Scott Brown's Campaign Mocks His Opponent As A 'Senator From Massachusetts'

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – APRIL 14, 2014, 9:57 AM EDT

Eager to shed his identity as a former senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown's campaign is now apparently deriding his opponent as the "third senator from Massachusetts."

As he kicked off his Senate campaign in New Hampshire last week, Brown received assistance from the state's former Republican governor, John H. Sununu.

Sununu didn't steer clear of Brown's biggest impediment as a candidate in the Granite State. Instead, the former White House chief of staff who served as one of Mitt Romney's most confrontational surrogates in 2012 projected that weakness right onto Brown's Democratic opponent, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

“Shaheen votes with Elizabeth Warren. She votes with (Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed) Markey. She is the third senator from Massachusetts,” Sunnunu said at Brown's Portsmouth, N.H. rally, according to Yahoo's Chris Moody. “Scott’s happiest days as a young man were in New Hampshire. … So it’s going to be great to have a senator that was born virtually in the state of New Hampshire. Jean Shaheen, by the way, was born in Missouri!”

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[Arkana]

1. Oh, Scott...you have NO idea what you're doing, do you?

Seriously, he DOES realize the line of attack he just opened himself up to here, right?

[jberryhill]

26. They know exactly what they are doing

Like McCain picking Palin and attacking Obama as "inexperienced".

This is a common media strategy. Take your biggest liability and throw it at the other candidate.

[Zambero]

2. Hey folks, make me the FOURTH Senator from Massachusetts!

Unlike that impostor Shaheen, I've already been there in the flesh, already done that. Heading your way from the Commonwealth. Coming across that very border. Bring me back for an encore!!!

[hfojvt]

4. but Brown would NOT be a Senator from Massachusetts

he'd be a Senator from Alabama, from Oklahoma, from Kentucky.

Brown would vote with Mitch McConnell, with Jefferson Sessions, with Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn.

[KamaAina]

9. No, he wouldn't

Yertle the Turtle is going down!!!!

[Marrah_G]

3. ~facepalm~

[MohRokTah]

5. New ad for Shaheen should go like this.

<play quote with Scott Brown's face and text (R-MA Senator 2010-2012)>

Cut to various tracks of laughter.

[jmowreader]

6. The attack ad almost wrote itself

Put up a picture of Scott Brown when he was a senator, and put down in the bottom of the frame:

Sen. Scott Brown
R-MA (with the letters "MA" in bright red, three times as large as the R, and flashing)

The voiceover: "Scott Brown calls Jeanne Shaheen 'the third senator from Massachusetts.' Who the hell is he trying to fool?"

[Cha]

7. Scott Brown: Mouthpiece for the 47% Loser.. Mitt Romney from Massachusetts.

[AzDar]

8. Silly Carpetbagger...

How is that we ever lose to these morans?

[riqster]

16. Better to focus on how to win, IMNSHO.

And that is messaging, and GOTV.

[DemocraticWing]

10. So many people have moved from MA to NH...

They probably think that's a compliment.

[NorthCarolina]

11. "Shaheen votes with Elizabeth Warren" - It will be interesting to see how this association

plays out for him.

[karynnj]

12. Could just be habit - and clueless

He argued that Warren was not from "around here" - ignoring that she had lived for over a decade in Massachusetts. He then very strangely argued that Markey did not live in Massachusetts - ignoring that he too had a DC home (as well as a MA home) when he was Senator. This ignored that Markey was born, raised, educated and worked in MA and was a long time Congressman.

It was almost like him saying - "I am one of you and " " is not.

To try this in NH, where Shaheen was a long term governor, before being their Senator, who has lived there for decades. This just makes him look stupid.

It is strange that in trying to be more "NH", he is also undercutting his "I'm every man" meme. His argument is that, while living in MA, he had a vacation home in NH for years. (because everybody has a second home) In addition, his poor little Scottie brought up by a poor (on welfare) alcoholic single mother story is complicated by speaking of all the time he spent in NH with his grandparents in an affluent community. (Not to mention - his father was sufficiently established that he was a town official (Republican) in the MA town he lived in.) It seems odd that neither the grandparents or the father fought to help either the child or mother.

[catbyte]

13. Wow. You can't make this stuff up, LOL.

[rpannier]

14. A Senator who was born in NH

Yeah... Okayyy... That didn't sound completely desperate did it?

[LeftishBrit]

15. Apart from anything else..

it seems like bad debating practice to mock someone else, for being something that you tried and failed to (continue to) be.

[spanone]

17. sununu is a shit sandwich.

[onenote]

18. Shaheen: a 41-year resident of NH who has represented its citizens for 24 years

Brown: Moved to NH less than a year ago. Entire political career centered in Massachusetts. Practiced law in Boston because he wasn't licensed in NH.

Yeah, Brownie, you're the local. Thanks for insulting the intelligence of the people you pretend to want to represent.

[MADem]

23. She was the freaking GUV-NAH, fah Chrissake!!!!

First female governor in the history of the state.

First female senator in the history of the state.

Deep roots in the politically active Lebanese-American community in NH, courtesy of her husband, Bill.

As for Brown, what kind of "law" did he actually practice? I think he spent most of his time fiddling with documents relative to real estate closings/transfers, working out of his garage. He was no Perry Mason, not by a long shot.

I don't get the impression he was ever the moneybags in the family--his wife, who used to be on tee vee on WCVB (and then got a "no work" patronage job for a hotelier after Scotty hit the Senate--that died when his term expired), did most of the financial heavy lifting.

And Brown was born in MAINE, not NH. So he's not even on target in that regard, either!

[yellowcanine]

19. All this does is accentuate the carpet bagger creds of Scott Brown.

Sununu is politically tone deaf. And how does one get "virtually born in New Hampshire?" Is that when your mom travels to NH when she is pregnant?

[jmowreader]

21. He was born in Kittery, Maine

Kittery is very close to the NH state line. Of course, he grew up in Mass...

Let me see...he grew up in Mass, shoplifted in Mass, graduated high school in Mass, got all his college degrees from universities in Mass, practiced law in Mass, and represented Mass in the US Senate. (Incorrect slam against Mr. Brown removed...) So yeah, that makes him absolutely a New Hampshire man right down to the core...because you know he passed through New Hampshire on his way to Mass...when he was six months old.

[MADem]

24. Yes, he was born in Maine...and Maine, before it was Maine, was ... Massachusetts!!!

They didn't vote to leave the Commonwealth until 1820!

Much as we'd like to unload his trifling ass, he's like gum stuck to our shoe!!!

[jmowreader]

20. This reminds me of the 2010 California governor's race

I'm thinking of the commercial where Meg Whitman was just bragging up a storm about how great California was 20 years ago and how she was going to make it like that again if she got elected...either not remembering, or hoping the voters didn't remember, the governor back then was Jerry Brown.

[DefenseLawyer]

22. Does John Sununu really still have political juice in New Hampshire?

It seemed like he was out of it when he crashed and burned as an "attack dog" for Romney. Then again, I saw recently that several 2016 Republican hopefuls were courting Donald Rumsfeld for support, so I shouldn't be surprised.

[MADem]

25. The younger, or the elder?

The elder has a deserved reputation as a bit of a pervy guy, but even at his age he probably still has some juice (and that's despite the fact that he screwed over the US taxpayers by availing himself of government transportation on private aircraft like it was candy--he ended up having to pay some of that dough back--deeply discounted, and the GOP held fundraisers to get him off the hook).

The younger is a rather noxious dork and got all his clout from being a dimson.

[DefenseLawyer]

27. It's John H., the elder, that's referred to in the OP story. n/t

[MADem]

28. Scotty would be well advised to keep his wife and daughters away from "old" John.

He's one of those grabby fellahs.

[Rider3]

30. Does it matter which one?

They're both assholes.

[MADem]

31. The older one has more "oomph" with the money machine.

The younger is just a moron. It's the older one they're talking about; he can still suck in a bit of cash, he has a good 21st century version of a Rolodex.

I wonder how much of what is left of his rep he's willing to spend on this loser, though--that's the real question.

[Rider3]

29. This gets more entertaining by the day

What an idiot. Glad he went to NH. I hope you folks in NH know enough to NOT vote this fool in.