Try not to act too surprised. The guy we all said was the GOP Establishment’s preferred candidate to replace the departing Jeanne Shaheen before she announced her retirement has announced he’s doing what we all said he would. Ambassador Scott Brown is running for the open US Senate Seat in New Hampshire.
This is like saying gravity sucks (unless you happen to be the “pulling force as an effect of a curved spacetime geometry,” sort), water is wet, and the sky is blue. And Scott Brown is going to run for the US Senate.
Again.
He lost to Shaheen a few million sound bites ago (2014), but Granny Shaheen has cashed in and is taking her brand of Democrat-Socialism from DC back to Madbury. Chris Pappas is the leftwing train wreck anointed to replace her. Pappas, in this example, is the New Hampshire Dem party and DNC king, if you like. Anyone else who is serious and might be considering making it a primary on the left side or “The Aisle” will be stared down because that’s how Democracy works when the Proglodytes are in charge. Brown will not be as lucky.
Several potential candidates are lining up to bend the spoon (there is no spoon) and challenge King Pappas for the honor of warming that seat in the US Senate. Dan Innis is one name I do know, and I’m not convinced there’s a dime’s worth of difference between them. Still, Brown’s significantly elevated statewide and national name recognition will be a factor. Whatever we may think of Brown’s politics, he can raise money, and the NHGOP will need it.
And before anyone suggests we’re leaning in for Brown, take a look at how we’ve treated him in the past. Mr. Brown has been bad on guns forever, bad on life, and a cultural issues moderate, but he’s out there defending girls’ sports, so I’m curious how he plans to pivot on those issues if at all.
The other half of the reality sandwich, and it’s a big “half,” is that we have to keep the Democrat out of this seat, especially Pappas. He might be a great guy whose restaurant makes great chicken fingers, but he is a domestic terror threat legislatively, which is good in one respect. His “I always put New Hampshire first” bullshit is a bucket full of holes that can’t hope to hold the befouled partisan water.
He’s another DNC poster child for everything Democrats need to run away from.
“Scott Brown is right that Democrats like Chris Pappas are out-of-touch with Granite Staters. New Hampshire is in play for Republicans in 2026, and we play to win,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
With enough money and and adequate advertising air war the GOP nominee can swift boat Pappas ass out of Congress on a list of issues and keep him away for good. That, of course, means he could be lined up to run for governor in 2028 (predictions, predictions). But he would have to convince one of his DC boyfriends to move back (is he still dating that lobbyist, which he lied about?), which means an inside-the-beltway lobbying gig is just as likely a soft landing for another out-of-touch multi-millionaire were he to get skunked in 2026.
Basic Math
In short, I believe this seat is, in my opinion, the Republicans’ to lose. Pappas has never been a Statewide Candidate, but he has one advantage. The Senate race will draw Democrats and left-wing money en masse, while Republicans will have to fight to get Team Red and the undeclared voters to show up for a midterm contest. And this is key.
Suppose Trump’s multi-pronged strategy to tame the world and inspire economic growth across America has kicked into high gear by the summer of 2026. In that case, the Democrats will have nothing to run on but we’re not Trump or Trump supporters, and that makes things easy. Or does it? Beware the complacency quotient.
Dems can’t run on riots, lawless illegals, child mutilations, and they are losing on Abortion more often than not these days. However, their voters will still show up, as will all the out-of-state college students. If the rest of the voters who came out in 2024 decide their work is done on November 5th, Pappas, Goodlander, and whoever the Demorrhoids choose for NH CD1 can walk into Congress and stall all the good work, preventing any further improvement, and we cannot let that happen.
In other words, if it turns out that Scott is our US Senate nominee “Brown note,” we need to get him elected to keep Pappas out of DC. Until then, I’m open to someone better if they can win, and no, I’m not happy about having to say that out loud, but America can survive Scott Brown; it can’t survive Democratic majorities in the last two years of Trump’s presidency wrecking everything in site.
They need to be fewer by January 1, 2027, no matter what, and if we have to hold our nose, so be it.
