Totally changing the subject - wtf do you think is up with Scott Brown and his new book?

[jillan]

All about how he was abused as a kid, moving like 17 times, his mom and her different marriages - including abuse, him running away, getting caught for stealing.


What is he up to? And WHY did he write this tell all book??? People don't just write a book like this without an agenda.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021704217.html

[Raven]

1. I wondered the same thing...Presidential run in 2016?

[redwitch]

3. My thought too.

I am beginning to really loathe all politics.

[get the red out]

5. Humanizing himself

to be an acceptable Republican alternative to the hysterical, rage-spitting tea baggers. That was my first thought.

[Hannah Bell]

27. ditto.

[cbayer]

2. I felt like I needed a shower after watching him interviewed on 60 minutes last night.

I had the feeling I was listening to a sociopath. I thought I even heard him admit that he was fabricating much of what he was saying and had written in the book.

Anyone else?

[jillan]

7. I watched it too and all I could think of is WHY is he doing this? What does he want?

Yes he had a sad childhood, and my heart goes out to him - BUT - that doesn't make me like him any more as a Politician.

He used the teaparty to get elected and then told them to F off afterwards. He obviously uses people to get what he wants.

[Pisces]

11. I got the feeling he was lying during some of the interview. Nothing felt genuine. Even Leslie Stahl

looked skeptical. I don't doubt the mother had all of these men in her life and that they were rough on him, but something about his story doesn't ring true. As well as this is a he said she said
argument where there is no hard proof, you just have to take his word for it. I don't think this is going to work for him the way he thinks it is.

[SpiralHawk]

15. His message did have characteristically false ring, so typical of RepubliCrap

...and his eyes, ewwww: exceptionally cold & creepy, kinda reptilian...

[meegbear]

4. He's trying to get re-elected ...

he's turning into a "moderate" by teabagger standards, so he's losing repug support (even the right-wing Boston Herald) has dumped on him several times.)

And with what happened with the special election, Dems are gonna make sure it doesn't happen again.

He's gotta get the independent / swing voters, and to do that, you gotta appear "human".

[Andy823]

14. I agree.

True or not, it's all a ploy to get the "sympathy" vote. As was mentioned already, people just don't write stuff like this unless they have a motive, a goal of some kind, and his is to get re-elected!

Now if all of this is true, then I feel sorry for him, but I have seen so many other pull the same kind of thing, like George W. Bush when people found out about his DUI. He came out with all the BS about how he had "seen the light", stopped drinking and yet over the years it became pretty apparent that he never did stop drinking, it was all BS designed to cover up his DUI.

I just don't trust him, period!

[customerserviceguy]

29. Yep, he was only elected for a couple of years, has to run again in 2012

And while the tea partiers were happy to have him take over Ted Kennedy' seat, they've cooled considerably since. He'll be lucky to not get primaried by a reich-winger, but we'll be the beneficiaries of that if he is.

[Hutzpa]

31. Appearing human, does that include lying outrightly? n/t

[fascisthunter]

6. he is trying to Propel Himself into being a Presidential Candidate

for the nazi party... I mean, the GOP. Another fraud with plenty of money to promote his meritless ass.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. To make himself look like the Joe Average, and rake in $$$ along the way.

One step to softening future opposition, IMHO.

[prolesunited]

9. Innoculating himself for a future run

Get all of the dirt out there now and have people discuss it and do a series of interviews. Later, it takes all of the wind out of it. Old news. Already discussed. Let's look forward.

Classic PR move. Think how Obama's bio dealt with his family issues and drug use. Put your own crap out there and control the message. The opponent no longer has ammunition and you're not put on the defensive. The man has big plans.

[jillan]

10. And of course he is saying he has no plans to run for President.

Yeah right.

[prolesunited]

13. Maybe not today

and he has to see how this plays out, but he's full of ambition.

[OHdem10]

12. Possible Presidential Run down the road.

Teaching that in spite having bad things happen to you,you can
succeed.

[customerserviceguy]

30. He's absolutely politically unacceptable

to 70% of the people who turn out for Rethug primaries and caucuses. Even he's gotta know that. This is just simply about holding on to what he's got, period.

[queenjane]

16. Leslie Stahl kept trying to nail him

about voting to defund programs that helped HIM when he was a troubled teen. His canned Repug response was blah blah deficits blah blah financial catastrophe blah blah. The whole thing reeked of Abuse Porn: "I'm worthy because I suffered and overcame". I know many many people who suffered and overcame, and then didn't turn around and crap on other people. Cripes.

[beac]

22. Yes, "Against All Odds" (eye roll) and with the help of government programs he grew up

and became a Senator. Now he wants to make sure no one else can. If troubled teens like he was have to suffer, it's a small price to pay to make sure millionaires like Brown can still afford vacation homes and BMWs.

:puke:

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Thanks for this OP. I was going to post a similar one but chose not to.

I wasn't up for being smacked around for not getting all "poor him" about his claimed hardships.

I agree with your apparent sentiment - "Why?"

I've little doubt that the essential facts he presented are real. I found his explanation a little creepy and a lot self-serving.

There is also a bit of the enigmatic quality exuded by Mark Sanford.

[originalpckelly]

19. He may be a slime ball...

but a thread about him being a slime ball wouldn't have mentioned his abuse, it would have simply stated that he's a slime ball.

[Stinky The Clown]

32. Thanks for that. Now I feel better.

[originalpckelly]

18. What about everyone else who's been a victim of abuse?

Maybe he wanted to make money?
Maybe he needed to get this off his chest?
Maybe he wanted other people to know that it's OK to have been abused, you didn't do wrong, the person who abused you did?

I don't think this thread was in good taste.

There are lots of accusations that go around that are unprovable, because the abuser knew to make it that way.

There are many things you can make up to make money, why this?

[superduperfarleft]

26. For some, politics evidently trumps humanity. n/t

[rucky]

20. Maybe he just felt it was time to tell his story?

:shrug:

sorry if I'm not reading too much into it.

[AC_Mem]

21. He wants to be reelected

And wants people to "feel" for him again.

While I have empathy for anyone who went through abuse as a child, I find it a little strange that he is sharing with the "world" something that he did not share with his wife of 26 years.

Annette

[spartan61]

23. I just read in our local repug rag that

Scott Brown will be coming next Sunday to Barnes and Nobel in The Villages, FL to sign his book. This got me to thinking. So far, those who have come here for book signings are: palin, rumsfeld, bush, hannity, o'riley, cheney,...do you see the pattern??? NOT ONE DEMOCRAT. I feel like writing to the headquarters for B & N to ask them if they carry any political books not written by repugs or will The Villages not allow anyone, other than repugs to have book signings? I know the developer here is big time repuke, but then he is a billionaire so what do I expect?

[shraby]

24. He's forming a pity party. Republicans like to do that.

[superduperfarleft]

25. This thread is disgusting. n/t

[Fire1]

28. No pity here and marketing likely the motive. n/t

:nopity:

edit: punctuation error.