Scott Brown calls for civility. Brown's supporters insult Warren and women in general

"I've been disgusted lately to the complete breakdown of civility in Washington," said Brown at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Watertown Belmont Chamber of Commerce at the Belmont Country Club Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Hard on the heels of top Scott Brown advisor “Craz-E” Eric Fehrnstrom’s outing as the long-hidden author of the “CrazyKhazei” attack site against Democratic Senate candidate Alan Khazei, comes a blog-based assault on Elizabeth Warren headlined by Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Glenn Reynolds through his blog Instapundit, part of the ultra-Republican Pajamas Media conglomerate.



How this kind of ham-handed attack can advance Scott Brown’s campaign for re-election is hard to say, but what I find significant is Brown’s unwillingness to go on the record to condemn this and similar Internet-based attacks against Warren, combined with his refusal to apologize for Fehrnstrom’s dirty tricks against Khazei, or to sanction his top aide.

Brown is easy to attack as a poser — not a real Senator — and the more he claims to oppose dirty campaigning while simultaneously employing a confessed online trickster in a top position and not condeming perverse campaigns like this one, the wider his credibility gap grows.