Scott Brown’s departure from the Senate could be brief
If Kerry does join the Obama administration, state law calls for Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint an interim senator to serve until a special election is held between 145 and 160 days of the seat being vacated.
Brown has not publicly said whether he would seek a return to the upper chamber, but close observers of Massachusetts politics have few doubts that the politically gifted, charismatic, and generally popular Republican would strongly consider a bid to duplicate his special election victory in 2010, when he claimed the seat long held by Ted Kennedy.
“From what I hear from people who’ve talked to Brown and are close to him, he definitely has interest in the special, if it happens,” said a Massachusetts Republican strategist. “But he hasn’t made up his mind that if it happens, he’s definitely going to run. He’s waiting to see where the appointment process goes, and then he’ll decide.”…
In a state with a short Republican bench, Brown likely would face significant pressure from within his party to jump back into the fray, considering his proven ability to win a hotly contested race in a non-presidential election year.
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That would be nice to see him get back in the Senate if Kerry becomes SoS. The problem is Obama and his massive ego seem hellbent on nominating Rice.
Doughboy on November 29, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Kerry is apparently being considered for Defense as well, and if he doesn’t get that either he is still likely to retire in 2014.
vegconservative on November 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Hard to keep the pigs from the trough…
right2bright on November 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM
I do my part, I buy Hunts.
faraway on November 29, 2012 at 4:39 PM
What is the point of this? He would have to run again in a regular election anyway. His winning at all was a fluke based on the way Ocare was passed. If he can’t beat Warren with having incumbency then he should just forget it.
Rocks on November 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM
He couldn’t win because the state is 3-1 Democrat. It’s hard for any Republican to win a Senate seat there. But he’s the best shot the GOP has got at taking Kerry’s seat.
Doughboy on November 29, 2012 at 4:43 PM
We had a a fair amount of support in 10 here for Brown. I kicked in quite a bit of money to his campaign myself. In retrospect, I honestly don’t believe we were much better off with him there other than that initial GOP chest thumping about taking the Kennedy seat.
Maybe even the same as having a Democrat.
hawkdriver on November 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM
May Scott Brown become a name never spoken of again. Or, let him change parties, like Romney should have done. Why exactly is it that the Republican party is the party of politicians who cannot figure out whose side they are on?
Democrat party, does not matter if you are a blue dog, or a far left extremist, when it matters, you are always able to be counted on.
Republican party, must accept the guy that will stab you in the back every single time it matters, they can be counted on to perpetually snatch defeat from the grip of certain success.
astonerii on November 29, 2012 at 4:46 PM
It’s MassachusettEs. He’s the best you’re gonna get as far as a Republican Senator. That’s like the Dems lamenting that they can’t get left-wing lunatics elected down here in Texas. There are electoral realities you can’t escape.
Doughboy on November 29, 2012 at 4:54 PM
I like that idea. At least a lot of dems would be on his side rather than all the dems and most repubs against him. It could make the difference for him winning the seat.
Frank Enstine on November 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM
If he wants to run, let him. I’m fine with that. But I don’t see why anyone should bother donating. A republican is never going to hold a senate seat there for more than a few years so it’s pointless throwing money down that hole. Brown is not conservative in any way and he won’t even vote against Obama’s nominees.
Rocks on November 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM
Senator Romney?
crosspatch on November 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Which is so utterly ridiculous it is likely to happen.
CorporatePiggy on November 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM
Why would D. Patrick pick him. Aren’t there any Kennedys waiting to pull the sword from the stone?
Red Creek on November 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM
People who slam Brown do not understand the Left. So eager to attack Republicans who aren’t pure, they lump all apostates together. But the Left has their purists too. Warren is no Brown. She isn’t even Landrieu. Raw , dangerous sly Marxist in the henhouse and that’s not hyperbole.
swamp_yankee on November 29, 2012 at 5:07 PM
May I recommend http://wketchup.com/
RushBaby on November 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Didn’t the Heinz family sell out long ago?
TexasDan on November 29, 2012 at 5:20 PM
Give me a break. He lost re-election to a clown, an honest-to-God clown, the most hideous joke of a Senate candidate I can remember in my lifetime. Surely the rat party will find someone just a tad less clownish to run against him again. And he’ll lose again.
Rational Thought on November 29, 2012 at 5:23 PM
I support this…because it makes all the right people mad.
thebrokenrattle on November 29, 2012 at 5:44 PM
I didn’t say it would be better to have Warren. I just don’t think he was much better than you average liberal of any party. We have more Conservative Democrats here in NC.
hawkdriver on November 29, 2012 at 6:12 PM
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hawkdriver on November 29, 2012 at 6:12 PM
We should all remember that when Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat in 2010 he became the deciding vote that saved us all from Nancy Pelosi’s House version of Obamacare.
Alas, we still ended up with Obamacare. But the version of Obamacare that the Senate was able to water down after Scott Brown was elected was not as completely horrendous as the Nancy Pelosi version of the bill would have been. Leftists are still furious that they didn’t get “single-payer” in the version of Obamacare that ultimately passed.
Scott Brown’s victory also added to the momentum that led to historic Republican victories in the 2010 mid-term elections.
wren on November 29, 2012 at 6:32 PM
There are electoral realities you cannot escape. Every time the Republican party has leaned progressive, as Scott Brown pulls it, it has been relegated to the wilderness by the voters. Hence, we are better off without that seat if it cannot be counted on when it is needed most. Otherwise it pulls the party leftward and into the wilderness.
astonerii on November 29, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Worse than Obama?
astonerii on November 29, 2012 at 7:11 PM