The last we heard from Scott Brown, the former nude centerfold model/amateur rockstar/one-term Massachusetts senator, was about five years ago when he said the Pulse shooting wasn’t a targeted attack against LGBTQ people.
“I don’t identify the people who were murdered as from a particular class of people,” Brown said during an appearance on Herald Radio.
It was a common line used by Republicans back then to discount the victims by suggesting the massacre wasn’t a homophobic hate crime, even though it happened at a gay club and almost everyone killed was LGBTQ.
Since then, Brown, a longtime opponent of LGBTQ equality, has mostly laid low. But get ready! Because word on the street is he’s eyeing a political comeback 10 years after having his ass handed to him by Elizabeth Warren, when she beat him by a whopping eight points, making him not only a one-term U.S. Senator but the only incumbent Senator to lose in the 2012 general election.
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Seven months ago, Brown accepted a job 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 complete 180 and announced he was leaving the school and quitting his rock band after determining it was “time to get back in the political arena and help re-build our party.”
Enjoyed my time as Dean, loving life as a musician @sbrowndiplomats, but now it’s time to get back in the political arena and help re-build our party: https://t.co/9MrQUSnjhT #nhpolitics
— Scott P. Brown (@SenScottBrown) August 11, 2021
Brown didn’t say exactly how he plans to help rebuild the Republican party, however.
He no longer lives in Massachusetts, so he’s probably not looking to reclaim his old Senate seat, not that he’d have any chance at beating Warren, who isn’t up for reelection for another three years anyway.
Instead, he’s taken up residency in New Hampshire, leading many to wonder if perhaps he’s eyeing Gov. Chris Sununu’s job.
Sununu has long been a GOP favorite to challenge the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Maggie Hassan in 2022. If he were to do so, that would give Brown an opening to possibly replace him as governor.
Or Brown could challenge Hassan himself, although some GOP strategists say his closeness 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’s the possibility that he’s eyeing a 2024 run for president, which would be an even bigger longshot given his demonstrated inability to win elections. (In addition to losing to Warren in 2012, he also ran an unsuccessful campaign for a U.S. Senate seat representing New Hampshire in 2014.)
It remains to be seen what Brown has up his sleeve, but whatever it is will doubtless involve lots of buffoonery and zero success.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Sqwoah
When and if this becomes news story, I res assured you will report on it.
MISTERJETT
sigh and an eye roll!!!! maybe it is news worthy to some people, but of course it’s all about you. right????
Cam
Sounds like he was bounced from the job at New England Law and realized he isn’t qualified to do anything so figured he’d jump back into politics.
HankHarris
How is it there is no link to the dick pic?
Max
don’t think Cosmo is that kind of magazine
jayceecook
Because it wasn’t a true nude photo shoot. His arm and hand are covering the bits.
andrew.agee
I don’t know if this link will post, but a quick google search for “scott brown cosmo centerfold” will get you there. Trust me, there’s not much to see.
cuteguy
If Lady G can find simpletons to vote for him, this m0ron surely can. S Carolina isn’t the only state with backward hillbillies who live off of Fox News. He will move to some district as dumb as the one that elected Majorie Taylor Bigg0t into the house.
jaimedance3
He’s still a very attractive guy he has aged very nicely
Kangol2
Scott Brown’s politics are still rancid. He can go stuff it on a rural homestead in New Hampshire and leave the rest of the state and the country out of it.
Fahd
My recommendation would have been a little more background research on this article. The story doesn´t mention that his¨one term¨in the Senate was just 3 years or so and that after he lost to Warren in 2012, he was the New Hampshire Republican nominee for Senator in 2014 and lost that too. Trump appointed him Ambassador to New Zealand, so maybe he´s trying to capitalize on that (MT Greene of New England?) , but he hasn´t done well in getting elected to federal office.
stagehand1
This is almost as groundbreaking as anything about the my pillow Asshole!
AZ71
I dont mind his nude centerfold past. Good for him. If we all could have shown ourselves off at our peak. But it doesn’t negate his politics or what he stands for in the world. Hard pass.
Tombear
I’ve seen him in person and oh, what a babe! Why is it the babes a lot of times are f**ked up in the head?
barryaksarben
I wish other gay guys would stop with the
he is attractive” as if that negates his horrible lack of common decency to others. He is an entitled white man and that is the problem. I dont care if he is cute or hot or was or is still he is a pos and should be fought at every turn until he STOPS trying to harm the gay community. NO IFS ANDS OR BUTS
Thad
Maybe the body is fine, but the mind and heart need work.
Kangol2
Scott Brown was a relatively moderate Republican when he served in the US Senate, but he has since entered the orbit of Don the Con, even serving as ambassador to NZ. Whether he would return to his more moderate stance (he did sometimes vote for President Obama’s policies) or try to remain in the current GOP far-right mainstream remains to be seen, but why take that chance, New Hampshire? He can go back to modeling for the Home Shopping Network or some online retailers, like Wayfare or Amazon.
wikidBSTN
I’m a life-long MassHole – Scott Brown is an intellectual light weight of epic proportions. There is more brain activity going on in my left shoe than in that guy’s head.