{"id":3297,"date":"2013-08-19T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2013-08-19T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:10:03","slug":"scott-brown-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3297","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown for president?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I love this country, the land of opportunity — and opportunism.<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who lost his Senate seat after just two years, is “exploring” a run for — yep — the presidency of the United States of America in 2016.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/19\/scott_brown_exploring_run_for_president_119628.html<\/p>\n

Brown stunned Massachusetts and the nation in 2010 when he won a special election to the Senate seat that was held for nearly 40 years by a guy named Edward Moore Kennedy, the liberal Democratic lion of the Senate and the youngest member of arguably the nation’s premier political family.<\/p>\n

Brown lost his re-election bid this past year to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Now the Republican who served a third of a term in the Senate is considering whether to run for governor of Massachusetts or a U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire. <\/p>\n

But hey, if not either of those, there’s always the presidency.<\/p>\n

Some folks believe that the improbable — albeit temporary — prominence shown in the 2012 GOP primary campaign by the likes of U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., and pizza mogul Herman Cain have piqued Brown’s interest enough to consider a run for the White House.<\/p>\n

Go for it, Mr. Brown. Enjoy the notoriety while it lasts.<\/p>\n\n

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I love this country, the land of opportunity — and opportunism. Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who lost his Senate seat after just two years, is “exploring” a run for — yep — the presidency of the United States of America in 2016. http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/19\/scott_brown_exploring_run_for_president_119628.html Brown stunned Massachusetts and the nation in 2010 when he … Continue reading Scott Brown for president?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,77,1529,1560,2109,3040,4143],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-presidential-campaign","tag-2016-presidential-campaign","tag-edward-kennedy","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-herman-cain","tag-michelle-bachmann","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}