Last Night’s Debate Performance was One of a Series of Bad Judgment Calls by Elizabeth Warren
The press has always been easy on Elizabeth Warren. The New York Times especially. No major outlet has ever had the stones to fully vet her. She has always been like their plucky Frank Capra heroine just out there standing in selfie lines and aw shucks-ing her way through interviews. Ordinarily I would not really be down for attacking or vetting any of the democrats because they are all better than Trump, but since no one is really attacking Warren, and the press certainly would never dare, I feel that there are several things she had done that make me wary of her judgment.
- Going along with accusations in 2016 that Hillary Clinton “cheated.” It did not seem like an informed answer, to me, but an impulsive, damaging one. It is simply not true. Hillary Clinton was polling higher than anyone else, had more support than anyone else and won the primary fair and square. Sorry Liz.
- Rushing to judgment on Al Franken and being one of several democrats who pushed him out, including Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris. Jane Mayor has, of course, exposed the charade for what it was. I do not trust any of the senators who pushed him out because they showed, to me, a willingness to buckle under pressure, and go along with mass hysteria and outrage and ignore due process. That should alarm everyone.
3. Calling for impeachment way too early and forcing Nancy Pelosi’s hand. One of the biggest problems with impeaching Donald Trump is that they could easily make the case that democrats have been trying to impeach him since he got into office. That charge was convincing because everyone knew it was true. Again, another impulsive, headline grabbing risky move by Warren that was one of the main forces that sabotaged democrats’ ability to effectively prosecute him. It was the boy who cried wolf.
4. A snarky comment on the Senate floor during impeachment that targeted John Roberts went a long way to convincing Lisa Murkowski that the democrats really did have a vendetta.
“At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government, does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court and the Constitution?”
It was yet another example of someone looking to grab headlines but showed poor judgment. Murkowski said:
“It has also become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the chief justice.” [CNN]
5. Finally, and worst of all, as she’s sinking in the polls, coming in last in the first primaries, she became desperate enough to go on a full blown attack against Michael Bloomberg. Calling him out, but not just him — no one escaped her wrath other than Bernie Sanders. She shamed and punished Bloomberg simply for being successful in life. That alone should disqualify him, she suggested, just because he was the only person on the stage who started his own business.
Twitter loved it. Between Twitter and the New York Times Warren calls to mind a lyric from a Counting Crows song, “every time she sneezes I believe it’s love.” Some of us out here, though, are not so keen on the Warren show.
While I admire how “passionate” she is, I’m having a harder time seeing her defeating Trump and building a coalition of democrats to stop him. While I vote for anyone who gets the nomination, I hope it is not Elizabeth Warren.
