Warren Torches GOP On Economy: 'We Tried It for 30 years, It Was 'Nearly Catastrophic'

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13. She's saying the things that NEED to be said!

At Last! AT LONG LAST!!! SOMEBODY in a position of power, authority, and influence, is actually saying those things out loud. In public. On Capitol Hill - and not just a guest speaker, either. Somebody INSIDE. Her presence has made Bernie Sanders' voice louder. Often, I notice (and I try to help contribute to that), their names are referenced together. So it's not really just one, it's TWO. Bernie Sanders was pretty much kicked to the curb all the time because he was basically the only one in the last decade or so (after Paul Wellstone's death) who was trying to articulate OUR positions.

Now SHE is, too. And somehow, she has more marquee value, so her voice carries the message louder. Maybe it's because she's younger, maybe it's because she's female, maybe it's because - I dunno - but things are different since she came onboard in the Senate. Since she ran for the Senate and her message started getting out. She is RAWTHER good at messaging, though. Putting the message A) OUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, and B) putting the message in terms that the middle class can wrap its collective brain around. She gives the message life and vigor and energy. She's breathed life and heart and living, pumping blood into it. She has the common-man touch. And she's articulating the message in ways our stodgy and scatter-brained and frankly chicken-shit reps up til now have been afraid to do. Or maybe they couldn't. Or maybe they thought you have to do it in Senate-speak - which is boring and dull and dead and doesn't reach out and touch the rest of us in the heart and in the gut. You can talk AT somebody. You can speechify AT somebody. AT whole rooms full of people. But you're probably not really connecting. She DOES. And she's warm and human and approachable, and you get the sense that she's really been fighting in the trenches and seeing this close up, and living with it, the way the pampered coast-to-coast Brahmins and other elites and fancy-ass lawyers and heirs and wealthy businesspeople who run successfully for office, who've lived pretty much their whole lives without getting their hands dirty.

Frankly, that's what I always liked about Bill Clinton. Heard him described once as a fatherless boy with an uncertain future back in kindergarten in Arkansas. And that IS what he was, and what he had to start with. And look what happened there. And he's always been able to message well and connect. He's gone all the way to the top and he can STILL connect. He's STILL got the common touch. Something you'll NEVER EVER EVER see with a mitt romney. OR any of the bushes. OR most of the other GOP leadership. ALL of them quite literally born on third base and flatter themselves into thinking they hit a triple. And that goes for young "up-n-comer" george p. bush, too.