The last time we heard from Scott Brown, the former nude model / amateur rockstar / senator from Massachusetts on a term, was about five years ago when he said the Pulse shooting was not a targeted attack on LGBTQ people.
“I do not identify the people who were murdered as belonging to a particular class of people,” Brown said during an appearance on Herald Radio.
It was a common line used by Republicans at the time to dismiss victims by suggesting that the massacre was not a homophobic hate crime, even though it occurred in a gay club and almost all people killed were LGBTQ.
Since then, Brown, a longtime opponent of LGBTQ equality, has mostly kept a low profile. But get ready! Because rumor has it that he is considering a political comeback 10 years after he got his ass fucked by Elizabeth Warren, when she beat him by eight points, making him not only a US Senator for a term, but the only incumbent senator to lose in the 2012 general election.
Seven months ago, Brown accepted a post as president and dean of New England Law School in Boston, declaring himself “disgusted with politics.” But this week, the 61-year-old did a full 180 and announced he was dropping out of school and quitting his rock band after determining it was “time to get back into the political arena. and help rebuild our party “.
However, Brown did not say exactly how he plans to help rebuild the Republican Party.
He no longer lives in Massachusetts, so he’s probably not looking to reclaim his old Senate seat, not that he would have a chance to beat Warren, who isn’t running for re-election for three years anyway.
Instead, he settled in New Hampshire, which made many wonder if he was perhaps considering Governor Chris Sununu’s job.
Sununu has long been a GOP frontrunner to challenge the US Senate to incumbent Democrat Maggie Hassan in 2022. If he did, it would give Brown an opening to possibly replace him as governor.
Or Brown could challenge Hassan himself, although some GOP strategists say his proximity to Donald Trump could hurt his chances. (Brown was Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2017 to 2020.)
Then there is the possibility that he is considering a presidential candidacy in 2024, which would be even longer given his demonstrated inability to win the election. (In addition to losing to Warren in 2012, he also led an unsuccessful campaign for a US Senate seat representing New Hampshire in 2014.)
It remains to be seen what Brown has up his sleeve, but whatever it is, it will undoubtedly involve a lot of buffoonery and zero successes.
Graham Gremore is editor and editor at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
