Posted on 01/30/2010 11:18:04 AM PST by the invisib1e hand
When I arrived at his cramped state senate offices, Scott Brown had just opened one of the many packages he's received since his stunning U.S. Senate victory 11 days ago. A local artist has done up a version of the iconic red, white and blue collage from the 2008 presidential campaign that shows Barack Obama with the word "Hope." This one features a smiling Mr. Brown instead, but the word below is different. It reads "Change."
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Oh, yes they are. They think a pro-choice, pro-univeral healthcare pin-up boy from Massachusetts who calls himself a "republican" being elected to the state senate is a "conservative victory."
He's about as conservative as Bill Clinton. This inning goes to the Incrementalists, who played us like Yo Yo Ma plays a cello.
If you can’t see the difference between Scott Brown and Coakley, you’re basically blind.
Even if Brown isn’t as conservative as some here would like, how would having Coakley have been a better alternative? I don’t think a conservative could win in MA.
Scott Brown isn't conservative, period.
Do your homeowork.
One thing I am not is a star-struck bimbo.
un hunh.
so you're implying that obamacare is bad, but "universal healthcare" is good. you're implying that statist intervention in a free market, along with abortion rights, are conservative principles.
I say you're wrong.
So Scott Brown has moved into ‘cramped’ Senate offices. Does anyone think that the illustrious ex-Senator Kennedy was using ‘cramped’ Senate offices?
Is there some investigative journalist out there in D.C. who can do a story on what happened to the previous Mass. Senator’s offices and who occupies them now?
I imagine that Teddy had a suite of offices - so who’s in them now? He might have even had some secret tunnels, in keeping with the family tradition.
Who decides what offices Brown gets? Shouldn’t he simply move into the offices left empty by the previous Senator?
K.
I think it is his cramped ‘state’ senate offices in MA.
He’s by no means perfect, and I would never vote for him for the presidency, to take one example. But he’s pretty good for Massachusetts.
I’m waiting to see just how pro-choice he will be in his new job. To give him credit, he is far less so than Coakley. He voted for parental notification. He voted against partial birth abortion. And he tried to introduce an amendment to a state bill that infringed on freedom of conscience of medical personnel and Catholic Hospitals. That’s why Coakley put her foot in it when she said she didn’t think Catholics should be allowed to work in emergency rooms.
Senate office selection is based on seniority. The swimmer was in office a few decades. Newbs get the dregs.
He’s more Conservative than one Liberal Juan McAmnesty.
Roger that. I’m just wondering what rising star of the Obamunists is getting the really nice digs that Fat Teddy no doubt had... ;)
I hope someone in D.C. can tell us rubes in flyover country about it...
With all due respect -- sincerely -- this kind of talk is nonsense -- it's relativistic modernist babble. There is no such thing as degrees of choice. One either defends the sanctity of all human life or one does not. Degrees in absolute matters are for fools. He certainly does not represent those of his constituency who do.
It is my opinion that one who does not understand the sanctity of life has no business being a position of influence over it.
I think that's an irrelevant remark. He may appear to be less leftist than Barack Obama, but that does not make him a conservative, no matter how much you wish it were so.
There is, however, a fairly good chance that he is an American - and with the Indonesian/Muslim/Internationalist world view in control of the Administration right now, we need all the Americans we can get lined up in opposition: conservative, moderate, and liberal.
Well, I don’t vote in Massachusetts, so I didn’t have to decide. I am completely pro-life myself, and I support pro-life candidates. But I think there is a big difference between his record and Coakley’s. And I think it will make a practical difference. Hopefully in Washington, IF the leadership does its job in the future, he will not vote pro-abort on any bill if it makes a difference in passing or defeating it. Whereas Coakley would have eagerly supported anything that Obama put forward on abortion.
As I’ve said elsewhere, if his vote ever makes a difference on supporting abortion in his new job, then I will cease to support him. But he very likely will cooperate with the Republican Party’s pro-life plank as long as they hold him to it.
I would not support him if he had run in a safe conservative state. But I think he’s the best we can expect in Mass. AT THE MOMENT. Of course I’m also hoping we can move things further along in future. One important step will be to clean out the Republican leadership, so they will do their job of keeping RINOs from RINO-only states in line.
In their last debate, Brown turned to Coakley and said:
"You and I both have the same position on abortion." January 11, 2010 CSPAN Debate
While Brown does oppose PBA, he supports Roe v Wade and abortion as a Constitutional right.
We will see how conservative Brown is on various issues, but it in no way diminishes the impact he has had on the body politic. Now is not the time to pin labels on people.
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