Hey pundits - Stop trying to foist Scott Brown on us as the next Barack Obama

[EffieBlack]

Yes, Brown may be a state senator who won a Senate race but the similarity ends there.

We know Barack Obama. Scott Brown is no Barack Obama.

Period.

[timeforpeace]

1. It's just the coming out of nowhere bit and serving 2 years in the Senate before running for POTUS.

[babylonsister]

3. Did you forget this bit?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/022005.php

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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.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Sounds like a real nice guy!

:puke:

[checks-n-balances]

8. Uh huh. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

21. It has the talking points down pat.

Guess it never saw the convention speech, years ago.

[babylonsister]

2. I rec'd this; wonder what happened? We must have a scott fan

in our midst! :rofl:

President Obama doesn't have to worry about this guy. I can't imagine him holding a candle intellectually to the President, and throw in that spread in Cosmo combined with his remarks about his daughters=toast. IMO.

[EffieBlack]

5. Has Brown ever been out of Massachusetts?

Massachusetts is a lovely place, but according to his biography, Brown does not seem to have ventured outside of the state . . .

[firedupdem]

6. You are so correct!

There is no comparison!

[Nancy Waterman]

7. I have been thinking exactly the same thing

Thanks for posting it! Brown may look good but nothing he says has much heft to it.
Obama could run circles around him and then some.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. They're doing the same with this Bob McConnell dude. Can't wait to sing Repuke praises!

:puke::puke:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I didn't watch

but how was his "response" to the SOTU speech? I haven't heard anything good or noteworthy about it anywhere. :shrug:

The corporate media whores keep on perpetuating the mythos that McDonnell's victory in Virginia (and Christie's in NJ) was some kind of massive repudiation of President Obama and the Democrats and neglect the local (and candidate) issues that affected those races as well as the fact that both states previously had several years of Democratic administrations (Virginia (I believe) went for Bush in 2000 but elected a Democrat to the governor's office shortly after GWB was installed but nobody declared it to be a repudiation of Bush). Also, both elections were off-year elections and Obama wasn't even on the ticket.

They seem to be doing the same s**t with Brown's win in Massachusetts, although some of the same conditions factored into that race as well. Unfortunately, the fact that the Kennedys had held that particular seat for so many years didn't translate into an automatic Democratic victory and Coakley shouldn't have neglected to campaign for the seat like she apparently did.

[BeyondGeography]

11. Not to mention he wouldn't even carry Massachusetts

As if it would ever come to that...

[krawhitham]

12. He is pro choice the repugs will never nominate him for President

[LynneSin]

13. Scott Brown is a novelty that will wear out very quickly in Massachusetts

Great, you got your point across that you were unhappy about how HCR was going. Guess what, you're lil protest vote means you're stuck with this Mimbo for the next 4 years.

This is why I never vote on single issues - I save that for the primaries.

[iceman66]

14. This will backfire on them

when Brown is incapable of living up to the hype.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. It will be interesting to see his "Bobby Jindal moment"

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[AspenRose]

15. They are praying Scott is their Barack Obama

It's an attempt to win back white moderate conservatives and former republicans who went independent to vote for Obama because they couldn't handle how much their party went to the right.

[EffieBlack]

16. This highlights in stark relief their inability to fully grasp or accept Obama as a whole person

They really seem to believe that President Obama has gotten where he is based upon only one attribute - or at least they can only address one attribute at a time.

"He's just a celebrity. Let's run a VP nominee as a celebrity. That will neutralize him." Fail.

"It's because he's black. Let's get a black guy to head the RNC. No one will be able to tell the difference between them and that will shut him down." Fail.

"It's because he was a fresh face. Let's get us a fresh face and groom him to run for President in 3 years. That'll give him a run for his money." Headed to fail.

[AspenRose]

20. Yep. It's that kind of thinking that left them scratching their heads in 2008

They couldn't understand why women weren't defecting to the GOP en masse when they picked Sister Sarah for VP.

They're superficial, and their party faithful are superficial. Not to mention stupid as a bag of hammers.

They're hoping the rest of us are as short-sighted, superficial and stupid.

[Blue Owl]

18. Keep your reclining nude messiah

Between Scott Brown, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, and that new governor of Virginia, they've really got the future on a string, don't they.

:eyes: :boring:

[PM Martin]

19. The male Sarah Palin is NOT the next Obama

of any sort.
:puke:

[Mopar151]

22. They got nuthin'

It's why they've hung their hopes on him. Look - Palin is "in-in" incoherent and incompetent. Mittens is so inspiring, he has to hire an audience. Rooody has more issues than Reader's Digest. Ron Paul is from the same planet as Ross Perot - not in this Galaxy!
Newt is everything they accused Clinton of, and then some. Huckleberry is plesant enough, but he's :crazy: :crazy::crazy::crazy:
They got a couple players in the minors, maybe - but most of 'em can't hit big league pitching.