# Congrats Scott Brown! Massachusetts Has A Great New Senator! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650 "2010-01-20T02:27:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/21 "2010-01-20T04:40:24Z")
Oooo, flawless as far as anyone can tell, super down to earth, and very good looking. Well, that’s novel. He ought to hook up with Sarah Palin. Every redneck in the country would crap his pants with excitement. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/22 "2010-01-20T04:43:04Z")
Haven’t we seen this before? California, during the last recession, booted out Gray Davis, and voted in Arnold. It is the economy, stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/23 "2010-01-20T04:47:54Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > He drives a pickup truck with 200,000 miles on it, he has two very good-looking daughters, one of which was on American Idol, and he modeled semi-nude in college for Cosmo or some other girly magazine in college to get extra money. I love that that’s a point in his favor. I mean, it’s no winking. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/24 "2010-01-20T04:48:08Z")
He’s going to turn very moderate within 1 year of the his next election. Very moderate. But hooray for elections! He won clean and fair and congrats to him. I’m very surprised that Uncle Teddy didn’t ever consider and actually groom a successor, Coakley comes off as rather arrogant. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/25 "2010-01-20T04:54:58Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > This really says it all. > > I can’t use the language I’d like to here. The OP cites Brown’s small town origins. I read today he drove a pick-up truck to the polling station to vote for himself. Yee haw. But America lives in and near [cities](http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-P1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-redoLog=false&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTP1_US1&-format=US-1). Maybe we need more big-city politicians, who are more familiar with the issues faced by most of us. It makes me wonder how much longer the idealized concept of “small town values” will continue to be an ace at the ballot box. You’re slightly off the mark there with that link. For example, Chicago has approximately 3 million residents, while there are roughly 8 million in the greater Chicagoland area and collar counties. More than half of the people in this area are from what they would consider ‘small towns’. Boston, NYC, LA, no different.. The issues faced by voters aren’t ones faced by people IN cities, they’re issues faced by people NEAR cities, who drive pick-up trucks and SUV’s and go to the mall. The ‘small-town values’ thing is here for good. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/26 "2010-01-20T04:55:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Congrates to Scott Brown. Now that the super majority is broken, maybe we’ll see some bipartisan solutions to the nation’s probems. Republicans aren’t interested in bipartisan solutions. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/27 "2010-01-20T05:02:01Z")
La La La La La La _Doing the Happy Dance_ La La La ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/28 "2010-01-20T05:28:48Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Republicans aren’t interested in bipartisan solutions. Martha? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/29 "2010-01-20T05:35:09Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Republicans aren’t interested in bipartisan solutions. For certain definitions of “bipartisan”, such as “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking.” Whatever happens, the best part of this is the slap in the face to Obama. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/30 "2010-01-20T05:37:10Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Like herding kittens. Seriously. ::kicks Democratic kitten: Stupid fucking kittens. Where’s the real problem: the kittens, or people who wrong-headedly persist in trying to herd unherdable animals? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/31 "2010-01-20T05:51:19Z")
“There may well be a landslide and they have a perfect right to kick us out. That is democracy. That is what we have been fighting for. Hand me my towel.” - Winston Churchill Conrgatulations to the new Senator, and hooray democracy. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/32 "2010-01-20T05:53:50Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I’m glad you’re happy. Meanwhile another year goes by and no health insurance company will cover my daughter. Well, they can still get HCR passed by just having the House vote on the Senate bill as is, and addressing any issues they may have with it later on. At this point that’s probably the easiest and smartest course of action. But having seen the Democrats in action over the past year, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they still found some way to fuck even that up. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/33 "2010-01-20T06:05:39Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I’m glad you’re happy. Meanwhile another year goes by and no health insurance company will cover my daughter. Why should Massachusans (or whatever they’re called) care? They’ve got a much farther-reaching healthcare plan than anything in the bills that passed the House and Senate. “We got ours, screw you” seems to be the order of the day here. > [@Shagnasty](#): > > He was one of the few Republican state senators in the Massachusetts State House. He is conservative and really a Republican but he ran as an independent. Not to sound dumb but this is a very important for his win in terms of public perception. So he lied? Ran away from his base? This is a pro how? > [@](#): > > He drives a pickup truck with 200,000 miles on it, So? > [@](#): > > he has two very good-looking daughters, one of which was on American Idol, Who he pimped out during his acceptance speech tonight. Classy! > [@](#): > > and he modeled semi-nude in college for Cosmo or some other girly magazine in college to get extra money. And any female politician who had done this during college would never get elected beyond a city council. Hooray for patriarchal double standards! > [@](#): > > He is very good looking. And therefore qualified to serve in the U.S. Senate. > [@](#): > > He is also a Colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard Reserves. It gets ridiculous. Yes, because none of that has anything to do with why this man should have won this election. Not a single bit of it. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/34 "2010-01-20T06:49:58Z")
Well, the margin was close- not Frankenclose, but close enough to demonstrate a deep ambivalence toward both parties. And there isn’t the usual Kennedy mythology in place to drive the usual votes. This is something like the Franken/Minnesota thing, only with an unambiguous margin of victory. And he does have experience in the state legislature. And making Colonel isn’t trivial. And they did elect Romney, so it isn’t impossible to elect a Republican in Massachussetts. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/35 "2010-01-20T07:13:21Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Very interesting. I never understood how much some U.S. politics travels all over the world because we don’t have much of the reverse here. It’s 2:00am and I’m bored so I’m watching _Deutche Welle_ and even they did a report on Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/36 "2010-01-20T10:09:03Z")
I am pleased with this news. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/37 "2010-01-20T12:09:00Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Whatever happens, the best part of this is the slap in the face to Obama. 'Atta boy! Once more, this time with substance! ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/38 "2010-01-20T12:16:49Z")
Wonderful result! All credit to Brown and his campaign managers. (With a shout out also to the sterling contributions of Coakley, Obama and the Democrats in general - he couldn’t have won it without them.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/39 "2010-01-20T12:19:53Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Wonderful result! All credit to Brown and his campaign managers. (With a shout out also to the sterling contributions of Coakley, Obama and the Democrats in general - he couldn’t have won it without them.) I have to agree with the latter half; the Massachusetts Democrats and Coakley’s campaign especially did an apparent textbook “How to look like you don’t care about the election” move. Great job, idiots. Can’t wait for them to blame anyone but themselves and learn nothing from the experience. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650/40 "2010-01-20T12:59:30Z")
_Squeels with delight like a little girl_ Hell yeah! Hopefully, this means that the ghost of Ted Kennedy has finally been exorcized from Congress. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-scott-brown-massachusetts-has-a-great-new-senator/525650.md?page=3)