile political campaign.

Warren was asked by the Daily Beast for a comment on the protests. She said: “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do.”

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The NRSC is also circulating that Doug Schoen Op ed painting protesters as wild-eyed extremists and arguing that Dems who embrace the protests risk driving away independents and moderates, even though it was subsequently proven that Schoen’s conclusions were not supported by his own data.

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[MADem]

1. Well, that won't kill her in MA. Deval Patrick (the governor) has been down to the site.

The mayor has said he won't fuck with 'em so long as they follow the law and keep the joint clean.

There have been small issues with graffiti (Ron Paul stuff) and a few homeless people dealing and doing drugs in the camp, but the serious people aren't putting up w/that and up to now anyway have been working w/the cops, not against them as if they're the enemy or something.

[Mass]

2. They are absolutely inept. This definitively will not work.

But they have trouble finding effective angles to attack her. Yesterday, they were claiming she did not know where Northampton was (landlocked comment). Until the video surfaced and it was clear she was talking about access, not about being on the Atlantic shore.

[polmaven]

4. Oh context, context!!!

We don't need no stinkin' context....If we got it, how we gonna slam a "hick vote" remark, anywayz?????

[slay]

3. Elizabeth Warren 2016

`nuff said.

[great white snark]

7. You'd vote for a Democrat?

One with ties to Obama even....ha!

[slay]

8. Excuse me? Do you have some problem with me you'ld like to address?

so you'ld rather me not vote for Warren in 2016? i don't get it - unless you're just being an ass or something. :shrug:

[tinrobot]

5. In other words, Republicans want to continue siding with the 1%

Attacking someone who is standing up for the 99% does not do Republicans much good at election time.

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[and-justice-for-all]

9. I hope she kicks their ass...nt

[opihimoimoi]

10. Poor GOPers...out foxed, out witted, and out manuvered by Warren

They still wanna make themselves look good by disparaging others...used to work....people turned off by negativity...will vote BLUE to rebel...