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Scott Brown’s fractured fairy tales

Scott Brown understands that the Burger King is just a restaurant name, right — not an actual person? And when he sneaks off to the Dairy Queen for an Oreo Blizzard, that doesn’t actually count as a secret meeting with royalty?

Be worried about Senator Brown. Be very worried. It looks like he’s becoming delusional, starting to believe — and worse, trying to convince others — that he’s far more important than any junior senator has ever been.

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Scott Brown-Rommey light. The kings and queens thing is pretty damaging....he may have stayed up late the night before watching the disney channel or something (getting ideas).

The campaign ads that feature affections with wife and daughters are just plain strange......what do they have to do with the lives of so many in the commonwealth who struggle with economic uncertainty everyday...Brown is perfect and has the perfect life.....let's all give the guy a high five...and get back to business. I am not a big fan of Warren..but at least she is centering on issues that impact everyday people...and not directly shoving her personal life at us. I can respect that.

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Brown's ads are astonishingly off topic. When combined with delusional megalomania, it is clear that Scott is over his head as senator. He's likely over his head at any job that requires him to do more than stay home, cook, and do housework for Gail. Send him back to the Wareham town meeting where ge can be competent.

The interesting thing about all this for me is that, as a barn coat wearing, truck-driving type of Everyman, Brown isn't supposed to be a braggart or a snob, Kings and queens? Seriously? Does he have that loose of a relationship with details, or does he already imagine himself to be halfway through his tenure as US President? It's also sorta funny when you think about it... all these kings and queens meeting with actual heads of state, Secretaries, etc., but then turning around and scheduling hush hush meetings with the junior Senator of Massachusetts... actually, as a taxpayer, I'd like to see his expense report, and hear an explanation of how these meetings benefit the people and economy of Massachusetts.

It's very strange that Brown has garnered this undeserved reputation for being bipartisan: "He is by most measures an affable and bipartisan presence in a business that lacks much of either trait these days, and for that, there's a desire to like him." The facts report otherwise. He may indeed seems quite affable, or carefully project the image of bipartisanship, but truly bipartisan? Not so. He's actually voted with the GOP (in other words, corporate interests) on most key legislation and in obstructing progress in the Senate. He watered down Dodd-Frank before voting yes, then worked hard to further hamstring it after it passed. He just voted with his GOP colleagues to prevent the EPA from reducing the amount of mercury emissions. Mercury...a neurotoxin and the main reason our fish are poisoned all around the world. Please look at his voting record. It reads like an industry wish list. He's against stopping tax subsidies for big oil. He's against reducing taxes on the middle class, and for tax cuts for those earning over 1 million a year. He's for increasing interest rates on student loans. He's against disclosure in campaign finance. He's for the Keystone XL pipeline. He's against American job acts. It goes on and on: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/18919/ Here's an empirical analysis of his voting record: http://www.progressmass.org/press/new-study-progressmass-analysis-of-scott-browns-voting-record-reveals-highly-partisan-record-overwhe.html He is thoroughly a creature of the wealthy elites and their corporations who seem to never finishing the plundering and destroying.

In the real world people get fired for lying on their resume. Hollywood backs Elizabeth Warren...that's all you need to know.

So...if Scott Brown mispeaks while talking off the cuff on the radio -- and his office immediately admits he mispoken -- that means he's delusional? What then, does that make Elizabeth Warren, who continues to insist that she is Native American despite copious amounts of proof that she is, to quote Weird Al Yankovic, "whiter than sour cream"? At least the Brown campaign immediately corrected the record; Warren, in contrast, has shown an almost pathological inability to admit that she is not Native American or that she deliberately listed herself as such to pole vault herself from the backwaters of academia over the wall into the Ivy League. And here's another point in favor of Scott Brown: At least he's not afraid to actually go on the radio and take questions from the voters. Why do you think Warren's resisting radio debates so fiercely? Answer: Because she's terrified of facing actual, unscripted questions from the great unwashed, who might have the temerity to ask a question to which she can't endlessly repeat "Middle-class folks are getting hammered." Can't you just hear it: "Prof. Warren, you've criticized big banks for foreclosing on families, yet you purchased numerous foreclosed homes yourself and flipped them for a quick profit. Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?" Warren: "Middle class folks are getting hammered and Washington doesn't get it." Question: "Prof. Warren, numerous researchers have charged you with scientific misconduct, saying you manipulated your bankruptcy research for political purposes, grossly inflating the number of 'medical bankruptcies' to justify Obamacare. What say you?" Warren: "Middle class folks are getting hammered..." Bottom line, Brian: Scott Brown is still from Wrentham. He still drives a truck. And millionaire Elizabeth Warren still is not an Indian. So tell me again who's the delusional one?

TKK and Dan Rea are completely in Brown's camp. Not the building, mind you. The building the TKK folks and Dan Rea work in are likely very neutral. I doubt those sets of wall even plan to vote. The proposed radio moderators, on the other hand, are totally and publicaly in the bag for Brown. Dan Rea? Get serious. BTW -- Scott Brown owns that truck because he needed a way to transport his daughter's horse so you should just stow that Man of the People thing.

Scott is the delusional one, clearly. He believes he represents Massachusetts voters. His record, his advertisements, and his faux pas all show he does not and has never cared whether he represents us or the national GOP.

McGrory can hang out with Jim Braude and take potshots at Brown, but once you get outside the warrens of Cambridge and Brookline, every lifelong Democrat I know, myself included, is voting for Brown. So is Warren expected to take the Independents(?) because she is definitely going to need every one of them. Warren disappoints, and the whole Democratic process this election cycle from bullying the other candidates with Hollywood money, then co-opting the convention was a disgrace and insulting. I've voted Dem since 1968, but not this trip.

I may vote for Mr. Brown if he ever runs for Best Dad. Senate? Nope. We don't need to see what Mitch will do with control of the Senate after what the House has put on display for the last year and a half.

For every web site that is against Brown, there is one that supports him. You can do the same for Warren.

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What is "the question?" And "Does Scott Brown" what?

Desperation liberals? This isn't a winner for Warren. In fact it clearly shows the difference between Warren and Brown in Brown's favor. Brown was clearly saying "Kings and Queens" to mean "important leaders", but even so, his campaign quickly corrected, saying he mispoke. Quite a difference from Elizabeth Warren doubling down on her "this was who I am" defense of incorrectly listing herself as Cherokee, to her, Penn and Harvard's benefit and the disadvantage of actual minorities. Warren fails to admit mistakes, to the point she has had to resort to running away from reporters and the Real Cherokee she claimed to want to get to meet. I hope that Warren brings this "Kings and Queens" non-story up in debates, it's an easy win for Senator Brown.

Funny how the globe is ALL over Brown when he makes a mistake, but when Warren claims to be Native American, and keeps pushing the lie, it isn't news. You could use a similar headline with Warren and her Native American claims, but that won't happen.

Even the Globe had a story on his bipartisan record and how he was one of the more bipatisan members of Congress. I know it killed them to have to publish it, but I will give them credit for doing so.

Why not address the facts in the column? If this is column contains misstatements, list those and correct them. Your reply is off-topic.

GreenDragonCult, on your point of Brown not being bi-partisan. He voted with the Republican leadership roughly 80 percent of the time. Your other Senator voted with the Democratic leadership 96 percent of the time (actual statistics). You tell me which one of your Senators is the more bi-partisan.

I don't want my senator to be bi-partisan, and I never claimed that he was. I don't want my senator to compromise with liars and shills for industry. I also wish Democrats in general would be less corporatist and advocate more strongly for reform...for democracy. Scott Brown is claiming he is bipartisan. He is not. He votes with the Republicans 80 percent of the time, as you note.

Tony7586, the point is not websites that are against Brown. These are facts that are against Brown.

patsgirl, check out Brian McGrory's June 1 article. He was ALL over Warren regarding her Native American claims. In general the Globe has been highly critical of Warren. I don't care who the Globe ultimately endorses, since I make my own decisions, but neither candidate is getting a buy from the Globe. If anything, they are doing the third party candidate, Bill Cimbrelo, a disservice by ignoring him.

McGrory, your efforts to out-intelligence the Globe's political intelligencer ae getting frail, fella. How come you didn't have a flash that maybe Scott Brown got a private preview of the Channel 2 multiphase showings last night of the Monarchy at work video? You know, the one that makes you actually like Queen Bessie II as she puts in a couple of days that would tire out 50 year-olds let alone a woman in her late 70s during her 2007 state visit to Washington. Gotta agree with you on one thing, though, Wife Gail Huff's constant fawning over hubby Scott is wearing very, very thin, very, very fast. It has to be he lightest weight political ad ever made for the Massachusetts market.

Hey bozo, your numbers show that Brown is the more bipartisan of the two senators... Kerry is just another vote the straight Demomob party line-type Massachusetts hack, no matter how rich he has married a couple of times...