The New York Times, Wicked Local and conservative blogger Garrett Quinn all have sources or a belief that Elizabeth Warren will join the Democratic race to become the party's nominee to take on Moderate Center-Right Conservative Mitch McConnell ventriloquist dummy Scott Brown.
The New York Times is reporting that Elizabeth Warren will be meeting with Doug Rubin and Kyle Sullivan, both former senior Deval Patrick Staffers. Rubin was Patrick Chief of Staff and recently a columnist for the Boston Herald (the reporting may be slanted, but they do have various opinions in its pages). He wrote back in May, when Brown thought he saw a Putty Tat, that is Osama bin Laden's carcass only to discover it was a fake, Rubin pointed out that this exposed Brown--blatantly for once--that Brown's connection and contact with the public was overwhelmingly careful and constructed. In that particular case it failed miserable and made Brown look like a fool. Additionally, it kind of gave permission to the media to stop being so damned impressed and deferential to him.
(Not that I ever needed the permission, but Brown's relative lack of well anything impressive, was on display during a tour of one of the poorest Springfield neighborhoods ravaged by the June 1st tornado. The local media, while not criticizing Brown did the next best thing: they were somewhat dismissive of his visit. There was no there, there in Brown's tour.)
Now Wicked Local's political blog is quoting a Democratic pundit saying that Warren will announce after Labor Day.
A new post on Blue Mass Group from Elizabeth Warren talked up her background and announced that she will be meeting with residents around the commonwealth.
Garrett Quinn, a conservative blogger on Boston.com, summed it up pretty well, "You don't write generic boilerplate about Washington being 'broken' and special interests ruining things for the heck of it."
Now, in all fairness to the other candidates, no body is passing judgment on any of the other candidates. I have always thought Setti Warren would make an excellent Senator and Alan Khazei's ability to raise money is pretty impressive. I don't know Bob Massie, but he seems very genuine. However, none of them are known statewide or possess a significant record and that is why Patty Murray kept shopping, even as she riled the "organics" as I call them.
The organics did not want a hand-picked candidate and said Martha Coakley was one such candidate. That is just not true, though. In fact, she was both the DNC and the local Dems' choice. Unfortunately, between bad campaigning and hurt feelings among the other Democrats that supported her opponents, the result was a failure on a state, national and grassroots level. In the end, Coakley only had herself to blame. However, it galvanized the party and forced it to shake off its cobwebs and stem the advance of lunatic Republicanism, limiting the damage to only a handful of seats in the Mass House of Representatives (we actually gained in the Mass Senate).
Still many organics were offended by Patty Murray's meddling, but the Chairwoman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has a majority to protect and the State party knows that unless Brown sets fire to a school, success from the current field will be a heavy lift (though hardly an impossible one). Indeed, for all of the organics complaints, Warren will need to prove herself to Massachusetts voters as much as anybody. It will not be handed to her, but she could stand in the best position to earn it in the end as well as the ultimate prize.
So welcome back home, Ms. Warren. We hope these rumblings could be the beginning of something great!