Scott Brown suggested Obama was born out of wedlock

Scott Brown, the smiling Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts, suggested during an interview at the 2008 Republican National Convention that Barack Obama may have been born out of wedlock.

What a sleazy, gratuitous insinuation. And how was Obama's mother's age when she bore him relevant to the presidential election? This looks like the same anything-goes politics of the Teabaggers and Birthers that are supporting Brown. Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate, should not have taken the race for granted, but I sure hope the voters of Massachusetts don't end up with morning-after pangs as some of their neighbors in Connecticut did after re-electing Lieberman.

(Hat tip: Joan Walsh, Salon.com.)