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Omaha Steve

(99,071 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 06:12 PM Apr 2019

The only thing wrong with Elizabeth Warren's campaign is the sexist way we react to it


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Updated: 43 minutes ago
by Will Bunch

There was a six-word moment Monday night during in CNN’s hour-long town hall with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren that summed up the dark cloud that constantly hovers over her 2020 presidential campaign. It’s a shadow that has nothing to do with her ambitious plans to close America’s wealth gap or even the GOP’s favorite stalking horse, which surrounds her past claims of Native American ancestry.

“How,” a bright-eyed female Harvard student asked Warren, “will you not get Hillary-ed?”

Ah yes ... Hillary-ed. That new word in U.S. political lexicon — meaning to take an over-65 female policy wonk with a killer resume and toss her in the Trumped-up meat grinder of locker-room taunting, street-corner misogyny and howling mobs chanting “Lock her up!” or doing Cherokee war whoops while their other hand is grabbing the Electoral College. In 2020, a Groundhog’s Day that would surely foretell four more years of bleak Trumpian winter.

Warren — the bespectacled bankruptcy prof turned progressive icon — tackled that question the same way she tackled every other issue: With practiced persistence. She cast herself as the underdog when she’d challenged GOP Cosmo pin-up Sen. Scott Brown in 2012, but said she was bucked up by the young girls she met on the campaign trail — the ones she “pinky-sweared” with and told she was running for the Senate because “that’s what girls do.”

FULL story: https://www.philly.com/opinion/elizabeth-warren-president-2020-trump-impeachment-free-college-20190423.html


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The only thing wrong with Elizabeth Warren's campaign is the sexist way we react to it (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2019 OP
Right. Because the real question is: How can ANY Dem not get "Hillary'd." pnwmom Apr 2019 #1
She has always been my favorite from day 1 of her Senate campaign. zaj Apr 2019 #2
Elizabeth IS amazing... I'd take her over Biden in the 2020 primary ANY day!! Sexism is wrong... InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2019 #4
She, and the other women candidates, already are mcar Apr 2019 #3
 

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
1. Right. Because the real question is: How can ANY Dem not get "Hillary'd."
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 06:35 PM
Apr 2019

The Russians weren't attacking her and supporting Trump because Hillary was a woman. They thought they could keep Trump under their thumb, and use him to end the sanctions -- and they were right. He was a useful idiot (he didn't succeed with the sanctions, but he tried.)

They would have attacked Bernie if he had been running against Trump in the general. Instead, they used him to weaken Hillary. Thanks to Bernie, and his unwillingness to concede in May, she had two months of having to fight Trump and Bernie at the same time.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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zaj

(3,433 posts)
2. She has always been my favorite from day 1 of her Senate campaign.
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 06:48 PM
Apr 2019

She's amazing.

But 2020 is not any normal election.

I am giving up supporting my favorite candidate because, in 2020, moral victory might mean the death of democracy for a generation.

And the sexism is real and a barrier. I'm supporting Biden not because it's right, but because the sexism is powerful. Not among the left or right, but among the center.

I hope she can prove me wrong. She's amazing.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,110 posts)
4. Elizabeth IS amazing... I'd take her over Biden in the 2020 primary ANY day!! Sexism is wrong...
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 08:07 PM
Apr 2019

defeat it!! Here's hoping she's on the ticket... in the #1 or #2 slot. In either case, I'll be thrilled!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!

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mcar

(42,210 posts)
3. She, and the other women candidates, already are
Tue Apr 23, 2019, 07:07 PM
Apr 2019

The media sexism/double standard is laughably apparent.

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