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Politics

Overreactions

by Clay Staggs

I am (predictably) thrilled that Scott Brown won on Tuesday. That said, it never ceases to amaze me how people get so totally overwrought about the least little nothing in the aftermath of such big stories. Two points to consider.

First, people are already speculating about whether Brown will run for President or be Sarah Palin’s VP in 2012. Good grief. The man hasn’t even been sworn in as a senator yet, let alone cast a vote or participated in debate. Why on earth would anyone get this far ahead of themselves?

Second, there’s a pretty dumb kerfuffle going on in certain quarters of the blogosphere about a one-liner in Brown’s victory speech about his daughters being “available.”

Thankfully, Ayla Brown, one of the available daughters, has given an interview where she shows that she has a better grasp that many commentators do:

“I had no idea he was going to do that. I saw the script and there was definitely no mention of that. It was totally off script,” Brown said in a phone interview squeezed in between classes at Boston College.

She admitted that she was slightly embarrassed. “But that’s what gives people a chance to see my real dad.”…

“That is incredible. It just surprises me that people can be so negative,” Ayla said. “I feel as though all fathers across the nation can relate to having daughters and having these conversations…That’s our dad. There’s nothing creepy about it at all.”

Really, this is nuts. I think these people need to lighten up.