i know like drew does that new hampshire has a very distinct political culture. republicans may like him there. they also hate when they re treated like an overflow from massachusetts, right? so there is this kind of sense he would have to battle, well, i conwin in massachusetts, so i guess i ll try that state up north, right? no, i grew up in new england, i m one of those massachusetts people that would go to nashua or new hampshire because they have a shopping mall tax. do you want him to run? because you would like to have jean shaheen to lose, do you want scott brown to win? do you think he would be the best republican option? i don t think it s a matter of do we want him, you know, to come or not. it s not a matter of inviting scott brown. he s got to make up his own mind on what he wants to do. the republicans in new hampshire will, you know, there will be candidates to kooz from. so it s not really from the leader perspective, it s not our job to sort of weigh in on that
will not be a candidate. here to talk about what brown is doing is the author of that editorial page editor drew klein. drou, thanks for joining us. my pleasure. first of all, any scott brown people, have you heard from them after you wrote this? no. we didn t get 18 feedback. our political reporter called him and talked to him about it. he didn t reach out to us. which is interesting. it falls into the consistent pattern of him not reaching out to any top folks in new hampshire. so let s go back to help you understand new hampshire s perspective on this. go back to the race with martha coakley and 2010, january, so before that, he s way up in the polls, right? he becomes, before he becomes a national republican hero, he is a new hampshire republican hero because new hampshire in every election even municipal elections gets democrats from massachusetts flooding over the board tore make phone calls to commodore-to-door and republicans in new hampshire
and say, hey, let s recruit a candidate for republicans. we don t really do that. but the point with brown is, he s got to stop treating new hampshire, if he wants to have even if he doesn t want to run here, which all the signs point to him not wanting to run here. he should have the courtesy to keep a good relationship two new hampshire republicans and to be respectful of their needs and he doesn t seem to be doing that right at the moment. at least, maybe he s not intentionally being disrespectful, but it s coming across that by a. he s got a lot of republican activists in the state upset with him. the union lordy, the favorite thing is you aren t afraid to run the front page editorials. maybe you ned to do that next time. thanks to drew klein. joining us, three things i love still ahead, politics, more politic, new york city and football. it s a good day. we ll go get to it. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down