I respectfully disagree on Brown. He was lib on social issues, but he came through on a lot of things beside health care. He voted no on Kagan, and stuck with the GOP on opposing the various “Buffet Rule” bills, along with the DISCLOSE Act, the so-called Paycheck Fairness Act, and a host of other Reid-Obama tax schemes. He was also a pretty reliable vote when it came to defense issues, IIRC.
Brown was no conservative, but he wasn’t Ted Kennedy or Liz Warren either. I honestly don’t see how we could have done better in Massachusetts.
Brown voted for Dodd-Frank, the stupid START treaty and he thought it was just fine that President Obama just declared a recess in the Senate and appointed several officials. That was enough for me to determine that he didn’t give a damn about his oath.
I don’t fall for the “he’s better than the democrat” argument anymore. I left Brown’s office blank on my ballot two weeks ago (I voted for him the first time) just as I did Charlie Baker’s two years ago. I’ve had enough of their kind. And the republican party is better off without them in office. They only lessen the resistance to the anti-liberty radicals. Brown would have been a Jim Jeffords before long.