Peggy Noonan & Donny Deutsch: Scott Brown Looks Like An American

[NJmaverick]

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Donny Deutsch got the ball rolling, suggesting that voters may be "going back to basics" after electing an African-American president and seeing "the female candidates and whatnot." Scott Brown, Deutsch added, "looks like the traditional view of a candidate," which may bring a "visceral comfort" to voters.

Mike Barnicle found value in the observation, saying that "there's something to it."

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan added that Brown is "a regular guy" who "looks like an American."

[valerief]

1. Rrrrrreck! Rrrrrreck! Rrrrrreck!

:puke:

[Grand Taurean]

2. Dismiss Noonan, she is insane.

Donny may have a point?
The teabaggers want to return to "traditional society"
Using the term "visceral comfort" is NOT a compliment by any means.

[ChicagoSuz219]

9. She always sounds like she's drunk to me... n/t

[Quantess]

21. Yeah, she might have taken some sips from her flask before the show.

[Enrique]

3. she might like the new whites-only basketball league

she could even be a cheerleader.

[Roland99]

4. All the way down to his short ones, eh?

[gadjitfreek]

5. Looks like an American...

...the new racism and sexism. I'm so proud to be an American. Boy, do you love code, or what?

[zbdent]

10. funny ... "Looks like an American" never came up when the first

immigrants set foot in what would become "America" ... and all those immigrants, who look now "like Americans", sure didn't look like the resident "Americans" ...

[AsahinaKimi]

17. Looks like an American

I was born in this country.. But I guess I don't look like an American.. FUNNY, I am a Gaijin in my own country!! Ba~ka!

[BootinUp]

6. She left off the words ...'porn star' nt

[suede1]

7. Wow! Think I hate Mike Barnicle the most though. He pretends that he's not a Teabagging

douche-bag, but he is.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

8. Those dogwhistles were so loud

My neighbors dog started barking.

[Tx4obama]

11. He's snake in the grass...

Even Palin 'tweeted' a tweet saying to vote for Brown and called him 'independent'.
Wonder how many people in MA fell for that?

[lib2DaBone]

12. Is Peggy Noonan drunk? WTF.. is her problem?

Yes.. the dog whistles (white power) were very loud.... I'm surprised they were't wearing their pointed satin hoods... lol

[Cha]

13. Who believes in torture and doesn't think the climate change

has anything to do with man-made.

"A NOTICEABLE DROP-OFF IN QUALITY"

Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) offered an interesting peek into his worldview last night during his victory speech.

" In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.

"Raising taxes, taking over our health care, and giving new rights to terrorists is the wrong agenda for our country."

Perhaps now would be a good time to note that this is a Senate seat once held by John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Quincy Adams, among others.

It now belongs to Scott Brown -- a conservative who supports torture, opposes Wall Street accountability, supports more tax cuts for the wealthy, opposes economic recovery efforts, opposes Ted Kennedy's life's work on health care reform, and doubts that global climate change is the result of human activity.

And says things like, "In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them."

It's admittedly tiresome to hear any political observer say, "In the good old days...." Those days were rarely as good as anyone remembers, and prominent thinkers of the day have been complaining about the next generation being less impressive than the last for as long as we've had the printed word.

But a once-storied Senate seat that belonged to Adams and Kennedy is now filled by a dim-witted wingnut, and that's a real shame -- for Massachusetts, for the Senate, and for all of us.

—Steve Benen 8:00 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (50)

Thanks Steve Benen for pointing out the obvious that might take some in Mass a while to fathom. They say they want their country back? Some slogan the teabags came up with and they have no idea what it means.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

[wisteria]

14. As apposed to minority and women? We don't look American?

What an absolutely stupid thing to say.

[butterfly77]

15. In other words..

he is a white male..

[Number23]

20. You got it.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

16. He deosn't look Native American at all, no idea what she means. :)

[CBHagman]

18. Thanks for reminding me how much I despise Peggy Noonan.

Peggy, I see your "ooh, he's a Cosmo centerfold" and raise you one Heinz 57 classic American family (varied ethnic backgrounds, varying weights, varying hairlines, and NO access to your precious pundit circuit feeding trough) and respectfully suggest that they could all kick your ass.

On second thought, I don't make the suggestion respectfully.

[Number23]

19. lol Racism and sexism wrapped up to look respectable are no less racist and sexist

The sentiments behind this type of drivel is exactly why so many minorities (including women) have to work twice as hard to get half as far.

[quantass]

22. I am SOOO Proud to be White!

:puke: