Donny Deutsch: African-American, female, whatnot. (Brown) "looks like a real traditional candidate"

Donny Deutsch, Peggy Noonan, Mike Barnicle go gaga over Scott Brown, who "looks like an American."



http://www.salon.com/news/scott_brown/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/01/19/scott_brown_real_candidate

Just when I'm trying to stay focused on the issues behind Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown's likely victory over Attorney General Martha Coakley in today's race to succeed Sen. Ted Kennedy, Donny Deutsch, Mike Barnicle and Peggy Noonan showed up to remind me of the ugly intangibles behind the race. On "Morning Joe" this morning they chatted about one of Brown's primary assets: In Noonan's words, Brown "looks like an American."

Donny Deutsch led off. "It's interesting, we've obviously had our first African-American president, we've had the female candidates and whatnot," Deutsch opined. "You look at him, and he looks like the real candidate, the traditional candidate. And is there a visceral comfort in that to people? I'm just curious." You tell us, Donny.

Mike Barnicle threw in his trademark sexism: "He looks like the high school football coach, who everybody knows, and he's running against the substitute teacher who takes no interest in her classroom students." (Yes, just the way Hillary Clinton reminded every man of his first wife. Stay classy, Mike Barnicle!) Peggy Noonan greeted that with a loopy "Ha ha ha ha!" I kid you not, watch below.

Then Noonan let loose: "There's something else going on. He's a sort of a new sort of a Republican. Old style was a Boston Brahmin liberal Republican ... This is something new now: He's a regular guy, looks like an American, from the middle or self-made into a middle-, upper-middle-class guy. We're seeing an evolution of what a Republican is now."