Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown is making me scratch my head lately. And here’s why.

Brown was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for 3 years. After having been defeated in his U.S. Senate reelection bid by Liawatha Elizabeth Warren in 2012, Brown is now starting an “exploratory committee” to see if the people of New Hampshire might elect him to replace Democrat U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Brown grew up and has lived in Massachusetts all his life. That’s fine if he is opportunistic and sees a better chance of returning to the Senate via New Hampshire voters than Massachusetts voters. But then, New Hampshire houses many other Massachusetts refugees (fleeing Taxachusetts and regulations many of which Scott Brown supported as a state senator there).

He wants to return to Washington so he can say, “Mmm, this caviar is just scrummy!” and get back into that hot tub with the other senatorial schmoozers.

But supposedly Scott Brown is considering running for President in 2016 as well.

As in President of the United States. (Stop laughing, now.) So that’s a head-scratcher. How could he go from just 3 years in the U.S. Senate with little to no accomplishments, to President?

Oh wait, Obama did that! Yup.

So when I describe Scott Brown as “opportunistic,” I mean there have been various signs, not just his moving to a different state for the purpose of political calculation. For instance, we can leave aside for a moment his wanting to be a political hack politician since before the age of 10. But later on in life after he was elected to the Massachusetts state House of Representatives, he took advantage of a special election to replace a then-retiring state senator, and then he took advantage of a special election to replace the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

Climbing the ladder of opportunity. In the public sector, though.

As a U.S. Senator, Brown voted for the Dodd-Frank Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Did his knowing that Fauxcahontas Elizabeth Warren was a major crusader for Dodd-Frank, and that she was probably going to challenge Brown’s reelection bid, influence his vote? I say probably.)

And as a Massachusetts state senator, Brown enthusiastically supported the passage of the Massachusetts healthcare insurance mandate and “Commonwealth Connector” a.k.a. RomneyCare. So I contend that although Brown campaigned in the special U.S. Senate election as a “41st vote” against the passage of the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. ObamaCare, it was not on principle but really just to get elected. However, if he gets back to Washington this next election, of course he will join his fellow statist Republicans to support their version of government healthcare.

And all you conservatives out there who promoted Brown’s U.S. Senate candidacy in 2010, and you conservative and libertarian New Hampshirites out there too, when getting a look at Brown’s actual U.S. Senate voting record, you might want to overcome that man-crush and get with it.

But, that Scott Brown is considering running for President, I see that as, I don’t know, maybe a little delusional (ya think?) and out of touch with reality.

Thus, Scott Brown is a real head-scratcher now.

Another senatorial head-scratcher is Rand Paul, a more likely presidential hopeful, but I don’t want to get into that one here. Except to say that it’s hard to figure him out, with all his recent neocon and pro-interventionism talks and articles. I don’t know if he is just posturing, or if he really believes what he is saying.

So just as Scott Brown needs to return to the “private sector” (if, in fact, he was ever in it), in my opinion the younger Dr. Paul ought to return to being just that, a doctor. (Especially with ObamaCare’s consequence of less qualified doctors, God only knows we will need all the good doctors we can get in the coming years.)

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