By now you’ve heard: Scott Brown, the Lt. Colonel of the Army National Guard, has just been elected to the United States Senate. Oh, also, he posed nude in Cosmo in 1982. And now that this campaign is over, I have to wonder – where was the outrage?

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Could this be a Sunday Surprise — that is, a new and salacious media narrative only days before the contentious Massachusetts election? Sure, nudie pics didn’t derail the Scott Brown campaign, but a clip of the would-be Senator making the rounds on the blogs this weekend shows him wondering if Barack Obama might have been born out of wedlock. It’s problematic because the infamous so-called “birther” movement believes the same thing.

Cosmopolitan dug through their archives to find a June 1982 issue featuring a very naked chap by the name of Scott Brown playing centerfold model. Flattering, in a certain light, but possibly problematic for Brown, who is running for Ted Kennedy‘s United States Senate seat in Massachusetts. “Vote for Brown. He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package,” the lady mag suggests as a slogan.