Reply #5: Totally agree with you

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While we all know that Brown is no intellectual colossus, we also need to realize that this is only a disqualifier for higher office in minds like ours. Just look at the previous president - also no mensa member - yet he was lauded by media and public alike for being a guy who is approacheable. I.e. the guy you want to have a beer with. Same with Palin. To paraphrase the Rude Pundit: Guys want to fuck her, and women want to BE her, which makes her eminently qualified to run for president in too many people's eyes.

Brown appeals to the increasingly anti-intellectual electorate, and he knows it. So, yes, he's going to cash in on this and run for president in '12. Sadly, I saw this coming as soon as he garnered national/teabagger attention. This is why it's so frustrating that, as little as his win had to do with national issues, that didn't matter to the national media. It's all in the perception, so it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The media wanted it to be a referendum on Obama and congress, and therefore they turned reality around on everyone. The biggest loser in this is Massachusetts, closely followed by the rest of the nation, should he succeed with his aspirations.