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
If liberals move right to get elected and then move left once in office...
Why can't someone like Brown move left to get elected and then move right once in office?
-PJ
When do we take “NO MORE RINOS” seriously? Another abortion backing, Big Government RINO statist in the US Senate does us no good whatsoever. These guys are the enemy within and are exactly why we’re in the predicament we’re in today.
Sorry, no sale.
Now, on the other hand, he could be lying to us just to get elected. Just like Romney, lying to his constituency. Lie to them, lie to me, lie to you. What’s the difference?
Any Massachusetts conservative who sits this one out on the 19th, put a ‘C’ on the voter list next to their name.
No, not ‘C’ for Conservative. ‘C’ for “Complicit”.
Well he could pull a reverse Arlen Specter and move conservative after in office
Look, the election is only days away. There is no “conservative” in the race that might win.
I look at it this way. If I had been sleep deprived for several days and were going to be locked up in a cell with my choice between a serial killer and a pick pocket, I would choose the pick pocket. But maybe that is just me.
People who cannot make rational choices between the only available options make me tired. If your fantasy choice is not available, their decision is to not choose. Not choosing is a choice to accept the worst possible choice without a fight. That behavior is just crazy in my opinion.
"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
I would hope Brown strikes all of that liberal mush from his website and stand up strong for Life, Liberty, God, Family and Country or shut the hell up and sit back down.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. --RR"
"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
“That behavior is just crazy in my opinion....”
Its just another manifestation of narcissism. Just as malignant with respect to their fellow American as the more familiar liberal manifestation.
“I know not everyone will like this but I feel Brown is a big improvement over the alternative”
spot on
"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
Go for it, Brown — say whatever it takes to win. OK with me. Every vote counts. Don’t play nice.
Go for it, Brown — say whatever it takes to win. OK with me. Every vote counts. Don’t play nice.
Go for it, Brown — say whatever it takes to win. OK with me. Every vote counts. Don’t play nice.
Yeah!!!
In our efforts to build a permanent 51-vote majority to stop all future Sotomayor’s, I’m convinced that Indiana, Arkansas, and Montana are more promising places to elect such senators. It sure isn’t in the cards in looneyTunesAchusetts.
As a rule, I will always support the most conservative candidate in any race. In this race the constrast is sufficiently sharp and the stakes are high enough that there can be absolutely no doubt.
“Someone tell me again the difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare? “
I’ll be happy to educate you. First, note that I am not for any government health-care. I think that people should take care of themselves, and pay for their own G-D healthcare (using private insurance, which is a good idea, if they wish) — unless they want to declare themselves paupers, and wards of the state.
But now the BIG differences. 1) The Romney plan was rather clear: the MA legislature knew what they were voting on. The Reid-Pelosi plan is still up-in-the air. We really won’t know what it will be like until it happens to us. It has been undemocratically decided.
2) This is REALLY, REALLY big: the Massachusetts plan is for Massachusetts. It is not for the whole country. It does not violate the U.S. Constitution. States can pretty much do whatever they want. The Constitution says that they must have a republican form of government (no hereditary monarchy, but an elected chief executive). There are a few fundamental civil-liberties requirements. Other than that, they can experiment — and one advantage of the Federal system is that states can try different policies, and the others can watch and see how things work out. The population can also easily flee. Only a few large, eastern, liberal states (think New York!) will try to pursue escaped citizens.
These are big differences. When you think about it, it shows how fundamentally radical and disastrous is the 0 administration. They have totalitarian impulses — and maybe more than just impulses: policies.
"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
"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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence
“Prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in practical affairs. It is classically considered to be a virtue ...
The word comes from ... Latin prudentia (foresight, sagacity), a contraction of providentia, foresight. It is often associated with wisdom, insight, and knowledge. In this case, the virtue is the ability to judge between virtuous and vicious actions, not only in a general sense, but with regard to appropriate actions at a given time and place. ... Distinguishing when acts are courageous, as opposed to reckless or cowardly, for instance, is an act of prudence ...
Although prudence would be applied to any such judgment, the more difficult tasks, which distinguish a person as prudent, are those in which various goods have to be weighed against
each other ...”
Pure? Fifty million purely innocent Americans have been put to death without even so much as a trial due to this kind of thinking. When do we begin to fight back?
Why doesn’t Brown stand up like a man and loudly say NO to abortion? And NO to ObamaCare AND NO to RomneyCare?
You stand for Life and Liberty and freedom and free markets and family or you don’t.
Is he a man or a coward?
Or a liar?
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