Reply #50: Brown finds a way to extend it another day - he blasted people who brought up Perry

[karynnj]

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1318401

Now, he is a Republican who managed to win a MA Senate seat, but it can't be a good idea to keep this story alive for this long and ESPECIALLY not to give more prominence to the fact he questioned the integrity of the woman that Perry, not only didn't help, but who tried to intimidate her and her family by going to their house. The Perry story is not something Brown should want brought up - and attacking it should lead to at least one more day of people speaking about it and asking how Brown, the father of two girls, could have continued to support Perry - more vigorously than any of his Republican peers. Most had the sense or the morality to back a way in the end.

His outrage shows incredible narcissism - saying that what Perry was accused of had nothing to do with what happened to HIM at age 10. No one said it did. It shows that his experience did not lead him to have greater empathy for another young child similarly abused by an authority figure.

His reaction here actually does make me feel sorry for Brown - it and other things, make me think that though he has succeeded on the surface to some degree he is crippled inside.

I still don't understand how the son of a Republican town councilor was living in poverty, without enough food and abused by his mom's husbands. I know that women are more likely to get custody, but it would seem the dad, who was stable and secure enough to be elected, would and should have taken him in. Both his parents - form the headlines only - come across as really despicable people. (I have not read the book - and won't - but compare that to Bill Clinton's stories. In addition to his having a similarly abusive step father, he wrote of the courage and the hard work of his mom to become a nurse to support the family after his dad died before he was born. I have yet to hear one positive story about either Brown parent.