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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2014 / Seat in Danger

Seat in Danger

by $8 blue check mistermix|  March 25, 20148:25 am| 49 Comments

This post is in: Election 2014

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Shaheen better start debate prep now:

“Do I have the best credentials? Probably not. ‘Cause, you know, whatever. But I have long and strong ties to this state,”
— Former Sen. Scott Brown (R), quoted by the AP, on his New Hampshire U.S. Senate race.

Brown also won’t take a position on Medicaid expansion in his new home state.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 25, 2014 at 8:30 am

    Cause, you know, whatever.

    Cause, you know, bqhatevwr.

  2. 2.

    lol

    March 25, 2014 at 8:37 am

    Shaheen is still going to curb stomp this clown but it’s going to drain money from other races, that’s the real point of him jumping in.

  3. 3.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 8:38 am

    Recently, he said:

    Love Massachusetts, miss it very much, but you know, we’re in a changing phase of our lives.

    Most of the responses I’ve heard are unprintable.

  4. 4.

    debit

    March 25, 2014 at 8:38 am

    He doesn’t need debate skills, people. He has hot pants. And a pick up truck.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    March 25, 2014 at 8:42 am

    @Cervantes:

    Scott “Masshole” Brown.

  6. 6.

    may

    March 25, 2014 at 8:43 am

    He’s a carpet bagger and Shaheen was a popular governor before she became a popular senator. I hope his running drives more democrats to the polls in a mid term year so we don’t turn the state house back over to the party of crazy.

  7. 7.

    c u n d gulag

    March 25, 2014 at 8:43 am

    I think Brown found Rand Paul’s pot stash.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    March 25, 2014 at 8:47 am

    He’s a clown, that Charlie Scotty Brown
    He’s gonna get caught
    Just you wait and see
    (Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me)

    But I have long and strong ties to this state

    Did a staffer forget to fill in the name of the state for him on his crib notes?

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    March 25, 2014 at 8:50 am

    He is dumb as a bag of rocks but he will get a ton of money for this race so we will all have to scramble to deal with him. The amount of banking money that flooded his campaign in 2010 was just astounding. They got what they paid for though as he did manage to water down Dodd Frank quite a bit once elected.

  10. 10.

    Brian R.

    March 25, 2014 at 8:50 am

    New Hampshire: Live Free or, You Know, Whatever

  11. 11.

    Chyron HR

    March 25, 2014 at 8:51 am

    I have long and strong ties to this state.

    Yeah, we’ve seen the photo shoot.

  12. 12.

    DougJ

    March 25, 2014 at 8:53 am

    @Baud:
    Win

  13. 13.

    lol

    March 25, 2014 at 8:57 am

    @MomSense:

    He wouldn’t have gotten the chance to water it down if a certain beloved Senator hadn’t decided to play purity progressive pony.

  14. 14.

    raven

    March 25, 2014 at 8:57 am

    I hitch hiked from Illinois to New Hampshire and hiked in the White above the Kangamangus Highway in the summer of 71. Does that give me deep ties?

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    March 25, 2014 at 9:08 am

    So if this Scott Brown guy isn’t willing to assert that he’s a better candidate for the US Senate than the Democrat, what is his reason for running?

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    March 25, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Larry O’s Segment on Dr. Dorothy I. Height

    The woman behind today’s Google Doodle

    Lawrence O’Donnell looks behind today’s Google Doodle and introduces you to possibly the most important American woman of the twentieth century.

    http://on.msnbc.com/1iWBDNt

  17. 17.

    rikyrah

    March 25, 2014 at 9:12 am

    Larry O did a segment about Gov. Krispy Kreme clearing Gov. Krispy Kreme:

    The Last Word 03/24/14

    Christie exonerates Christie

    Gov. Christie’s lawyers haven’t completed their Bridgegate investigation report yet, but they say it’s comprehensive. Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Matt Katz.

    http://on.msnbc.com/1iWAbKQ

  18. 18.

    Kropadope

    March 25, 2014 at 9:18 am

    @rikyrah: Christie’s lawyers are clearly satisfied that they found and destroyed all the found no evidence that incriminates Gov. Christie.

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    March 25, 2014 at 9:19 am

    @rikyrah:
    Maybe he saw the trailer. You know how the trailer always gives away the whole movie.

  20. 20.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 9:23 am

    @MomSense: I agree (except I think his staff did the watering down).

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    March 25, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Hopefully this idiot will invite Michelle Bachmann to campaign with him and talk about how the battles of Concord and Lexington took place in New Hampshire.

  22. 22.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 25, 2014 at 9:42 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’ll try to sum up:

    ‘Fuck liberals, man. And my opponent’s probably a black drug dealer. Who am I running against, again?’

  23. 23.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 9:42 am

    @NotMax:

    But I have long and strong ties to this state

    Did a staffer forget to fill in the name of the state for him on his crib notes?

    I know that the linked article says the following:

    Brown spent the first year and a half of his life living in New Hampshire before his family moved to Massachusetts. […] Brown became a New Hampshire registered voter 13 weeks ago, according to the Rye, N.H., town clerk. He and his wife moved to their 1,700-square foot seacoast New Hampshire vacation home in late December.

    This is all true. What it does not say is that Brown and his wife have owned (and used) that seacoast vacation home (in Rye) for more than two decades. (It also does not tell you how many other properties they own.)

  24. 24.

    Kropadope

    March 25, 2014 at 10:08 am

    @debit:

    He doesn’t need debate skills, people. He has hot pants. And a pick up truck.

    I have yet to speak to someone with a better reason to vote for him. Ah, I remember the good-ole-days of Brown’s first run. When Obama’s national security problem was wanting to provide oversight and stop the worst abuses. I wonder if Brown has flipped the script yet.

  25. 25.

    shortstop

    March 25, 2014 at 10:10 am

    Can’t these people find something useful to do? So tired of watching overprivileged and unelectable goofs publicly play out their midlife crises by grabbing at what they see as the next toy — a Senate seat.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    March 25, 2014 at 10:11 am

    @Cervantes

    All the worse, if after that much time he cannot bring himself to speak the state’s name (or cannot remember it).

    Shall refrain from doing more than giddily metnioning that the sandy stretches of Rye waterfront were created from the publicly financed construction and maintenance of groins.

  27. 27.

    Paul in KY

    March 25, 2014 at 10:23 am

    @raven: Would have thought you would have ended up in one of those Steven King stories. You never met a tall dark haired dude, named ‘Roland’, did you?

  28. 28.

    kc

    March 25, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Can I call him a bimbo?

  29. 29.

    kc

    March 25, 2014 at 10:27 am

    @NotMax:

    “But I have long and strong ties to this state”

    Did a staffer forget to fill in the name of the state for him on his crib notes?

    “I have long and strong ties to this state, uh . . .” [glances at palm of hand] “New Hamp Shire.”

  30. 30.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 10:28 am

    @NotMax: Mischief!

  31. 31.

    Poopyman

    March 25, 2014 at 10:28 am

    @kc: Technically, I think that would be “himbo”.

    But, you know, bqhatevwr.

  32. 32.

    aimai

    March 25, 2014 at 10:42 am

    @MomSense: But it cuts both ways. If he attracts tons of money to the campaign and still loses thats money that didn’t go into other campaigns on their side, as well as ours. I actually don’t have a problem with Shaheen having to fight for this seat–I think it energizes the voters and we can’t afford to take any seats for granted, anyway.

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    March 25, 2014 at 10:45 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    So if this Scott Brown guy isn’t willing to assert that he’s a better candidate for the US Senate than the Democrat, what is his reason for running?

    There’s grift in them thar hills.

  34. 34.

    Karen in GA

    March 25, 2014 at 10:56 am

    @Baud: Right out of the gate.

  35. 35.

    kc

    March 25, 2014 at 11:00 am

    @Baud:

    I had to google “bqhatevwr.” I bqhahahaha’d!

  36. 36.

    ottercliff

    March 25, 2014 at 11:08 am

    As a Mass resident who has experienced Senator Scott Brown, I can tell that “Do I have the best credentials? Whatever” is about all he has got. Insect level intellect.

  37. 37.

    geg6

    March 25, 2014 at 11:10 am

    @Baud:

    I love you for that.

  38. 38.

    Hal

    March 25, 2014 at 11:13 am

    So basically, Scott Brown was elected in Massachusetts based on looks and a pickup truck. I really have to laugh anytime anyone legitimately thinks he has a chance. One 2 year stint in the Senate only to be beaten by a political newbie who has since far eclipsed Brown.

  39. 39.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 11:28 am

    @Hal:

    So basically, Scott Brown was elected in Massachusetts based on looks and a pickup truck.

    Not exactly. His main opponent, Martha Coakley, was an awful candidate.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    March 25, 2014 at 11:35 am

    @Cervantes

    Yes, yes, she was.

    Currently it seems she’s on track for becoming governor, so hope she has learned something lasting from the Senate race debacle.

  41. 41.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 11:51 am

    @NotMax: Of the five candidates on the Democratic side, I know four pretty well. Coakley is not my favorite. She’s doing well in opinion polls but she’s not popular among party activists. The primary is in September.

  42. 42.

    Davis X. Machina

    March 25, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    @Cervantes: Brown had a ton of free media — in a sports-mad town having the then-#1 morning sports-talk show give over entire days to the Senate race. The bro vote was significant. Two of my brothers from exurban Boston — far interior Cape Ann, and the swamps of Plymouth-Carver-Kingston — both union members, both life-long Democrat, voted for Brown…

  43. 43.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 25, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    @Cervantes: By that standard, the Bush Crime family should be able to run for office in Maine like they’re as Down East as the next guy, and all those Villagers who own vacation homes on Martha’s Vinyard and Nantucket are authentic Massholes.

  44. 44.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Wasn’t suggesting any standard — just providing some facts not included in the article.

  45. 45.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 25, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    @Cervantes: Yeah, but it’s information that will only enhance the notion that Brown is a carpetbagger.

  46. 46.

    James E Powell

    March 25, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    I have very little faith in anything, but I do believe in Democrats’ talent for screwing things up. I also believe that the corporate press/media is devoted to promoting Republicans who claim to be different than the standard right-wing, hypocritical Christian, bigot. I will not rest until the papers on morning after the election state that Scott Brown lost.

  47. 47.

    Cervantes

    March 25, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: And your point is … ?

  48. 48.

    SFAW

    March 25, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    You never met a tall dark haired dude, named ‘Roland’, did you?

    The only Roland he met didn’t have hair, and was about a head short of being tall.

  49. 49.

    SFAW

    March 25, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Actually, they’re a lot closer to being Down Easters than Texans. No matter how many Texas oil companies Idiot Son fucked up.

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