Politico:
You didn’t think she was gonna get a free ride, did you?
I’m not saying Warren has done anything wrong, but as Vince Foster said, in Washington D.C. “ruining people is considered sport.”
I just can’t help wondering one thing.
{{Puts on foliehatt}}
If she does have any dirty laundry, which side will leak it to the media?
The Crawdad Hole 
When it comes to trashing women who seek office, there are no sides. Just crossing legs.
Nekkid Capitalism:
Politico HAS a print edition?
Most online businesses and sites make relatively little money, and that is very true of political and activist sites and blogs. So they will be easily bought by campaigns, lobbyists and businesses. Expect to see even more of that than 2008. The thing I like about twitter and facebook so far, at least for politics, is that for all their issues of privacy and verifiability it’s more difficult for individual voices and conversations to be bought. That is, with the exception of trolls. So troll spotting will be a good talent for everyone to have. They should give seminars on troll spotting.
So far, every time Obama tries to organize his minions on twitter, it backfires epically.
In other words, #twitterfail
Good pt. They’ll probably regroup and retrain as trolls. Someone could probably make a lot of money inventing a troll spotting and screening app.
I say sock puppets. Fake twitter accounts owned by the same troll.
“Big banks are very powerful, and they destroy politicians they don’t like. ”
Yes. Like Gore, Palin, Weiner, Waters. And non-politicians like Assange.
My money is on the Democrats, although they may find some back door way to do it. People are angry that Obama didn’t nominate her to run the agency he hired her to design. He’ll find a way to discredit her run for the senate, which will show everyone how right he was not to fight for nomination and confirmation.
I agree that it will a Democrat to bring out “any dirty laundry”, but because people in power will make enemies, and they seek to get even.
Reminds me of a comment at TL, when Obama finally, finally! went to Massachusetts to campaign for Martha Coakley: Is this to help her win … or lose?
It definitely helped her lose. She even had campaign volunteers suddenly “too busy” to help her campaign.
Toxic coattails. That would be a good name for a band.
I don’t know if you should quote Vince Foster. I just read a rumor that Elizabeth Warren killed him.
No, Sarah Palin killed Vince Foster and his little dog, too.
Well whoever killed Vince Foster I’m sure they were racist, because faux racism is the root of all bad things.
Smart money says both sides will leak anything they’ve got or can make up.
You mean the Republicans and the Obama administration?
I expect to see Scott Brown roll out more used pick-up trucks and leak more Playgirl spreads.
Nuthin’ wrong with a little eye candy 🙂
Yup, it seems to make a difference. 🙂
Yep.
Obama is coming to Washington this weekend to “help” another female candidate, Patty Murray. People who have supported her all these years are just groaning. Is he going to help her right out of congress like he “helped” Martha Coakley?
I’m not wondering which party is going to to try and throw tacks under Warren’s tires. I’m pretty sure it won’t be the Republicans.
Obama is like that guy everyone hopes doesn’t show up at your party.
Perhaps people should be willing to accept dirty laundry in order to get a clean agenda. If Warren’s supporters made a point of saying in advance that they will accept all kinds of dirty Warren laundry in order to get Warren’s clean agenda, then her vulnerability to flinging dirty laundry will be cancelled out in advance.
People declined to take the dirty laundry bait about President Clinton which helped keep him in office during the Republican impeachment drive to get him out.
So if it turns out she’s an ax murderer you would vote for her anyway?
Ax murder is not dirty laundry. Ax murder is a serious crime. No I would not vote for her if it turned out she was an ax murderer. Yes I would vote for her if it turned out she was having a torrid lesbian affair for years and years.
Why a torrid lesbian affair.
Why not a torrid lesbian affair?
Why not a torrid affair?
Because no one ever has a torpid affair.
Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I’ve had a torpid affair with a lesbian. We’re just friends now. 🙂
Yeah, because guys would hate to see that.
Why a “torrid lesbian affair”? Just by way of saying that if she has a private life which the bluenose busybullies would disapprove of if they knew about it, that is what her enemies will try to “expose”. And that is what I would not care about in the least. And that is the sort of thing her enemies would try to find and expose through the media. So her supporters might need to decide right now whether they will still support her if she is “outed” for the sort of personal behavior which the bluenose busybullies disapprove of. And if they still will support her in such a case, perhaps they need to say so in advance so that the “dirty laundry sniffers” might no even bother putting so much effort into their “dirty laundry sniffing”.