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Scott Brown says he won’t seek Kerry’s Senate seat
Associated Press ^ | Feb 1, 2013 11:57 PM EST | Steve Peoples and Bob Salsberg

Posted on 02/01/2013 9:07:20 PM PST by Olog-hai

Former Sen. Scott Brown said Friday he would not run in a special Senate election in Massachusetts, dealing a setback to Republican hopes of winning the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Brown, who electrified his party with an upset win in a 2010 special election but lost his re-election bid in November, ended weeks of intense speculation about his future with a written statement announcing his decision. …

GOP officials in Washington and Massachusetts widely considered Brown the strongest possible Republican candidate in a state that traditionally favors Democrats.

With Brown out of the running, potential Republican candidates include former Gov. William Weld, former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, state Rep. Daniel Winslow and former state Sen. Richard Tisei. …

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: betrayerbrown; fakeindian; fakerbrown; foolhimonce; johnfnkerry; johnkerry; massachusetts; rino; romneytoadee; scottbrown; teapartytraitor; tokyobrown; vicepresidentbrown
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To: BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Perdogg; Kenny Bunk; ...

We can pretty much forget this seat now.

Anyone who thinks that’s just fine cause “Brown is a RINO” well I disagree, this sucks. We need to gain 6 MINIMUM, Brown instead of a piece of human garbage who will serve for the remainder of his life would have been swell with me.

People are mentioning Mitt and/or Mitt’s son Tagg. LOL.


41 posted on 02/03/2013 7:50:44 AM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Perdogg; ...
We can pretty much forget this seat now.

Norumbegans! Don't give up. Elect me.
Neither of your Senators is even a New England native, as am I, the master of several thousand Maine jokes. I can even claim Passamaquoddy blood with an almost straight face and once had a business partner from Southie! I even have an old pickup, just like Scott Brown. I promise to bring back the Braves and hire Mumbles as my speechwriter, but say less than Calvin Coolidge and do less than John Kerry, if humanly possible. And here's a big plus ... I am so old that if you're not happy with my work, why I won't be around all that long!

True, my knowledge of MAssholia geography is a little on the sketchy side, but unlike Senatrix Warren, I do know the way from Lenox to Springfield and have been to Stockbridge many times. Among my many other qualifying accomplishments: I have duplicated Ted's historic swim to Edgartown, (while under the influence) although I have not quite figured out how he did it in a dress suit that remained dry.

¡Sí, si puede! ¡Amnestía instantanea por sindocumentados registrados como Repúblicanos!
YA SEE, A LITTLE SOMETHIN' FOR EVERYBODY!

42 posted on 02/03/2013 8:22:09 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The Obama Absolution Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No-Fault Marxism.)
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To: Kenny Bunk; Impy; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Perdogg

If I can afford the gas to drive to my polling place, I’m writing in either Leverett Saltonstall or Foster Furcolo.


43 posted on 02/03/2013 9:06:37 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: Impy

“a piece of human garbage who will serve for the remainder of his life”

Ah, the joys of living in a Blue state...


44 posted on 02/03/2013 9:10:49 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy

Ed Brooke is still alive (turns 94 this year), and this is his Senate seat.


45 posted on 02/03/2013 11:46:17 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy

Yes! Maybe he can give Baba WaaWaa some “bedside manner”.


46 posted on 02/03/2013 12:03:50 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: freekitty

Well, I tried - - guess someone else can step in and tell us on this coast - or me - just what it is about Scott Brown and family - ‘low life scum . . ‘??

We were following our own no-talents out here, so don’t know the inside on the Browns.
Just know we felt like he had ‘saved the day,’ for the moment, so to speak.
....and he had a cool truck - - -


47 posted on 02/03/2013 3:11:02 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: USARightSide; freekitty

Sorry - just re-read - ‘played games and lied.’
Thus low life scum - -
Okay . . . didn’t know that.


48 posted on 02/03/2013 3:21:49 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Olog-hai
I suggested this guy for the Kerry seat, earlier today, but got no response: Robert A. Hall is an actor. He plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show. He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran, but does not mention that he had his legs blown off in that war. This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of America . "I'm 63 and I'm Tired"by Robert A. Hall I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought Mc Mansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble use their own money to help them. I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America provided to them. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have: 1. the economy of Zimbabwe, 2. the freedom of the press of China 3. the crime and violence of Mexico, 4. the tolerance for Christian people of Iran 5. the freedom of speech of Venezuela .. I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Sharia’s law tells them to. I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly in an all-knowing government. I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must not complain when Saudi Arabia uses the money we pay for their oil to fund mosques and madras Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance. I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think gay people choose to be gay, but I #@*# sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from "cool" people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana. I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially those who aren't working, but living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track citizenship for any Hispanic who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the kind of citizens we need. I'm tired of the trashing of our military by latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's a deal for those folks. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, while the critics of our military can be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia because the girls were Christian -- then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear. I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has looted the public treasury for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet. I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about "innocent" mistakes, "stupid" mistakes or "youthful" mistakes, when all of us know they think their only mistake was getting caught. Speaking of poor, I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement who have air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing. I'm real tired of people, rich or poor, who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. Yes, I'm tired, but I'm also glad to be 63, mostly because I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter. Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
49 posted on 02/03/2013 3:31:57 PM PST by Eva
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To: USARightSide

He fooled everyone too.


50 posted on 02/03/2013 3:41:46 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry, too much of a hurry, the game is coming on. Here it is again.

I have a suggestion for the Republican candidate for Mass Senator to replace John Kerry, this guy.

Robert A. Hall is an actor. He plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show. He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran, but does not mention that he had his legs blown off in that war.
This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of America .

“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”by Robert A. Hall

I’m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought Mc Mansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble use their own money to help them.

I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America provided to them. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have:
1. the economy of Zimbabwe,
2. the freedom of the press of China
3. the crime and violence of Mexico,
4. the tolerance for Christian people of Iran
5. the freedom of speech of Venezuela ..

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Sharia’s law tells them to.

I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.

I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly in an all-knowing government.

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must not complain when Saudi Arabia uses the money we pay for their oil to fund mosques and madras Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think gay people choose to be gay, but I #@*# sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from “cool” people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially those who aren’t working, but living on welfare or crime. What’s next? Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I’m willing to fast track citizenship for any Hispanic who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the kind of citizens we need.

I’m tired of the trashing of our military by latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here’s a deal for those folks. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, while the critics of our military can be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia because the girls were Christian — then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has looted the public treasury for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about “innocent” mistakes, “stupid” mistakes or “youthful” mistakes, when all of us know they think their only mistake was getting caught.

Speaking of poor, I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement who have air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I’m real tired of people, rich or poor, who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I’m tired, but I’m also glad to be 63, mostly because I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.

There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!


51 posted on 02/03/2013 3:42:53 PM PST by Eva
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Kenny Bunk; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy

Weld and Richard Sissei have bowed out.

Seems like people are hoping for Tagg.

Yeah....

Maybe there is other Scott Brown in the legislature who could make a go, Tagg would get blasted after being tied to his dad’s WH run.


52 posted on 02/03/2013 11:42:55 PM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Kenny Bunk; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy; sickoflibs

Nice write up about Brown:

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/holly_robichaud/2013/02/our_honeymoon_scott_brown_just_ended


53 posted on 02/04/2013 5:42:13 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

So Brown puts has his puppet elected party chair over a conservative and then backs out of the Senate race?

That sound like he wants the Governorship, which is a waste of time

But Chazz Baker has better fiscal conservative cred? I don’t know about that.


54 posted on 02/06/2013 5:12:18 PM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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