It's always good for a laugh when he puts on his sincere face.
You gotta love the fact that Scott Brown is providing the comic relief for yet one more election cycle. It's just gravy that he's doing it this year as a carpetbagger. Today's fun can be found in Tuesday night's debate, moderated by NBC's Chuck Todd. Todd asked him to
provide the evidence for his contention that ISIS was poised at the border to attack the U.S. from Mexico. Scottie's response?
BROWN: With respect, I did not say that. What I have said is that ISIS is real.
Um, no, as a matter of fact. And much to Scottie's detriment, there's this thing now called the internet that helps keep a record of all the times he said that ISIS could attack the U.S. from Mexico. Dave Weigel does the
research. There was when he said it
last month in a foreign policy speech ("these ISIS thugs have been saying for months that they’re going to send people here to kill Americans on as big a scale as they can, and never mind that a porous border is the most obvious pathway for terrorists to enter our country"), and on
Fox News ("There's deep concerns that there are members of ISIS actually coming through the border right now"), and last week
on the radio, when he threw in some Ebola just for fun ("I think it’s naive to think that people aren’t going to be walking through here who have those types of diseases and/or other types of intent, criminal or terrorist").
But the most entertaining whopper from Scottie of the evening, at least for the New Hampshire crowd, was when Todd asked him why he passed up on the opportunity to run for the Senate again in Massachusetts special elections. "Because I live here," said Scottie, and you can immediately hear the laughs and the skeptical guffaws from the crowd. He doubles down, "I was born at the Portsmouth Naval shipyard!" And the crowd laughs even harder. "My mom was a waitress at Hampton Beach!" And the crowd gives up on him entirely.
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Ah, Scottie, thanks for all the laughs. But we really won't miss you when you're gone. On the other hand, there are 48 other states you could try.