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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)38. Who's "attacking" MY SENATOR? Sounds like YOU are. Are you saying she lied, or what?
If you're going to accuse people of "attacking" you'd better know what you're talking about.
In this case it is quite obvious that you are at a loss when it comes to facts:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/27/3431303/warren-left-gop/
Why Elizabeth Warren Left The GOP
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told George Stephanopoulos Sunday that she left the Republican Party in the mid-90s because it was tilting the playing field in favor of Wall Street.
Warren has quickly become a populist hero to liberals. Stephanopoulos, host of ABCs The Week, noted something in her background that might surprise her supporters: the fact that she has voted Republican in the past, and was a registered Republican in Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1996. Warren said she left the party after that because she felt it was siding more and more with Wall Street:
I was an independent. I was with the GOP for a while because I really thought that it was a party that was principled in its conservative approach to economics and to markets. And I feel like the GOP party just left that. They moved to a party that said, No, its not about a level playing field. Its now about a field thats gotten tilted. And they really stood up for the big financial institutions when the big financial institutions are just hammering middle class American families. I just feel like thats a party that moved way, way away.
Now, what was that little slur on our "progressive" bona fides? Something wrong with telling the TRUTH, is that it?
I guess all those "Hawkish Republican Leanings"" you're babbling about came from her time working for Gene McCarthy and George McGovern....hmmmm? Or do you even know who those guys are...?
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A very young "Republican", in fact she was a 16 and had just become 17 a few
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#33
Gee, so HILLARY was on the right side of history in 1964, supporting the Civil Rights Act....
MADem
Dec 2015
#11
Sanders also left the country. Hillary was a kid. Funny how you try to pretend they are of the
MADem
Dec 2015
#8
Yes, and every year after that, when Bernie voted to FUND that war--let's look, shall we?
MADem
Dec 2015
#28
You and Elizabeth Warren. She was a registered Republican in 1996~! She got over it, finally. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#13
Who's "attacking" MY SENATOR? Sounds like YOU are. Are you saying she lied, or what?
MADem
Dec 2015
#38
No those hawkish republican leanings come from her support for the Iraq war and voting along side
liberalnarb
Dec 2015
#40
Like Bernie's support for the Iraq war, EVERY. Single. YEAR. after he pompously voted "No."
MADem
Dec 2015
#43
Oh, yes he did. If he didn't support that war, he wouldn't have voted to FUND it every year.
MADem
Dec 2015
#47
Go to Thomas.gov and check for yourself. You'll see--he voted to fund that war every year. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#55
He organized a group of people who supported MLK's message and together they marched to the site of
liberalnarb
Dec 2015
#27
No, an ignorant comment is suggesting Hillary is a racist, like your OP did. nt
SunSeeker
Dec 2015
#35
Show me proof that they "marched" from Chicago. I demand it. I INSIST you provide it.
MADem
Dec 2015
#46
How OLD are you? Don't you realize that the vast majority of the people on the mall that day did
MADem
Dec 2015
#54