Sunday, June 10, 2012

How Elizabeth Warren is Hurting the Democrats

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Elizabeth Warren is the democrat in Massachusetts running against Republican Senator Scott Brown, the man who won "The People's Seat" after the death of Senator Ted Kennedy.  Warren has turned out to be a liability, and despite their best efforts, her problems as a candidate are not going away.

Among the problems surrounding Elizabeth is the backlash from her Native American affirmative action flap. Her claim to be a minority, and therefore due money and assistance from affirmative action for her bid to further her career as a professor at Harvard in the 1990s has been sliced, and diced, and torn to shreds. Elizabeth's Indian ancestry, drawn from her Cherokee great-great-great grandmother, makes her 1/32nd Native American. Her claim is being seen as silly, deceptive, and taking advantage of programs intended for true minorities. In return, the democrats are viewing Warren as being inept, and they are questioning her campaign's competence.

How do you justify using a great-great-great Indian grandmother as a means to claim minority status to further one's career?

As expected, the GOP jumped on the flap instantly, and party insiders are deeply concerned over Warren's ability to pull off a democrat victory. The real concern, however, is emerging as black ministers question what Elizabeth Warren did.

The democrat party reluctantly decided to commit to Elizabeth Warren's campaign because, despite her Native American minority claim, she is the best they've got to go up against Scott Brown.  Shortly after the democrats decided to begin pouring money and support into her campaign, a growing number of black ministers have decided that by promoting herself as a Native American to take advantage of affirmative action policies she blatantly abused those policies that were designed for others.

The challenges go beyond whether or not Warren's ancestry is what she says it is. The real questions arising are over whether or not the woman can even tell the truth. Elizabeth Warren has marketed herself as the liberal left champion that is there to defend the poor with straight and honest politics.

What if the tables were turned? What if she was only 1/32 white, and was trying to pass herself off as such? What would people think? Surely, her honesty would be in question.

Warren's claims are obviously a sad attempt to claim she is something she is not, and she used these claims deceptively to take advantage of programs not designed for someone like her. Whether or not I approve of these programs is not the point. The fact that Warren did what she could to take advantage of the system is the point. If she is willing to lie and twist the system to gain an advantage where one was not designed for her, just imagine what kind of deception Warren would be willing to engage in as Senator.

Democrats are concerned about this. Some of the democrats are trying to dismiss concerns about Warren's claims by accusing Republicans of "race-baiting," but in the end her character, or lack thereof, is obvious. . . and her actions for that reason are hurting the democrat effort in Massachusetts, and is being considered as business as usual by the democrats, placing a stigma on the party that normally only conservatives recognize.

It also brings to mind the black vote, who culturally tend to vote democrat, but see this white democrat trying to deceptively take advantage of a program many blacks consider to have been designed specifically for them. Not exactly a great way to gain the trust of a group you plan to be pandering to, Ms. Warren.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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