Could Someone Tell Me Why Scott Brown Thinks This Is A Winning Strategy?
Scott Brown keeps hammering Elizabeth Warren’s Native American claim. And I mean hammering. Here’s the thing. Yeah, it’s embarrassing, but is that really all he’s got? He brings it up constantly, and I’m not sure why. Is there a large Native American vote he’s wooing? 😉 Seems to me this line of attack isn’t going to change many votes, and yet it’s almost all you hear about when Scott Brown speaks. Sure, take the shot, toss it in occasionally, but building your entire campaign around it? I just don’t get it.
Brown is obviously very offended by Warren’s Native American claim, but then his campaign goes and does this:
Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) reportedly participated in war-whoop sounds and “tomahawk chop” gestures at supporters of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, mocking Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry.
The incident occurred this past Saturday in Boston, at a rally for Brown featuring former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, and at which a group of Warren supporters also showed up with signs. The video was posted Tuesday by the state liberal blog Blue Mass Group.
Now that’s offensive!
When asked about the incident, Scott Brown responds:
“It is certainly something that I don’t condone,” Brown himself told the station. “The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure.”
Seriously, why is Scott Brown using this issue to completely define his campaign. He can’t even “not condone” without adding… BUT, you know what’s more offensive than my staff!
It’s all you hear about when you hear about Scott Brown. Look, I get taking advantage of an opponent’s error, but Scott Brown’s entire campaign seems to center on this one issue. Why?
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That’s all he’s got.
This is nano-racisim at its finest. Does this idiot seriously think for one minute that he is getting any votes because somehow now his privileged-ass has somehow become a victim. He does not give a damn about Native Americans and the actions of his supporters just validated that!
That sums it up. I just wouldn’t think he’d want this to end up defining his campaign.
I think it’s an attempt to attack credibility, not race. I guess Brown relies on independents and ticket-splitters who might find Warren appealing, so maybe the attack on her credibility puts them in play. Either way it’s lame.
I wish I had a dollar for every white person who told me that they had some Native American ancestry. And the vast majority of them had just as much evidence as Warren had of her ancestry. (And if asked, I think I can count on one hand those that were actually enrolled with their Tribe.) It may not be related to race, but it sure is related to other. Which is of a piece of persistently referring to her as Professor Warren, or reminding people that she’s from Oklahoma, or even the BS over her granny-style glasses. Brown is running a Not One of Us campaign, because his so-called moderate cred is about a nanosecond deep and he has no issues to discuss.
Josh Marshall has a new take on Scott Brown’s debate comment:
“As you know, I think what you’re referring to is the fact that professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color — And as you can see, she’s not.”
Josh continues:
Someone might have overplayed their hand.
There’s another Brown/Warren debate on Monday. I wish she had the nerve to show up in a headband with a feather in it. That would be awesome.
She’s just one of Jesus’s first Mormon’s who’s skin God turned back into an acceptable color.
Maybe we can have a counter rally where everyone sings “im too sexy” and poses for Playgirl in a hair-sweater. no im not sorry for giving everyone that image. 🙂
nano-racism?
Reminds me of an article I read recently in the Portland Tribune about Harvey Scott K-8 School and how peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches are racist because not all cultures have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (or even sandwiches) in their food pyramid and when math examples used PP&Js it is racist.
The tendency to find racism around every corner desentisizes society to it no different than rampant violence, drug use or any other societal ill causes society to shrug their collective shoulders.
Ignorance of and insensitivity towards other cultures is not racism.
yes it is, dave. Just because some people dont want to admit they are small minded bigots, just because they don’t ride around in Klan gear and tattoo swastikas on their foreheads, just because they arent Virgil Goode does not mean they are not racist. PP&J, who knows im sure it did happen because political correctness can go to far sometimes but it may be one nice example for self-loathing racists to grab on to so they can sleep at night, but making a statement that amounts to “well, she sure don’t LOOK like an injun” is racist. they teabaggers doing the FSU chop are racists. harboring prejudicial sentiments about another group of people is racist. We have to stop apologising for these people. They decide to be ignorant, they decide to be hateful.
I agree what you said, but that doesn’t change my opinion that cultural ignorance or insensitivity is also not racism. Of course I do not classify tomahawking and whooping as cultural ignorance or insensitivity. My comment was not regarding the Scott Brown thing, rather it was regarding the nano-racism concept and blurring of the lines between what would be considered cultural ignorance vs racism.
I see your point there. I would classify WILLFUL ignorance as racism. Cultural ignorance means you just don’t know better and that’s fine, they just need to become educated….. with the internet and increasing integration, that is getting a tougher defense to prove… but there are plenty of people who don’t like “those people” and dont want to. they are racists.
Pandora’s right. It’s a losing strategy. Brown tried to wrap himself in the ‘warm and fuzzies’,just a moderate in-tune cool guy who drives a pick-up truck. Oh, and Elizabeth Warren was some sort of pointy-headed egghead.
Turns out that Warren’s message is resonating with the truck-drivers, and Brown’s turn to assholery is sinking his campaign.
The main trouble for Scott Brown, is that he’s won in the past by being the “nice guy”… the guy you’d like to sit and have a beer with.
But his recent attacks on Warren and his poor behavior at the first debate are eroding that image.
Question: When he loses “nice guy”, what will he have left that the good folk of Massachusetts really want?
Answer: Not much.
AS you know, I think what you’re referring to is the fact that professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color — And as you can see, she’s not.”
Just another way of saying they all look alike to me.
@truth teller that is hysterical . . .
Sometimes we just don’t fit the mold!!! When I answer back in Spanish or my other two languages . . . when people are being rude to other people or talking about me . . . you should see their faces . . . priceless!!
@Aione Estamos desconocidos aqui y no escribo mi apellido pero la verda es que no necessito una precaucion. Gracias mi amigo de la pluma.
So. The chief of the Cherokee Nation is demanding an apology from Scott Brown for the behavior of his supporters the other day.
I’m hoping that Brown ends up ruing the day he brought up anything native American.
@Linda -claro que si! entiendo y igual aqui conmigo – y tengo 3 otras idiomas me encanta hablando y cambiando cada otra frase..
y los otros? confundidos!
slan agus tá fáilte romhat mita kola