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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Brown is silencing Elizabeth Warren
It's a dubious tactic. By pulling out of the Massachusetts debate the GOP keeps Warren's message off the public airways.
Debates are free campaigning. By not participating, Brown and the Repukes force the Warren campaign to spend money while stopping local and/or national dialog that might ensure. Win-win for them.
Yes, they're really afraid of Warren.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Auggie
(31,252 posts)Warren calls it the way she sees it -- not many politicians have the guts to do that. I think it scares the crap out of the GOP.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)the influence of media for GOP candidates. They did everything right in my eyes, worked hard to get their message out. We seem to be fighting a meme or a series of interests that are intractable. I"m sure that some people find whatever it is that Scott Brown stands for or against appealing. Or he wouldn't be there in the first place. If Warren does not get the win, I hope she will consider running again. She is an impressive individual with strong beliefs who would be a great voice in the Senate.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)If she doesn't, Election Night will be a massacre.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)So its going to a tough to make the argument that Brown was afraid to debate her a fourth or fifth time.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/06/20/brown-agrees-to-third-senate-debate-with-warren/
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)He's such a slithering coward. Let's see if he backs out of the other four.
ihackperl
(4 posts)who have been requesting to talk with Eliezabeth about her false claims of Cherokee heritage..
Why is nobody calling the Cherokee Nation 'birthers' for requesting proof of eliezabeths claims?
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,843 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)...was told it stood 3-3.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)as a United States senator, you imbecile.
Why won't Scott Brown talk about why he voted for the Blunt Rubio amendment? Why won't he debate in any medium that isn't swamped with right-wing press?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Speak at the event, and have women on to speak and ask her questions.
ihackperl
(4 posts)she should have a televised sitdown with these honorable women.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220619cherokee_women_to_elizabeth_warren_stop_ducking_us/
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Scott Brown is afraid of a woman?
Brown is a candy ass.
Auggie
(31,252 posts)but I think they're afraid of the truth. Particularly in this one election. They've taken a calculated gamble, in their minds, that not debating is less risky than debating. And I don't think this is Brown's decision alone. It came from higher-ups.
They know Warren would kick his candy ass.
What a wimp. Stand up and take your beating, Senator Brown. Be a man.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)She can debate all she'd like.
Whether or not Brown's chair is empty during this debate is up to him.
Auggie
(31,252 posts)cbrer
(1,831 posts)A debate between these two can have only one outcome. And I say Brown is too much of a wimp to let that happen.
Auggie
(31,252 posts)"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there good for you!
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didnt have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea God bless. Keep a big hunk of it.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)Don't you have the VAGINA for this debate?
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Call a press conference and label him a coward if he doesn't debate her right there on the corner of the street. Make it beyond clear to the world that he's afraid to face the music.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)...pointing out that he's a coward for not being willing to debate her without a bunch of ridiculous demands, such as wanting to silence Vicki Kennedy.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)he's silencing Warren by not agreeing to any other debates?