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Scott Brown to Warren: How can we trust your character when you lied about being Native American?
Hotair ^ | 09/20/2012 | AllahPundit

Posted on 09/20/2012 7:09:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Via BuzzFeed, five minutes of fun at the start of tonight’s debate. I agree with William Jacobson: In some ways, this is a tough subject for Brown to broach. To make the case effectively he's got to get into details about the debunked genealogy, her dubious explanations for identifying as Native American, and her insistence on doing so professionally at Harvard even though she didn’t meet the professional guidelines for it. That's hard or impossible to do in a 60-second opening statement; as it is, his argument that she's lying amounts to "c'mon, she obviously doesn't look Native American," which is both true and not dispositive. I think he ended up fine by turning it into a “release the documents” attack, which puts her on the defensive, but I wonder what would have happened if she had gotten ostentatiously indignant. It’s always dangerous for a male candidate to attack a woman opponent personally; if she had turned this into a sustained “you’re impugning my family!” lament, the optics could have been bad.

But she doesn’t. She’s actually pretty sanguine about the whole thing. Not sure if that’s proof that she’s a bit more dignified than an average politician, who’d be eager to seize an opportunity to play the victim, or if she’s still too green to detect an opportunity like that when one’s in front of her. But I’m curious to see if either of them revisits this topic at the next debate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; lyingliberals; massachusetts; scottbrown; warren
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1 posted on 09/20/2012 7:09:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Carpe jugulum.


2 posted on 09/20/2012 7:12:45 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (things that make you go hmmmmm)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe she should get the phone number to Pelosi’s plastic surgeon and have him raise her cheekbones up a bit. Just an idea.


3 posted on 09/20/2012 7:13:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud to be a 53 percenter American.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet she turned all red when he said that.


4 posted on 09/20/2012 7:15:38 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Romney was right about the Olympics, but neither the Brits or the Dems will admit it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Warren’s indian name = Dances with Lies


5 posted on 09/20/2012 7:17:28 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Michael.SF.

WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????


6 posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:27 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Michael.SF.

WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????


7 posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:39 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Michael.SF.

WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????


8 posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:44 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: SeekAndFind

Boston media already starting to say Brown was too aggressive. Not the case. Warren was far more so. She tried to attack him on women’s issues. Brown. The guy married to a fox with two daughters and is pro-murder. I mean COME ON. Silly fauxcahontas.


9 posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:44 PM PDT by TheRhinelander
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To: Michael.SF.

WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????


10 posted on 09/20/2012 7:18:49 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Drango

Isn’t she a member of the Fakawi tribe?? Roamed aimlessly asking anybody, “where the Fakawi.”


11 posted on 09/20/2012 7:20:10 PM PDT by shankbear (This Tagline space is for rent.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He really went there.

My respect for Brown just went up a couple of notches.


12 posted on 09/20/2012 7:20:55 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("On the ascent of Olympus, what's a botched bar or two?" -Artur Schnabel)
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To: SeekAndFind

“How.” I am sure that is another code word to Comrade Chrissie Matthews.


13 posted on 09/20/2012 7:21:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Let me bring it back down a few. Brown was nauseating with his fawning over Ted Kennedy.


14 posted on 09/20/2012 7:22:35 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gad, the guy’s just BRILLIANT! God save Massachusetts from this heads-I-win, tails-you-lose choice. Poor John & Abigail. Taking some heat, I’ll bet, from the other founders.


15 posted on 09/20/2012 7:22:46 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: Drango
Warren’s indian name = Dances with Lies

I thought it was 'Faux-cahontas'.

16 posted on 09/20/2012 7:26:11 PM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: SeekAndFind
...if she had turned this into a sustained “you’re impugning my family!” lament, the optics could have been bad.
No, that's not impugning your family - It's impugning you for your dishonesty and your complete lack of integrity
17 posted on 09/20/2012 7:30:04 PM PDT by Bob
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I know that, but he’s also a Republican in sky-blue Mass.

He’s the best you’ll do in a state like that for a GOP’er.

Its been like that for Pubs up there going back to Henry Cabot Lodge


18 posted on 09/20/2012 7:32:54 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("On the ascent of Olympus, what's a botched bar or two?" -Artur Schnabel)
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19 posted on 09/20/2012 7:33:06 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in America's panties, 0bama is the yellow stain in front!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hominah, hominah, hominah.


20 posted on 09/20/2012 7:38:24 PM PDT by erod (This Chicagoan will crawl over broken glass to vote the fake Chicagoan Obama out!)
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