PATHETIC – AT 9:50 A.M. ET:  Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren, who earns a mint as a law professor and private lawyer, is running for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts as a kind of "people's" candidate.  Her opponent is Senator Scott Brown, and the race, in the bluest of blue states, is close.

Warren, though, keeps on getting into trouble.  She's heavily into the "race, gender and ethnicity" industry, and has claimed to be part native American.  (It turns out she's 1/32 native American, not exactly a convincing figure, unless you want to go by the racial standards of the old South.)  Apparently, she's used her "heritage" to good advantage, something that's been exposed:  From the Boston Herald:

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.

The Harvard Law professor argued she didn’t use her minority status to get her teaching jobs, and slammed her Republican rival U.S. Sen.Scott Brown for suggesting otherwise.

“The only one as I understand it who’s raising any question about whether or not I was qualified for my job is Scott Brown and I think I am qualified and frankly I’m a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching,” she said, pushing to put Brown on defense. “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”

COMMENT:  Please note that, having been exposed as a hustler on the racial background issue, Warren immediately plays the gender card.  It's so nineteen-sixties! 

Earlier in the campaign we learned that she earns in the high six figures a year, and has a home in the seven figures in Cambridge.  It's getting tiresome, Elizabeth.  It really is.

But Massachusetts is Massachusetts, and Brown only leads by two points.  Massachusetts will go heavily for Obama, and the presidential turnout can bring in Warren, who would immediately become a presidential favorite of the trendies for 2016.

May 3, 2012