The Morning Briefing: Super Tuesday—Fauxcahontas Farewell Edition
She's Toast but She'll Probably Burn a Little Longer
Super
Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the
truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid
for the “Worst Candidate of This Cycle” title, Warren wasn’t even the
favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third.
As the kids like to say: that’s gonna leave a mark.
The
question now is will this thoroughly awful, undeservedly proud stain on
the American political landscape get the hint and leave the race? Or,
as some have suspected, will Warren be this election year’s John Kasich,
hanging around to serve no purpose whatsoever? With the right
combination of hubris and dedicated donors, any candidate can stay in a
race long past his or her shelf life. Warren gets a lot of money from
academics who are always telling her that she’s the smartest girl in the
room. That may very well be enough to let her linger like the odor of
filthy socks in a teenage boy’s bedroom.
As of last night, Lizzy was still putting on a brave face:
Who knows? A few
hours after this briefing is posted Warren’s donors may tell her that
they’re done and therefore so is she. I’ve seen many say that the Biden
people would want her around for a while to siphon off progressive votes
from Sanders. That may have been a consideration yesterday, but Biden
seems to be doing just fine now and Warren wasn’t really helping that
much anyway.
This WaPo piece
offers pre-excuses for Warren that are absolutely pathetic. The gist is
that Warren has a wonky, intelligent appeal that’s only accessible by a
select portion of the electorate and there just aren’t too many of
them.
The reality is that
the wonk was never able to adequately explain the math behind her
signature policy issue because the math was nonsensical.
Despite the media narrative, Warren is largely running on pure identity politics:
Barton spoke approvingly of Warren’s wealth tax. Also, she said, “on principle I am voting for a woman.”
The litany
of excuses for Warren’s failure will be tedious, of course. We will be
lectured for weeks, if not months, that America still isn’t ready for a
woman president, blah, blah, blah. Warren is so prone to lying that she
may even come up with a few that Hillary Clinton never thought of.
I will be very glad, however, that I soon won’t have to listen to Warren’s psychotic tales of a dark America that doesn’t exist.
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