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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344392)	1/20/2010 9:12:14 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 793884

You have a good point. However, running for President in the age of American Idol is more about image than competence or track record. That is how we ended up with Obama. If we run some dinosaur that looks and sounds like the "evil old white man", Republicans might lose again - even against a humiliated Obama. Might as well pair him up with Aaron Shock and you have an image freight train. Romney has the image too. schock.house.gov

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344392)	1/20/2010 10:59:11 AM
From: carranza2	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793884

Or an inexperienced governor with more experience running a small town in the middle of nowhere than anything else. vbg. Brown and Palin will clash. I don't see them as a natural pair, but we all know politics makes for strange bedfellows. Brown's election was very interesting, refreshing. There is hope. By the way, I don't see Brown's election as an endorsement of the GOP as much as I see it as a rejection of the Beltway Frankenstein we have managed to create in which the Dems and the GOP are complicit. It really gave Ron Paul an enormous boost, IMO. I think Brown and Paul are more natural allies than Palin and Brown.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344392)	1/20/2010 11:36:44 AM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793884

Brown is still fresh and young enough to acquire the requisite experience and credentials. I don't think he's anything like a 'messiah' of the Obama kind, but he does have a certain level of charisma and says the right things without a teleprompter. Politics these days are inscrutable and vicious. The whole process should be reformed, because the machines are just getting too professionalized. This election was decided by independents, or as they call them in Massachusetts, the unenrolled. There's a certain appeal to that idea, because both parties have soiled their nest. I certainly agree that Obama proved the fast track to the top job is a bad idea. Maybe for somebody with real character, but not him. I wouldn't rule Brown out just because Obama provided a bad example.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344392)	1/20/2010 11:41:52 AM
From: DewDiligence_on_SI	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793884

Agree 100%. The talk about Brown being presidential material is patently silly, IMO. I’ll be overjoyed if he is “merely” successful enough to win reelection in 2012, which probably won’t be easy.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344392)	1/21/2010 5:33:07 AM
From: bruwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793884

Having read many of your posts on this Board it's my opinion (for what it's worth {:-)) that you're very well informed regarding the political scene in the USA. Based on how Scott Brown conducted his campaign, the support he received in a State not usually inclined towards Republicans and the way he was prepared to walk the street and speak to the folk face to face, I thought we may be seeing the makings of someone who could be one of the front-runners in the next Presidential election. And then I read your post (#344392) regarding the short time period between his election as Senator and running for the No.1 spot. I think you make a valid point. When occupying the highest office in any situation, be it politics or business, I believe having adequate experience is very important. A CEO or a President may be surrounded by advisors/experts giving him their views and conclusions, but at the end of the day he's the one who has to make the final decision. And making that decision may be more adequate and realistic if one can call on past experience and accumulated know-how with which to back it up.