Posted on 02/06/2011 7:30:11 AM PST by nhwingut
Scott Brown was the Tea Party’s first big electoral coup. Then Ted Kennedy’s successor began siding, again and again, with Barack Obama—and now, as Andrew Romano reports in this week’s Newsweek, some in his own party want to oust him.
Scott Brown isn't himself. Which is to say, he isn't sounding much like the square-jawed, truck-driving, barn-jacket-bedecked Scott Brown—the calm, cool, collected Captain America—who stunned the political world a year ago by winning the special election to replace Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate.
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The strain of walking such a fine line must be getting to Brown, because as soon as he finishes his initial round of pleasantries, he launches into a peevish rant about how unfair conservatives are being when they criticize him. “The Democrats are in charge!” he shouts, his voice reaching the high, strained register that teenagers typically use when they don’t want to take out the trash. “Does that mean I’m supposed to do nothing? That I’m supposed to vote with my party every single second of every single day? Why? I haven’t done it for 15 years in the state legislature. All of a sudden I’m supposed to be an ideologue? I’m not quite sure what the mystery is, folks. When I hear some of the comments…I don’t know what the mystery is. I said I was going down there to be a Scott Brown Republican, not someone who works for Harry Reid—or Mitch McConnell!” It’s as if Brown is no longer addressing the people in the room—again, they’re mostly Democrats. Instead, he seems to be fending off foes in Washington, real or otherwise. Unsure of how to react, the crowd quietly pokes at its meatloaf…
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Sorry, Scottie.
I’d rather have a genuine commie trying to knife me in the heart, than a RINO knifing me in the back.
People, consider the source please!
You will never get a Rand Paul or Sarah Palin out of this state. The alternative was Marsha Coakley. Please extract heads out of a$$es.
Martha.
The ugliest betrayal was voting to overturn the ban on DADT.
Evidently nothing is sacred and nothing trumps getting to play basketball with the smoker in chief.
He was identified as a weak link almost immediately and fell into O’s arms with hardly a whimper.
The good people in this country have got to be getting tired of the Charlie Brown/Lucy with a football election outcomes.The question is what if anything are we to do about it?
Massholes, each and all, which is about all you can expect.
The lesser of two evils applied to the MA election. Its MA, the land of Kennedy, Kerry and Frank. Considering that alone, he was God sent.
This isn’t a modelling job or an acting gig. There’s no director telling how to pose, how to deliver lines. The same people that put him there, can remove him, because that’s who he’s representing, not himself, not a brand. That’s politics.
It was a choice between Brown or Coakley.
Scott Brown IS Martha Coakley!
I’ll never vote for the SOB again.
I never even once considered donating to Brown. Now, he has confirmed what those who looked at his record already knew. Keep your eyes on their liberalism, for that is where their loyalty lies and always will.
You will see that “nothing will be done” in 2010 to correct the Charlie Brown/Lucy analogy, as Republican primary drones I believe flock to the latest Myth Romney candidacy.
He ran as he did because he was smart enough to know that if he didn’t run as a conservative, the Tea Partiers in Massachusetts would have stayed home. Afterall, he eked out that win against Coakley.
He’ll find out just how much those democrats love him one of these days.
see my tag line
#1. Why not? When it's what the people who elected you want you to do, yeah, vote with the party that elected you, spitwad.
#2 Every single time, every single day? You work that much dipwad? My are you getting paid enough? You may be overworked. We'll see about easing that work load fer ya.
So, where are the Brown for Prez people now?
Brown seems to be a typical Massachusetts Democrat, in RINO’S Clothing
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