Received a Scott Brown mailer in the post today, piping hot and fresh from the Republican “He’s For Us. Not For You.” Rage Factory, and was struck by this:
“Unemployment stuck above 8 percent.”
In reality, of course, the national unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. I understand the mailer was printed somewhere back in time, but that is how Brown’s entire campaign is shaking out: an attempt to re-run the last election. Like the barn coat and truck, his pitch has a “been there, done that” feel that doesn’t match contemporary reality.
Brown’s decision to abandon Mr. Nice Guy to rally The 13 Percent — the Commonwealth’s registered Republicans — combined with his reliance on dated rhetoric is part of the reason he is dropping in the polls. You can fill in the rest of the reasons in the comments.
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14 Comments . Leave a comment below.His campaign is too lazy to find out what this month’s numbers are before mailing campaign lit only shows that, once again, they are betting against the economy.
1. He’s using the same Republican attack line the GOP is using against Obama? In Massachusetts? How is that a good idea?
2. If he’s so concerned about unemployment, why did he join his fellow Republicans and vote against multiple jobs bills?
Interestingly, as I was writing this, I got a robocall asking who I was voting for in the US Senate race. Was happy to oblige. Only after the poll did they say it was the Brown campaign. Seemed like a metaphor for his entire campaign: He needs to hide who he is in order to have any chance of persuading voters here.
…in a bland voice from Karl Rove’s “Crossroads GPS.” It said nothing about Brown, but said Warren was a “member of the 1%” who yet called herself an “architect of the Occupy Movement”; “has been accused of scientific misconduct”; has falsely claimed to be “Indian”; and is, in sum, “completely out of touch with reality.”
Scott Brown does not care about facts. He simply makes assertions in order to get votes. If factual information exists that is contradictory, he dismisses it.
So, to Scott, unemployment is still above 8%, and the BLS statistics are wrong.
a middle of the road “independent”, but this campaign he has run, “Scott Brown and I approve this..”, is as nasty and vile as anything the national Republicans he votes with have run, and I don’t want to hear excuses for ads run by conservative groups attacking Warren. If you lie with dogs, you get fleas. Independent, no. Republican, most certainly. There was a time when MA Repubs were decent people and ran decent operations. No more.
Although of course he’s happy to get lunatic-fringe birther support. Yet Brown is going full Bay State Birther, as Gov. Patrick so aptly put it. I don’t see how the campaign he’s running in any way resembles one of a bipartisan moderate. Could you imagine Olympia Snowe running a campaign based on attacking her opponent’s ethnic heritage?
Tell everyone, even friends and relatives that aren’t political to vote for Warren and why and tell them the truth about Brown. My sister liked his ad with Gail Huff and got fliers claiming he was an independent. While wishing her a happy birthday over the phone I told her he was a Republican and voted against Section 8 (which she has used in the past) and multiple jobs bills. I was going on and on when she cut me off and said “as soon as you said he was a Republican he lost my vote”
… that landed today. A friend posted it to Facebook in disgust.
I don’t know how he thinks he’ll win mushy voters with racism. He’s already got the bigot vote all sewn up.
First they were defending the honor of true Cherokee by bashing her and now they are saying her heritage is not only genuine but disqualifying? Way to run on the Dawes Act Brown and have a real retro campaign.
Sent by the Mass GOP, not the Brown Campaign (cough).
Has shown itself time and time again to be in step with mainstream voters here. Oh, wait….
makes the Wall Street Journal Editorial page look like the Village Voice.
Is that how the lizard brains at Brown Inc. work?
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