Brown: The Rise Of The Stateless Senator - Granite Grok

Brown: The Rise Of The Stateless Senator

BrownRunsFinally, after months of teasing, and about a week after an email offering to wave NH goodbye (we wish), former Senator Scott Brown (62%D, MA) officially announced his official announcement of a run for US Senate from NH. (Note these words well.)

I think Scott Brown typifies the post-17th Amendment Senator – just like nationless corporations, a Stateless Senator cares nothing about the place where he is nominally based, but only about his own fame and fortune.

Is it any wonder, then, that like Obama, a Stateless Senator cares more about how he is perceived as a statesman on the national, or even World, stage, then how he plays in Peoria, or Plaistow?

Thus, for Scott Brown, the state which he runs from doesn’t matter, because the goal justifies the means. (Little truth-in-reporting note here: When I asked Sen. Brown directly about State ‘ambassadors’ vs the nationalizing effect of the 17th Amendment, he asserted that the 17th was a bad idea. It’s just that evidence points the other way.)

Quite aside from his claims of superior statesmanship (all the Dems who called him looking for that deciding vote, for example), and his own words that numbers of asses in seats in the Senate is all that matters (implying regardless of principles), we find little gems like this:

Scott Brown outstretched handNew York Mayor Bloomberg Endorses Scott Brown (2012) – Bloomberg does not waste money, he INVESTS it – do we really think that a Massachusetts Senator who could be bought by the anti-gunners would really be impervious to such blandishments when representing New Hampshire?

Of course NOT. The reality is that our US Senate contains precious few statesmen, and far too many craven seekers of personal prestige, and that most of the Senators care little for their home states except for a few crumbs of pork-barrel spending to keep the rubes quiet.

I don’t dispute the Brown was born (near) here, (partly) raised here, and lived here (part time). What I do dispute is his actual roots and his fidelity to his voters. Anybody who thinks he voted the way he did because Massachusetts is so far left, needs to account for his loss in MA when the folks he failed to represent stayed home.

Pick well, New Hampshire Republicans, even though the 17th amendment has, to a large extent, nationalized our senators, you can still make a difference by picking a home-grown conservative in the primary, and putting the effort into the general. Shaheen is beatable – lets make sure the win advances our cause,

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