Well, anyone who thinks Brown is presidential material is nuts, and I’ve said so on a number of threads. There are a few possible supporters here, just as there are a few Romneybots here, but I think that was mainly exuberance after he managed to beat Coakley.
And, of course, mischief-making on the part of the press, who first raised the idea. Not yet seated in the Senate, and they’re calling him presidential. They wish.
Think again. JFTR. On Jan 8th I first caught Scott Brown appearing on Hannity. From that point until Jan 18th, the day before the election, I posted on a grand total of just 17 Brown threads out of some 1,000 threads posted concerning his candidacy. For the most part, posters were civil to my opposing Brown. While many posters showed a lack of decorum and intelligence. But the level of support favoring him was in the neighborhood of 85%. Many of the threads posted since Brown won the election have been nothing but pure infatuation. With some posters having an obvious crush on Brown so bad, you could envision them sliding off their chairs at the mere mention of his name, if you know what I mean. I'd call that more, irrational exuberance of the juvenile mind, then anything else.
No, they're just overconfident after it worked so well with Obama.
However, to quote C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters:
The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality. Thus if you had been trying to damn your man by the Romantic method—by making him a kind of Childe Harold or Werther submerged in self-pity for imaginary distresses—you would try to protect him at all costs from any real pain; because, of course, five minutes' genuine toothache would reveal the romantic sorrows for the nonsense they were and unmask your whole stratagem.
This is how Obama got elected : "Your life sucks, doesn't it. Vote for Hope and ChangeTM. Vote for ObamaTM>
But now that people's lives really do suck, we're not going to fall for it again: and there will likely be a grave backlash against those who (as we see it) took everything away from us just when it was going great.
Hence the desperate spin to start the new narrative of "the lost decade".
But people who have lost their jobs in the last six months to a year just ain't gonna fall for it.
Cheers!