Warren could have been top dog but lacked attack

Elizabeth Warren is tough, just not tough enough.

While the feisty U.S. senator from Cambridge did fight for the Democrat nomination for president, she did not go the full monty, but threw in the towel last week after losing primaries across the board, including in Massachusetts.

The high — or low — point in her long campaign came when she blew New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg out of the water by calling him a sexist during the last television debate.

People gasped when Warren turned to Bloomberg and said: “I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”

While Bloomberg, a former three-term mayor of New York looked about to faint, Warren added: “Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women and supporting racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk.”

That just about took care of Bloomberg who, after spending some $500 to $600 million on his television campaign for president, dropped out of the race on the eve of Super Tuesday. He endorsed Joe Biden.

Warren later gleefully took credit for allegedly forcing Bloomberg out of the fight. Warren, who has made a fetish out of attacking billionaires — she’s only a millionaire — clearly enjoyed taking Bloomberg down

Despite all her leftist position papers and free stuff proposals, the attack on

Bloomberg — an easy mark — set Warren apart from the rest of the field and boosted her campaign status, at least for the moment.

It was tough stuff and showed that Warren, as an attack dog, could hang in there with the big boys — Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

The problem is that Warren did not go far enough to advance her candidacy. She could have gone a long way in wiping out Bernie and Biden as well.

How? All she had to do was turn her mean machine on the two septuagenarians and turn on them the way she turned on Bloomberg.

While she has gone after Bernie for allegedly telling her that she as a woman could not be elected president — which Bernie’s has denied ever saying — she and Beanie have been closely aligned on all the major progressive issues.

Warren, who at 70 appears to be in excellent health, could have turned her mean machine on the health and energy of her two opponents, one with a heart condition and the other with a brain case.

Warren throughout the campaign showed remarkable stamina and spirit, often parading on stage, waving her arms and acting more like a fitness coach than a presidential candidate

Standing beside her Bernie and Biden looked like the tired 78- and 77-year-old men that they are.

If Warren wanted the presidency bad enough and were as tough as she makes out to be, she could have turned to Bernie and asked him if the Vermont senator were strong enough to do the work of the president.

Following a heart attack six months ago, Bernie had two stents placed in his heart. His doctors have given a him a clean bill of health.

No doubt Bernie would have exploded over the question.

Then Warren could have questioned the gaffe-prone Biden, who has had memory lapses on the campaign trail, about the two brain operations he underwent when he was a member of the U.S. Senate.

That was back in February 1988 when Biden first underwent surgery to correct an aneurysm in an artery that supplies blood to the left side of the brain. An aneurysm is a ballooning of an artery in the brain.

Surgeons bring the artery walls together with a clip, which remains.

The following May he had a second similar operation for an aneurysm in the right side of the brain.

Like Bernie, Biden’s doctors have cleared Biden. Last August, Dr. Neal Kassel, who performed the surgery, said Biden today was “as sharp as he was 31 years ago.”

Dr Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s personal physician, said: “He is more than capable of handling the rigors of the campaign and the office for which he is running.”

Perhaps so. Perhaps both septuagenarians, one with stents and the other with clips, are capable of being president. Only Warren never brought it up.

You can bet that Donald Trump will.