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Our Bay State Embed Impressed with Brown Mailer

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In receiving a glossy mailer, our reporter embedded with the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts Bay State, discovers something about Scott Brown of which most (male) readers of this blog had long been aware:

Saturday’s mail brought a simple but eye-catching glossy color fold-over flyer with return address of the MA Republican State Committee (www.MASSGOP.org). It contains two different full-color pictures of him on inside and out. I’m unregistered with any party so I suspect this may have gone to everyone. Might I add, as a straight man, (without engendering too long a comment thread) that Brown is one seriously handsome dude? By contrast, Martha seems, well… edgy, plastic, desperate… And I can’t recall getting anything from her campaign in the mail.

On the front of Brown’s piece, in white letters, in a red box: “BOLD New Leadership For Massachusetts”

Under that, a calendar page: “January 19” and “vote for Scott BROWN for U.S. Senator.” Two more calendar pages inside. One of the biggest obstacles for the voters he needs is not knowing when the election is. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know myself until just last weekend. Right next to that, a custom-printed box indicating my polling place — a nice, important, and not cheap touch. That’s another obstacle to voters new to the area and there are a lot of them around Boston.

On the back, three testimonies from major newspapers, and another calendar page with the election date. On the inside, the text (in *big* red caps): “BOLD. NEW. LEADERSHIP.” Periods after each word for emphasis. Simple. Differentiating. No long speech needed.

Bold: nobody likes to identify with cowering. New: goes without saying; it’s the peoples’ seat, not a coronation. I sense Martha is just waking up to that fact and it’s too late to do much about it that’s anywhere near this professional. Leadership. It’s a lot easier to get across than any one issue. People can sense the difference (I hope).

In a conversation at church this morning, I mentioned Brown and Tuesday and the person I was talking with came alive. Her eyes lit up. At least some Brown voters are *clearly* energized. Still don’t have a read on the Coakley supporters but there are still *no* lawn signs and this town usually sprouts ’em like weeds.

Also on the inside of the flyer: endorsements (in order) from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (huge!), Former Governor Paul Cellucci (Italian Catholic vote), John McCain, and Former Governor Bill Weld, who, for the most part, was well liked across the political spectrum. At the bottom, his website (www.brownforUSSenate.com).

Whoever designed this flyer knew what they were doing. The coordination with the Schilling call yesterday evinces a lot of advance planning.

Dan, you must remember when, in some of the running races we’ve done together, someone would be closing on you in the final mile? It’s the most desperate, awful, demoralizing feeling and as such, it often becomes a self-fulfilling one. By contrast, in other races, do you remember the feeling of closing inexorably on some poor sucker who thought they had paced themselves well and is only now coming to grips with the fact that they didn’t and that they’re being reeled in with a vengeance?

Yeah, it’s like that. At least I hope it is.

Thanks to a certain amazing coach I had in college, I learned to be a good closer in races, so I do know that feeling.

Comments

  1. This is so exciting! His whole campaign, this is what a true leader acts like, also telling the truth is what it’s all about. Personally I would like to thank Sarah Palin for waking me up to what kind of politician I would support and give money to, she has taught me a valuable lesson for future elections. I have faith the people of Mass. are awake now but if the corruption creeps in and he loses we know what we need to do in the future and we have time to organize for Nov. Keep up the great work Gay Patriot!

  2. So I just watched Obama s speech in support for Coakley in MA. He painted the MA senate race tuesday as either the country continues moving forward (with Obamanomics) or backward with tax cuts.
    He tried to use some of that Copenhagen NJ VA magic. Oooops maybe not.
    I was just wondering if this was the best use of our President’s time. With the Haiti effort severly lacking in coordination and results. Last nite I read a Belgian field hospital, all medical staff fled because of saftey concerns once darkness fell, leaving the 30 patients unattended all night. After 100+ hours surely Obama can do better than this.

  5. Might I add, as a straight man, (without engendering too long a comment thread) that Brown is one seriously handsome dude?

    Never underestimate the power of a handsome face. I don’t know if the better looking candidate always wins, but appearances play a decisive role. There was a study done years ago, I have no idea how to find it, that showed that a shocking number of people, women especially (and I would assume gay men), make up their minds primarily based on a candidates appearance.

    And thus we get handsome crooks and liars like Obama, and the finest Vice President we’ve ever had is demonized and vilified almost from day one.

    Good thing Bush was better looking than Gore and Kerry.

  8. While our young naive President is up in MA today campaigning for the Democrat machine, the situation calls out for leadership and direction.
    A horrible situation looks like it may explode…..
    http://abcnews.go.com/WN/HaitiEarthquake/haiti-earthquake-tensions-mount-supplies-stuck-airport/story?id=9573873

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/haiti.abandoned.patients/index.html
    Mr Obama made a lot of promises on behalf of the American people. Maybe he should work a little harder on Haiti instead of politics.

  9. Well, you’re in Pennsylvania, so you’re probably not aware of the history of these two here in the Bay State…and even if you are aware, you don’t care because Scott Brown is a Republican and that is all that matters. The records of the two candidates speak for themselves. Martha Coakley is a friend to gay people and Scott Brown is not. I’ll take the anti-DOMA Coakley over the pro-DOMA, pro-DADT, not normal that gay people have children Scott Brown any day of the week.

  10. I know Coakley is an Obamaphile, which has run the country into a ditch, trippled the national debt and is in the process of socializing everything that moves starting with the car companies and the banks.
    Obama and Coakley have raised the unemployed from 6 to over 10%.
    And his administration was unprepared for the disaster in Haiti just a few hundred miles from Florida. buzzzzz times up.

  15. So, basically, fnln doesn’t care about Democrat corruption, fiscal irresponsibility, or whether their policies are good for the country so long as they pander to his particular narrow little special interest.

  16. Martha Coakley’s prosecutorial history displays a vile, venal, opportunistic personality, but at least she likes gay people.

    By all means, fnln, support a woman who fought hard to keep an innocent man in jail after everyone else had come to realize he was innocent. Support a woman who decided not to prosecute a man who raped a 23-month-old girl with a hot curling iron because of political expediency.

    You go, girl.