Brown's Future

Reihan sees an opening:

One question for Brown is whether he wants to focus on building his national profile campaigning with Marco Rubio and other star conservative candidates or building a base in Massachusetts. Very frankly, I think that Brown has demonstrated a real gift for national politics: his biography is compelling, he is an effective speaker, he had the discipline to take the high-road in the campaign. There were no macaca moments this time, and I have to assume that there were many, many strategists and activists very eager to manufacture one. Under this level of scrutiny, Brown thrived. And this after being a purely local politician for years. That's not normal. It is an Obama level of talent and discipline and work ethic. We know how that turned out.

For more tax cuts and more debt! For torture and Medicare for ever! Because the Bush years were so awesome.