A reader at the Corner notes that if Scott Brown wins in Massachusetts, Brown's experience echoes the current occupant of the White House (which is scary to me):
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Hey Rich. I haven't seen anyone point out that if Scott Brown wins, he's the logical choice for the nominee for President in 2012. A state senator, followed by 2 years of experience in the US Senate! Aren't those the job requirements now?
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"A state senator, followed by 2 years of experience in the US Senate! Aren't those the job requirements now?"
I'm not so sure. Was Brown ever a community organizer?
Also he needs to be careful not to actually *serve* in the US Senate, but rather to start running for President tomorrow morning and show up for his day job as little as humanly possible. That will help him avoid any inconvenient legislative fingerprints for the haters to pick away at. (Come to think of it, his actual service in the state legislature, where he worked instead of just killing time until he could reach for the next rung on the ladder, may disqualify him entirely.)
Actually, given the other possible nominees -- other than Romney or Palin -- I wouldn't mind Brown running at all. I'd give him a fair hearing (his disgusting chortling about Obama potentially being a bastard child notwithstanding).
ReplyDeleteAnd I like this line of reasoning as well: it suggests that Brown's election wasn't a momentous ideological reversal (any more than Obama's election was an affirmation for liberalism in 2008). As both have recognized, Obama and Brown are both connected because after 9 years of stagnant wages, increased inequality, faltering institutions (a Congress paralyzed by anti-democratic norms; a discredited financial and corporate system, e.g.) two violent, seemingly never-ending wars -- the people are angry. And while not any outsider will do (Obama was a state senator for a good stretch of time), that sheer rage and madness must be sated.
Now, some do it nicely -- with words about change and hope -- and others do it by saying the President of the United States would like to give terrorists "more rights." To each his own, really.
And here I was thinking that the obvious limitations of Obama stemming from his total lack of experience were enough to illustrate to voters that it wasn't a good idea to elect people without proven records of accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteSilly me.