[OldDeckHand]

"The problem with Brown, even for those that did not have high expectations, is that he has turned out to be even softer than we were prepared to endure, he seems to be more liberal than people thought."

Maybe. I was thinking he'd be about a 50 on ACU's scale, close to Snowe & Collins. I don't think he'll get rated until next year, but I still think that's where he's going to end up.

What's John Kerry? A five, as would anyone who replaced Brown.

[ansel12]

My point was that Brown is farther left than he needs to be, he really is a hard liberal it seems.

I thought that he would give the ground that he needed to, to survive and to make a good liberal media splash when needed, but I didn’t think that he would eagerly rush to vote left when he didn’t have to.

I think that we all thought that he would be looking for opportunities to be helping Republicans without blowing his cover, or losing his seat, but we have learned that he really is a lefty, more naturally left than his supporters realized.