TRUMKA Wants Elizabeth Warren to Be President: "In short," he wrote, "it don't get no better."

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34. Shhhhhhh! That's not the meme being pushed here.

Don't say a word about her strong support for the military or her fight to keep a MA defense plant open despite Pentagon objections (she was being a "good senator," how dare she--and protecting jobs). She's also not a fan of legalizing weed.

Now, I have no objection to the good Senator's support for the military or her protection of MA jobs. Why not? MA chips in more to the federal treasury than many other states; why shouldn't they get a slice of pork back? I think she's wrong on the weed issue; I think that's a money maker. Legalization is not going to make the demand grow, it's just going to move the money from the criminal cartels to the coffers of local, state and federal governments.

But that doesn't fit with the popular, fictional, imagined vision of this politician.

The hippie-dippie peacenik theme, with a dash of "Kill the Banksters" is the only broad brush picture allowed. Pay no attention to those decades of GOP registration or those Votes For Reagan, unless, of course, they can work as a selling point, somehow.