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Scott Brown: 'People Aren't Stupid'
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 01-29-10 | JOHN FUND

Posted on 01/29/2010 4:48:10 PM PST by GOP_Lady

'And leaders should figure out they're better informed now than ever.'

Boston

When I arrived at his cramped state senate offices, Scott Brown had just opened one of the many packages he's received since his stunning U.S. Senate victory 11 days ago. A local artist has done up a version of the iconic red, white and blue collage from the 2008 presidential campaign that shows Barack Obama with the word "Hope." This one features a smiling Mr. Brown instead, but the word below is different. It reads "Change."

By filling the seat vacated by liberal lion Ted Kennedy in a state Mr. Obama carried by 26 points barely over a year ago, Mr. Brown has certainly changed the political landscape. We sit down the morning after President Obama's State of the Union message, an address in large part shaped by what's been called "the Scott Heard 'Round the World." Mr. Obama uncharacteristically recognized some unforced errors in pushing his liberal agenda, along with expressing some new flexibility on issues ranging from small business tax cuts to offshore oil drilling to nuclear power.

Settling into a pinkish-red upholstered chair that looks like what it is—a castoff from a state furniture inventory—Mr. Brown reflects on his new celebrity. "I have to rely on who I've been and still am. I'm still the guy who works out at the YMCA and hangs out at the coffee shop," he says. "The way to handle the attention is to fall back on normalcy."

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1 posted on 01/29/2010 4:48:10 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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2 posted on 01/29/2010 4:48:40 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Sure we are. we just need Obama to explain things in more simple terms for us. We R dum.


3 posted on 01/29/2010 4:53:39 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: GOP_Lady
Click Here for this excellent video.



Ayla Brown, the daughter of Scott Brown (The new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts) sings at the Boston Pops.

4 posted on 01/29/2010 4:53:51 PM PST by B-Cause (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GOP_Lady

The people have spoken...


5 posted on 01/29/2010 4:53:58 PM PST by jessduntno (Obama: not your typical Black Liberation Theologist/Marxist/Afro-AmeriKanner President...)
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To: GOP_Lady
I don't agree with Brown on everything but he hit home the themes government has gotten too big, we need across the board tax cuts, we need to fight terrorism and we have to listen to the American people. They are not fools. Has Obama moved to the center? NO! People get that, even in Massachusetts.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

6 posted on 01/29/2010 4:56:04 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

***Has Obama moved to the center?***

BO is the center (of his own universe). He will never move, BUT he will use new words to confuse and control the conversation.

The deception continues.


7 posted on 01/29/2010 5:02:52 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: GOP_Lady

Just stay the course despite the inevitable beating the Democratic Propaganda Machine (MSM) will deliver against you every time you stand up to their purveyors of evil.


8 posted on 01/29/2010 5:03:24 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: B-Cause; WakeUpAndVote

I am so going to steal this.


9 posted on 01/29/2010 5:04:37 PM PST by WakeUpAndVote
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To: B-Cause

Thanks so much. A beautiful version! And she doesn’t sing like a goat.

Everyone nowadays sings like a goat. They warble up and down scales and the song is almost incidental. Why doesn’t anyone sing like Peggy Lee anymore?


10 posted on 01/29/2010 5:05:02 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: I still care
I can forgive the she voted for the horseface in 2004!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

11 posted on 01/29/2010 5:17:53 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: I still care
Why doesn’t anyone sing like Peggy Lee anymore?

It's not like some aren't trying.

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12 posted on 01/29/2010 5:18:31 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: GOP_Lady
Well, we should all hope not.

As to how "not stupid" the folks who voted Mr. Brown into office are, only time will tell.

He's not even been officially seated yet, has he?

13 posted on 01/29/2010 5:23:16 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (Keep your friends close......keep your enemies closer!)
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To: B-Cause; LucyT

Gave me goosebumps!

That beautiful family is going to give America back to you!


14 posted on 01/29/2010 5:24:17 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: GOP_Lady

To quote K:

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.


15 posted on 01/29/2010 5:27:25 PM PST by 11Bush
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To: B-Cause

Very nice!


16 posted on 01/29/2010 5:29:04 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: EGPWS

That’s Peggy Lee, not Piggy Let. LOL.


17 posted on 01/29/2010 5:29:39 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: GOP_Lady
By filling the seat vacated by liberal lion Ted Kennedy

The point is - he HASN'T - and no one is saying a word, not even FOX.

The dem no-longer-legal-democrat-senator is still 'sitting' in that seat and STILL VOTING!

Brown, after almost 2 weeks, had STLL not been seated.

Previously elected senators have been seated in ONE day and in TWO days following the election. What's the difference?

Oh, yeah, you guessed. THEY were democrats.

Where are the Senate republican leaders demanding Brown be seated?

Where is the press - FOX, hello? - not making an issue of this egregious effrontery?

18 posted on 01/29/2010 5:30:33 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: GOP_Lady

Wouldn’t go that far. We’ve got Obama. Clinton was president for two terms. We’re still members of the UN. I’d say stupid is pretty endemic.


19 posted on 01/29/2010 5:38:16 PM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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To: GOP_Lady

And the maoist was too petty to acknowledge Brown’s win and say he looked forward to working with him.


20 posted on 01/29/2010 5:39:17 PM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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