Massachusetts GOP, Elizabeth Warren spar over "hick vote" comment

[The Northerner]

BOSTON — Massachusetts Republicans are criticizing Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren for pledging to seek the "hick vote" as she tries to unseat Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

Warren, who grew up in Oklahoma and teaches at Harvard University, made the comment about herself on Monday, saying Republicans were casting her both as an elite and a hick.

Warren said: "I think I'm a new category, the elite hick."

When pressed by an interviewer on the website Left Ahead who said he also grew up in Oklahoma and had been called a hick, Warren replied "I'm going for the hick vote here."

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/10/17/mass_gop_warren_spar_over_hick_vote_comment/

[dogknob]

1. Ah... god bless the literal-minded...

This does not surprise me at all, given the fact that even here on DU, we need to identify sarcasm with a special emoticon or people go batshit.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Metaphorical thinking has become a lost art.

[CreekDog]

2. This will hurt her vote totals in the part of Massachusettes that's actually in Alabama

:dilemma:

[Jim Warren]

3. O dinne don too sure o tat

I live in hicksville MA which more PHDs per capita than any O they other.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. And what, may I ask, is wrong with hicks from Oklahoma?

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[chelsea0011]

5. I woke up this AM with news blaring that Warren was involved in a snafu

that opponents are attacking. So, I waited for the story and heard she grew up with people calling her a hick. Huh? That was it? Brown and his ilk are the true elitists as they side with big corporations and vote against the jobs bill for Massachusetts workers.

[BeyondGeography]

6. This is like losing a few pointy-headed intellectual votes in Alabama

[lunatica]

7. Elizabeth Warren isn't running away from her roots

This just makes me like her even more.

[Worship Money]

9. Much love, Elizabeth Warren

Conservos brag about "straight talk" and how un-politically correct they are....until someone else straight talks about them.

Hicks who vote Republican brag about this, but when a liberal refers to herself in that manner she is being insulting.

Typical.