>>>Time will tell if he truly leans conservative
You could have just asked me. I noted it in the thread I referenced he’s not a conservative. Nor did he pretend to be one.
He’s a centrist, mildly leaning to the left. In his state that may make him a neanderthal. In the broad national view of things, that makes him average.
And he’s a damn sight better then the alternative would have been. People demanding he be a 100% Conservative Union senator are just asking he be thrown out of office in 2012. The state won’t permit it. Take what help he can give, and he has given plenty already, and get off the guy’s back.
Absolutist purism is self-defeating, besides being a general waste of time. Politics isn’t purist.
I never once said he was. Brown did stand up and rail against all the unbridled spending that has been going on in DC throughout his campaign, did he not? So, what's one of the first votes he casts? A vote to spend more money we don't have in some veiled attempt to create jobs. Gubmint doesn't create jobs, the private sector does. If gubmint spending created jobs we'd be a full employment now. The best thing that could happen right now is for the gubmint to get out of the way. That's another principle that Brown campaigned on, but seems to have forgotten. There is no way to know whether or not he would be "better than the alternative" because the alternative lost. People are, however, expecting Brown to live up to what he campaigned on and this vote doesn't appear that is going to be the case. Doesn't surprise me in the least because of the two reasons I gave. That's all I'm saying.