Sen. Elizabeth Warren will do whatever it takes to get ahead professionally.
She will mislead employers and voters about her heritage. She will devise dubious anecdotes about the supposed hardships she suffered as a working pregnant woman. She will even flip-flop on her oft-repeated pledge to reject the help of super political action committees.
Asked this week about her decision to welcome a PAC to spend on behalf of her floundering 2020 Democratic primary campaign, Warren said, “The first I got into this race over a year ago, I said, ‘I hope every presidential candidate who comes in will agree, no Super PACs for any of us.’ I renewed that call dozens of times, and I couldn’t get a single Democrat to go along with me.”
She added, “Finally, we reached the point a few weeks ago where all of the men who were on the debate stage all had either Super PACs or they were multibillionaires who could rummage around in their sock drawers and find enough money to be able to fund a campaign, and the only people who didn’t have them were the two women.”
Ah, so it is everyone else’s fault that she broke her promise to reject super PAC funding. Got it.
“At that point,” Warren’s lengthy explanation continued, “there were some women around the country who said, ‘That’s just not right.’”
I would love to know who these anonymous women are.
“So here’s where I stand: If all the candidates want to get rid of Super PACs, count me in — I’ll lead the charge,” the senator concluded. “But that’s how it has to be. It can’t be the case that a bunch of people keep them and only one or two don’t.”
And to think, it was just two weeks ago during a debate in New Hampshire that Warren boasted that, with the exception of Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, “everyone” on the stage was “either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending.”
Also, just for good measure, I would like to draw your attention to the Warren campaign’s “fact” sheet touting her promise to forgo PAC cash.
“Elizabeth rejects big money’s influence on our political system: she’s not taking a dime of PAC money in this campaign,” it claims. “She’s not sucking up to billionaires to fund a Super PAC. She’s not giving wealthy donors special access. And she challenges every other candidate who asks for your vote in this primary to say exactly the same thing.”
Warren, it continues, “does not accept contributions from any PAC … Third, Elizabeth rejects the help of Super PACs and would disavow any Super PAC formed to support her in the Democratic primary.”
Someone should tell her.
It was easy for Warren to make big, sweeping promises back when she was polling well and her fundraising numbers looked good. But now that times are tough for the senator, who is struggling to raise funds as she slips to fourth place in the Democratic primary, she is engaging in as brazen a flip-flop as ever committed by a critter of Washington.
With resolve like this, we should count it as a blessing that her 2020 campaign stands no chance of placing her behind the Resolute Desk.
