[Tublecane]

Why should I care?

[Carley]

So thanks for voting to end DADT, creep.

[Responsibility2nd]

Sen. Brown says he was sex-abuse victim

Scott Brown says he was sexually abused as a child

[Cicero]

Is this why he voted for the START treaty? Because he was afraid Putin would beat him?

[dblup]

Yeah, that’s what I’d do if I had a big problem or some deep dark secret: gush it to 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl before telling my wife, my mother, my pastor, my best friend.

Watch for follow-up visits to Oprah, the View, Geraldo Live, the whole line-up of lefty hand-ringers and guilt merchants.

Then watch for the little “R” after his name, as Brown himself has phrased it, to become a little “D”. Then at last he will know he is among his own.

[Navy Patriot]

Brown told also Stahl that he endured brutal physical abuse by more than one stepfather and even considered purchasing a Wakefield home where he’d been battered, “just so I could burn it down.”

But decided he'd settle for just burning down the country instead.

[nfldgirl]

And this needed to come out now...because...? I’m trying to understand. (Oh! I get it...Book-selling time!)

[flowerplough]

This explains much.

[nfldgirl]

And...if true that his wife and mother did not know about the abuse...before he shared with Leslie Stahl...just speaks volumes about the man’s discernment/judgment. An absolute idiot in my book.

[ml/nj]

FTR, I was never sexually abused as a kid. SFAIK, none of my friends were sexually abused as kids. I did once hear second hand of a girl in a grade above me, maybe when we were in fourth and fifth grade, who had some pervert expose himself to her; but that was all that happened supposedly. We're talking late 50s here.

ML/NJ

[Paladin2]

So, quit abusing the rest of us.

[humblegunner]

I was sexually and physically abused as a kid

Well.. it didn't turn him into a blogpimp.

There's always that.

[nuconvert]

Doesn’t say much for his marriage, does it?

[boomop1]

Get out the little violin and the bull shit meter, run this RINO out of the senate.

[DBrow]

How unfortunate for Senator Brown. I’m sorry this happened to him.

Politically, does this mean that he’ll act like he has Stockholm Syndrome when he feels threatened?

I see this behavior in Senator McCain- don’t hurt me, let me understand you, let me help you. “You have nothing to fear from Obama, he’d make a fine president”, from memory but I think it’s close enough.

[Tax-chick]

... he endured brutal physical abuse by more than one stepfather

It sounds like his mother had crappy judgment in choosing sex partners. But we don't want to be judgmental.

Why would any man who had been sexually abused by another man favor more public promotion of homosexuality? Isn't that just crazy?

[drypowder]

So that's supposed to exempt him from our contempt and disdain for being the flaky lying RINO he's proved himself to be?

[circlecity]

This dude is just building a bridge to the other side of the aisle. He’ll bolt to the dems within 5 years.

[El Cid]

I was turned into a newt...

(but then I got better...)

[mountainlion]

I was abused by John Kerry mentally and his anti war anti Americans continued his cause. Sometimes it is hard to rise above but is a necessity of life now to let yourself continue to be a victim. I will dump on lurch when I feel like it though.