To judge from her avoidance of the media, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat expected to challenge Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has taken a page out of the Sharron Angle public relations playbook. Warren won’t talk to reporters, despite pushback from the Democratic grassroots.
Blue Mass Group, a liberal blog about Massachusetts politics, has this complaint about Warren:
Now a little behind the scenes practice time is well and fine. In fact it’s a necessity. But this is over the top. Voters do not want to be told what to do. A huge turn-off. Right now Elizabeth Warren is helping to create the image of a Frankenstein constructed by the Harvard elite in a laboratory somewhere in Cambridge. A few people who claim to know what’s best have caused the political world to come to a stop while a complete unknown makes up her mind. All because the few have anointed her.
Nomination by anointment led to a Republican defeat in NY-23 as a result of the Dede Scozzafava debacle, but it remains a favorite method of both parties’ leadership.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is pushing the meme in a statement released by Brian Walsh, NRSC communications director:
Don’t look for Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., to denounce the press-wariness of this Senate hopeful. After all, Warren is campaigning to replace Brown, the senator who campaigned on his opposition to Obamacare and his promise to thwart Reid’s efforts to pass the bill by providing the 41st, supermajority-busting, vote.
