Posted on 01/19/2010 8:43:52 PM PST by goldstategop
From Brown’s victory speech: “And let me say this, with respect to those who wish to harm us: I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation. They do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”
Isn’t that the sort of right-wing talk that is supposed to be poison in our politics now? I wonder whether Americans in general realize how conservative Scott Brown is — how conservative a campaign he ran. I wonder if they realize the same about the new governor of New Jersey, Christie.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
As I said before, Brown for President
Brown for President. He can win in MA and can probably carry 40 states (or more).
agreed....while I do disagree on the abortion issue and think that is a conservative cause, the other points he is solid (at least appeared so tonight).
We will see how he goes from here. But, he didn’t campaign as a mushy moderate and still won, which is impressive.
America has just won a reprieve. Praise the Lord!
Ditto. And that is not a slight against Sarah, DeMint, Michelle Bachmann (yeah!) or any other conservative who wants to run. This is why we have primaries. Let the best woman or man win.
The proof of the pudding is seen in the eating.
And so it begins. Can’t you just enjoy?
Sen. Scott Brown has got to go through the Baptismal fires of the Senate and the other hellacious Washington, D.C. trials so that his Conservative beliefs can be refined and tested as they were with Sen. DeMint, Rep. Wilson and Sen. Inofe. to name some of the Few.
Bump that.
I voted for him 6 times and I live in Indiana....is that legal??
bump to the top
I can’t support him for that level because of abortion, but I am thrilled at his win for Mass. Just awesome.
I anticipate that Brown will have an ACA score in the 70s as a senator. I’m not complaining already but I think that we, as conservatives, need to be prepared for some moderate to liberal votes every now and then from Brown.
He seems to be a fiscal conservative and a national defense conservative.
That’s really the best we can hope for in Massachussetts, a state which epitomizes the political power of “intellectuals” within Tom Sowell’s meaning of the word.
However, I am not sure that he is a social conservative - where does he stand on pro-life, homosexual marriage and RKBA, for example?
What I think is very encouraging is that Brown campaigned on a specific agenda - lower taxes, no Obamacare, anti-deficit spending, no treating war combatants as civilian criminals, for example - and he did not retreat into platitudes in his victory speech, but repeated forthrightly the substantive points he campaigned on.
Sorry, I meant this post to the nay-sayers, not you. My apologies.
My husband’s grandparents lived in Greenfield, (western)Mass, and were as conservative as they come. They couldn’t stand the Kennedys but were at the mercy of the Bostonians the last few decades of their lives.
I am thrilled.
I am more trying to preempt those who will soon be on the thread expressing ONLY negativity and calling him RINO etc. by basically just saying trust but verify.
Amen.
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