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Brown Already Recording Robo-Call For McCain
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Senator-Elect Scott Brown (R-MA)
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Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-MA), who won his seat in last night's special election, has already recorded a robo-call for Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) re-election campaign.
Brown's campaign confirmed that he recorded the call, which asks voters to call McCain and thank him for supporting Brown. The number goes to Friends of John McCain, the senator's campaign.
McCain is facing an election this November. He may also find himself vulnerable in the Republican primary if the more conservative J.D. Hayworth challenges him.
A reader from Arizona who received the call tells us that Brown praises McCain for supporting him when no one else would. Brown also says he's ready to go to Washington and fight against a government takeover of health care.
McCain endorsed Brown Jan. 4.
McCain's campaign did not immediately return a call for comment.
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acf_ma
January 20, 2010 6:42 PM
Government is neither taking over health care, nor planning to do so. Besides, I'm guessing that Brown has been covered by either the insurance package of the Commonwealth, as a legislator, by a federal plan in connection to his National Guard position, or perhaps by his wife's insurance as a newscaster at WCVB in Boston. He, likely has plenty of connection to 'government controlled health care'.
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eratosthenes8
January 20, 2010 6:58 PM in reply to acf_ma
You're making the assumption that reality actually matters. The Democrats have ceded the ability to define the state of health care -- and the specifics of health care reform -- to the Republicans.
It doesn't matter that Scott Brown has single-payer coverage and loves it. It doesn't matter that John McCain or Mitch McConnell have it, either.
Fox "News," Drudge, and the teabaggers have created their own narrative. And that narrative is driving the debate.
The president is playing catch-up and, quite frankly, has not done his job. Americans ought to be enthusiastically in favor of reform, but they're not. There's no one to blame but ourselves and Barack Obama.
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azpaull
January 20, 2010 7:40 PM
I just got that call this p.m., and was going to blog it here. (Now, I don't need to.) A disappointingly boring script.
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wnsrfr2
January 20, 2010 9:31 PM
Scott Brown is Sarah Palin with male accessories and 20 more points of I.Q.
Thus, the McCain connection.
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roadmouth
January 21, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to wnsrfr2
Unfortunately Obama is Michelle with female accessories and 20 less points of IQ.
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Fitgerald
January 21, 2010 12:35 AM
Mitt Romney thinks he struck gold Tuesday night.
Now he can team up with Brown, and tour the country as he runs for president. It would be so fitting if they were both to lose in November 2012.
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roadmouth
January 21, 2010 6:55 AM
Wow, Senator is elected and goes to work as politician. This revelation will literally blow the lid off health care reform and certainly reinvigorate lagging public opinion.
I mean you just lost the most pivotal election in history, in the most secure Democratic stronghold, after the liberal lion how had championed health care his entire careers passes away in said stronghold, due to election laws you intentionally changed after just changing them 6 years ago, and at the worst possible time for your cause.
I would think that there would be some other topic to get you riled up, like uh, your President is an incompetent boob, who has been a loadstone of doom for everyone he has campaigned for or that you have had a supermajority for an entire year and have failed to pass this bill. It is not the Republicans stopping you, nor Fox News, man up and take the blame. You guys have failed no one else.
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nova voter
January 21, 2010 7:42 AM
holy shit. brown''s going to fight to end medicare and the VA? that seems like pretty big news to me.
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dem4life
January 21, 2010 8:57 AM
Scott and Mclame are two scumballs.
He can't even remember what darn day of the week is it let alone when the heck he is suppose to run for re-election.
Lets suspend his camp-slain in Arizona
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roadmouth
January 21, 2010 11:39 AM in reply to dem4life
Scumballs? Camp-slain? Whoa, we are up against debilitating and effective opponents.
For someone of obviously severe retardation to actually type gives me hope that we have found a cure for Down’s syndrome. Good luck with the drool bucket, you’ll need it.
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Suznaz
January 21, 2010 9:21 AM
Got the Brown call yesterday from a "private" number on my caller ID. So proud of themselves, they don't want you to know who is calling? Could only listen to 12 seconds before nausea arose. Hoping Mccain's farther right primary challenger is strong and Democrats have a chance to take his seat.
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JeffM
January 21, 2010 9:36 AM
I got the call yesterday too. I hope someone has to pay real money to make these calls to AZ Dems who have never supported McCain and would never support Brown. Seems kind of pointless to call and ask me to "keep" supporting John McCain. He lost any chance of that when he ran that craven presidential campaign.
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