Mass GOP accuses Elizabeth Warren of academic fraud, but does this even matter to the voters of Massachusetts?

  Elizabeth Warren has been on the defensive since it was learned that she claimed she was a native-American in law school directories and today the head of the Massachusetts GOP came out firing, stating she may have committed academic fraud and called on Harvard to investigate this issue.

  Here is part of what Bob Maginn had to say:

The problem is that Ms. Warren is not a Native American,” wrote Maginn, a Harvard alum. “She is Caucasian. Despite her insistence that she is an American Indian based upon ‘family lore’ and her observation that some in her family had ‘high cheekbones like all the Indians do,’ she has failed to produce a single shred of evidence to substantiate her claim.”

Maginn said Warren’s actions “potentially violate” Harvard’s academic standards and the university is obligated to probe the Democrat’s actions.

“By Harvard’s own Code and precedent, Ms. Warren’s actions require an investigation,” wrote Maginn.

  It seems quite likely that no matter what the reason was that Elizabeth Warren decided to pretend she was a Native-American that she committed some type of fraud here and I agree that Harvard should investigate this, but the real question is does this even matter to the voters of Massachusetts?

  After all, this is the state that continued to elect Ted Kennedy after he left a woman to drown in his car while he went home to sober up, has seen three straight State House speakers indicted for corruption, reelected Barney Frank after his boyfriend was convicted of running a gay prostitution ring in Frank’s apartment, continually reelected Gerry Studds to the Congress after he admitted to raping an underage boy, elected Deval Patrick after is was learned that he supported convicted rapist Benjamin Laguer and found him to be a charming man in spite of his brutal rape of an elderly woman, and most recently reelected John Tierney after his wife was indicted for an illegal gambling operation which netted her $7 million.

  It seems to me that Elizabeth Warren’s alleged fraud pales in comparison with what others in that state have done, and rather than being a hinderance to her election prospects this could be seen as a badge of honor in Massachusetts.