see the 2 crappy columns at the Glob?
jeff jacoby is of course, for Brown..
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1224899
Herald endorses Brown.
Massachusetts voters have to ask themselves a serious question before they head to the polls next week: Are they content with the current state of affairs in Washington?
Are they content with a sweeping health care bill, now being negotiated behind closed doors by principals from only one political party? (So much for a new era of bipartisanship promised by our president.)
And are they prepared for the impact that bill will have on the health care industry in our own state, where we already insure 97 percent of our population?
Are they prepared for the devastating impact of $500 billion in Medicare cuts, both on our citizens and on our hospitals?
But there is far more that is going wrong these days in D.C. than just the health care fight. There has been a similar rush to “fight global warming” with policies that would tax us back to the Stone Age.
There was that $787 billion “stimulus” bill that didn’t stimulate much of anything unless you count sending the unemployment rate to 10 percent. Oh, but it sure did “stimulate” the federal deficit, which hit a record $1.4 trillion.
Well, the voters of this state have the power to change that next week. Sometimes one vote can make a difference - especially if it’s one vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
If you love what’s going on in Washington, well, then by all means vote for Martha Coakley. She’s a perfectly nice person, and she won’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the balance of power in Washington.
But if you’re not happy with the status quo, if you think the way business is being conducted on Capitol Hill today is a disgrace and an affront to taxpayers, then you probably agree it’s time for a change.
Scott Brown can single-handedly deliver on that kind of change and the Herald is pleased to endorse his candidacy in the race for U.S. Senate.
Brown talks about being the “41st senator,” adding to Republican ranks and depriving Democrats of the “supermajority” which has allowed them to ride roughshod over the nation’s agenda. But he would go to Washington as his own man - and as ours, beholden to no one, except Massachusetts voters.
Brown is a social moderate in the Weld/Cellucci tradition, who considers Roe vs. Wade “settled law.”
And as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Brown has a unique perspective on critical military issues and issues related to the war on terror.
As a state senator Brown has shown his ability to work across the aisle for things he believes in. He cites his efforts to help pass a crucial stem-cell research bill “because I knew it meant jobs for Massachusetts.”
And while Brown is a solid fiscal conservative, he is a compassionate conservative, voting to override gubernatorial vetoes and restore funding for breast cancer screening, suicide prevention programs and the METCO program.
“My record speaks for itself,” he added. “If it helps people and creates jobs, I’m for it.”
The Democratic National Committee tried to goad former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin into endorsing state Sen. Scott Brown yesterday as it dispatched a top aide to Boston to help boost Attorney General Martha Coakley’s stagnant campaign a week before the election.
After Brown got the nod from “Palin for America” - a conservative Web site run by a Palin supporter - DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan released a statement asking, “Where on earth is Sarah Palin herself?”
Seeking to alienate independents and moderate Republicans backing Brown, Sevugan added, “Will Sarah Palin join Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and other national Republicans in their support for Scott Brown? Or, has the pit bull lost her bark?”
But the Wrentham state senator’s campaign sidestepped questions about whether he would seek or accept an endorsement from Palin, the darling of the party’s conservative base.
“This race will not be decided by outsiders,” said Brown spokesman Felix Browne. “Scott has been running this campaign on his own, and with the support of the grassroots, he’ll continue to stand on his own two feet.”
Sevugan’s assault on Brown was the latest sign national Democrats are privately worried Coakley’s campaign has stalled out a week before the Jan. 19 election.
“They needed to run the general election different than the primary, and they didn’t do that,” griped one leading Democratic strategist. “They ran a stealth campaign.”
An Obama spokesman said the president has no plans to join Coakley on the campaign trail, but he did send an e-mail blast to Bay State supporters yesterday, calling the pivotal Senate race “tight.”
“. . . We’re so close to passing health reform - finally realizing Senator (Edward M.) Kennedy’s life’s work,” Obama wrote. “But we cannot get the job done without Martha Coakley.”
Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor, used his Freedom First Political Action Committee to raise money for Brown yesterday.
But Brown’s fund raising took flight on its own, raking in a staggering $758,000 in one day as of 6:45 p.m. yesterday in an online “money-bomb” event. (over a million by night’s end)