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In reply to the discussion: I'm starting to believe if Elizabeth Warren runs she is going to win the tea party vote [View all]morningfog
(18,115 posts)47. You fundamentally do not understand the American left.
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I'm starting to believe if Elizabeth Warren runs she is going to win the tea party vote [View all]
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
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Yep , her message is going to transcend these imaginary lines voters have
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#3
Her recent Senate speech was as wide-appealing a speech as I've seen in too long.
arcane1
Dec 2014
#2
I don't think that she has too and if she does then she's not who I think she is.
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#14
She's been a registered Dem for 19 yrs now. I'd think she leans left. Otherwise she'd be a rethug.
RiverLover
Dec 2014
#17
She is in her field of expertise in finance, she stops well short in other issues such as
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#7
Bill Clinton was governor for several years, unfortunately Obama did not have much
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#20
Governors are Commanders of their state National Guards, too. There is a tiny bit of
MADem
Dec 2014
#61
Yeah that one stuck out like a sore thumb, huh. And more character than any of those Pubbies...
freshwest
Dec 2014
#60
Some one who can be given information and respond properly, sweeping the info
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#22
She actually seems to hold pretty hawkish positions with regard to foreign policy...
SidDithers
Dec 2014
#27
All of her brothers served in the military--she is VERY pro-military and I think she'd be under the
MADem
Dec 2014
#43
And what security experience did George Bush have, Obama, Clinton, Raygun, or
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#59
I wouldn't count on that, they are a bunch of right wing astro turfed fuck wits and anti tax loons
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#10
A lot of the tea party are just regular middle class who are sick of seeing , just as we are
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#28
What could surprise you is a lot of tea party members are liberal in most of their beliefs
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#49