Why Scott Brown In Massachusetts Would Be A Mistake

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Dan Speers, whose wit and poetry are found at CitizenPoet.com, is today’s guest author.

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I was talking with a friend in Florida last evening and she asked why there was a double standard among RepubliCons when it came to the nude photos of Scott Brown. After all, if a woman had posed nude for the centerfold of a magazine, then the conservatives would have been all over it.

She wasn’t questioning the propriety of the photos, only how in her opinion the RepubliCons seems to be so consistently narrow-minded and ideological in their hatred of Liberals that they will go through all sorts of rationalizations and mental contortions in order to support anyone who appears to advance or advocate their cause.

Since she is operating a phone bank from former Massachusetts residents who are now living in Florida and calling home on behalf of Martha Coakley, I asked her what she was using as some talking points pertaining specifically to Scott Brown that most people in Massachusetts might not know. She said that was easy, that the real Scott Brown is a typical RepubliCon politician who is willing to let thousands of people without health insurance in this country suffer from illnesses, struggle with medical problems, and die every year, and yes, that includes babies whose mothers do not receive adequate medical care.

But according to her, the indictment goes further:

Yes, Scott Brown did suggest that President Obama was born out of wedlock, and yes he was lying when he tried to claim that Martha Coakley was using dirty politics and making up the story. Yes he does support a Constitutional ban against gay marriage. Yes he denies connections to the Tea Baggers, but takes their money and appears at their rallies. Yes, he voted against aid to 9-11 workers. Yes, despite his convoluted daughter defense anis supporters’ claim that it is being used for an easy abortion, he did oppose emergency contraception to rape victims.

And finally, she came back to original question about the nude photos of Brown. You know, she said, so much of what Brown says and does reflects a certain mentality of RepubliCons–one in which they want to control the lives and fortunes of Americans and they indulge in a kind of fantasy world where by accusing others of what they are doing and what they want, they are somehow absolving themselves of any guilt.

That may be, I told her, but psychology and rationalizations aside, the best thing she might use to tell voters back home is simply this: We had eight years of RepubliCon screw-ups in Washington that led to this economic mess in the first place, and this is no time to vote to go backwards–and that’s what a vote for Brown would be.

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