Not much, it seems. It wouldn’t have occurred to me even to wonder if it hadn’t been brought to my attention by the Wonkette via Twitter this morning:
Scott Brown, remember that guy? He was the Naked Senator, the 41st Vote, the 57th state, all the teabagger dreams realized and brought to life in the handsome form of some hairy-bellied Golem from the pages of a 1980s issue of Cosmopolitan. It was as if he drove that dumb mini pickup straight out to Hyannis Port, dug up Ted Kennedy and punched him in the mouth, even though Ted Kennedy is actually buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Oh yeah, and Health Care Reform passed — it’s the law now, in America. Scott Brown didn’t do shit.
Pardon the language; the Wonkette is one of those less-mature blogs that thinks she has to talk that way to be one of the cool kids. But she (or it, or however you refer to a blog that is no longer produced by the original author) brings up an interesting point. Remember when Republicans such as our own Mark Sanford (who ran up breathlessly to Washington in the hope of meeting him) were just gaga over this guy?
Now, they’re less enchanted, as The Boston Herald (characterized by Wonkette as “the same right-leaning tough-guy tabloid that endorsed and promoted Brown’s whole unlikely rise to the Senate”) has documented in a cover story:
Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats — and slammed by irked
conservatives — after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday.
“If he were a milk carton, he would be expired,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh.
Brown’s backers from the insurgent Tea Party movement want to know if they’ve been had.
“We start to wonder whether we helped a RINO (Republican in name only) get into office,” said Tea Party activist Jeffrey McQueen, who traveled from Michigan to campaign for Brown in the final days of the Jan. 19 special election that rocked the nation.
Media sensations just come and go so quickly, don’t they?
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From what I’ve seen, he’s been spending a lot of time with John McCain. We’ve seen what a career killer that is…
Ummm, I pretty sure the Alasken gov. did it to herself. What’s wrong with a little political moderation; its not the same thing as appeasement, right?
This guy isn’t my senator. What I wanna know is why Sen. Lindsay is so determined to lose my vote?
@ Karen–He doesn’t care about your vote. You’re voting for the Democrat, now, aren’t you? (me, too)
if the democrats can find anyone of at least jack-the-ripper quality, yes, unless Sen. Graham starts acting like the sane person he used to be. At any rate, this cycle it’s Sen. DeMint that needs to go, and go now. I’m voting for the democrat on the grounds that you can’t go much lower than the deminted one.