I would vote for Brown, but realise that in my opinion, the Romney of 2008 was much more conservative than Brown is today, having a platform much more to my liking (without which he would not have gotten my support).
But I still feel that in a year or two we’ll be grousing about “another RINO” in the senate, and wondering how we can get rid of Brown and replace him with someone ‘on our side’.
Such is the nature of politics — but I’d rather be grousing about a guy who is against us some of the time than standing in line waiting for my medical exams and wondering what happened to my country.
I just think it’s funny that Scott Brown, whos is just about everything Romney was back in 2002 except Mormon, gets as much support here as he does, when Romney was castigated for many even for his run for Mass. Governor (I understand the presidential run, because the “Mass. is just so liberal” is hardly an argument for putting a liberal in the white house).
You're right.
BUT...I shan't engage in political relativism in order to justify support what is otherwise a candidate with a rather alarming record.
If conservatives don't stand for something real and substantive--and that's a form of "purity," IMO--, e.g., a minimal, limited, Constitutional Federal government that maximizes individual freedom and liberty, then all they really stand for is getting re-elected, or in the case of the last election, getting Republicans re-elected. And that makes their words into nothing more than hollow verbiage.
Folks all over have been warning of the "slippery slope." There has got to be a point where one just has to put his (or her!) foot down; for me that point was last year.