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=That’ll= Shock Those Rubes!

One of the more amusing parts of the meltdown over Scott Brown is the lefties throwing what they think is dirt on the Browns out there, but it turns out they're throwing bouquets.

First, I'll link to the stuff the guys will like -- the shot of Brown with his bikinied daughters [didn't realize how tall one was] and the music video Mrs. Brown was in in the 80s. I'm not quite sure what is supposed to be beyond the pale here. Let's just look at the 80s video - are we supposed to be offended by the pure awfulness of the song [and that title... "The Girl with the Curious Hand"?! WTF?!] Or is it that she's wearing a bikini? Or that she's wearing makeup and earrings with the bikini on the beach, but is not also wearing heels? Or that she's pretending to poison a guy? Or that she didn't in reality poison the guy? Help out a [c]hick here.

Then the shot I really like - Mr. Brown's Cosmo shot when he was a young hunk [as opposed to being a middle-aged hunk now]. [What's this? He may be in Cosmo again? [no, can't get a reliable story on that] ... Probably wearing a suit, though. Well, I like a sharp-dressed man, too.]

I could see the pics of Brown himself perhaps being taken poorly -- in Mississippi. But even then, they would have had to have appeared in Playgirl and be actually nude.

In any case, in pretty much all these cases the "dirt-throwers" aren't offended by the pictures or videos themselves... but they thought would-be Brown voters or supporters would be... again, in Massachusetts.

I have come across this before, many times, as a orthodox Roman Catholic [by which I mean that yes, I really do believe that stuff, and I love my German Shepherd] and as a Southerner. People think they're being "transgressive" and will shock the rubes by sticking a crucifix in a jar of urine, or in writing a play about turning women into a talking body part [wait, I thought it was we knuckle-dragging religious types who objectified women]. Take that, mackerel snappers!

I find the whole thing very puzzling, in that these people pride themselves as being very knowledgeable, but cannot figure out what would be actually offensive to Massachusetts voters, even the conservative ones. We might be social conservatives, but we're not the group who thinks females ought to be covered in black tents. These people keep crowing about eschewing stereotypes, and then invent some cardboard cutout idea of what a conservative is.

Well, if you're willing to learn, we can teach you [and you can find out what actually offends us... say, politicians bellying up to the taxpayer trough], but I'm guessing that we'll be in for similar pseudo-outrages all this year. I think I need to invest in some pudding stock.

Meep

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