Gaffe-Prone Scott Brown Strikes Again

Indefatigable Daily Kos campaign analyst Laura Clawson reports on the latest symptom of Massachusetts New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown’s incurable case of foot-in-mouth disease (and also provides bonus snark of the Washington Post):

This kind of thing is not going to help former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown beat back those carpetbagging charges as he runs for Senate in New Hampshire:

Scott Brown’s New Hampshire Senate campaign sent a news release Wednesday questioning why Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) wasn’t appearing with President Obama while he was “in town.”

But Obama was in Worcester, Mass., about 50 miles from the New Hampshire border.

By “about 50 miles,” the Washington Post actually means “less than 40 miles,” but at least, unlike Brown’s campaign, they correctly identify Worcester as being in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire. Brown’s campaign is all, “we meant New England,” but when you’re talking about the state your candidate previously represented in the United States Senate, you don’t have the luxury of engaging in this kind of loose regionalizing. So consider that already-weaksauce attempt to yoke Shaheen to Obama a complete failure.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.