When Scott Brown ran for the senate in Massachusetts he attempted to impress the electorate by saying that he had formed some of his political convictions during conversations he had had during his meetings with kings and queens.
Since he couldn’t name who these monarchs were, he appeared to be, well, fabricating.
Now he is up in New Hampshire running against that state’s incumbent senator, Jeanne Shaheen.
That race is one of the more confusing ones as who is in the lead changes by the minute, or doesn’t in reality, and each is getting endorsements from the other’s party.
This week, though, Scott Brown got a boost when Foster’s Daily Democrat, a regional newspaper in New Hampshire, published a commentary by former House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh that criticized Shaheen on some of her policies and seemed to answer some of what she and Brown differ on.
This would have been a strong endorsement from a longtime New Hampshire political star, but the problem is that Gobleigh died in 2009, and the commentary published on October 27, 2014 had been published originally in 2008 when Shaheen was making her first run for the senate seat.
The commentary was offered now by the state’s Republican Party to support Brown.
Basically, Scott Brown has been endorsed by a dead guy who has been dead for 5 years.
This is Halloween week.
When called on this the state party claimed they had not intended the commentary to be published now in spite of their having sent it out over the last few days for that purpose.
Non-existent kings and queens, and now a dead guy.
Scott Brown really knows where to get endorsements.
Perhaps, in spite of having been caught in a lie by the people of Massachusetts who did not buy the royalty thing, he feels the people of New Hampshire can be more easily fooled.