DownWithTyranny!: Scott Brown Predicts He'll Die In Massachusetts-- Just As His Sleazy Political Career Did

A few days ago, Elizabeth Warren sent out a note to her followers warning that Scott Brown, "Wall Street's favorite senator," was back for another try… this time in New Hampshire. When Warren beat Brown in 2012, he managed to win 46% of the vote and spend $35,058,354 to achieve that. Far right hate groups like America 360 Committee, Americans forTax Reform, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Rove's Crossroads GPS poured another $2,192,513 in negative ads into the race smearing Warren. Wall Street gave more money to Brown that to any other Member of Congress-- more than a million dollars more even to Speaker Boehner! This chart shows what the financial industry crooks shelled out to their favorite shills in the 2012 cycle:

The latest polling of New Hampshire voters, doesn't bode well for Brown as he announces his "exploratory" committee. A Suffolk/Herald poll last week showed him losing to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen 52-39%. On top of that, only a third of New Hampshire voters have a favorable impression of Brown and 42% say they have a negative impression. When asked for a word of phrase that first comes to mind when Scott Brown's name is brought up the half dozen most frequent were “Carpet bagger/interloper” (10.88%), “Massachusetts” (6.75%), “Untrustworthy/dishonest” (6.63%), “Competent” (4.13%), “Wishy-washy/flip-flops/uncertain” (3.50%), and “Opportunist” (3.38%).

I was finishing high school when Bobby Kennedy, someone well-associated with Massachusetts, decided to leave his job as Attorney General and take on New York Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating. I got a job at his Manhattan campaign headquarters as the elevator operator. I saw him and his top aides every day and I was happy when he ousted Keating 3,823,749 (53.5%) to 3,104,056 (43.4%). Keating, a right-of-center "moderate," had one major attack: carpetbagger, carpetbagger, carpetbagger. New Yorkers, a cosmopolitan bunch to begin with, bought Kennedy;s response: "If the senator of the state of New York is going be selected on who's lived here the longest, then I think people are going vote for my opponent. If it's going be selected on who's got the best New York accent, then I think I'm probably out too. But I think if it's going be selected on the basis of who can make the best United States senator, I think I'm still in the contest."

In 2000, Hillary Clinton, identified with Illinois and Arkansas, ran for the open New York State senate seat against Long Island Congressman (and crooked Wall Street favorite) Rick Lazio. She kicked his ass 3,747,310 (55.27%) to 2,915,730 (43.01%). She ran for reelection 6 years later and enjoyed a two-to-one landslide victory over the Republican mayor of Yonkers, John Spencer, 3,008,428 (67%) to 1,392,189 (31%).

Over the weekend, the Christian Science Monitor asked if Brown can do the same thing in New Hampshire.

On Friday, Brown noted that his well-traveled pickup-- now adorned with “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire license plates-- was approaching 300,000 miles.

He’ll need it if he’s too overcome any perception that he’s a newcomer to the Granite State. (He moved to his family’s vacation home there last summer and registered as a New Hampshire voter in December.)

“New Hampshire is a traditional retail politics state,” Matt Mowers, executive director of the New Hampshire GOP, told the Globe. “The voters here want to hear you talk two or three times, not just once. People are much more interested in where you stand on issues and how you’ll help them.”

Like virtually every Republican running for election or re-election, Brown is zeroing in on the Affordable Care Act as his prime target.

“If we don’t like Obamacare, we can get rid of it. Period,” Brown said in his speech Friday at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua. “A big political wave is about to break in America, and the Obamacare Democrats are on the wrong side of that wave.”

Outside influence is likely to be a big issue in New Hampshire’s senatorial race.

American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s super PAC, is about to launch $600,000 in attack ads against Shaheen.

“Scott Brown is for Scott Brown and the powerful interests that back him, not New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Democrats said in a statement. “New Hampshire isn’t going to let Scott Brown and his big oil buddies like the Koch brothers buy themselves a Senate seat.”

On Saturday, Shaheen sent a letter to Brown asking him to sign the "People's Pledge," the same thing he agreed to while running against Warren two years ago.

“I have signed and attached two copies of an agreement with the exact same terms for the New Hampshire 2014 Senate race,” Shaheen wrote. "I hope you will join me in once again committing to the same People’s Pledge you signed in Massachusetts and limiting the influence of outside groups in New Hampshire this year."

Brown quickly knocked back that idea, calling it “hypocritical and self-serving.”

…Brown’s nomination-- assuming he moves beyond his exploratory effort to official candidacy-- is no slam dunk.

Former US Sen. Bob Smith, former state Sen. Jim Rubens, and conservative activist Karen Testerman, have announced for the seat as Republicans.

Smith says he and the other two declared candidates "are being ignored by the establishment.”

"This is really something,” he told the New Hampshire Union Leader. “To have a Massachusetts liberal being promoted, actually being pushed, by the powers in Washington and the establishment here in New Hampshire to run against three people who have been on the ground here for decades is really pretty bizarre.”