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Watch Out for Elizabeth Warren: Her plans are more radical than anything Obama proposed.
Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 8, 2019 7:05 pm ET | William A. Galston

Posted on 10/09/2019 5:45:53 AM PDT by karpov

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The reasons for caution about Ms. Warren’s candidacy extend to her positions on key issues. She strongly favors Medicare for All, but the American people reject a program that abolishes private health insurance by a margin of 56% to 41%. By 62% to 36% they oppose extending health insurance to immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, another measure in her plan. She has endorsed Julián Castro’s proposal to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, a move that 66% reject. She favors abolishing the death penalty and the Electoral College, two more proposals strong majorities oppose.

Ms. Warren also has endorsed a national ban on fracking, a stance that plays better in solidly Democratic coastal states than in the interior of the country. It is hard to imagine Texas will shift from red to blue to back a presidential candidate who wants to eliminate drilling for natural gas.

In Pennsylvania, state statistics show the natural-gas industry supports 80,000 jobs, most in areas of the state that have been devastated by the decline of traditional mining and manufacturing. These are the regions that generated a tidal wave of nearly 300,000 new votes for Mr. Trump in 2016, enabling him to overcome the longstanding Democratic edge in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Beyond these specifics, a larger question looms: Are the American people discontented enough with current conditions to embrace a candidate who unabashedly favors expansive and expensive federal programs in every sector of America’s economy and society? Will they believe that a candidate who advocates raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations by many trillions of dollars over the next decade will leave the middle class untouched?

Ms. Warren is betting that the country is ready for structural change far more radical than anything Barack Obama dared propose.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; radicalleft; warren
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The author is a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration. He sees Warren's weaknesses, and we need to ensure that the whole country does.
1 posted on 10/09/2019 5:45:53 AM PDT by karpov
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The public is catching on that government is out of control. Both parties have their hands dirty, but the Democrats are using government to ruin lives. The impeachment inquiry isn't playing well.

Warren wants to make government bigger and more powerful? Raise taxes? Take away your freedom? Force you to make certain decisions?

She picked the wrong time to run on that platform. People don't want it.

2 posted on 10/09/2019 5:50:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: karpov

Of course they are

You don’t get noticed for proposing sensible, or reasonable change.


3 posted on 10/09/2019 5:55:03 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: karpov
Beyond these specifics, a larger question looms: Are the American people discontented enough with current conditions to embrace a candidate who unabashedly favors expansive and expensive federal programs in every sector of America’s economy and society?

Over envy and resentment that not enough of that is trickling down to them? Absolutely. If not in 2020, then eventually.


4 posted on 10/09/2019 5:58:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: karpov

A Clintonista? Makes sense. Mrs. Clinton will NOT allow a democrat first female president(while she’s alive) that is not her. You can count on any damaging info coming out on Warren or Harris to come from her. Trump team won’t have to do a thing. She would prefer TRUMP again.


5 posted on 10/09/2019 5:58:11 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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I will worry about Warren (or any of the clowns running) if they become the Democrat nominee.


6 posted on 10/09/2019 6:00:18 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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The Wall Street Journal had an editorial a couple of days ago attacking Warren's proposals...not the first time they have expressed alarm at her ideas.

If the general election is between Warren and Trump, would they go so far as to endorse Trump?

Maybe if it comes to that they will find some excuse to say she isn't so scary after all.

7 posted on 10/09/2019 6:00:26 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: karpov

Dumber being more apt.


8 posted on 10/09/2019 6:03:01 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Warren is just running an extortion racket on Wall Street.

If they pay then they get to play.


9 posted on 10/09/2019 6:10:36 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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The socialist nonsense she is advocating is cause for concern, but let’s not forget we have a man who was sent for such a time as this. Trump is a fighter and won’t let her off the hook.


10 posted on 10/09/2019 6:11:18 AM PDT by Kharis13
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Warren is a radical and a liar and an ugly personality matching Hillary’s - she won’t attract votes in a great Trump economy.


11 posted on 10/09/2019 6:12:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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She is saying all of this to win the primary.

Then she will lie about what she wants to do all the way to November, hoping people will forget, with the help of the media.

12 posted on 10/09/2019 6:13:41 AM PDT by Mogger
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If Warren becomes the D’rats’ candidate, so many will immediately move their funds to high % cash, it will rock us terribly.


13 posted on 10/09/2019 6:28:14 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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Time magazine cover a few months back, about lizzy: “I Have a Plan For That!” as the media gears up to get one of the America haters elected.


14 posted on 10/09/2019 6:30:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Thanks to crickets-chirping republicans for pointing this out. DISMANTLE CFPB.


15 posted on 10/09/2019 6:35:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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If there is anything to the recent speculation that Hillary is about to announce her candidacy, Elizabeth Warren will be taken out (politically speaking) soon enough. It will be done in a way that will make it difficult to trace back to Hillary.


16 posted on 10/09/2019 6:35:36 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: 1Old Pro

At the debates, PDJT will get under Lyin’ Lizzie’s skin and turn her into the snarling shrieking reptile that she is.


17 posted on 10/09/2019 6:35:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: karpov

More radical than Bernie actually.


18 posted on 10/09/2019 6:56:17 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: americas.best.days...
She would prefer TRUMP again.

That is a good point that I hadn't considered. If Trump is reelected, Hillary can continue to play the victim card - "Remember I really won the 2016 election and that should be me."

I think that this idea implies that she won't run again unless she is absolutely sure she can beat Trump because if she loses to him in 2020, the victim card goes away. I might be wrong but I really don't think that she wants to run again. Hillary would run up an unimaginable body count if it would lead to her being anointed President. I just don't think she has the energy or health for another campaign and I think that she knows that Trump will be much harder to beat this time around. Hillary loves the attention and will continue to tease with the idea of running but in the end, she will say no.

19 posted on 10/09/2019 8:04:22 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: karpov

With the left,it always progressively gets worse. It is shocking that these rat candidates make Obama and both Clintons “moderate” on the libtard scale. The push is now full on Socialism and a ongoing coup.


20 posted on 10/09/2019 8:05:11 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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