[Clara Lou]

Most people with a brain knew he was a RINO before he was elected. He was just the best of the available choices. Now people are going to be angry at the RINO? And what Massachusetts Republican is going to be elected in his place? [I’d love to see Massachusetts come to the light. Maybe with the Kennedys gone it could happen?]

[GOPsterinMA]

I doubt it would happen, but a Sean Bielat challenge would be fantastic.

Bielat was very vocal in his opposition to Snot's support for the BS banking overhaul bill and Snot repaid him by withholding his “most popular politician in MA” support until the last seconds of the campaign.

What a team player Brown is. Just don't stand in between him and the opening of a restaurant.

[notaliberal]

Don’t fall in love with a politician, they will disappoint you every time.

[tubebender]

Look for Scott Brown-Kennedy and Moaning Lisa Murkowski to deflect to the Rat side after the new year...

[Farmer Dean]

Scott Brown is the best you’re gonna get out of that liberal sh-thole.New England states have been a write-off for at least two generations.

[truthguy]

I knew he was a RINO. Still I'm glad he's there instead of a Democrat. We aren't gonna get a true conservative from a lunatic state like Massachusetts or California (where I live). The best we can do is a moderate. This was proved in the last Senate election in California. I supported Tom Campbell because he could have defeated Barbara Boxer. But the people on this site slammed Tom Campbell as a RINO. The Tea Party people and others pushed hard for Carly Fiorina. I voted for Campbell even though I was probably closer to Fiorina on the issues. So many were ecstatic when she won. I was crushed, not because I wanted Campbell so bad but because I knew given the Troglodyte Voters of California, that guaranteed Boxer the election. It did. So Massachusetts has somewhat the same problem. Brown will not be able to be a true conservative (even if he was one) in Massachusetts. If he were to vote as a conservative, he would be sure to lose in 2012. Massachusetts, like California is a lunatic state when it comes to politics. All the sane people moved to New Hampshire or other places and all you have left are loons.

[caww]

the potential that national Tea Party groups will withhold (Brown) financial support — appears to have grown, according to the movement’s activists.

..and right they should do so..his purpose was 'finished' the day he left for Washington...and we all knew it would be so.

[hondact200]

Brown is a Democratic turd that needs to be flushed all the way back to Massa2shits. Unfortunately Brown could be bought by Odumbo for a price - 30 pieces of silver. I strongly believe as the bills that were passed there will be deals that will become apparent in the fine details, Collins, Snowe, Brown Voinovich (may be retired but he has probably received a swwet heart deal), the same with Bennett, and many of the others that endorsed the Odumbo Crapshoot. hey RINO vote for the Odumbo Crapshoot and I Odumbo promise to give you a chicken in every pot and 2 cars in every garage that is in every property you own throughout the US. By they way Odumbo probably gave them properties in other states too.

[BealNoortz]

Go to a lot of blogs and you notice people saying over and over again that there is no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. This is the real problem with the RINO’s. They fog up the conservative message that Republicans need to bring. It is no wonder that people are confused as to what Republicans believe when there are at least 8 Republican Senators who have hardly any conservative thoughts.

This is why we need to remove the RINO’s. Yes, there will be an immediate price to pay. But long term, the Republicans have to stand for something. And they have to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Good bye Lindsay Graham.

[ClearCase_guy]

I voted for Brown. Once.

I will support his primary challenger, and I will not vote in the general if Brown is the GOP nominee.

I will no longer enable RINOism. The Republican establishment lost me in 2010.

[Oldpuppymax]

I hope those who supported Brown by arguing he was “better than a democrat” have finally awakened to the fact that RINOs are indeed NOT better than democrats-—the are the SAME!!!!

[Round 9]

Considering where Brown and Collins/Snowe are from, I’ll take it. They are significantly better that another Kennedy type. If the Tea party can’t see that then they are dense. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

It’s people like Lindsey Graham and Lugar from red states that need to get the boot for real conservatives.

[catnipman]

By trying to please everyone, Brown has pleased no one, but instead has pissed off everyone.

I supported Brown financially, knowing he was not a true conservative. However, I will not support him again now that he has proved it. I suspect most conservatives feel the same way, and that the national tidal wave of conservative support for Brown will fail to materialize for him in 2012.

I would imagine much of the excitement about him has worn off in Massachusetts and that the naturally dominate forces of Marxism in that state have regrouped and will resoundingly defeat Brown in two years. Most likely Brown is a flash in the pan, similar to the aberration of dozens of one-term Congressional Marxists that were swept in on Obama’s coattails in 2008, and then swept back out in 2010, though in Brown’s case the reverse process is at work.

In the future I’ll concentrate my contributions on those good conservatives that look like they can win elections. No more support from me for RINOS like Brown, and no more support from me for badly selected “Tea Party” candidates that do not have the brains or discipline to win elections.

[MinuteGal]

Two thoughts......

"This is the best we can ever hope for..." is not in the vocabulary of some of us.

Remember when the original thirteen colonies, including Massachusetts, were referred to as the "Cradle of Liberty"?

Leni

[Guyin4Os]

What's better? A flaming liberal Democrat senator from Massachusetts? or a RINO? I'll take the RINO over the flaming lib any day. I'd LOVE to have a RINO represent me, a Californian, instead of the ultra-leftist Barbara Boxer.

Having said that, I do prefer a genuine conservative over a RINO. But sometimes, the RINO is the best voters in certain regions can get. For example, if a RINO had a real opportunity to beat Nancy Pelosi in her district, should republicans support him? You bet.

[dagogo redux]

On top of everything else, RINOs give the Marxists the ability to chant their “bi-partisan” crap every time the RINOs betray us.

Rather have a declared enemy in there, rather than than this sort of Quisling.

[Steve_Seattle]

RINO

I think this expression needs to be questioned. The history of the Republican Party is not well-known, even by most Republicans. (For example, prior to FDR, most Blacks voted Republican.)

Going back to at least Theodore Roosevelt, the party has had liberal and conservative wings, with the liberals mostly centered in the Northeast. So to say that someone is a "RINO" because they don't embrace every aspect of the social conservative agenda is not historically accurate.

If Free Republic wants to define itself as a social conservative forum, it has every right to do so, even a responsibility to do so, if it so believes. But that has little if anything to do with the historical Republican Party, which has often been splintered into factions as it is now.