Meet the People’s Champion, Elizabeth Warren

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Now this is more like it! A Democrat who actually speaks my language! A fighter!

“My first choice is a strong consumer agency,” she said. “My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor.” – Elizabeth Warren

This quote is from a must-read biographical piece on Elizabeth Warren in Vanity Fair, The Woman Who Knew Too Much.

Why the caption? Because the anti-science, anti-intellectual movement that is the modern-day Republican Party, the party that would bring back the Dark Ages of the Inquisition into one's religious faith, believes that Elizabeth Warren is vulnerable because she is a Harvard Law Professor. She's "too smart."

What would our Founding Fathers say? These revered intellectuals gave birth to America during The Enlightenment in the Age of Reason. The modern-day Republican Party snears at educated intellectuals and rejects reason for blind faith. Educated intellectuals are treated with contempt as "elitists," while the fearful and ignorant are elevated to an exalted status. After 235 years, the American experiment has been turned on its head.

By the way, the last two Republican presidents, George H. W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, both attended the other Ivy League college of significant note, Yale. That's what "legacy admissions" and millions of dollars in donations to your Alma Mater can buy you. Bush 41 graduated with a B.A. in economics. Bush 43 graduated with a B.A. in history. 43 then attended — gasp! — Harvard Business School.

So where was all this GOP angst and suspicion of the educated and intellectuals with Ivy League degrees over the past three decades? Oh, that's right. IOKIYAR.

Maybe this is just an attempt to deflect from fallen Tea Party darling Sen. Scott Brown having been caught red-handed plagiarizing a "personal experience" from Sen. Elizabeth Dole's old senate web page. Scott Brown Accused Of Plagiarism: Elizabeth Dole Remarks 'Lifted Verbatim' (UPDATE). Just ask Joe Biden what a self-righteous media frenzy over a plagiarism scandal can do to one's campaign.

Elizabeth Warren is also out with this new web video describing her biography and how that has motivated her to run for Senate.