In the 2012 election cycle, the Republican senator who was in the most difficult re-election battle was Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Prospects are always difficult for any Republican in Massachusetts, and Democrats are gunning for Brown ever since he won Ted Kennedy's seat two years ago. The Democrats even coalesced behind the candidacy of Elizabeth Warren, a far left professor from Harvard Law School who was an adviser to president Obama. Warren had the imprimatur or the liberal orthodox hierarchy; she had all the requisites: 1)woman; 2)Harvard; 3)anti-business; 4)knew all the talking points.
Well, now it appears as if Warren's campaign is going down in flames. It has become public that Warren advanced her career with the claim that she was a Native American. It seems that Warren's great-great-great grandmother was likely a Cherokee; that makes Warren one-thirty second Indian. Warren was self identified as a minority when she obtained her teaching positions including the one at Harvard. Of course, once she got the post, she was no longer identifying herself as Native American. So Warren went from affirmative action to affirmative nothing.
Because of the flap about Warren's claim of minority status, other of her statements about her past have been investigated. Warren promotes herself as one who rose from poverty to her present position. An investigation by the Boston press, however, found that Warren came from a relatively affluent family, not from poverty. So Warren created the persona of the impoverished minority when she was anything but that.
Warren is finished. Voters in Massachusetts are unlikely to forgive he for this.
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