Posted on 01/20/2010 3:31:56 AM PST by JohnHuang2
BOSTON — Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts.
By a decisive margin, Mr. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, who had been considered a prohibitive favorite to win just over a month ago after she easily won the Democratic primary.
With all precincts counted, Mr. Brown had 52 percent of the vote to Ms. Coakley’s 47 percent.
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I love it when democrats are stunned - it makes them loopier than normal and it’s very entertaining.
I’m not talking about IDing yourself on the ballot. I’m responding to your comments about ‘independents.’
yeah, but - he is a light skinned black man, with no negro dialect (unless he wants one)
He’s clean and articulate.
Brown is just a white guy.
I forgot where I read this last night, but someone made the comment regarding “independents”.
They said independents voted for zero in 2008 to prove they weren’t racists.
They just voted for Scott Brown to prove they aren’t socialists.
my husband had a meeting up in Boston on Monday and talked to a lot of these types. They are convinced he didn’t go far enough fast enough and THAT’s their problem with him. They thought he was TOO TIMID. there is no fathoming that mindset.
Oh, for the day that a reporter actually asks the follow up question, "why? important for whom? important how?"
we were watching Rachel Maddow after they called it for Brown, just to experience the schadenfreude of the moment. Nora ODonnell was reporting [absolutely STONEFACED with not a HINT of a smile on her face] from Brown’s party and she said that the people there were chanting “YES WE CAN AND KERRY’S NEXT” ! LOL!! she didn’t think that was funny, but my family was roaring with laughter!
I just love it when RAT reporters are FORCED to report the truth.
Then your response makes no sense to me.
“Now we know why Obama won’t release his school records. Bush got C’s, Obama probably failed lunch.”
IDing yourself - identifying yourself...I’m not talking about formally identifying your party on the ballot, but how you see yourself, which I guess is what your theme was initially about independents, right...you mentioned not all independents are the same, some are more conservative, held their nose to vote for McCain, etc.
I’m saying, if that’s the case, why not call yourself a Conservative.
It’s true.
Team 0 intended on ramming through as much as possible during the administration’s first year, and selling it over the next three years. The agenda was to get health care through last August. The Tea Party movement and town hall meetings steered it off course. Hopefully Scott Brown’s historic grass roots win is the final nail in the Kennedycare coffin.
This is only one battle won. If the RNC hijacks the tea party and grass roots movements we are back to square one.
That is why they are called Independents. The vote Independent of all logic and reason.
Then you should have seen Diane Sawyer last night on ABC News force herself to report it.
You wrote- “I just love it when RAT reporters are FORCED to report the truth.”
Exactly what I was thinking last night when Brown was speaking, he is a better speaker than Zero also!
Laughed out loud!
Last night was one of those rare nights when it was fun to see the aching, dying RAT media...
I am a freedom loving American. I support the constitution, especially the bill of rights. I do not support the amendments that have eroded states rights such as the income tax, and other violations of the 10th amendment.
I do not support much of the legislation that has been passed (creeping socialism). I thought Roe v Wade was a horrible misinterpretation of the constitution.
The leftist MSM has tacked a label on people of conservative. That would imply that we want to conserve the status quo. I want to roll back the socialism that has been marching forward before I was even born.
I object to labels, but I think most of the tag-lines give a sufficient clue to where people on this forum stand.
I read those replies and thought the same thing. I just don't get people with no core being. Just going through life with no constitution, swaying in the wind.
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