Elizabeth Warren Continues Planning to Take on Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts

She is Following the Political Playbook

Elizabeth Warren is a Harvard Professor who was catapulted to fame recently for her work in designing the agency that would protect consumers from unscrupulous practices by banks and other financial institutions.  Since protection of consumers is a horrific idea to Conservatives, they vowed to block her confirmation as head of that agency and run her out of Washington.  This has been done.

 

Now Ms. Warren is considering running for the Senate seat of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts.  Mr. Brown was elected to fill the remaining term of the late Senator Edward Kennedy.  Mr. Brown won in large part because the Democratic nominee took the position that the seat would automatically go to her, and voters hate that so much that they will even vote Republican in a state like Massachusetts to punish such behavior. 

Mr. Brown has raised a huge amount of money and is favored for re-election.

To enter a political race one follows certain rules.  The first thing one does is to go on a “listening tour” which Ms. Warren has done.  The second thing is to sit down with a sympathetic reporter and do an interview which is favorable to the candidate.  This Ms. Warren has just done, with Brian McGory of the Boston Globe.  Here are some Mr. McGory’s comments on the interview.

Assuming Warren follows through on her not-quite-set plan to seek the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, Massachusetts has never seen a candidate quite like her. . .

She talks from her gut as well as her sizable brain. She bothers not with polls and focus groups. She far prefers to fight for what she believes in rather than compromise it all away. . .

She’s your typical Oklahoma-born daughter of a carpet salesman and Sears worker who went on to become a state debating champion, attended public college, got married young, had kids early, graduated from law school while taking care of a toddler, earned a teaching position at Harvard Law School, and finally headed to Washington as the plainspoken voice of people getting crushed by so many predatory lenders and underregulated banks . . .

She does this other thing that sets her apart from most politicians: When she is asked a question, any question, she looks the person in the eye and answers it.



He Do It Again and The Democrats Are in Serious Trouble



So there you have it, the first salvo in a potential campaign.  If she runs Ms. Warren’s campaign may be the most significant of all of the senate campaigns in 2012.  If a candidate like Ms. Warren cannot win in a Democratic state like Massachusetts then the future of the Democratic party is dire indeed.  

And guess what, she won't be the favorite.