"Elizabeth Warren must sell substance over Scott Brown’s flash" by joan vennochi at Boston.com

[applegrove]

Elizabeth Warren must sell substance over Scott Brown’s flash

by joan vennochi at Boston.com

http://articles.boston.com/2012-09-13/opinion/33786450_1_elizabeth-warren-dream-act-warren-camp

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Nobody wants to send Warren to Washington strictly on the basis of support for abortion rights. But doesn’t honesty on that issue matter? Brown insists he is pro-choice, yet Massachusetts Citizens for Life, a leading antiabortion group, endorsed him. Raymond Flynn, a former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican, also endorsed him, telling the Globe, “His heart is pro-life.”

Warren proudly addressed fellow Democrats in Charlotte. Brown is running a disinformation campaign, aimed at distancing himself from national Republicans and their far-right platform. He made only a brief appearance in Tampa. He downplayed a meeting with GOP strategist and super PAC architect Karl Rove that a Globe reporter stumbled upon.

Brown cherry-picks a few issues to show independence; his quick call for Representative Todd Akin of Missouri to withdraw from the US Senate race is a much-cited example. Warren is starting to argue more forcefully that a vote for Brown is a vote for the national Republican agenda. But where’s the side-by-side comparison of their already divergent views?

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[MADem]

1. Joan is back from suspension, I see.

The wingnuts in Boston had a field day with that. http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/187080/boston-globe-wont-identify-author-of-plagiarized-editorial/

Brown is a fucking liar, though--his commercials do not tell the truth--he takes credit for Lieberman's work in one ad:

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/09/12/brown-says-that-obama-signed-his-bill-but-the-bill-was-not-his/cboYySoPZjz2P9FEXhPPyH/story.html


“So I filed a bill to stop insider trading in Congress, and got it passed and signed into law,” Brown says in the ad, which shows him standing with Obama at a White House signing ceremony.

Brown’s bill, however, was not signed into law. The bill that made it to Obama’s desk was introduced by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent.

[cbrer]

2. Funny, I thought that's exactly

What she's doing.

Or am I nuts?

[Fozzledick]

3. Elizabeth Warren is running too nice a campaign.

Unfortunately she's beginning to remind me of Martha Coakley, running pleasant positive ads that avoid confrontation while giving Scott Brown a free pass on his phony manufactured image.

It's like that old exchange between Adlai Stevenson and a supporter who shouted out "You have the vote of every thinking person." Stevenson shouted back "That's not enough - I need a majority!"

I know she's trying to be positive and avoid personal attacks, but I think she really needs to start criticizing his voting record.

[RBInMaine]

5. She HAS been doing that, but now they need to ramp it up in a big way do MUCH MORE of that.

[RBInMaine]

4. She must HAMMER HAMMER HAMMER him RELENTLESSLY on his ROTTEN VOTING RECORD.