RedState's Moe Lane Excoriates (?) Elizabeth Warren.

Well, maybe not so much. Lane posted a video of Warren (Dem candidate for next year's election in Ted Kennedy's old Massachusetts senate seat, currently held by on-again/off-again tea party favorite Scott Brown) that he thinks puts her in an unfavorable light. Have a look, and see what you think:




So, is this a bad thing, and Republicans should want everyone in the country to see it to demonstrate Warren's radical socialism? Well, I'm all in favor! I hope everyone in the country does see it! It's available lots of places on the Web under titles such as "Elizabeth Warren Electrifies Democratic Base!"

Lane, however, goes on to try to paint this clip in a bad light:

This interpretation ... of what Warren was trying to say takes into account the minor detail that making our current tax system more ‘fair’ will first require us to go out and tell the 45% of American households not paying income tax that they need to start paying income tax. Elizabeth Warren’s too afraid to do that, of course – heck, she wouldn’t even show the elementary courage needed to support Obama’s dead-on-arrival jobs bill – so I did her a favor by putting up the video. Because, really, it’s very responsible of her to take the position that taxes need to be raised – gathered – on people making less than fifty grand a year. Pure political suicide, but responsible.

Of course, there are also alternative opinions about Warren’s meaning. For example, Mark Hemingway thinks that this is a straw man argument, and that Warren is busily trying to class warfare her way out of the rhetorical trap that the Left has busily created for itself over the need for government. Ramesh Ponnuru takes the argument to its ultimate extreme, and finds a mandate for permanent agricultural subsidies (the Monsanto megacorp is going to love that one). Me? …Well, I did do the (above) video ... but I have to admit that the default option of Elizabeth Warren is dumber than a sackful of hammers has a certain ring to it. If only because it’d mean that she has that special stupidity that’s only available to technically bright people who bubble themselves away from the real world because it’s just too damn scary for words. I enjoy seeing that kind of stupidity in the opposition party: it tends to eventually self-destruct in an entertaining fashion.

Unintelligible word salad in an attempt to blunt Warren's forceful message. I'd pay money to see Elizabeth Warren debate Moe Lane. Anyone too stupid to realize she's talking about millionaires and billionaires, not tax leeches working two jobs to support children on $20,000 a year, is too stupid to bother debating with.