If Liz Warren’s not worried, she should be
Could lose home state in Super Tuesday vote
It may be just another stop for every other candidate on the tedious road to Washington, with relatively small potatoes to offer, but for Liz Warren the Massachusetts portion of Super Tuesday has to have her nervous as a cat, aware that rejection here would be more ominous than it would be anywhere else.
But tomorrow’s also going be a referendum for Bay State Democrats who, having turned this into the bluest of all blue states, have to now ask themselves if they really want to be seen as a northern version of that Yellow Dog Democrat who places political fealty above all else, even if it means holding his or her nose while casting a ballot.
Face it, our senior senator has given this commonwealth little reason to boast; indeed, she’s provided us with more occasions to wince, spinning and repeating self-serving tales that wither under scrutiny, or exhibiting an abrasive sense of entitlement that comes across as rude and unpleasant.
Remember when the U.S. Senate, having had its fill of her defiance of its protocol regarding malicious references to fellow members — she persisted in reading a scathing criticism of thenSen. Jeff Sessions — ordered her to sit down and be quiet?
No problem. She just wrapped herself in the stolen valor of bygone suffragettes as if she, too, had been persecuted simply because she was a woman.
Her appropriation of Native American suffering — as if her forebears had personally experienced agonies endured on the Trail of Tears — was unspeakably vile but, hey, it enabled her to land a plum Harvard teaching slot.
Is it unfair to revisit these nasty episodes at election time?
Or would it be intellectually dishonest to intentionally ignore them?
What exactly should we expect from someone representing us in the U.S. Senate, much less the Oval Office?
Or perhaps the question ought to be how much should we overlook?
She’s still telling audiences how she was fired from a teaching job after becoming visibly pregnant, though that falsehood has been thoroughly debunked.
She claimed her kids went to public schools, then insisted she couldn’t remember if her son also attended a private school, until pesky reporters discovered he was enrolled in one of the nation’s most elite private institutions.
Please. What mother wouldn’t remember that?
She wants voters to know that, just like them, she regards herself as hoi polloi, though she’s now worth $12 million.
On and on it goes. They say a good test of character is when those who know you best admire you most.
Well, we know Liz pretty well and, truth be told, she has failed that test on far too many occasions.
If she’s worried about tomorrow, she ought to be.