Butbutbutbut doesn’t the Tea Party Express realise that Scott Brown is just a dirty stinkin’ RINO???????
Or have they gone RINO too??????
We here at the Tea Party Express endorsed Scott Brown and spent money on his behalf, because of the following reasons:
*He will be the 41st vote and can help us improve our chances of stopping ObamaCare, as well as being the vote to stop a whole host of other 60-vote issues Obama/Reid/Pelosi wish to pass.
*He actually campaigned on being the 41st vote and made it a national referendum against ObamaCare. Furthermore he campaigned on cutting taxes and lower spending. He did this in the GENERAL election campaign - not the primary. For a Republican in Massachusetts to do this in a general is really striking and yet Brown is ahead (an argument we conservatives always point out - these issues are winners). So he comes in with the mandate of not having to be a liberal Republican, but can actually vote more conservatively than any other mainstream Massachusetts Republican would ever be - were they to even win.
*Brown was with the tea party movement early on, and was a featured speaker at the Worcester Tea Party on April 15th - at a time when there were still many establishment Republicans out there being critical of the tea party movement. That counts for something, and was another kind of "test passed" to show that we could hope for some real improvement in the Senate with Scott Brown as that 41st vote.
There are other reasons, but this sums it up quite well.
I guess the succinct way of putting it is this: when that first Rasmussen Poll came out where Brown was only down 9% we looked at one another (among the Tea Party Express staff and leadership) and said: "this is going to be the best shot we have to get the most conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Massachusetts, the guy is trying to make this a national referendum against the Democrat's healthcare plan, and could be the 41st vote to stop it. How can we NOT make a push to try and pull off the upset?"