Elizabeth Warren is not just an obviously bright person. There is something about her that

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23. She also has a wonderful consistent values-based message

--which is the opposite of that expressed in SOTU the other night.


"I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. (Applause.) That's why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and states. That's why we're getting rid of regulations that don't work. That's why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/01/25/2012-state-union-address-enhanced-version#transcript

Warren believes that public goods are GOOD, and that it is government's business to provide them. And that such investment in public infrastructure is necessary in order for private achievement to occur at all. This fundamental value underlies all she says while campaigning.

And this from a very mild-mannered and prim person who wouldn't say shit if she was standing in a pile of it. Take-home iesson is that while Alan Grayson is great with a louder version of the same message, in your face is not at all necessary.