I am a Massachusetts resident who this morning passed a newspaper stand displaying the Boston Herald (a right wing Republican rag in this neck of the woods on literary par with the now defunct “Midnight Journal”) sporting blazing headlines of a Scott Brown quote, “SHE IS NOT ME”. The headline was pasted above a smiling photo of a relaxed fully clothed buttoned down Scott Brown. I sincerely hope that Professor Elizabeth Warren, the leading Democratic candidate for Senator from Massachusetts, has extracted a quick political lesson from the current local Republican manufactured media dustup over Scott Brown’s long past employment as a nude male model for Cosmopolitan magazine . However, just in case she fails intuitively and politically to digest recent events, or if she happens to stumble across this post; my sincerely constructive advice as a Massachusetts voter and an Elizabeth Warren supporter continues below the fold.
Elizabeth Warren during the Televised Democratic debate for Senator was asked a question by a reporter which was obviously meant to be humorous. The reporter asked her how she compared her personal struggle to secure a career in society with Scott Brown posing nude for Cosmopolitan magazine to make “money for college” in his early pre-political life. Warren quipped that “she kept her cloths on”. Her answer turned out to be the most talked about quote to come out of the entire debate that night and it was repeated on all of the local TV newscasts. The next day Brown fired back some rather sexist comments that I won’t waste my time quoting here, and as noted above the spreading of this petty political guano was continued by the Boston Herald with its morning edition today.
Now why am I writing all this? It is my hope that Elizabeth Warren will QUICKLY get the message that anything said in public must be pristine and stick exclusively to her primary campaign message. Anything else can only be said in private with NO MEDIA PRESENT.
Scott Brown cannot talk about the issues facing America to Massachusetts Democratic voters simply because HE IS A REPUBLICAN. He is not Republican “lite”, neither is he a DEMO-REPUB, he is a Republican period, and he will fight like hell to hold on to his seat BEQUEATHED TO HIM by Edward Kennedy. So Professor Warren stick to the issues and you will win this thing!
Here is one additional important flag for Elizabeth Warren. Please DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE of Martha (dumb as a rock) Coakley. Open up those offices in the black neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester, Springfield, and New Bedford, and starting recruiting staff to get out the vote in these critical areas. Coakley DID NOT HAVE ONE office in any of these areas which is the reason she gave the election to Scott Brown. Note this: The approximate population count in Dorchester is 134,000 residents. The approximate population count for Roxbury is 58,725 residents. These two Boston Neighborhoods have a combined population of approximately 192,725 residents. The most amazing statistic to come out of the Brown-Coakley
U.S. Senate election was that the total vote count cast in this important race from Roxbury and Dorchester was 132 VOTES! Scott Brown did his job and Martha Coakley failed to do hers. This makes it obvious why Scott Brown won the election. Elizabeth Warren needs to start her recruiting for campaign managers in the African American neighborhoods in the black churches within these areas. The coffee klatches of Newton, Needham and Chestnut hill will exert a lot of pressure on Ms. Warren for her time, but she must remain steadfast and fixed on the Massachusetts minority vote. It will be critical for her win in the general election.
Finally, Scott Brown has millions of dollars flowing into his campaign chest and he is already demonstrating that he knows how to spend that money very efficiently. Today, Friday, Scott Brown will be sponsoring a JOBS FAIR in conjunction with Roxbury Community College, and it has been announced in the media that he will be bringing in over 60 companies looking to hire successful candidates. For persons not familiar with the Boston Area, Roxbury Community College is right in the middle of the highest minority populated areas in Boston. Scott Brown is no dummy and he knows that just because Coakley ignored the black community when she ran for the U.S. Senate, he knows that Warren is unlikely to make the same mistake; so he is making a definitive early move to gin up some “Scott Brown” enthusiasm in the black community. Scott Brown is not wasting any time in taking advantage of the considerably long delay handicap imposed on the general election campaign strategies of Elizabeth Warren (or any other Democratic candidate) by the State Democratic Party’s primary procedure required to produce a Party endorsed candidate for U.S. Senator.