Posted on 12/24/2010 6:12:18 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON — Senator Scott Brown’s decision to buck his party leadership in recent days on the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ military policy and on a nuclear arms treaty has set off a new wave of anger among some of the activists who helped elect him — and renewed talk among conservatives that he might face a primary challenge.
Tweet 1diggdiggYahoo! Buzz ShareThis Some Tea Party movement leaders who dislike Brown’s votes acknowledge that the Massachusetts Republican has demonstrated his independent and pragmatic streak, and by doing so may strengthen his chances at reelection in 2012. No primary challenger has emerged, and it is unclear whether a newcomer could wage a serious fight against Brown and his $6.8 million war chest.
But the threat of a primary challenge from conservatives — as well as the potential that national Tea Party groups will withhold financial support — appears to have grown, according to the movement’s activists. Brown’s votes in the past week follow his crucial support for the overhaul of financial regulations, which remains a particular sore point with conservatives.
“I think that there will be a primary challenge,’’ said Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party. “There’s enough of an underground movement in the Tea Party movement as seeing him as not being conservative enough. There probably will be multiple people who attempt to run against him.’’
Varley said it is too early to name a possible opponent, and she acknowledged that Brown’s campaign war chest and statewide organization would probably be enough to fend off an opponent. But if Brown has to devote energy and resources to a primary campaign, it could put him at a greater disadvantage in a general election in which...
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"Would I do it again for Scott Brown?" she said. "Probably not."...
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Uhm, no, this is exactly the kind of "compromise" thinking that has allowed the Dems to set the standard, the rules and the tone in Washington. True conservatives have a solid message.
Brown is the worst kind. He's wearing the R brand and behaving like a damn socialist. Think Snowe and Collins.
A traitor to the values he sold to his supporters during his campaign.
He's an effin' dirtbag that needs to be thrown out on his socialistic, lying, rat a$$.
You must love Amnesty.Read my post on this page.
I got the message that, since Brown has voted correctly on several bills, we should forgive him for voting “yea” for a treaty that could seriously compromise our national security and severely limit our missile defense capabilities. I, for one, am not buying it.
The message is that we have to stop Amnesty for illegals.
And that even though many of you are freaking out over Scott Brown I am pointing out that Brown did stop the Dream act Amnesty and voted against Obamacare so that you will see that as bad as Brown is , Brown is still far better than ANY Democrat.
Which democrat politician have you heard talk against Amnesty like Brown has?
The message is to see the threat that democrats and the democrat party are.
By winning 48 other states.
Foregone conclusion.
Brown coughed up that seat the minute he started running like a scared bunny rabbit from Massachusetts' Democrat newsrooms. Brown turned on his tail and peed all over the base that elected him, and that base is going right back into hibernation. Good luck with what's left, Scott.
To his eternal credit, Scott Brown voted against the DREAM Act, and so did the Maine twins. I’m more interested in taking down Lugar and Webb in 2012.
Castle had an ACU rating in the low fifties, so some might give you an argument.
But Brown is as good as it gets in MA, by a mile.
No argument, as much as his DADT and New START votes had me fuming. See comment# 25.
If you look at the vote in the House, every congressional seat in New England voted for DADT repeal. It is not really surprising then that Brown and the Maine twins voted for repeal.
The battle for DADT was lost in Red States like Virginia, Missouri, and Arkansas where the inflated numbers of Democrats like Jim Webb and Claire McCaskill put the Dems over the top. It makes more sense to knock off Dems in solid Red States and traitors like Lugar who can be easily replaced.
About the best we can hope for in New England is blocking those seats from a much worse Democrat and getting enough votes in the Senate for a majority that will allow us to, say, put Jeff Sessions in charge of the immigration subcommittee.
Exactly.
Just consider: Ted Kennedy used Scott Brown’s seat to push through every destructive piece of immigration legislation in a generation.
The alternative to Scott Brown is a Democrat like Ted Kennedy. We went from Ted Kennedy using that seat to push for comprehensive amnesty to a vote against the DREAM Act.
You’re probably right!
You’re probably right!
But instead we see the Globe and the "tea party" teaming up to go after an anti amnesty, anti Obama care, Gay State senator.
>Oh you prefer democrats to Scott Brown.
Scott Brown voted against the Dream Act and so stopped the Dream act Amnesty for illegals that would have destroyed the U.S..<
Keep moving the goal line, bud. Your boy voted for FAGS in the military and START. He’s a traitor who turned his back on the Tea Party. In your head, this is acceptable?
I truly pity the Freepers who donated for this RINO to be vote # “41” when he did not do what he was supposed to do in the first place.
And please dont lecture me about illegals. I work in L.A. and English is pretty much eradicated here. You have the cold in Mass to keep out the illegals and I have to fight my way thru a Home Depot entrance choc-full of them just to buy a cordless drill.
Here's a little background on Christen Varley....
By her own admission, Varley tries to exclude discussion of "social issues" from all of her Tea Party events. It's all about fiscal issues, she says.
Hostility to the parents' rights movement. Last year Varley invited MassResistance to speak at one of her Tea Party events, but under the condition that we did not talk about the homosexual agenda in schools. After we refused and told others about her restriction, Varley left several angry phone messages at our office, referring to parents who were battling the gay agenda in the schools as "nut jobs."
So what exactly is this pro homo "tea partier" unhappy about.
Merry Christmas!
Conservatives are anxious to give the seat back to the rats.
Blocking ObamaCare?
I thought that’s why he was elected. He failed at that task.
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