
The realities of politics make it very hard to remain pure.
Courtesy of CNBC:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren reversed her position on rejecting super PAC support on Thursday as she seeks a comeback in the Democratic presidential primary.
Warren, who has previously said that she would disavow the support of a super PAC that sought to aid her bid for the presidency, told reporters that she had changed her mind after failing to get her rivals to join her in repudiating the outside spending groups.
The reversal is a dramatic change of heart for the Massachusetts progressive. Warren boasted during the Democratic debate in New Hampshire earlier this month that only she and Sen. Amy Klobuchar lacked super PAC backers.
But, on Thursday, Warren said that the fact that only the “two women” didn’t have super PAC support was “just not right.”
“So here’s where I stand. If all the candidates want to get rid of super PACs, count me in. I’ll lead the charge,” Warren said. “But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and only one or two don’t.”
“So look, the first day I got in this race over a year ago, I said I hope every presidential candidate who comes in will agree – no super PACs for any of us. I renewed that call dozens of times,” Warren said. “And I couldn’t get a single Democrat to go along with it.”
“Finally, we reached the point a few weeks ago where all of the men who were still in this race and on the debate stage all had either super PACs or they were multibillionaires and could just rummage around their sock drawers and find enough money to be able to fund a campaign,” she said.
I would love to vote for a candidate who did not take any money from corporations, big fundraisers, or SuperPacs, but the reality is that those people cannot last in a race with billionaires throwing millions of dollars around like it’s nothing.
No part of me believes that Elizabeth Warren will be tainted by takng money from SuperPACs.
That is just now how she is wired.
So yeah, good for her for recognizing the reality of the situation and accepting the help she needs to keep her campaign viable.
In other words, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?
Why can’t she just get Kellogg’s to print her campaign stuff on cereal boxes?
Sorry, Liz, you’re better than this and you know it.
https://www.newsandguts.com/video/elizabeth-warren-attacks-mike-bloomberg-and-his-height-following-nevada/
Joe Biden, Mike Blumberg, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren: All 6 have plenty to offer as alternatives to Sanders, but unless they triage and reduce the 6 to 1, they might as well crown Bernie to take on Trump. It’s tough, I know, but it is what it is https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1231325879936135168
If the Democrats want unity, they need someone, perhaps Barack Obama, to broker a compromise between the progressive and the establishment/moderate wings of the Democratic Party. And there is only one candidate acceptable to both
https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/1231677531423694850
I can’t see the Democratic Party wanting to nominate the candidate who gets the most votes from the voters? Why that woud be… uh… be… democratic.
How Trump got elected.
Trump security adviser slammed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/23/trump-national-security-adviser-robert-obrien-russian-election-meddling
Robert O’Brien says he has not seen evidence Russia is boosting Trump but seizes on report Moscow is backing Bernie
Just wait until the new trump ass kisser takes over. He is a huge supporter of conspiracy theories too and hangs out with thugs just like rudy
Gryphen, I agree with you on most things but respectively disagree with you on Elizabeth Warren. Here are articles from the NY Times and Politico, that point out Warren’s hypocrisy on fund-raising.
However, the last article from Politico, discusses her changes from conservative Republican to Democratic advocate, which is interesting and worth reading.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-2020.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/18/big-democratic-donors-elizabeth-warren-2020-071333
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613