Posted on 04/11/2010 9:29:15 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, whose stunning victory in January was fueled in part by Tea Party anger, has snubbed the fiery grassroots group and declined its invitation to join Sarah Palin Wednesday at a massive rally on Boston Common, the Herald has learned.
Browns decision to skip the first big rally in Boston by the group whose members are credited with helping him win election has some experts saying hes tossed the Tea Party overboard, as he prepares for re-election in 2012.
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To what end, how do we gain?
Perhaps he did not embrace them, but according to the TEA Party Express, they embraced him to the tune of $350,000.
From a TPX e-mail:
We've spent over $500,000 against Sen. Majority Leader, are spending more than $250,000 to Defeat Bart Stupak, and spent around $350,000 to help elect Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate.
>>One Battle at a time....one battle at a time<<
You are of course right my friend.
But it always hurts when a ally sides with the enemy, even if, like the story of the scorpion and the frog, “that is his nature.”
Same reason we gained by SPecter leaving and Chafee losing and by Scozafava quitting and Arnold leaving, etc etc.
One less moron.
Never trust anybody 100% if they’re from Massachusetts.
This seat will simply return to the permanent Ted Kennedy vote, how is that a gain?
understood!
Sorry, we need better!
How are the 4 I mentioned a loss to the GOP? They aren’t. Neither would sh*t for brains losing.
Yep!
May I suggest:
Never trust anybody 10% if theyre from Massachusetts.
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Most likely. He is a Republican, and he's way more conservative than Martha Coakley, but he's a RINO. That we now have a RINO in the same Senate seat that Ted Kennedy used to marinate with soupy gin-farts is about as good as we can hope to get from Taxachusetts.
Scotty is better than Coakley, but he's another "McCain" style RINO. He may even lose in November, which would suck, because that would most likely mean the seat goes back to the Libtards.
;-/
Why do posters here fall for these PHONY DISSENT IN THE GOP stories every time from the left wing Boston Herald !
;-/
Ha! Another absolutist and purist is upset. Surprise, surprise.
Brown has never claimed to be a conservative. He is pro choice and voted for Romney care as a state legislator. We knew all these things before his senate election. To be from Massachusetts and win as a republican is a high wire act. Brown is by far the best we will get from Massachusetts. Instead, you should thank him for understanding politics. A brilliant decision to not be at the tea party rally - Brown understands politics alot more than you do.
The accusations thrown Palin's way because she endorsed McCain is tiresome. The purity you demand from political leaders is pie in the sky. It is never going to happen, because most of these candidates will never get elected. Bascially, the republican party would become nothing more than a rump party by your standards.
It is easy to talk purity and be smug about it, but in reality very few of your candidates will get elected and so nothing gets accomplished.
Those 4 are merely liberal republicans holding (or were, or vying for) contestable seats where we can do better, seats that are in play in elections, the Kennedy seat is not.
Brown winning that permanently Democrat seat was a fluke and a lucky break, either he stays in it or it reverts back to it's normal state, radically leftist.
The permanent Ted Kennedy seat is totally different than the 4 you mentioned, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Would I want Arlen Specter to win Teddy’s seat so he could poison the party from withing. No. RINOs are a cancer and eqally responsible for our predicament. The fool ain’t gettin a penny from me.
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