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teamster633

(2,029 posts)
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 05:08 PM Nov 2014

Scott Brown is trying to make a point.

Scott Brown is a carpetbagger from Massachusetts---not a strong selling point for his intended victims in the Granite State. For the last couple of days he's been bombarding the airwaves with his best attempt to dispute this categorization. What are the two most salient assertions that he makes in his defense you might ask?

1. His dad served at Pease Air Force Base.
My dad served at Otis Air Force Base (I was even born there)---that doesn't make me a Cape Codder.

2. He was born at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
That's great but, anyone who knows anything in NH knows that PNSY is in Kittery, MAINE. We've been fighting over that base for 200 years and we keep losing.

He really must think that we're stupid. I sincerely hope that on Tuesday we collectively show him we're not. I savor the thought of him having to chose some new place to haunt come Wednesday morning having scratched both Massachusetts and New Hampshire off his list.

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Vinca

(50,279 posts)
2. LOL - I had forgotten the shipyard was in Kittery.
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 05:38 PM
Nov 2014

That's almost as funny as Brown's financial statement for the campaign that listed his occupation as "Massachusetts Senator."

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
3. To me it is strange that rather than simply arguing that people do move
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 05:41 PM
Nov 2014

and then transitioning to what he could do for the state, he has decided to argue that because he lived in NH when he was a toddler AND his parents had lived there before he was born AND he owned a vacation home there - coupled with generations of Browns living there, he really is NH born and bred. Why make a completely stupid -- and unnecessary argument.

He really is a pretty dysfunctional person.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
11. I thought somebody had your name, monmouth! Welcome back! I got a laptop last year
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 07:53 PM
Nov 2014

luckily my password was easy to remember after all these years.

Raven

(13,895 posts)
6. And he did'nt know where Sullivan County was or
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 06:50 PM
Nov 2014

what it's financial challenges were. Most of us in NH can't afford the lift tickets for the fancy ski areas he's pushing. I think this phoney is going down.

catnhatnh

(8,976 posts)
12. This Jackass was at our breakfast place in Rochester this morning...
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 08:12 PM
Nov 2014

Parked his big ass tour bus blocking in a shitload of customers cars so he wouldn't have to walk too far in the rain. He was dressed in a post-halloween "just regular folks" costume. He was nearly as convincing as some of the pirates I saw the night before...

Sigh-at least I figure he'll be gone by next weekend.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
14. We were in a north country restaurant last week
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 08:59 PM
Nov 2014

and the two older couples in the next booth were laughing themselves silly.

Long story short, they were ripping him to shreds over his stupid comments that Mitt Romney would have eliminated any threat of ebola.

Gawd, that guy is such an ass.

sunnystarr

(2,638 posts)
15. OMG we'll have to watch the Scott Brown Show
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 10:08 PM
Nov 2014

all over again when he claims to be from Maine in the next Senatorial race there. Is he ever gonna run out of places he calls home?

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