Yeah. I’m not really taking a position here. I like having reliable votes. When you have 60 Republicans, you have 60 Republicans. On the other hand, this is Massachusetts we’re talking about. On the other hand, in some other state, a RINO could say “but why does the Senator from MA get to vote like a RINO sometimes”. So it’s important to have reliable conservatives. But it’s also important to Stop Obama Now.
I think I was responding to the assertion that the Republican brand name was utterly poison in MA, and I was saying that Republicans can and do win in MA. I wasn’t saying that we need more RINOs.
I don’t know if Scott Brown is a RINO. I’d expect that the National Republicans are holding back because they don’t want to catch it from teapartiers / conservatives if they do back Brown and he is deemed a RINO.
I will be voting for Scott Brown on January 19, 2009, whatever the outcome!