column, Earth to Scott Brown You've Got Shot--In Mass.
by Howie Carr, Boston Herald 8/20/13
Scott Brown, please come back to Boston.
This is silly, this road trip to the Iowa State Fair. Get back here, the governorship is winnable. Take the plunge, win it, work it, and forget about 2016. Stop with the beery tweets and get serious — if the Republicans lost with a moderate from Massachusetts last year, why the hell would they go for another one in 2016?
The moderate in this fight is Gov. Chris Christie. He’s already in office, he’s about to be re-elected, and his state has more electoral votes than Massachusetts.
Scott’s got an ego, and it’s easy to see what he’s thinking — I have the same number of years in the U.S. Senate as Barack Obama did when he ran for president. This overlooks a few advantages that Barack had, starting with his race, thereby inoculating him against any serious media scrutiny, to this very day.
Number two, the ideological winds were drifting Obama’s way in 2008. The moonbats were on the march. Scott definitely does not have that going for him. When was the last time you heard a Republican (other than Karl Rove) say, “You know, I think we need a RINO at the top of the ticket in 2016.”
Number three difference, Barack became a star as the keynote speaker at the 2004 convention here in Boston. Scott Brown spent the GOP convention last year in Tampa in the political equivalent of the Witness Protection Program.
Let’s face it, Scott Brown should have run for the Senate this year when Kerry’s seat opened up. But he didn’t realize how feeble Ed Markey, aka Son of a Milkman, was. Nobody did. But that opportunity is gone forever. The Corner Office is still up for grabs. Marsha Coakley appears to have absorbed little from her humiliating defeat.
Yesterday, she was asked about state Rep. Jim Lyons’ call for the resignation of appointed Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan in the wake of her office’s botching of the J-Roid Remy murder case. Coakley hissed, “Ridiculous!” Marsha sounded the way she did at the end of 2009 when she was complaining about having to campaign at Fenway Park “in the cold.”
Put a sock in it, Marsha.
Scott, come home and start fundraising. You have next to no money, and you’ll be operating under state rules — $500 annual max on contributions. In other words, you need 2,000 people to max out to reach a million bucks. This, in a race where you’ll need $10 million.
The Democrats back here are concerned. No one is in charge. Gov. Deval Patrick told the state convention in Lowell, “This is not goodbye,” which of course means it is. He hasn’t set foot in the State House in almost three weeks. This is a guy whose most reliable punch line for years was to refer to Mitt as a “recreational governor.”
Takes one to know one, Deval.
Beam yourself back home, Scottie. You can run for president. You can get another $1.7 million book advance. But first you need to get elected to something … and it ain’t president.
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