With the state about to lose one congressional seat it's possible some of the U.S. Reps might be more focused on keeping their seat rather than trying to defeat Brown.
>>But Massachusetts is not Alabama and Brown has been politically smart to walk the fine line between being a fiscal conservative and a right-wing radical.
In MA he has to.
>>$6 million, more than double Kerry’s.
Lovey! Lovey can you shift some more of your ketchup heiress money to my campaign? I know I'm not up for re-election till 2014 but one never knows. Would that it were, would that it were.
>>But flirting with a run and actually running are two different things. And it’s been surprisingly quiet on the Call-Joe-for-Oil front.
Would Miss Vicky run? Or Mr. Do You Know Who I Am?
Howie Carr list ping. If the pool of Dems is shallow the pool of Republicans must be really shallow. I do like Bill Hudak but he lost to Tierney by a fairly big margin and if he couldn’t win the 6th, how could he win the whole state?
Would Perry mount a challenge to Brown? Get ready for more scandalous ads if so.
Mr. Carr isn’t running. He doesn’t want to have to take a pay cut.
Miss Vicky has been showing up at places only planned candidates can bring themselves to go. She’s at least prepping. (Must be tough having fallen off the Most Exclusive Club in America’s A List since Teddy’s passing.)
>>Brown has amassed a war chest of $6 million
Horrible news—we might re-elect a Republican! Maybe some day there will even be a Republican U.S. Representative, too.
That would be too much for me to bear...this is Massachusetts. Please join me in asking Barney Frank to
run against him. Senator Frank would be so much better.
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Why would the Dems run against one of their own ??
That would be a "solid A" with the DNC and Obama
and State Street Bank and Mitt Romney.
Bzzzzzzt.
Brown betrayed the conservatives who backed and supported him.
Benedict Brown (T,MA) is a traitor shapeshifter.
I'm much more interested in hunting down RINOs in red states like Lugar in Indiana and Corker in Tennessee.
I do love the “Democrats are hoping for a Kennedy” line in this article. What the media doesn’t want to address is that the majority of the nation, unlike the northeast, is sick and tired of the Kennedy’s and consider them nothing more than wealthy elitists who are set apart from the criminal element of our society only by the privilege of wealth. Only the northeast is dumb enough to even field a Kennedy in an election.
This “Republican” voted against the US Miliatary men and women and allowed perverts to serve openly.
No American should give him one cent nor one vote.
He should not get the nomination.
Brown and his ilk are only of marginal value to the conservative movement. True, rinos are better than Leftists, but rinos can be destructive when they dilute and thwart conservative initiatives. The major value of the rino is that in a Lefitst state, they generally do not act as badly as the true believers.
Whether Brown wins or loses is not the most important thing, getting conservatives elected in conservative states is (MT, NE, VA, LA, ND etc.). Let’s face it, if our country were full of states like MA, we would have been living under hard socialism for at least 50 years and this discussion would be moot; or prohibited.
East solution for the Dems...Mass will lose one CD. So one Dem will be out of a job after the redistricting...so let the odd man out take on Brown...
Belief in concept of federalism, limited government, and individual liberty: = “right wing extremist”
I look at Brown like I look at O’Donnell...they both defeated people who needed defeating. One in the primary and one in the general. Other than that....a GOP vote out of MA is better to have than not.
I am soooo sick of Masshole politics.
On the national level Brown’s election was a sign of things to come—victory for conservatives, Republicans, tea party etc. In MA though it woke up the Dems who got out the union money, etc. and gave us people like Patrick, Bump, Grossman,
Frank, Tierney, Keating, McGovern, Tsongas, etc. As to whether someone else more conservative can replace him:
1) This is Massachusetts. See above. What would their chances be in a very blue state?
2) You can run someone more conservative in the primary.
If they win, fine. Brown has millions in his war chest.
He (SB) might be able to win in the final. Someone more
conservative? Well, look what happened to people
like Bielat, Golnik, Perry, etc. We may wind up getting a Dem and yes you could say that’s what we have now but
Brown has at least voted our way on many issues.
In other words, go ahead, find a more conservative candidate and run them
a) vs. Brown in primary. Could lose to Brown
b) if they win the GOP nomination they could well
lose to the Dem
c) or run them as a third party candidate. That could help
swing the election over to the Dem
You could also
d) write off the state. Let the Dems win the seat again.
Hopefully we could do well elsewhere. You’d need to make up for Brown losing here with a pickup elsewhere
