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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / Open Thread: Break Out the Barn Jacket, Scotty

Open Thread: Break Out the Barn Jacket, Scotty

by Anne Laurie|  November 1, 201111:34 pm| 24 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for Senate 2012

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Per Glenn Johnson at the Boston Globe‘s Political Intelligence blog, Senator Brown (R-Masshole), a man not necessarily in danger of developing full-bore workaholism, is being forced to step up his schedule:

Senator Scott Brown is stepping up his campaign activity.
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The Massachusetts Republican today released a web video highlighting his recent visit to Gloucester, during which he called for the resignation of the country’s top fisheries official.
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Brown also wrote an op-ed column for the Lowell newspaper rebutting a television ad campaign being aired against him by the League of Conservation Voters…
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Brown publicly states that he won’t start campaigning until next year, when he will be seeking his first full, six-year term after winning a January 2010 special election to replace the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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But the rise of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, as well as early advertising by, first, the League of Women Voters and, now, the League of Conservation Voters, have prompted a change…

Shot of the fisherfolk-pleasing barn jacket in action at the link, although the news photog couldn’t shoehorn both the Glouchester Fishing Memorial and the Pickup Truck of Campaigning into the same frame, alas. There’s also a link to Brown’s video, which is a sackful of fail with a slight tang of flopsweat. Schadenfreude being a powerful drug, I am thoroughly enjoying Cosmo Boy’s disgruntled expression — he figured he could loaf through on Tea-Party talking points and blast-fax AFP boilerplate for another six months as long as his competition was split between the first-term mayor, that guy who won’t stop talking about City Year, an Episcopalian priest whose most significant political accomplishment was failing to be elected lieutenant guv, a lady pediatrician, a software engineer, and a state senator whose name is known only to his immediate family. Then Elizabeth Warren lost her dream job at the clammy hands of Scotty’s Rethug co-conspirators, and now he’s got an an actual race on his hands, poor fella. Sweat, Scott Brown, sweat!

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24Comments

  1. 1.

    shoutingattherain

    November 1, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    I love Liz. She’s gonna be President someday.

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    November 1, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    @shoutingattherain:

    She’s gonna be President someday.

    No way. Too old. You’re going to have to settle for Kirstin Gillibrand.

  3. 3.

    JCT

    November 1, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    I still think this (senator) is the job she *really* wanted…. it would be spectacular to see her take that idiot Brown out. Figuratively speaking, OF COURSE.

  4. 4.

    ellenelle

    November 1, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    hee hee; doncha just love it!??!

    and ooh, shoutingattherain, i so totally agree! and no, burnspbesq, she’s not too old! hell, she’s just weeks older than i am!! five years from now she’ll just be 67.

    remember, obama is the youngest prez we’ve had in a while.

  5. 5.

    handy

    November 1, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    @JCT:

    BOTH SIDES DO IT!!

  6. 6.

    Martin

    November 2, 2011 at 12:09 am

    @JCT:

    I still think this (senator) is the job she really wanted…

    Hmm. Head of an agency created to have real regulatory power, or stuck in filibuster groundhog day? Which would I choose if I wanted to really have an impact?

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 2, 2011 at 12:11 am

    You know, I think I’ll do this for Cosmo Boy:

    /violin

    “Villago plays the world’s tiniest violin for Cosmo Boy”

  8. 8.

    greennotGreen

    November 2, 2011 at 12:18 am

    “Lady pediatrician”? Really? Is she some sort of foreign royalty?

  9. 9.

    Martin

    November 2, 2011 at 12:20 am

    @burnspbesq: She’s 4 years younger than Cain, 2 years younger than Mittens, 14 years younger than Ron Paul, and 6 years younger than Newt.

    She won’t exactly be a young candidate running in 2016, but she won’t be any older than the current crop of candidates.

  10. 10.

    Jebediah

    November 2, 2011 at 12:31 am

    Scott Brown’s discomfort pleases me. More, please!

  11. 11.

    joeyess

    November 2, 2011 at 12:37 am

    Every time I read a new story about Herman Krusty the Klown Kain, I become more and more certain that he is just trolling me. It feels that personal.

    In today’s installment, Herman finally catches up to the 20th Century.

  12. 12.

    Jenny

    November 2, 2011 at 12:39 am

    I love Liz. She’s gonna be President someday.

    But the Firebaggers and PUMAs hate her. Whenever TBogg mentions her, they all come out of the hive and start attacking her from various angles, including calling her a closet Republican and another… wait for it…. Obama (gulp).

  13. 13.

    Jenny

    November 2, 2011 at 12:47 am

    @joeyess: That is priceless. Especially the part about the US’s 5% GDP can outgrow China’s 10% GDP. This new math is tricky, but I still think 10% is greater than 5%.

  14. 14.

    shoutingattherain

    November 2, 2011 at 12:52 am

    @Jenny:

    But the Firebaggers and PUMAs hate her.

    I stopped caring what FDL-types had to say about the same time it became apparent that Jane Hamsher had gone insane. Her opinion doesn’t interest me.

  15. 15.

    joeyess

    November 2, 2011 at 12:57 am

    @Jenny: mind boggling, isn’t it?

  16. 16.

    Kristine

    November 2, 2011 at 1:13 am

    Thread needs a puppy.

    (It’s a video)

  17. 17.

    Calouste

    November 2, 2011 at 1:19 am

    @Jenny:

    And to think, this man was a ballistics analyst in the US Navy. Morehouse College might also want to consider asking him to return that mathematics degree.

  18. 18.

    Jenny

    November 2, 2011 at 1:49 am

    It’s gonna be a hard race for Warren cuz Brown is gonna have a lot more money and he’ll have the media on his side. And the usual suspects on the loud left are already attacking her for not being pure (one is even calling her a CIA plant) and advising their readers/zombie cultists to stay home and teach her a lesson.

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    November 2, 2011 at 2:07 am

    well did Scott make a pledge to Grover? was there a ring involved? were pictures taken? Obviously Ms. Warren is making an impact if he’s having to wade in now ahead of schedule ;-)

  20. 20.

    RossInDetroit

    November 2, 2011 at 2:32 am

    @piratedan:

    did Scott make a pledge to Grover? was there a ring involved? were pictures taken?

    Did the DJ play Celebration by Kool & the Gang?

    I can’t sleep so I came back to waste more of your time.

  21. 21.

    Chet

    November 2, 2011 at 5:03 am

    From the “What-kind-of-fucked-up-shit-is-this?” Department: Here’s a YouTube video of a Texas judge beating the shit out of his cerebal palsy-ridden daughter for illegally downloading music and games in 2004.

  22. 22.

    ned

    November 2, 2011 at 7:02 am

    What, no link to Charlie Pierce?

  23. 23.

    mark f

    November 2, 2011 at 10:02 am

    “Glouchester”

    No H. And it’s pronounced “Gloss-tah.”

  24. 24.

    Judas Escargot

    November 2, 2011 at 11:32 am

    @Calouste:

    And to think, this man was a ballistics analyst in the US Navy.

    Translation: He knew how to use a slide rule, and lookup numbers in a book of tables.

    Nothing wrong with that job, but a “Rocket scientist”, he is not.

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