Massachusetts Republicans are incapable of making a coherent case against Warren.
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Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challengers Have No Credentials and No Credibility
Like a championship team whose top rivals are nowhere in their class, it appears that US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will be facing off against a member of the GOP B-team next year. Apparently, the days of Republicans recruiting main-event players (Mitt Romney in 1994, Bill Weld in 1996) to challenge the Bay State’s senators […]
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Republican Who Wishes to Unseat Warren Declares: I’m Not A Wingnut! Honest!
Oh, what a tangled web Trumpists weave when first they practice to deceive… Apparently, it has dawned upon the far-right Elizabeth-Warren-sucks crowd that taking Breitbart to heart won’t be enough to unseat the Massachusetts Senator in 2018. To that end, her expected Republican opponent, Trump disciple Geoff Diehl, is now trying another time-honored Republican tradition: […]
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The Real Story Behind a Romney Aide’s Challenge to Elizabeth Warren
So, is this the best the Massachusetts Republican Party can offer? Longtime Republican operative Beth Lindstrom, a former senior aide to Mitt Romney and manager of Scott Brown’s victorious Senate campaign, said Wednesday she is considering a challenge to US Senator Elizabeth Warren. Lindstrom has held a series of conversations with top state Republicans about […]
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The Other Wingnut Who Wants Warren
Hey, you can’t blame ‘em for trying. The right-wing hatred for Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) increases on an exponential basis, and like longtime Mitt Romney pal John Kingston, that hatred has motivated another far-right Republican to make an effort to unseat her: Republican state Representative Geoff Diehl on Wednesday took a stride toward challenging Democratic […]
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The Wingnut Who Wants Warren
A right-wing folk hero is being created in real time. It will not matter that this fellow was, for a time, “anti-Trump.” He will fall in line and obey now, just like right-wingers always do. In return, he will be showered with hosannas and donations, feted by Fox and blessed by Breitbart. Who is the […]
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Nothing in Moderation: Anti-Trump Backlash Will Shrink the GOP
It’s hard to understand the thought process of Republicans, running in parts of the country that are not reliably red, who think they can put just enough distance between themselves and Donald Trump and still hope to survive. Granted, it’s hard to understand the thought process of Republicans generally, but the idea of presenting oneself […]
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Heads of State: The Front Lines of the Resistance to Trump
Two weeks ago, I noted the shortsighted reasoning of Setti Warren, a likely Democratic challenger to faux-moderate Republican Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts; Warren insisted that there was merit in Democrats “reaching out” to those who voted for the noxious narcissist who currently occupies the White House, despite the fact that those who embraced Donald […]
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The Enemy One Cannot Negotiate With
Back in November, I noted that former Secretary of State John Kerry has been promoted as a potential candidate to challenge Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker, and that Setti Warren, a former aide to Kerry who is now the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, is also contemplating a challenge to Baker. Warren is regarded as having […]
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Sorry, Charlie: The Fiction of “Moderate Republicanism”
One week prior to the 2016 election, I observed that regardless of whether Donald Trump won or lost, “Elected officials who have positioned themselves as ‘reasonable’ Republicans (think Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Maine Senator Susan Collins) won’t be able to pull off that particular gambit for much longer.” In the case of the former, […]
