(National) GOP lets Scott Brown fend for himself

Boston Herald ^ | December 29, 2009 | Hillary Chabot

[GQuagmire]

GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown has been all but abandoned by the same national Republican committees that pumped hundreds of thousands in campaign cash to former governors Mitt Romney and William Weld during their long-shot bids for U.S. Senate.

The snub has outraged local Republicans who say national conservatives should be jumping at the chance to nab the first open Senate seat in decades despite Brown’s tough odds in the Jan. 19 special election.

[GQuagmire]

He is not perfect, but he is the far better option than his opponent Martha Coakley, who will rubberstamp any bill that comes from Obama/Reid/Pelosi.

[nhwingut]

He’s not liberal enough obviously.

[manonCANAL]

We need just one party========= THE TEA PARTY =======

[samtheman]

Coakley’s an evil whore and the RNC is a gentleman’s club for chumps.

[Man50D]

The OP(formerly the GOP) wing of the socialist Republicrat party strikes again!

[rhombus]

I haven’t seen any polls but it but I sure expect Nanny Coakley to win as all the state workers and not-for-profits will turn out and vote for the statist to keep their jobs.

[who knows what evil?]

Coakley is the prefect representative for a sewer like Massachusetts...

[Diogenesis]

Romney could have helped Scott Brown.
But Romney helps only AFTER elections, and frankly,
ROMNEY IS FOR OBAMA and OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE.
Good luck, Scott Brown.

“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

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"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

[timetostand]

The RNC Is useless! Just when they should be gearing up 2010
it appears that they have fallen back to sleep at the switch. They do not inspire a whole lot of confidence now do they!?

Massachusetts, politically , is a cancerous lesion on the back side if America. A perfect example of what America cannot afford to become!

[cmj328]

Brown is far better than Romney ‘94 and Weld ‘96.

[VicVega]

The current GOP leadership (lack of) is full of crap. Newt supporting Scozzafava was very telling.

Now this in Mass.

McCain has to lose in 2010.

[cripplecreek]

The NRCC did the same to my conservative congressman last year. He lost by a whopping 2%. Then sure enough they did exactly as I predicted by shipping in a carpetbagger to run against him in the primary for the next race.

[wolfcreek]

“The snub has outraged local Republicans who say *national conservatives* should be jumping at the chance to nab the first open Senate seat.”

Since when is the national GOP, Conservative?

[tgusa]

Send your political donation directly to Scott Brown and NOT any national Republican organization.

[Stars&StripesNE]

I stopped contributing to the National Republican Party years ago. They don’t EVER put money into our Senate Candidate’s coffers. I contribute locally. It’s a crying shame. We have a chance with Scott Brown — but because of lack of funds, Coakly will walk away with this. She is maggot S*** and is dirty as they come.

[Daisyjane69]

Yeah, no kidding. On the one thing he could help with:

WHERE THE HELL IS ROMNEY?

I’m not on Facebook but maybe someone else is, and could ask his sorry ass.

[reaganaut1]

Maybe this is rational triage on the part of the NRCC. Even if they heavily fund his campaign, do you really think Brown has a big chance of winning in MA? I’ll vote for Brown but don’t have my hopes up.

It probably makes more sense to save powder for many of the winnable Senate races in 2010, for example in Colorad, Nevada, and Connecticut.

[TShaunK]

I can’t believe the GOP is letting this golden opportunity to steal a senate seat away.Scott Brown was leading in Boston Globe survey(poll) 60-40 a couple of weeks ago and also was considered the winner in a debate held recently by about the same margin.
This would be the politcal story of the new year if Scott Brown could take Ted Kennedys seat. Marxist Coakley is a weak left wing puppet canidate and can be easily beaten.Anybody you talk to that remotley follows politics supports Scott. The local media is keeping this election as low profile as they can because they know what a weak canidate Coakley is and thinks she’ll win by default.

[GQuagmire]

They can afford 200 large for some TV advertising. They don’t want to....

[ClearCase_guy]

The GOP doesn’t want to win. Why? Who knows? I can think of a few possible reasons, and none of them are complimentary.