If you're hoping to launch a website called Scottbrown2012.com, don't bother. The rights have already been snapped up by one of the growing number of conservatives who consider senator-elect Brown their best shot for president in 2012. While Brown has downplayed the presidential hype — telling Barbara Walters "I don’t even have a business card yet" — he hasn't dismissed the idea. Why should he, ask his supporters, who point to the junior senator's 12 years as a state legislator as proof that he's as qualified as Obama was in 2006. Is Brown a credible presidential prospect, or just the media's "flavor of the month?" (Watch THE WEEK's Sunday Talk Show Briefing about Scott Brown's spot in the GOP)
Forget about it — Brown's pro-choice: Sure, "Scott Brown is the Republican Party's new bicycle," says Michael Roston in True/Slant. But three little words will bar him from joining the GOP's 2012 ticket: Roe v. Wade. Brown's moderately pro-choice stance may boost the party generally — "the GOP needs more Evan Bayhs and Blanche Lincolns and Ben Nelsons, and [fewer] Jim DeMints" — but, as long as he maintains it, he'll never win the Republican primaries.
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