Posted on 01/08/2010 11:41:07 AM PST by Bluestateredman
For underdog Scott Brown, all’s Weld that ends Weld Margery Eagan By Margery Eagan Thursday, January 7, 2010 - Updated 22h ago
State Sen. Scott Brown has seen his chance to beat front-runner Martha Coakley. It’s moving left.
A poll this week put him ahead of Coakley 65 to 21 among the state’s largest voting bloc - the unenrolled. Independents elected what few Republicans have won statewide here: Bill Weld, Paul Cellucci, Mitt Romney, before his presidential flip-flops.
Yesterday morning I would have called Scott Brown a social conservative.
By the time he finished an hour with Herald editors yesterday afternoon, he was calling himself a “social moderate.” Yet he sounded like a social liberal.
Gay marriage, which he once wanted to put up for a referendum? “This is settled law” in Massachusetts, he said. “People have moved on.”
Just the other day, in fact, he chatted up two lesbians at Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain. They were so wowed, they asked for a “Brown for Senate” sign.
Pro-choice or pro-life? Brown, who’s repeatedly pushed for abortion restrictions and has the support of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said he doesn’t like those “labels.” Pressed, he agreed the “choice” should be between a woman and her doctor - the very definition of pro-choice.
Yet in 2005 he sponsored a draconian amendment to a bill allowing emergency room personnel to turn away rape victims seeking emergency contraception. Yesterday he did his best to make such a scenario appear less horrifying.
Terrified victim shows up in the ambulance at St. Elizabeth’s only to be told, “Sorry, try Beth Israel, maybe Brigham and Women’s.” “It wouldn’t be as callous as that,” he insisted.
Scott Brown even said he’d have voted for Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice ridiculed by the right as the ultimate angry, affirmation-action hire with the far-left agenda and the mediocre SATS.
Forget morphing into JFK, as Brown does in his ads. He’s morphing into Weld-lite. Brown’s not as smart or, as an ex-welfare kid, as patrician. But he comes across as super-nice, super-family guy. He says wonderful things about his wife.
Plus, unlike our previous matinee idol, Mr. Mitt, Brown’s a regular, let’s-have-a-beer kind of guy. None of those Romney the-aliens-have-landed otherworldly expressions. No weird, demonic Mitt chuckles.
No doubt planet-earth Scott Brown will manage to seduce a few of Weld’s suburban soccer moms. But ultimately, it won’t be enough. Not this time. The moms’ll break for Martha. Local politics - Jan. 7, 2010:
* + Brown vows to work with Dems
Does anyone know, is Jim Robinson supporting Scott Brown?
Let a RINO in a leftist state like MA>> boot them in places like Arizona (McLame), FL (Crist) and SC (Graham), where a conservative would be quite viable.
You gotta be kidding me. RomneyLite. No, Romney exactly.
Margery Eagan:a liberal,left-wing,pro-abortion,pro gay “marriage” moonbat.
Exactly and she's trying to spook conservatives away from Brown. They're getting desperate.
Go for it, Brown — say whatever it takes to win. OK with me. Every vote counts. Don’t play nice.
Magpie at her best.
Brown, IMHO, is NOT tacking left. Eagon is as mentioned, a mooonbat talking head. I’d read this the same as if seeing a CNN report that Palin was tacking left.
Would Freepers be willing to elect a RINO in order to stop the health care bill?
I wonder if Brown is Open Borders/Pro Illegal Alien like Marco Rubio.....every faux cons poster child....who stopped 5 seperate bills in the Florida House that would have limited benefits to Illegal Aliens?
Won’t get fooled again
Is Margery on the level here? Is Brown talking like this?
With less than 2 weeks to go, we’re seeing the start of some ACK-ACK fire, since their candidate is monotone, unlikeable, and not generating interest or energy. Next will be 527 ads for Kookley from unions. At this point, the candidates themselves are not moving right or left.... the Kook remains a moonbat to the left of Ted, and Scott... well, he is Scott Brown, fiscal conservative, opposed to spending trillions for naught, against crap-n-tax, etc.
Consider the alternative: ObamaCare
This is what I expected from a Republican in MA. That’s why I haven’t send a dime to his campaign and said no to the RNC when they called.
Exactly and she’s trying to spook conservatives away from Brown. They’re getting desperate.
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You nailed it! He’s a good conservative who’s had to dance the pro-choice boogie, albeit he’s for parental consent and against partial-birth abortions. In every other meaningful way he has distinguished himself from that awful woman, Coakley. I’ll be seeing him tonight at a Fundraiser in New Bedford and I’ll be shocked if I hear anything remotely left-leaning
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Margery Eagan is a socialist and would write anything...the Herald, usually a conservative rag, did an article that did not have any direct quotes, also lacking in Eeeeegan’s hit piece...to put him as far left as they would like people to believe...the problem I have with this and the Herald article is that I don’t see him being quoted DIRECTLY and his official site still shows him to be a hell of a lot more conservative than he is being painted;
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I will be voting for Scott. At this point in the race it is either him or Milk carton Martha. Easy decision. He will be up for reelection again in just over two years, so at that point we will have a good idea of where he truly stands on the key issues. If a solid conservative opposes him in the primary , he or she will deserve our support.
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