Posted on 01/17/2010 4:18:23 PM PST by GVnana
Brown holds rally with Schilling, other stars (NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Worcester, Mass.) - State Sen. Scott Brown (R), a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts, campaigned in...
The only video I've been able to find so far...Video at link.
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Why would Brown hold a rally with a Yankee’s fan? ;O)
AWESOME street video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLuAwEI792I
Brown people outside Obumblers rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbrbZrqeT4
Scotts rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDoh_NkqvQ
How about holding a rally in a Yankees hat...oh, no wait, Martha already said something similar. Sorry
Go Yankees!!!
On the other hand it has to be a long day for Obama when very liberal Salon Magazine reports that Coakley had not warmed up the meager crowd for him.
I was there. It was electric, both outside in the street and inside Mechanics Hall!!
Martha continues to tank at Intrade, down -7.5 to 40. Brown up to 60!
Awesome!
Yeah, he shoulda had Manny Ortez there. Dope.
Great chant!!!
Awesome videos. The energy is real.
I tactfully asked him WHY he was going to vote for Brown and his answer was: “Because of the healthcare bill Obama is trying to pass.” I carefully agreed with him and reinforced the fact that Obama wants to gut Medicare/Medicaid by taking away 500 BILLION DOLLARS from the system and that if he adds 40 million people to the rolls, especially illegal aliens the health care system would collapse… I told him that Brown is an honorable man and that he is totally opposed to the “healthcare” bill and would vote against it… MY DAD AGREED! I was flabbergasted!
If my own father; a life-long Massachusetts FDR Democrat who has voted for EVERY Kennedy, Kerry/democrat to ever come down the pike, is going to vote for Scott Brown, a REPUBLICAN, BECAUSE OF HIS OPPOSITION TO Obama and his evil healthcare debacle then things are looking VERY promising for Scott Brown and we could all be in for an incredible victory on Tuesday. To this end I am fervently praying.
Your story brought tears to my eyes and I will be praying for the wisdom of the voters in MA on Tuesday.
I sent a donation to Scott Brown’s campaign. (I have decided to send money to candidates instead of to the RNC.)
He seems like an awesome man and such a refreshing change to drunken Ted Kennedy and that corrupt dynasty. Maybe Massachusetts just needs to shake off the Kennedy stupor and wake up to a better way of life than the dimwit status quo! I hope your father makes the right choice on Tuesday!
Another person’s account of the event:
Brown held a rally in Worcester, Mass today which I went to. Worcester has been a predominately blue collar city in the central part of the state that has lost a great deal of it’s industry although it must be said that bio tech is slowly taking it’s place with the help of UMass Medical Center now located in Worcester. I do not have any hard numbers of how many were there; however, the rally was to have taken place at Mechanics Hall which can seat in excess of 2000 people. When I got there about an hour before the rally was to begin, the hall was already filled. I would estimate another 1000 people were then directed to a meeting room in a hotel about a block away where a large screen TV was set up to show the activities and speeches at Mechanics Hall. It was standing room only when we got there with the overflow out into the halls. I must admit that there were no people of color in the group beyond a number of Asians.
What was interesting to me as I walked to the hotel is that everyone I spoke to said they were from the Central part of the state so they had not traveled far to attend and also said they had never been to a political rally in their life. I did not speak to a single person who said they were a Republican. They were either Independents or Democrats and all said the same thing. The Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party that my family supported when they were growing up. It is not the party of John and Ted Kennedy or Tip O’Neil. One lady said it has become the party of Saul Alinsky. Maybe that’s just rhetoric, but I it reflects my family’s experience who were ardent Democrats back in the 60s. I’m not sure exactly when they abandoned the party although I think Chappaquiddick might have started the process, at least for my family.
It seems that with the passing of Ted Kennedy, we in Massachusetts have seen the end of an era and I’m wondering if things are shifting in another direction now. The news reports of the Obama/Coakley rally at Northeastern University in Boston supposedly only drew 1500 and the hall was only half full. It would seem that the pendulum swings back and forth which might be what your comments reflect as far as the Republican party is concerned. As far as the Democrats are concerned, maybe Massachusetts is ahead of the swing once again. And remember, Massachusetts was the first state to elect a black Senator, Edward Brooke who was a Republican.
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My dear old dad is 79. He was raised a Republican, but switched to the Democrats sometime after marrying his second wife - a true blue, liberal Democrat (back in the late 60’s).
He’s remained a Democrat, ever since. When we talk politics, it always gets out of hand, with him clinging to Dem talking points, and me doing massive data dumps and shooting holes in his liberal positions.
We’ve actually had to stop those conversations. It just upsets him too much.
I’ve wished for a long time that he would find the courage to lift the cover on the Democrats and have a look at the vile and putrid essence inside. He hasn’t yet done so, and I’m not holding out hope that he ever will.
It would be a wonderful thing for me to experience the same sort of phone call with him, that you experienced with your dad.
I’m happy for you.
I feel for both of you, because I deal with the same issues with my only brother. He’s 12 years older than I am, and he’s always been more like a father than a brother because of the age difference.
He’s a very smart man, and I respect his opinion on most matters immensely. What divides us is politics. He retired after 34 years as a firefighter in a large urban setting. He was and still is a big union supporter. He’s actually proud that he has become more and more liberal as he’s gotten older. He has found his way back to the Lord within the last few years, and I keep hoping somehow the light will come on for him about liberalism.
I, on the other hand, have spent my 30-year career in the tech sector, am anti-union and have been a Freeper since 1998. I tried to talk to him about Obama last year before the election, but he just brushed my concerns away.
I keep hoping and praying that he’ll figure out that all these Democrats that he supports do not believe in the same things that he says he does, but he believes everything he hears on CNN and refuses to watch Fox. He says he doesn’t want anything to do with any network that would have Beck, O’Reilly or Palin on the air.
He’s only 68, so I pray there’s yet time for him to figure things out. I’m glad for y’all that your loved ones have seen the light.
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