Scott Brown Gets ‘Presidential Timber’ Question
ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: At a Wednesday press conference in Boston, Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., was asked if he sees himself as “presidential timber.” He noted that he had not yet even arrived in Washington — but, at the same time, he didn’t seem to rule out a future White House run. While there are only three years between now and the next presidential election, that is not much shorter than the four years that Obama had between his election to the U.S. Senate and his election to the presidency. Buzz about Brown running for president got a big push shortly after his Tuesday night win when the DrudgeReport began running a banner headline asking: "NOW . . . WILL HE RUN FOR PRESIDENT?" A couple of potentially complicating factors for Brown in a run for the GOP's presidential nomination in 2012 would be his support for abortion rights and the fact that part of his political team overlaps with that of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran for president in 2008 and is actively laying the groundwork to run again in 2012. Here is the "presidential timber" exchange: QUESTION: Senator, Barack Obama, JFK, they started eyeing the White House the day they were elected to the Senate. Do you think you're presidential timber?
BROWN: Listen, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I have had no sleep right now. I haven't even been down to Washington yet and I don't want to say that's a silly question, but, I'm just so thankful for the support I've received from everybody. Last night when I stayed and shook everyone's hands who was sweating and pushing, those are the people I want to go down there and represent.
To think of something higher — I'm just honored to be in this position. If you would have told me growing up that I would — you know, a guy whose mom is on welfare, and parents had some marital troubles and I – I had some issues, you know, growing up, a guy from Wrentham would be here standing before you right now, going to Washington, D.C., are you kidding me?
I don't know if you guys understand that, I know you have jobs to do, I have a wife and I respect those jobs, let me just tell you something it's not only overwhelming but it's so, I can't tell you how proud I am to be here standing before you all, and having an opportunity, maybe to send the country in a different and better direction — that's my goal. Other people may say he's going to do this, he's going to do that, I've never listened to them, I'm not going to listen to them now. ## ABC News' Kristina Wong, Devin Dwyer, and John Berman contributed to this report.
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Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin?
Posted by: indy_voter | January 20, 2010, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Indy i though Obama and his wife fit that description but like SENATOR BROWN that is not why we elect people, go look in the mirror but look deep.
Posted by: earl | January 20, 2010, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
I’d be happier seeing Scott Brown running in 2012 than any of the other current contenders (as long as he didn’t pull a McCain with his VP pick). He is the closest thing to a Republican moderate in the running (OK, maybe Romney – who just a few years ago was the governor of the “blue” state of Massachusetts…).
Posted by: jhw539 | January 20, 2010, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
Mitch Daniels will be the GOP nominee.
Posted by: Hoosier Daddy | January 20, 2010, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
Brown was not voted in on his own merit. The people voting were getting back at a party that was off the mark. It is not over and more dems are to fall. We should never allow one party to control – it just leads to wide left and right turns.
Posted by: Axe to Grind | January 20, 2010, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
No, but he may very well get a late show on NBC!
Why is it always easier to cover the campaign rumors than it is to actually inform the public about what officials are actually trying to do?
Whoever asked that question should look for another line of work.
Posted by: bill kostar | January 20, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
I liked GWB (most of the time) but i would not call him “another pretty face! Sarah yes but George? BTW..Scott Brown’s daughters qualify as “pretty faces!”
Posted by: Jim Overlie | January 20, 2010, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
That was a dumb question! Scott Brown won election to the Senate, and has much to prove. He seems content to go and do the job he was elected to. Hopefully, he will not become just another bag of wind, easily corrupted political hack!
Posted by: Rank | January 20, 2010, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
How about we see what he actually DOES as a Senator before talking about a higher position.
We just did that and look what it got us.
Posted by: Bumpy Page | January 20, 2010, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
He should have just said “that’s a stupid question…”
Posted by: H_Sandy | January 20, 2010, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
indy_voter……. The GOP/Republicans did not ask him if he was going to run for Pres it was the reporter.
FYI: Brown calls himself a “Fiscal Conservative” and a “Social Moderate”. Not what I am looking for in a candidate.
Posted by: CBJ65 | January 20, 2010, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
If you’re reading this ABC junk which is biased and responsible for selling Americans on the trash that is Obama. Become educated and learn the truth.
Posted by: WillTruth | January 20, 2010, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
Considering what Sen. Brown ACTUALLY said, this entire story is written in a very misleading fashion. The media needs to STOP picking our candidates and let the people do it!
Posted by: Counselor42 | January 20, 2010, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
The NRA gave him an A rating. I don’t see why you southerners can’t give a Mass repub a chance. Would you rather 0bama win again?
Posted by: Brendan | January 20, 2010, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
George Washington for President 2012. Has anyone seen George yet?
Posted by: Thomas | January 20, 2010, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
He’s a talented guy and I like a lot of the things he says, but I think presidential ambitions are a wee bit premature. Talk is cheap. Let’s see how he performs in his new job before we get all excited about another Ronald Reagan. A good measure of his character will be how he conducts himself in the face of adversity.. and there seems to be a lot of that to go around.
Posted by: Jasonn | January 20, 2010, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
That is a very wacky NONE ANSWER!
Posted by: flanneryoconnor | January 20, 2010, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
This is how irony works:
Brown was elected as a referendum against Obama and his democrat agenda. The Senate will vote on the Health Care Bill and it will fail. Then the democrats will have Bush and Brown to blame for all our woes.
Moral: Be careful of what you wish for.
Posted by: Prospector | January 20, 2010, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
“I didn’t ask for this Health Care Bill failure! I inherited it from Massachusetts and the previous administration!!” from The Once and Future Prince of Bel Air.
Posted by: Prospector | January 20, 2010, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Checks and Balances to protect you from them!
IT’S Not the one party rule that is the problem, it’s when the media backs the arrogance you have big problems. …bigger problems when putting power grabbing and other agenda before loyalty to the people (fiduciary & Constitutional), the Republic and minimally the party. With the Supreme Court absent in protecting the Constitution from either party – what do you expect? Guillotine maybe?
Posted by: WDarwin | January 20, 2010, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
While I was glad to see Brown win, I think the GOP should start pushing presidential candidates with more experience. It is ridiculous that they are asking him this question when he has spent 0 days beyond State Senate.
Posted by: Stephen | January 20, 2010, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
ABC News – Don’t try to put words in teh mans mouth. Al he said was
“… I don’t want to be disrespectful,…I don’t want to say that’s a silly question…I don’t know if you guys understand that, I know you have jobs to do.”
In other words ita was a polite “NO” in deference to the reporter.
Posted by: Gray Champion | January 20, 2010, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
Brown for President? Crazy? Maybe, Maybe Not.
Posted by: eRtwngr | January 20, 2010, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
This is a pretty clear case of ABC trying to MAKE news instead of report on it.
And (surprise, surprise) the news they are trying to make is to make a Republican who was elected less than 24 hours ago look bad.
Too transparent ABC-get some rest and try harder next time!
Posted by: ironchefofmunchies | January 20, 2010, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
What are you gonna do now Senator Elect Brown? I’m going to Disney World!
Posted by: dhart1949 | January 20, 2010, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Good I’m glad he can hold back pressure from reporters.
Ah, yes but they’re looking for a verbal mistake. A republican mistake not a democrat mistake – missing a name or something.
Ah well, who needs newspapers. We’ve got Drudge.
Posted by: Fonzie77777 | January 20, 2010, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Can’t anyone see through this guy? He’s another political phoney just like the other Republicrats. Jus because he ran against a disliked idiot in beantown and won that does not make him a viable candidate for Presidency.
When will this crazyness end?
Posted by: Steve | January 20, 2010, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
To Brendan: That’s interesting that the NRA gave him an A rating (I previously posted a comment here mentioning some of his anti-gun beliefs, but it apparently has been removed).
Thanks for noting that, I will have to look it up, I had not thought of checking that before.
Posted by: Scott | January 20, 2010, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
It’s a bit premature to start talking about Senator-elect Brown running for president. But he will have more experience than our current president by that time. But I don’t think he was ever a community organizer, so that might hold him back. I’m sure he would do a better job than that of the current occupant of the people’s house.
Posted by: John Smith | January 20, 2010, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
@indy_voter,
Seriously? What a joke. You kids just elected a man after elevating him to rock star status. Gimme a break. You can’t be serious with that, can you?
Posted by: Mick | January 20, 2010, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
ISN’T THIS A BIT “PREMATURE”??
One would think that Senator-elect Brown might be as full of himself as the former “senator” barack obama, who thought that his merely showing up IN the Senate Chamber constituted enough “experience” to run for President!
After all, isn’t APPEARANCE everything?!
Posted by: Chisco | January 20, 2010, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Actually, I rather believe that the Senator-elect is SMARTHER than the above paragraph indicates at first glance….
It’s obama who thought that his showing up for work made him good enough to be the “top dog” (Sorry, “doggies”, but I didn’t have another word to use here!)
Posted by: Chisco | January 20, 2010, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
What is it with these right-wing loons and their empty vessel candidates?
Brown/Palin 2010! A beauty queen and a Cosmo model. That’s what we need in this country – two brainless right-wing ciphers to do the bidding of the RNC.
Pathetic.
Posted by: AMB | January 20, 2010, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
He’s from Massachusetts and he’s cute. That’s enough to be president.
Posted by: J Robinson | January 20, 2010, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
“Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin?”
Indy, I’m a Bush fan, but I’d never consider him a ‘pretty face.’ I’m not even sure Bush thinks he has a ‘pretty face.’
Posted by: Leonard | January 20, 2010, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm
Indy_voter said:
Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin? I second that! and you left out Obama. Oh, that’s right, Obama is a “progressive”.
Posted by: Trisha | January 20, 2010, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
What? A presidential candidate with just two years experience in the Senate? What kind of nut job could even suggest such foolishness?
Posted by: OldChief | January 20, 2010, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Doesn’t everyone think it’s a little early to drop the President question? He hasn’t even been a Senator for one day yet, and hasn’t even begun to prove himself. I remind you he is from Mass. where a Republican there is more liberal than a Texas Democrat. I would never vote for a person that has no experience like the Obama zombies did in the last election. Give it time. We’ll keep an eye on him and then people will decide if he is to run for higher office.
Posted by: Eyeball | January 20, 2010, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
Don’t let the liberal media select the Republican candidate. They have no respect for conservative values and we’ll end up with a bad candidate again like McLame.
While it’s grand that Brown won in liberal MA, we can find a proven conservative. Remember, Conservatism is taught, and we need to make sure our candidate not only has a solid understanding and belief of conservative values, but can also teach those same values.
Posted by: Cardiac | January 20, 2010, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
To the people criticizing his answer, how would you answer if you were in his place?
If someone answers that there’s no way they’d ever run for president and then later some day say does run, then they’re criticized for being inconsistent.
If they answer “maybe that would be great some day down the road” then they’re criticized for being too ambitious too fast.
Obviously the question is ridiculously premature so he tried to deflect it politely.
Posted by: Realist | January 20, 2010, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
What sweet justice that the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy is filled by a Republican. Kennedy worked his entire career to socialize healthcare and he was replaced by the very man that will stop it. It is astoundingly poetic…
Posted by: Jim | January 20, 2010, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
Can we give they guy even a week to be a Senator before we start grooming him for the presidency??? That this was even a question is beyond ridiculous.
Posted by: savh77 | January 20, 2010, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
I like Brown a lot so far. But let’s see him finish a term, get re-elected, and then finish that term. If, in the course of his efforts he shines, then let’s talk about President Brown.
We are Conservatives, for God’s sake. Let’s act like it and vote for proven leaders. We don’t want to end up with a joke like 0bama leading us just because we lack patience.
Posted by: Chuckie | January 20, 2010, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
It is premature to be thinking of Brown for President in 2012, but I think he is an attractive candidate and could be a good bet down the road. He needs experience first. We don’t need a repeat of another very inexperienced senator in the Oval Office – look how that has turned out. I am very happy that the voice of the People has at last been heard and also glad that he is a center right Republican (read – moderate/independent). Personally, too far to the left or right is dangerous, especially in their is majority of one party running the administration and congress. A balance of power is by far the best solution.
Posted by: Anne | January 20, 2010, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm
Correction of a mistake in my previous post. The next to last paragraph should read: I personally feel governing too far to the left or right is dangerous, especially if there is a majority of one party running both the administration and congress.
Posted by: Anne | January 20, 2010, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
Ha Ha demoncants no health care for you
Posted by: Beets | January 20, 2010, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
I wounder if thats what these people will tell Jesus…well we didn’t want to govern to far to the right or left we wanted to stay in the middle we can have a little satan with are God right? No wait Jesus don’t spit us out becase were not hot or cold please. you have to go left or right if you walk down the middle of the road you get smashed just like grape
Posted by: Beets | January 20, 2010, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm
As a country, we already know what happens when you elect someone with so little experience. As a political party, Republicans wouldn’t think of nominating someone, for the presidency, with so little experience. You can talk about Palin all you want, she still had more experience than our present Commander in Chief. The Democrats, however, have always been form over substance so, perhaps, they’ll be recruiting Scott Brown to change parties, it’s a lot easier than trying to find a candidate with substance out of the Democrats pool.
Posted by: bflat879 | January 20, 2010, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
Forget party lines politicians. Scott Brown is a true politician that why he got votes across the board. He answered straight up and with out the mumbo jumbo crap. You want a job this fall then get with the American people because we vote for US!
Posted by: Willy Brown | January 20, 2010, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
“FYI: Brown calls himself a “Fiscal Conservative” and a “Social Moderate”. Not what I am looking for in a candidate.”
Conservatism starts with fiscal sanity not social insanity.
Posted by: RichN | January 20, 2010, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm
FYI: Brown calls himself a “Fiscal Conservative” and a “Social Moderate”. Not what I am looking for in a candidate.
How’s that Obama guy working out for you then?
Posted by: PA | January 20, 2010, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Brown is wrong. It is a silly question. I’d even say it’s a moronic question.
Posted by: Joe | January 20, 2010, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
As long as he isnt a progressive, Ill vote for him.
If he is, then he should expect to pack his bags in 2012 and never return.
We are done playing around.
Posted by: Yawn | January 20, 2010, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
No one seems to have caught that Obama was actually elected in 2006 to the Senate, and then 2008 to the Presidency. So, actually, Brown would be in office as US Senator LONGER than Obama if he ran in 2012.
Posted by: Ragnar | January 20, 2010, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm
I agree that first it was a stupid question. Second, it is way, way too early to even be thinking about the Presidency. However, Mr. Brown does have the potential to do great things. Therefore, I nominate him for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Ultramanbill | January 20, 2010, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
H_Sandy: “FYI: Brown calls himself a “Fiscal Conservative” and a “Social Moderate”. Not what I am looking for in a candidate.”
Well, hopefully America Squeezes out more people who think like you.
Posted by: Dan | January 20, 2010, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Looks like some posters are falling back into Bush-era logic by putting the bar on the ground and cooing when some newcomer steps over it. The only noteworthy thing he’s acomplished is posing nude in a national magazine and still getting votes. I doubt a female could get that far.Even Sarah Palin would have been in trouble had she posed nude. Let’s get a grip here, conservatives!
Posted by: mauibucky | January 20, 2010, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
a fiscal conservative and social moderate is EXACTLY what i’m looking for in a president. let’s see how brown performs in the senate first, but he’s obviously someone to consider for 2012.
Posted by: el polacko | January 20, 2010, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Well, he would be a far better President than Mr. Obama!
Posted by: sdp000 | January 20, 2010, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
Romney / Brown 2012 … Unlikely, because they are both from the same state. However, they seem to agree on a decent number of issues. Although, Romney no longer supports abortion. They both have the same vision in the healthcare debate.
Posted by: JJ | January 20, 2010, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the lefty shows like Maddow,Matthews, and the ever bumbling Obermann fool after the election. if Scott Brown can resist the special interest, lobbys, and stupid questions like this one, he should do well in congress.
Posted by: Ben | January 20, 2010, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
Don’t forget to watch Gleen Beck Friday on FOX…this will show the Obama lovers “Who ” Obama and his merry men are….Senator Brown is just a part of the whole movement in America right now. We are a free country and plan to remain so, despite what Obama is trying to do to shut down our freedoms…You fools who love the Chicago way of doing politics will be happier living in Cuba..where they have No freedoms.
Posted by: welovetheUSA | January 20, 2010, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
If he can carry Massachusetts the most liberal state be afraid you liberal Democrates BE VERY AFRAID the REVOLUTION has started and you are looking at the next PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-
Posted by: joeyusa | January 20, 2010, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
Obama lies.
Posted by: julia | January 20, 2010, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
Ron Paul 2012
Posted by: Charles | January 20, 2010, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
Goofy media question. No suprise there. earl, indy… The American people are speaking directly to the country’s current leadership. Spin it however you want, its obvious to us who aren’t lemmings. The clowns are about to get tossed out of the whole circus.
Posted by: Carnivorous Gerbil | January 20, 2010, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
To me Scott Brown is an ordinary fellow from a town near the town I grew up in MA.
Not a fancy dandy who went To HARVARD and refuses to give any true facts about himself. So let him go to Washington and prove his worth.
Posted by: anai | January 20, 2010, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
“He noted that he had not yet even arrived in Washington — but, at the same time, he didn’t seem to rule out a future White House run.”
The man just won an election to the Senate! It hasn’t been 24 hours even and some reporter with a hidden agenda is already asking him ‘if he sees himself as “presidential timber.”’. How do you answer such an inane question?
“Well, no I don’t really” So then the media can crucify him if he EVER decides to run?
But if he answers anything other than that, you can say “My God, look at his ego, he hasn’t even started this job and he already thinks he should be President.”
Brown actually gave as good an answer as you can to this bogus question, but that doesn’t stop a tool like ABC’s Teddy Davis from going ahead and trying to make it sound like something it isn’t.
This is why a good share of this country doesn’t trust the press and why their viewership continues to drop through the floor. They’re not out there trying to collect information and present it to their readers in a fair fashion. Instead they’re always pushing their own agendas.
Do us a favor Teddy and find yourself an honest job, or at least one you can be honest in. Let’s hope those we choose to govern us have at least more scruples than you.
Posted by: FreeCNow | January 20, 2010, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
All this election proves is America and its cadre of hypocrites are hell bent on themselves and not their common man. The insurance industry is a Gestapo. And as Obama said health care will BK America. I hope sooner rather than later. And all of you babies will cry on your mama’s lap. TOO BAD.
Posted by: Helen | January 20, 2010, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm
It looks like the Terd in chiefs chickens are coming home to roost.
Posted by: Rastus | January 20, 2010, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
Who cares… It’s 3 years away!
Right now we have to fend off the Marxist Coup as envisioned by the Progressive radicals controlling the “Democratic Party”!
They were SOUNDLY rejected Tuesday!
Finally the TRUE Democrats will take back their party and tell the Obamas, Emmanuals, Olbermans and Moores (all Alinski deciples)…
THIS IS NOT A SOCIALIST COUNTRY!
Posted by: Howard Ino | January 20, 2010, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
indyvoter asked: “Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face?”
Why are Democrats always searching for the most radical candidates they can find?
Posted by: ACORN SEIU Communists | January 20, 2010, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
Interested in the latest hub-bub;
“Downriver”
GLENN BECK ON SCOTT BROWN: “I want a chastity belt on this man. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don’t trust this guy. This one could end with a dead intern. I’m just saying. It could end with a dead intern.”
4:53 pm, Jan 20, 2010
Posted by: bobj72 | January 20, 2010, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
Wouldn’t it be ridiculous if Scott Brown’s minister of 20 years spouted racist, anti-American hate speech and Brown said he never heard any of it the entire time?
Who would believe such a thing?
[reference: Jeremiah Wright & Obamarx]
Posted by: Double Standard | January 20, 2010, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
Scott Brown Gets ‘Stock Market Crash’ Question
ABC News’ Teddybear Davis reports:
At a Wednesday press conference in Boston, Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., was asked if he sees himself as the cause of the 1929 “Stock Market Crash.”
He noted that he had not yet even been born at that time — but, at the same time, he didn’t seem to rule out that he had caused the the Crash or the resulting Great Depression.
Stay tuned for Teddybear’s next example of fair and balanced news reporting: “Scott Brown admits he caused greatest economic disaster in American History!”
Posted by: FreeCNow | January 20, 2010, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
Brown was elected to send a message to Washington that Americans aren’t going for the Marxist direction in which they’re heading. The health care bill is a monstrosity, a transfer of power, rights, and wealth from us to the government. Anyone who’s looked into it beyond what the mainstream media reports is aware of this.
It’s nice to hear a politician say they are “proud” to have been elected. These days, they all tend to say they are “humbled,” and most of them sound like they’re lying.
Posted by: Cara C | January 20, 2010, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
Brown was elected to send a message to Washington that Americans aren’t going for the Marxist direction in which they’re heading. The health care bill is a monstrosity, a transfer of power, rights, and wealth from us to the government. Anyone who’s looked into it beyond what the mainstream media reports is aware of this.
It’s nice to hear a politician say they are “proud” to have been elected. These days, they all tend to say they are “humbled,” and most of them sound like they’re lying.
Posted by: Cara C | January 20, 2010, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
You are all confused! Senator Scott Brown said that he WOULD run for President in 2012, but with Tina Fey as his vice-presidential running mate.
Brown/Fey 2012!
Posted by: Average American | January 20, 2010, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
We elected one horrendously unexperienced person to the presidency, why would we want to make the same mistake?
Posted by: Joe Arpio | January 20, 2010, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
Obamarx responded the rout of Marxist politics in Massachusetts by taking over the student loan program.
Posted by: Double Standard | January 20, 2010, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
No one among the GOP can be ruled out. However, Brown will not cut it if he is a Pro-Choice candidate. The time for killing babies is over and the question of abortion on demand is a very complex question of morality. You are either a “moral” person who believes all life is precious or you are falling in line with another philosophy. The Health Care Bill that Democrats propose not only includes abortion possibilities but it also indirectly proposes euthanasia for the elderly. Do your homework Scott Brown and let’s see what you come up with in 2012. Rudolph J. Girandola, Author: The Jade Chalice (fiction blaming the RCC for its own ills)
Posted by: rudolph Girandola | January 20, 2010, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm
CAN’T HELP BUT TO SMILE AT SENATOR ZOOLANDER,
” its in theeee computer’
Posted by: resident | January 20, 2010, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
Democrats have had complete control of Congress for the last 36 months.
How do YOU like what they’ve accomplished so far?
Posted by: SIS | January 20, 2010, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
all Brown has to do is show up and not vote and he has as much exp. as
mr. obama had b4 he ran
Posted by: cal | January 20, 2010, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
Brown is PRO_choice … He is a Rudy Giulani CLONE , Thats why Rudy went to meet and support him during the campaign and NOT a PRO-LIFE conservative.
So we have seen this SCRIPT BEFORE.
Posted by: resident | January 20, 2010, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
Hope.
Change.
2010.
and 2012.
Never again can we give control of the country to the Communists.
Posted by: 2morrow | January 20, 2010, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
he’s the male palin. admit it. and we’re seeing what a stark contrast there is between judging a conservative man vs. judging a conservative woman.
Posted by: chicagomatt | January 20, 2010, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
As satisfying as the irony was to watch this mans election, the reality is that he’s a big government collectivist with little difference in philosophy than McCain. I wouldn’t vote for him in any national referendum. I am happy to have him fill Kennedy’s place if for no other reason than the satisfaction of sticking to the arrogant thieves currently holding power but POTUS? No Thanks.
Posted by: American Sharecropper | January 20, 2010, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
yep!! he is for a woman right to choose , thats really going to play well with the true Conseravtive base.
the guy is a independent that cares about a few republican ideals .
he is OK with regular Abortion but against partial birth.sounds like a Clinton to me .
But then again you have to be to win in those type liberal states.
Posted by: carly | January 20, 2010, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
How about:
The Scott Brown – Sara Palin ticket…
or
The Sara Palin, Scott Brown ticket????
I would vote ten times for that.
Posted by: Jezzika | January 20, 2010, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
Let’s be frank here. Senator Brown won a referendum against the Health Care Debacle. Nothing more.
Posted by: wpg420 | January 20, 2010, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
IT IS A MATTER OF TRUST.
SOMETHING WE ‘DO NOT HAVE
NOW.
CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT BROWN.
YOU WILL MAKE US ALL PROUD.
THE O” DAYS ARE OVER.
Leave now or be booted out…
we are so sick to death of you
and we will not forget the crap
that YOU put is through.
YOU cannot blame BUSH for a G.D. THING.
YOU SICKEN ME.
Posted by: Jezzika | January 20, 2010, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
jezzika, sarah palin would be toxic to the ticket… my guess is that she is a kingmaker. whoever gets her endorsement will end up being the next president.
Posted by: chicagomatt | January 20, 2010, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
It is possible that Scott Brown is a “Manchurian” candidate for the Democrats. Did you wonder why Coakley was virtually hand selected in the primaries the way she was? Why would someone fail to campaign and then go on a long vacation to paradise in an election year when the electorate is suffering, just so that she could look out of touch with her would be constituents, with her natural tan in the middle of a Massachusetts winter? The Democrat machine has probably been grooming him for years as a sleeper, ever since the Cosmo centerfold. We knew that all we needed was a superficially attractive man. Scott is going to be Senator for a long long time. He would not have made it in a general election in MA, but this special election could be easily manipulated to get him in with out any vote rigging or other criminal activity. I wonder what he will be doing in those closed door meetings on Capital Hill…This would explain the Coakley campaign.
Posted by: Ken | January 20, 2010, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm
Chappaquiddick Teddy must be rolling over in his grave right about now, knowing that a Republican is in HIS seat!
Posted by: MikeinMD | January 20, 2010, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
It’s been driving me crazy all day. That Drudge headline was tongue-in-cheek. It was mocking the Democrats for nominating Obama with basically the same qualifications. No one is seriously thinking about proposing Brown run for the presidency this early. Drudge was MAKING FUN of the Democrats. And it is so much MORE funny that they thought he was serious.
Posted by: Corey | January 20, 2010, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
EARLIER ON, OBAMA WAS LIKEABLE AND BELIEVABLE. WHAT A DISGUSTING DISSAPPOINTMENT. OF COURSE, HE, HIS LIBERAL CRONIES AND THE BIASED MEDIA LIED TO US UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.
SCOTT BROWN IS VERY LIKEABLE AND BELIEVABLE. I HOPE HE DOESN’T CHANGE. HE HANDLED THE MEDIA BEAUTIFULLY — WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER.
Posted by: 1CAROLINAUNC | January 20, 2010, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
In my mind there are only two statements that will determine whether or not I will vote for a particular candidate in 2012: “If elected I will legalize marijuana and industrial hemp” & “I will never sign, or initiate any legislation that will further erode the people’s right to own and bare firearms!” That will tell me all I need to know about whether or not that candidate is fit for the job.
Posted by: Ozlanthos | January 20, 2010, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Bush was a pretty face?
Posted by: liberty1 | January 20, 2010, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm
It’s amazing to me that people don’t get the fact that America is slightly right of center. No one can change that – those on the right and those on the left. Ask a democract and a republican to list out their top 5 presidents of all time. Guess what – 3/5, maybe 4/5 of those selected will be center or center right (actually there is a decent argument that Clinton was center-right). Reagan certainly was center right. JFK – center right. Bush was too mixed up to be classified as anything useful and I even voted for him (everyone makes a mistake right?)
Posted by: jeff | January 20, 2010, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
What both Parties can learn from Scott Brown is that Congress does not ultimately belong to either Party but to the people who vote. He seems to know that. Here’s hoping he doesn’t forget after he gets to Washington.
Posted by: GMAC | January 20, 2010, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Scott Brown will do fine in Washington and I believe he’ll be true to his word. He is a Lt Col in the National Guard and the military is one of the few organizations left that still believes in integrity.
Posted by: Buzz | January 20, 2010, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
I didn’t see where Brown alluded to presidential aspirations, nor have I heard overtones of the Republicans recruiting him for a presidential bid. It was a stupid question, but in a good political answer Brown managed to point out that he has a job to do and deflect the question.
I agree with those who have pointed out that we recently elected someone without a proven track record and now are dealing with consequences. I’d suggest that the best course of action for choosing the next president is to look for someone with real experience managing a larger operation, because the president needs managerial skills. Senators are legislators, not executive types. They tend to make lousy presidents (Bush 41, LBJ, failed candidates like Mondale and Dole, and 0bama) because they don’t think like an executive needs to think. Oftentimes governors are the best presidents as they have the skill set to be president, having been in an executive office already, the most glaring recent exception being Carter.
Posted by: BigDaddyDK | January 20, 2010, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm
I’d prefer a Newt Gingrich any day over some unknown from Massachusetts. Newt is a damn smart guy who could run this country quite well.
Posted by: james | January 20, 2010, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
Romney / Brown 2012
Posted by: Just Sayin' | January 20, 2010, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm
Well, he has just as much experience as the current dude in the White House!
Posted by: American Patriot | January 20, 2010, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm
Why are Democrats always looking for another unqualified minority face? Obama had ZERO qualifications to be President of the greatest nation on Earth — and now it shows.
So please don’t question the qualifications of potential Republican candidates. It is a little like the proverbial pot calling the kettle…well…you get the picture.
=)
Posted by: Nayeli Ayala | January 20, 2010, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm
I would prefer a supposed “airhead” like President Bush to some pompous, arrogant pretender like Barry Obama any day.
Obama is a useless uber-liberal politician trying to keep up the charade as a viable centrist leader.
Posted by: Josh Wharton | January 20, 2010, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm
I don’t care what he said. Thank goodness “Curling Iron” Lady didn’t win!! That anyone could think to support her seriously calls into question where we are headed in this country.
Posted by: Inyourfacedems | January 20, 2010, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm
he
Posted by: saryalia | January 21, 2010, 12:00 am 12:00 am
What he should’ve said was, “Look, I was just a state senator, I’ll only have served in the U.S. Senate for two years, how could anyone POSSIBLY think I’d be qualified to be president in 2012???”
Posted by: Federalist1 | January 21, 2010, 12:05 am 12:05 am
The guy gets elected to the Senate. Drudge runs a ridiculous headline inquiring whether he’ll run for president and the media if off with it. Ugh!! Brown is a total unknown quantity who has not even set foot in DC yet. Does Drudge have that much influence? What is this political “American Idol”?
No wonder there are so few really talented leaders out there right now – this is how they’re vetted.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | January 21, 2010, 12:14 am 12:14 am
Brown’s answer should have been “That’s a silly question. It seems the Democrats tried that strategy of running a person for President that had no experience other than voting ‘present’, and now look what a mess we have…although I did more than vote ‘present’ here in Massachusetts and I promise to spend more time being a Senator than campaigning, unlike that other guy.”
Posted by: Larry | January 21, 2010, 12:21 am 12:21 am
Oh please. Will he accomplish something before talking presidency. This like talk about a parade for the lowest ranked NBA team in the play-offs. A real spoiler. What it will do is reveal any arrogance he may have; if he entertains the idea.
Posted by: TX_MBell | January 21, 2010, 12:23 am 12:23 am
Indy,calling others airheads is not very nice you maroon. When is Obama going to accept the problems he is causing and stop blaming everything on George W. Bush?
Posted by: Joseywales | January 21, 2010, 12:28 am 12:28 am
Brown is sincere,charismatic and a dynamic young politician. How can he not be considered presidential timber?
Posted by: Magnum | January 21, 2010, 12:34 am 12:34 am
Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that would bring any real and actual POSITIVE changes to Washington. Vote Ron Paul 2012!!
Posted by: RightWingHero | January 21, 2010, 12:53 am 12:53 am
Romney / Brown
Posted by: Frank F. Urter | January 21, 2010, 1:13 am 1:13 am
Let’s not jump ahead of ourselves or be lead by an inane journalist asking a ridiculous question. We’ve been down that road too many times. Rather, let’s give him a chance and judge him on his actions. Maybe the only timber we’ll see is the type that goes crash in the woods.
Posted by: TunaBlue | January 21, 2010, 1:15 am 1:15 am
The Dems sure have learned why electing their pretty boy Obama was an unmitigated disaster! Do they even hear themselves when they talk?
Posted by: NH | January 21, 2010, 1:24 am 1:24 am
Apparently he’s been good in his other positions…
As for press, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC are not really ‘news’ channels… they don’t dig for the hard facts and ignore a lot that goes on around them.
I mean how have you not have sacrificed your journalistic integrity when you can ignore reporting that 1.7M people are standing on the Capitol lawn?
FOX is the only ‘news’ channel — reports the good, the bad and the ugly.
Those others just have ranting maniacal head cases like Maddow, and that nasty Olbermann and Schultz.
Posted by: NH | January 21, 2010, 1:31 am 1:31 am
Who said Palin was a failure Indy? Only progressives like yourself try to give her that label..in truth you guys are scared to death of what she can do for the Conservative movement…
and who needs Moderate Conservative? we already have a whole host of that failure currently. We need a true Jeffersonian Conservative. nothing else. Sen. Jim DeMint is the closest Congress has..
Posted by: Vinny | January 21, 2010, 1:48 am 1:48 am
This discussion is waaaay waaay too early. Just stop. Let the guy go to the Senate first. And don’t ask him about this for awhile
Posted by: Mimi | January 21, 2010, 1:59 am 1:59 am
Gary Johnson for President. Mark my words. Brown will make a great VP.
Posted by: Divinryan | January 21, 2010, 2:06 am 2:06 am
Scott might as well run for President in 2012 as he probably will have a snowball’s chance in hell in being re-elected to the Senate. It does show how thin the field of good GOP Presidential hopefuls are doesn’t it?
Posted by: cwm | January 21, 2010, 2:26 am 2:26 am
Slow down flolks. Haven’t we learned anything about electing Presidents that we know absolutely nothing about. Let the poor guy at least get seated in the Senate. Then after a couple hundred days we can elect him president and prove that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Posted by: SoWhat | January 21, 2010, 2:43 am 2:43 am
for all of you that are complaining, of what he should have said, or didn’t say, I think his answer was perfect. It was gracious. He was humble. And he didn’t want to be rude to the person asking the question. and it’s obvious he’s extremely tired. Wouldn’t you be?
Brown’s winning of the election in Massachusetts, gives him incredible political capital. It’s only natural that people start to speculate, what could happen.
He seems like a normal guy. If he sticks to his principles and votes down any new spending increases, we might just have something. he has the opportunity of a lifetime.
Posted by: richardsh | January 21, 2010, 3:18 am 3:18 am
“Oh, another smooth talking polititian with a degree in law. Oh, and Soooo handsome too!!!” The night he was elected he starts kissing up to Obama!! I don’t think this country is ever going to learn!!!
Posted by: Bert | January 21, 2010, 4:18 am 4:18 am
Wow;
I am sorry… for REAL change in America..
1) Term limits for Senators and representatives – 2 Terms for Senators, and 4 terms for representatives
2) Remove all ability to exempt themselves for the laws they write.
3) Remove all fringe benefits from them. No retirements, no free medical/dental
4) No ability for Lawyers to serve in the office of Senator and/or Representative
5) No ability to become lobbyists.
The point being – you come to Washington, you serve your people. You leave office and have to return to living like the rest of America. No more ROYAL families serving.
Just my 2 cents…
Posted by: Tire of Losers | January 21, 2010, 4:28 am 4:28 am
He is prob not qualified to run for president, after all he has not: majored in french, indicated he hates the military, got red lines in his nose, applied for 50 purple hearts so he could evade any possible riverboat action, voted “present” 168 times, went home to sober up for 6 hrs so he could better dive in the creek and look for his girlfriend, etc.
Posted by: Ron | January 21, 2010, 4:34 am 4:34 am
Quoting Indy_Voter: “Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin?”
It’s not about a pretty face. It’s about picking a person who BELIEVES what he or she is doing. Not even what their own party line is doing.
I would rather elect someone who believes and does what he or she thinks is right then someone who plays the political game.
We all warned you obama was of this latter class, and how are you feeling about his results to date? From the poll numbers across the election, far-left liberals to moderates feel betrayed by that just-another-party-man politician who claimed to be more.
If you continue to want career politicans or wanna-be career politicans, keep voting for the incumbents like a good trained dog.
The rest of us like people who we at least HOPE will try to represent us. Right or wrong!
I am against Palin, but would like someone away from a beltway insider to represent the REST of us for four or eight years!
Posted by: Alex Wolf | January 21, 2010, 5:15 am 5:15 am
If Brown doesn’t fold and keeps to his conservative principles, he has an excellent chance of being the Republicans choice for president. You will know he has a good chance, when the media starts finding faults with him as they did Sarah Palin. Whenever there is a real good prospect for a Republican president, the mainstream media will try to find things wrong. But finally the public has become aware of this and look how popular Sarah has become because of this. Every time someone in the media attacks her, the more popular she becomes.
Posted by: Vince Hugh | January 21, 2010, 6:10 am 6:10 am
That is a misleading, stupid question asked to get Mr. Brown to speak while at a emotional time. It was made waiting for him to say something stupid.
Posted by: Joe | January 21, 2010, 6:43 am 6:43 am
He couldn’t possibly be worse than the last 3 presidents.
Posted by: Doug | January 21, 2010, 7:27 am 7:27 am
President? How about we let the man get seated in the Senate, first.
Posted by: Sgt Relic | January 21, 2010, 7:40 am 7:40 am
Scott Brown is the grandson of the late Woodrow W. Brown who was a justice of the peace in Old Lycoming Twp., just north of the Williamsport, PA, (Home of Little League Baseball) city line in the 1950s-1960s.
Posted by: Jim | January 21, 2010, 7:44 am 7:44 am
Repubs have all the pretty faces, I mean where is one in Obama’s admin? Bawney Fwank?
Posted by: lyineyes1956 | January 21, 2010, 7:44 am 7:44 am
IT’S GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT THAT SCOTT BROWN WON! ((( PALIN 2012! )))
Posted by: delta | January 21, 2010, 7:46 am 7:46 am
Browns not the real story here. The real story is how a tone deaf airhead whose not even a US citizen like Hussein Obama used a pretty face and voter anger to get elected president in the first place. And how short of a time it took for said airhead to destroy his presidency and be well on the way to destroying this country. THAT my friends is why Scot Brown won, and why dems lost in Virginia and New Jersey.
Posted by: THE TRUTH | January 21, 2010, 7:51 am 7:51 am
Great Scott, The Great White Hope. I have not heard that one yet. Look, this guy has a new concept on how the country should be run. Give him a chance. What little I see of him is that he is not fully conservative in that I understand him not to be pro life. He sounds like he will follow the old Constitution of the United States, not the new one from the current congress. God bless him and lead him.
Posted by: pafaery | January 21, 2010, 8:03 am 8:03 am
Why is this even being discussed? Let’s first see if he is a REAL conservative. Only time will tell.
Posted by: Eric | January 21, 2010, 8:11 am 8:11 am
Mitch Daniels. He is a joke. He is destroying the education system and everything else he touches here in Indiana. He will never be the GOP nominee. He is so out of touch with the average person, and I write this as a member of the Indiana Republican party.
Posted by: JOE | January 21, 2010, 8:23 am 8:23 am
At least Brown was born in this country, and we can see his records. The added plus is that he served in the military. Not unlike the current occupier whose wife didn’t like the USA for a long time and her husband who we still haven’t seen any of his records.
Posted by: judi | January 21, 2010, 8:25 am 8:25 am
If you want to see where O and his team are trying to take us, watch Glenn on Friday at 5, or DVR it. Then look at the current admin and their tactics. Brown just put a big brake on all that with his win and the pres question was idiotic…let the man do his job NOW.
There is a big picture here that gets clearer by the day. Watch and learn on Friday…and then ponder the actions of this administation and see if you can see the correlations.
Posted by: jackie | January 21, 2010, 8:36 am 8:36 am
I am from Massachusetts, and will try and bring some reality to these comments.
Obviously, Scott’s ambitions are not now to one day be POTUS, but just as obvious – he is apparently very well qualified to go down that path.
He may be a good looking man, but his qualities have nothing to do with his looks. He is a man of the people, has common sense, and is an independent thinker. He has been battle tested as a tiny minority state Senator in the highly corrupt Massachusetts world of politics. He is a decent speaker and handles himself well with the press. He’s comfortable in his own skin.
He’s a patriot, a family man, and someone you’d love to have a beer with.
Not a Reagan Democrat, a Scott Brown Republican.
Posted by: John Maki | January 21, 2010, 8:38 am 8:38 am
Why is Mitt Romney even being considered for 2012 he was given his chance, and he couldn’t even beat McCain. If he can’t even beat that Rhino McCain then why should the Republican party entrust him the future of their party. Of course maybe it goes back to the very problem the republican party has and why they were thrown out of power in recent years.
Posted by: josh | January 21, 2010, 8:40 am 8:40 am
Hello,
Scott Brown is not another pretty face as some “IDIOT” has said in there post here. He is a RESPECTED MEMBER of the Armed Services of this nation, and you shall treat him as that. What have you done for your country indy_voter. Obama is nothing more than a empty suit to begin with. This man has military service. He would make a “GREATER” President than Obama ever has been. He has a GREAT sense of humor, and he is about to embark on a great quest to help really transform Wacko D.C., and help it to return it back to what it was before all the foolish progressives took over, and MAYBE IT CAN BECOME WASHINGTON D.C. ONCE AGAIN. THE “PEOPLES” HOME, THE “PEOPLES” CAPITAL. GET RID OF ALL THE BUNS IN 2010. NO MORE PROGRESSIVES IN “OUR” GOVERNMENT.
Thanks,
Larry C.
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Posted by: Larry D. Crumbley | January 21, 2010, 8:48 am 8:48 am
If a candidate for Federal Office is honest, a fiscal conservative and believes in Federalism-(giving the states back their responsibilities to handle social issues)and believes in shrinking this bloated bureaucracy to a manageable level I will vote for him or her whether Democrat, Republican, Independant black, white, Christian, Muslim, Jew whatever. We need serious people to handle the serious problems we face.
Posted by: Jim | January 21, 2010, 8:56 am 8:56 am
Scott Brown is the nearest politican I have heard in a long time that sounds like America comes before party ambitions. Some fresh air just blew into Washington.This may be the start of “Change the “Change”.
Posted by: About Time | January 21, 2010, 8:57 am 8:57 am
To the first post here. You will notice it wasn’t the Republicans who were asking him if he was going to run for President, it was the same liberal media, that gave him no chance in this election. To say that the Republican party is the only party looking for a pretty face all the time is laughable. If the Republican party is looking for a pretty face, the Democrat party is looking for a way to pander to minorities. Niether Bush nor Palin were problems for the Republican party as far as elections go. What was a problem for the Republican party was forsaking real conservative principles, and attempting to be liberals. Noone wants to be led by the pot smoking plastic bananna liberal party, we end up in the ditch like with our current pretender in chief.
Posted by: Gryphon70 | January 21, 2010, 9:00 am 9:00 am
the drudge report heading was a tongue and cheek statement regarding the reality of obama’s inexperience.
Posted by: casey | January 21, 2010, 9:10 am 9:10 am
@indy_voter – It wasn’t Republicans looking for another pretty face, it was the dim bulb media.
Posted by: Pay Attentino | January 21, 2010, 9:15 am 9:15 am
Sorry it’s just wayyyyyy tooooooo early in the game to even ask Brown that kind of question.
Posted by: Dave | January 21, 2010, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Fred Sanford for US President in 2012. Grady for VP!
Posted by: Alan | January 21, 2010, 9:24 am 9:24 am
Amazing!
It takes 60 Democrats to waste time and money in an effort to destroy America.
It takes 1 Republican to change history!
Republicans need to stick to being the party of “NO”. NO more Socialist, Marxist ideas. NO more wasting of OUR money. NO more union control. NO more Chicago thugs. NO more illegal immigrants. NO more protecting terrorists. Remember President Obama’s quote January 23, 2009— “I won. So I think on that one, I trump you.” Well President Obama DEAL THE CARDS AGAIN—its a new day!!!!!!!!
Posted by: blackirishblonde | January 21, 2010, 9:24 am 9:24 am
In response to indy_voter: The dems found themselves a head, an empty talking head, and its not pretty.
Posted by: 911Patriot | January 21, 2010, 9:25 am 9:25 am
Hey! Media, let’s get the priorotoes straight. I think Brown really wants to serve the people of Mass. unlike the Obama phemom that was brought to us by those who are still unknown to the public and sit grinning and a pickin’ in Chicago.
Posted by: john smith | January 21, 2010, 9:38 am 9:38 am
I see Senator-elect Scott Brown as a new fast food franchise in town and everyone is abandoning the others. In addition, the past 8 years have transitioned Americans into being overly anxious and impatient, anticipating a bubbling change in the economy that would reflect a good pocket change. We the people must positioned ourselves to tighten our belts be it Democrats or Republicans. These two dominant parties designed a political system that has seen them enriched by our hard work. Ask yourselves, why do some of our legislators sworn to serve, end up in jail houses. 2. Why do they align themselves with agents and lobbyist? Why do most after serving become lobbyist? And lastly, why is there no term limits for our legislators and instead our Presidents?
Posted by: Johnniemite | January 21, 2010, 9:39 am 9:39 am
GONZO Journalists are always trying to rewrite or influence the outcome of history. It’s a bit sickening…
Posted by: Enrique S. | January 21, 2010, 10:12 am 10:12 am
Aw come on now, we bitched that barack HUSSEIN obama was in the senate less than 150 days when he declared his intent to run for president. This guy hasnt even been in the senate chamber and you guys have him running….shouldnt the president of the United States have at least SOME experience?
Posted by: dan hutton | January 21, 2010, 10:17 am 10:17 am
ABC always asks stupid questions. What else would you expect.
Posted by: jolanka | January 21, 2010, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Look closely, people. The anti-Christ that everyone thinks is Obama is in fact this man, Brown.
Reminds me of the Martin Sheen character from “The Dead Zone”.
He will seduce us and lead us all to the gates of Hell.
And I’m no liberal. I’ve seen it, is all.
Posted by: SAFG | January 21, 2010, 10:23 am 10:23 am
You people don’t know anything about Brown. I live in MA and nobody here knows anything about him. Least of all, the national Republican party knows him… they just heard his name a few weeks ago. Didn’t we learn anything from electing an unknown in President Obama? His election was based not so much in policy, but in methods. The two parties, going back 10 years, have been arrogant and pushed insider candiates and self absorbed agenda on the people. Brown’s opposition campaign took MA voters for granted and further insulted the electorate. The Brown for President question (and headline) shows how little work the press has done to figure out what really happened here.
Posted by: Tim | January 21, 2010, 10:29 am 10:29 am
Let’s get one thing straight. This man was elected by independents. This means group of group of voters of who have no specific understanding of the issues in the campaign and did not understand the political enough to even intelligently decide if they were voting as Democrats or Republicans. Moreover, they lacked sufficient motivation to educate themselves beyond their own anger and frustration. Any vote caste out of emotion rather than reason means very little in the overall process. Their votes written on the wind and therefore have no substance. They represent no legitimate group. Independents of America unite! You have nothing to lose but your soggy logaic and tea bags!
Posted by: wavygravy | January 21, 2010, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Wait, not fair!!! You can’t ask him that question before the spin doctors have a better chance at him. Now let’s see, the naked model thing didn’t stick, what else to try? Hmmm, he drives a truck – aha! He hates the environment – send that to press.
Posted by: MEngle | January 21, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
This is an interesting twist of fate. In my opinion Browns win was two fold. 1) It was an example of the discontent spreading through the country over the current administrations policies. Hence a vote against Obamas direction for the country. 2) This election was also an example of which direction the voters think this country needs to be heading. For a Rep. candidate to win this particular Senate seat was more than just a stroke of luck. Like it or not, This election demonstrates there are Dems. and Ind. ready to check out of Hotel Obama for better accommodations.
Posted by: Undergroundspeak | January 21, 2010, 10:38 am 10:38 am
The election is like a fresh breeze that blows away the fetid stench of democratic machine politics in MA. It has served to shake all but the most die hard doctrinaire lefties out of their collective delusion that the country supports centralized socialist policies that intrude on how we conduct our day-to-day lives. The Obama administration’s elitist tactics of running roughshod over popular sentiment have collided with reality. If they learn anything meaningful from Tuesday’s events, perhaps the people will be better served and the focus will shift toward programs that allow businesses to create jobs and get people back on their feet rather than cynical attempts to broaden government powers and use the electorate’s pain as a catalyst to implement sweeping social and economic changes fly in the face of the principals that have made our country the greatest in the world. A new broom sweeps clean.
Posted by: Deadeye Dick | January 21, 2010, 10:43 am 10:43 am
Teddy Davis is an idiot!
“He noted that he had not yet even arrived in Washington — but, at the same time, he didn’t seem to rule out a future White House run. ”
Anyone reading the actual transcript of the interview saw that Brown didn’t want to discuss the topic because it’s silly to start down this path so early with a very “green” Senator. Maybe Davis should go work for Us or People where stupid reporting is the norm.
Did I mention that Davis is an IDIOT?!!!!!
Posted by: Greg | January 21, 2010, 10:43 am 10:43 am
Wavygravy is… well… an idiot. The whole point is that people don’t WANT to vote as republican or democrat anymore. To say that independents don’t know about issues… that you have to be a party member to vote on issues… what arrogance. Not recognizing that politics has been mostly emotional for thousands of years also makes Wavygravy ignorant.
Posted by: Tim | January 21, 2010, 10:46 am 10:46 am
Moderate on Social Issues will not be a winner.
Posted by: loginos | January 21, 2010, 10:55 am 10:55 am
Can we at least wait until his sex scandal is revealed and find out his nude pictures appeared in a gay magazine before we send him to the White House? Jeeeez!!
Posted by: Michael D | January 21, 2010, 11:00 am 11:00 am
It was a typically stupid question from an idiot reporter. Brown hasn’t even been sworn as a Senator why ask inane questions. Give his at least 141 days in office, then he’ll have exceeded Barak Hussein Obama’s (mmm…mmm…mmm) experience.
Posted by: AlexU | January 21, 2010, 11:00 am 11:00 am
Anyone can talk a good game; look at Obama. I feel we should wait to see what he does, not what he says.
Posted by: David Caskey | January 21, 2010, 11:19 am 11:19 am
Good lord! Let the guy at least ARRIVE in the Senate before beginning to place him in the oval office!
Posted by: Red in Denver | January 21, 2010, 11:26 am 11:26 am
What’s the rush? Let the man prove himself in the Senate. We are saddled with a flash-in-the-pan butt hole now and we don’t need to push some one for President before we know how he does in a lower office. Conservatives have got to stop letting the Lame Stream Media choose our candidates for us.
Posted by: tdrag | January 21, 2010, 11:28 am 11:28 am
Geez people. A reporter asks Brown a typical dumb question. He answers as best as he can without ridiculing the question, and somehow he is blamed by some of you idiots. Give the guy a break. He’s not the first politician to have to answer a stupid question. Grow up.
Posted by: mike | January 21, 2010, 11:36 am 11:36 am
The republicrats are desperate first palin now brown? This is the best they got? Give me a break. More like scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Posted by: Steve | January 21, 2010, 11:40 am 11:40 am
How ridiculous. Some guy spends a couple terms in a State Senate, then gets elected to the US Senate against a week candidate, so he’s qualified to be President because he’s attractive and gives a good speech?
Oh, wait, nevermind.
Posted by: John F | January 21, 2010, 11:42 am 11:42 am
How ridiculous. Some guy spends a couple terms in a State Senate, then gets elected to the US Senate against a week candidate, so he’s qualified to be President because he’s attractive and gives a good speech?
Oh, wait, nevermind.
Posted by: John F | January 21, 2010, 11:42 am 11:42 am
Check out the new version of “Mmm Mmm Mmm Barack Hussein Obama” at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerweber
You’ll get a laugh!
Posted by: Roger Weber | January 21, 2010, 11:42 am 11:42 am
We need someone even more conservative then Brown to run for President in 2012. It is clear the country has bought into freedom, individual rights and responsibility, smaller govt, lower taxes…. Lets start abolishing the Dept of Education, Agriculture, energy, HHS, etc….Put the bureaucrats out on the street and tar anf feather the PROPGRESSIVES!!!!
As ACORN would say enuf is enuf.
Posted by: tired ofkuhns | January 21, 2010, 11:44 am 11:44 am
It was not the Republicans that are asking whether Brown has the “timber” to be president, it’s ABC news. He hasn’t even been sworn in as a US senator and they are already asking him questions worded in such a way to hopefully catch him in a gaff. Any answer can be spun to discredit him – and will by a liberal media. If he says, YES, then he is obviously pompous and self absorbed. If he answers NO, then they criticize him for not having the mettle for higher office. If one day down the road he decides he does want to run, the folks at ABC will whip out the sound bite where he admitted himself that he did not have the “timber” to be president. Why don’t they just ask him “Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?” I know his win has threatened and embarrassed the “progressives” but can’t they just let the guy do the job he was elected to for a little while before they start trying to destroy him?
Posted by: Whosiwhatzit | January 21, 2010, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Come on. That is ignorance. We don’t know yet who this guy is and you want him as the GOP nominee. We can’t be that desperate to anoint someone based on his limited background. Plus he has issues with abortion that will be red flags to us righties.
Posted by: PCrawford | January 21, 2010, 11:48 am 11:48 am
By the time 2012 rolls around, Brown will have had more days in the senate than Obama did, even though it’s only 2 years. By comparison, because Obama spent so much of his time on the presidential campaign trail, he missed an extraordinary amount of days in the Senate.
I’ve come to think that US Senators of either party aren’t the best candidates for president. Too much deliberation, not enough decision-making, way too little personal accountability for decisions voted on. Or in Obama’s case, NOT voted on.
Governors (Jimmy Carter excepted) are better executives. Romney/Brown, anyone? Or Palin/Brown? Stay tuned…
Posted by: NDSue | January 21, 2010, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
I think that it has been made quite clear that serving less than one full term in the Senate is not enough experience for the position of POTUS in the 21st century.
Posted by: katMD | January 21, 2010, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
As a Democrat who supports health care reform, I like this guy at first glance. Althought he is stepping into an over-hyped role as the guy who can kill “Obamacare,” he really seems like he’s commited to doing the best job possible for Mass and the US, based on his own ideas. And frankly, I don’t want a ‘rammed-through’ bill that will only fuel a backlash. I agree with McCain on this one– it’s time to scrap the big, ugly bill and start over.
Posted by: Dave in AZ | January 21, 2010, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
Heck, Scott Brow may be the type of senator to actually READ the bill before he votes on it.
Posted by: Dave in AZ | January 21, 2010, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
Next thing you know a reporter will ask to see Obama’s real Birth Certificate, NOT!
Posted by: Rock | January 21, 2010, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
As a Lt. Col. in the Army National Guard, he already has more real leadership qualifications to be president than Obama ever had! This man has a bright political future. Perhaps a new political party will emerge from the Tea Party Movement, and he will be the party’s nomination. It could happen, I’m just saying. . . .
Posted by: Steve | January 21, 2010, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
This country needs amnesty now!!!!!
Posted by: Rock | January 21, 2010, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
As a conservative I for one think that this is just stupid. Why, simply because he won a Senate seat, would I or anyone else vote for him for president? He may be conservative, but he won because over 60% of Americans, even those from Mass. are against this healthcare bill, cap and trade, bailouts and more and more and more and more government interference in their lives! I say no to anyone who is/has ever served in Washington, we need all new people! People who are reluctant but willing and who like our founders only want whats best for the future of our country… not special interest groups or their own personal gain.
Posted by: Amy | January 21, 2010, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
fORGET IT!! we have someone in the Whitehouse that came out of nowhere!!
Posted by: Billgls | January 21, 2010, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
“George Washington for President 2012. Has anyone seen George yet?”
Right on Thomas! I second that! George Washington, the man who could have been king but chose to go back to Mount Vernon instead, he was a true hero and the embodiement of what we should always be looking for in a president!
Posted by: Amy | January 21, 2010, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
I agree with Whosiwhatzit. It may be a dumb question, but it is a media question, not a Republican question. I disagree with the charactarization that it is an orchestrated “liberal media” gotcha question. Reporters want to ask questions that make headlines, plain and simple. That’s how they make a name for themselves. There is a general complaint to be made about the depth of political reporting these days, but this was not a hostile press conference.
Posted by: Dave in AZ | January 21, 2010, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
The more Democrat responses I read, the more it appears that many in your party are delusional.
Obama even says that the public is angry and frustrated about jobs. Well, here’s my observation.
It’s not the jobs, Obama, it’s YOU. A lot of American people can’t stand YOU. You are following a progressive (Communist) agenda, and it scares us. Communism is not what America is about. The best thing Obama can do is resign, partly because he is not qualified (non-US citizen), and partly because he is a traitor.
Any questions, Barry?
Posted by: Lance64A | January 21, 2010, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
please…of course it is too early for Mr. Brown to comment on what is down the road. I just do not want him to be suckered into a false misrepresentation of Obama paying Mr. Nice Guy to lure him toward his way of thinking. I know he is smarter than that.
Posted by: terry | January 21, 2010, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
I just feel that the best thing in the world is Scott Brown. Our Guardian Angel. Our Savior, if you will. Thank God for him and his timing. Scott, do not allow washington to change you in such a way to get you to think they get you..they understand you…or even agree with you./ do not trust them…..none of them
Posted by: jan | January 21, 2010, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
Hey Indy – J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!!!
Posted by: MEVet | January 21, 2010, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm
That airhead Palin is the primary reason we don’t have the democratic health care plan. Her post on death panels stopped that train in its tracks. Two days after her post on terrorism (related to the Detroit incident) titled “It’s a war not a crime spree” our smart president finally came to his senses and said the same thing. How is that smart thing working our for Obama?
Palin/Pence in 2012! (or Palin/Bachman)
Posted by: Phil Hall | January 21, 2010, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
I am a moderate democrat in Indiana and I saw someone mention Mitch Daniels as a potential GOP candidate in 2012. I have never actively campaigned for either a democrat or a republican but I would strongly consider getting involved to support Governor Daniels. Regardless of party affiliation, there is no denying the accomplishments of Mitch Daniels in his 2 terms as governor. He would be an outstanding President but unfortunately, he has the personality of a doorknob and he doesn’t have movie star good looks. Thankfully, enough Hoosiers had the common sense to reelect Daniels overwhelmingly in light of the fact that Obama carried the state. That should say alot about his success. Daniels 2012! – Has a nice ring to it.
Posted by: explained infinitum | January 21, 2010, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
It is way to early for this kind of speculation. Do a good job in the Senate, then maybe do a good job as a Governor – and then maybe we can talk about the White House. America doesn’t need another Senator like Obama being fast tracked into the top job while having a resume that is even thinner than Sarah Palin’s.
Posted by: Robert | January 21, 2010, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
This is so much Bull. Leave the guy alone and let him kick one ass before you want him to kick them all. Life is so short, he has some much to vote against it will take a few months to back anything down or out.
Posted by: George L Toms River NJ | January 21, 2010, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
Good grief, he isn’t even a Senator yet. The person who asked that dumb question should be sent back to the mail room.
Posted by: nono524 | January 21, 2010, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm
Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin?
Posted by: indy_voter | Jan 20, 2010 3:05:09 PM
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Since when are reporters republicans??
Posted by: Sebago | January 21, 2010, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Dear God…haven’t we learned our lesson? We just put a freshmen senator into the oval office…how is that working out? Brown may turn out to be a very good senator. Give him a chance to gain experience before elevating him to POTUS.
Posted by: Chris | January 21, 2010, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
Bobby Jindal 2012
Posted by: Ralph | January 21, 2010, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
What a stupid question. Have we not learned a lesson from the last presidential election which got us an unknown, untested and inexperienced Obama?? We don’t even know this man. Give him a break and let him do the job he was elected to do before conducting another coronation. The last one sure screwed things up, didn’t it?
Posted by: tom | January 21, 2010, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
It was a stupid question, and the reporter knows it, but he was hoping Brown would be dumb enough to give him a soundbite that could be ridiculed.
If Brown has ambitions for later on, that’s fine, but I think the country has seen first-hand now (with Obama) the dangers of electing somebody with NO experience.
Posted by: p3orion | January 21, 2010, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
“FYI: Brown calls himself a “Fiscal Conservative” and a “Social Moderate”. Not what I am looking for in a candidate.”
Perhaps not, but it is EXACTLY what I’m looking for, and I suspect I’m not alone.
Having said that, Brown’s a young man (in legislative years) and should put in some real time in the Senate before indulging any further ambitions. Let’s keep an eye on the man and see what what kind of a resume he develops.
Posted by: Northern Light | January 21, 2010, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
We don’t need another “abortion” candidate. Most people are against women’s “right” to murder their children.
Posted by: knbell | January 21, 2010, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
What an alarming, sad, and ironic loss for democrats! I voted for Obama in 2008. I thought he would be a fair-minded politician and a better president than George W. Bush. How mistaken I was! As a moderate democrat, I had so much hope that Obama would become a centrist. Not only he is an extreme leftist, he is also showing the American public what a liar and incompetent leader he is. Talk about buyer’s remorse! I am deeply regretting my vote that went to Obama!
Obama and his criminal thugs –Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi– will not have a chance to be re-elected in the next elections. I know they will never get the votes of moderate democrats and independents.
Our country is heading on the wrong path and we need to take it back in the elections of 2010 and 2012. I can not believe that I will come to the point where I say this……….but right now Bush looks a much better president than Obama.
I am so disgusted by what Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the leftist democrats are doing to our country, our economy, and our national security. They all need to be voted out…..and they will be come 2010 and 2012. They all will pay the price when the American people go to the polls……..as they just did in Massachusetts by electing Scott Brown. We need more Scott Browns all over America.
Posted by: Angel | January 21, 2010, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Hey Phonzie7, your right Republicans are wrong. Next thing you know they will want fiscal responsiblity. So I say for you out of touch Dems, push for amnesty, cap and tax and any other horrible and out of touch social big spending programs, it will be the end for the DEMS! Besides you guys ding Bush for big spending and then Obuma gets there and spends like a drunken sailor!
Posted by: Rock | January 21, 2010, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Where in the quote did Senator(elect) Brown say he was running for President in 2012. For heaven’s sake stop the spin.
Posted by: Are U Kidding Me | January 21, 2010, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
He just GOT to Washington…Shouldn’t we give him some time to show us what he is, or what he brings to the table? Haven’t we learned that making hasty decisions hurts???What a wacky question, and one any first grader might answer yes to, IF the media doesn’t turn the job of president into another unskilled labor through it’s far out questions/comments…May come a day folks would rather work at a fastfood joint than be president…
Posted by: bob graham | January 21, 2010, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
The greatest impediment to a Democrat Party mid-term course correction to avoid a certain 2010 electoral tidal wave is that their anointed “Standard Bearer” ,Barack “ACORN” Obama , is narcissistic to the point of being delusional. In Obama’s Marxist mindset, it’s simply not plausible that his Socialist agenda is anathema to the American public. Greg N
Posted by: gneubeck | January 21, 2010, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Unless he changes to be pro-life, he won’t have my support for higher office. That said, I am glad he beat the leftist. His response to the question was fine. I’d have been sorely disappointed if he had said anything other than what he did- the last thing a newly elected politician should do is bite off more than he can chew, and beyond that, he certainly shouldn’t call a reporter stupid. That’s a good way to get the leftist media to hate you even more than they already do. He showed tact, and committment to getting the job done. I just hope, as others, that he follows through.
Posted by: Chris | January 21, 2010, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
What nonsense. I voted for Brown, but before anybody is considered for president they should have done something and have some kind of track-record. Now we all can see what happens when you vote someone in who has no experience, track-record – nothing – as president.
Posted by: jamal | January 21, 2010, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all the things he hasn’t done yet.
Posted by: James | January 21, 2010, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Senator Brown.. do you plan to run for President in 2012… Answer: It didn’t work out so good last time a freshman senator did that, did it?
Of course the Zero we have now is a Marxist. That might have something to do with his problems.
Posted by: mndasher | January 21, 2010, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Noob Senator, sure. I bet you he has a backbone and won’t vote “present” on issues, much like Obamination did.
Posted by: Brown | January 21, 2010, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
CHRIS SAID- “Now we all can see what happens when you vote someone in who has no experience, track-record – nothing – as president.”
My reply- Senator Brown does have a track record. A state representative and a soldier for 30 years. He is also of good character. And I believe what he says.
Compare that to Obama, who doesn’t have good character or a good track record. Of course, Obama TALKS alot, but be wary of that pathological liar and narcissist. If you go by Obama’s actions, he is an imposter, a liar, a thief, a traitor, a Communist and he should be out of office and in prison.
Posted by: Lance64A | January 21, 2010, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Indy_voter wrote: “Why are Republicans always searching for another pretty face? Haven’t they learned from the disaster of the previous airheads like Bush and Palin?”
And my oh my, wasn’t that Mr. Bush a pretty one? Yes sir. When I think of “pretty,” I think of Bush! Mmm mmm!
Posted by: Dark Matter | January 21, 2010, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Too soon to say for sure, let’s see what he actually does in DC. One thing for sure, the Republicans need a new face, new leadership and some new strategies. They have no one out there to inspire the country in a presidential bid, all their possibilities are the same old, same old except Sarah Palin and I doubt her chances at being elected.
Posted by: tampamom25 | January 21, 2010, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
Having made my snide remark however, indy_voter does have a point. Palin, Obama, and other candidates for national office seem to be picked more and more based on surface appearance and “sexy factor” than on real track record and substance. We all pay for that in the end, as we’re paying for it with the current administration.
Posted by: Dark Matter | January 21, 2010, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm
Pretty fair answer. He wouldn’t want to say “No, I don’t want to run for President” in case it comes back to haunt him years down the track.
Realistically, pretty much every Senator and Governor (and ex Governors) must wonder at some at some point if they are a chance. Just they wait until it is time to say it out loud.
When is Brown up for re-election? Get past that first. See if Mass. returns to the Dark side.
Posted by: Batguano | January 21, 2010, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
I cringed when I saw the Drudge headline. Man, have we learned NOTHING? Why would we want another neophyte in the White House? Maybe in 2020, but not in 2012.
Posted by: John | January 21, 2010, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
How about proving himself first? We know nothing.
Posted by: Spicy Mustard | January 21, 2010, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
You know what kills me, is this guy probably would make a great pres if what he ran on is what he is. But so many conservatives are so worried about what other people do with their own bodies he would never make it.
Im a total fiscal conservative heck im all for freedom, complete freedom, i dont believe in fiscal freedom and then turn around and want to restrict others personal freedoms. Freedom is freedom period. If you believe in one you should believe in the other. If the democrats and the republicans would start to use some logic then maybe jerks like Obama wouldnt get elected.
Posted by: Jspicer | January 21, 2010, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Bush and Palin weren’t as cute as this guy is…and he’s not an anti-abortionist freak, either.
Posted by: Chica | January 21, 2010, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
If he is considering running for office, he better wait till 2016. If he or any Republican runs against Obama, chances are very good that the candidate will lose.
Posted by: Garba Maigoro | January 21, 2010, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
Wow.. the worst thing the GOP could do is send up a 2012 candidate that resembles the mold of Barack Obama. It’s a historically observed fact that Senators generally make bad presidents. Governors usually make… better… Presidents.
The Republican Dream Team for 2012 is some combination of Romney/Palin/Gingrich. Don’t argue.. you’ll be wrong.
Posted by: Robert Zemeckis | January 21, 2010, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
If Brown favors slaughtering the unborn, he has zero chance of getting to the White House as a Republican. The GOP held its’ nose for McCain, someone who missed few opportunities to offend the party rank-and-file. If another milquetoast Republican becomes the candidate for 2012, Ted Kennedy (deceased) could beat whatever RINO (Republican in Name Only) is trotted out there. Nobody would confuse Obama with a Republican in 2008 and he won. Not many people would confuse W with a Democrat in 2000 and he won. You have to win over your base first if you’re going to win over the American people to reach the White House. The Press said a Republican moderate had the best chance in 2008, but it was Palin’s conservatism that won over the base to even give McCain a shot. Unfortunately, Sarah Palin is Dan Quayle in a skirt.
Posted by: Esstee Intusk | January 21, 2010, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
Palin/Brown in 2012. Stupid and pretty.
Posted by: Zip | January 23, 2010, 12:37 am 12:37 am