Elizabeth Warren Once a Republican
EmailIt turns out that Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Senate candidate who has a special knack for agitating Republicans, used to be one of them.
“I was a Republican, because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore,” said Elizabeth Warren in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Warren, who has made Bay State and national Democrats swoon since she entered the race to challenge Republican Scott Brown in 2012, was 46 when she made the conscious decision to dabble in Democratic politics, according to the interview. The interview also said that she first resisted the urge to get involved with politics but then changed her mind after serving on a panel that was tasked with recommending reforms to the bankruptcy laws.
“I can’t just leave this to people who are going to wreck the lives of millions of American families if they get the chance,” said Warren as part of the Daily Beast interview.
Warren first gained national notoriety for grilling Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither while serving on the congressional TARP oversight panel in 2009 and gained further notoriety among Republicans for helping to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She recently agitated Republicans for suggesting that businesses have a responsibility for paying it forward to future generations.
Other famous party switchers include Republican President Reagan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Another flip-flopper who chooses their party by how much benefit they gain, at the time.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | October 25, 2011, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
I admire Elizabeth Warren very much. The Consumer Protection Agency that she pushed for will do so much good for ordinary people.
The Republican Party has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. They are no longer the party of economic growth, but specialize in tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and trying to end regulations that protect us all. I can’t believe the leaders are talking about repealing banking regulations again, after repealing them last time landed us in our huge banking crisis! They simply think very short term, giving not a thought to the long-term damage their policies do.
Big corporations and some wealthy individuals’ greed is the driving force behind all of the short-sighted thinking going on in the Republican leadership.
Posted by: Librarian53 | October 26, 2011, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm