US Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren should reschedule the high-profile debate that was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy.
At the height of the winds Monday evening, Brown pulled out of the debate, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, and Warren seemed to agree with the decision; candidates for US Senate might reasonably decide that it wouldn’t have been appropriate to hold a campaign-related event the following night — and might have interfered with storm coverage. But as the winds abated over the course of the day Tuesday, so did the sense of immediate crisis. While Warren has said she’s amenable to another debate Thursday, Brown’s campaign said late that Tuesday he wouldn’t be able to reschedule.
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Scott knows that every time he opens his mouth on camera he loses voters who realize they've been supporting an idiot.
Apparently Brown is running scared.
"I'm sorry Senator, but I'm getting word that there are no more downed tress in the area"...."Keep your eyes peeled people, have that chain-saw ready for my photo-op,..you still have that voter back there? Good, get her under that tree so I can "save her"..tell her she'll get her lobster roll when we're done".
What is important here is the timeline of the retreat by Sen Brown. It was explained by John King, the chosen moderator, on PBS's Emily Rooney show last nigt. The campaigns were asked to wait until 10am Tuesday before a decision was made. Scott Brown jumped the gun. He then tried under clear blue skies to visit disaster areas. I use "tried" because it basically did not happen according to a PBS reporter on the same show. Trying to keep up with Sen Brown's thrown together itinerary was a farce since there were no major disasters where he showed up. Trying to be fair the panel at PBS gave the sitting Senator the benefit of the doubt on his motives but quite frankly found his activities more self serving and less service to his constituents. His excuse for nixing a make up debate only focuses more his inability to articulate his legislative agenda. He has chosen to be non transparent. The debate format had called for questioning of each other. I guess Sen Brown was not up to the task. Open are questions are his closeness to neo-conservatives, big time fanciers and bankers, and Tea Partiers. His views on picking Supreme Court Justices will not be further aired. His take on war and peace un revealed. In short Sen Brown has dented his trustworthiness as a office seeker.
It seemed to me that both candidates were milking the storm to score political points. I find it unbecoming whether in an incumbent Senator or a Senate candidate. None of the above never looked better, and I don't need a fourth debate to further prove to me that both sides are hopelessly entrenched in their own ideologies.
Brown sure sounds like he is affraid to anwser her questions, Not a good move! Just shows him as a "yellow belly"!
Brown is acting just like Senator John McCain, who suspended his campaign and hence his debate with Obama, to rush off to Congress to deal with the financial calamity of 2008. McCain's presence in Washington had no impact whatsoever on the outcome of the crisis ending in TARP. Sitting in the People's seat, Brown's flip flop on rescheduling the debate shows his utter lack of respect for OUR election debate process and a complete lack of committment to his word. It is conduct unbecoming of an officer. And, it is obvious he has decided that, since he will not be asked the same questions that he has previously answered with memorized answers, and, instead, face new questions about his campaign ads distortions and lies, his casual disparagement of asbesos victims as paid actors, his lobbying for deregulation of New England Compounding Corporation, his vote to reduce EPA regulatory authority, to name a few, he will be exposed for the empty vessel that is Scott Brown.
They'll need track shoes to catch up with Little ScottyBrown as he goes running from another debate with Elizabeth Warren like a frightened rabbit.