Posted on 03/22/2011 1:27:47 PM PDT by fabrizio
Sen. Scott Brown, R-MA, is one of the only Senate Republicans who favor legal abortion. So today’s news that he will vote to keep tax money for Planned Parenthood is not shocking, but it is still disappointing.
Catholics, especially in Massachusetts, can let their voices be heard by calling Senator Brown’s office at (202) 224-4543.
Here’s the statement that Senator Brown issued today:
“I support family planning and health services for women. Given our severe budget problems, I don’t believe any area of the budget is completely immune from cuts,” he said. “However, the proposal to eliminate all funding for family planning goes too far. As we continue with our budget negotiations, I hope we can find a compromise that is reasonable and appropriate.”
Except it isn’t reasonable or appropriate to give this notorious organization another dime.
The you will be helping to elect the Rats. If you want a conservative candidate, help get them nominated in the primary. If they can’t win there, then they are just a plain lousy candidate.
Don’t you get tired of having to choose a Republican candidate based upon “He was better than the Democrat”? I know I do.
Brown might think he’s being clever here, playing politics with Federally funded abortion in order to placate his Liberal constituents. But in reality, he’s being really stupid. Liberals aren’t going to vote for him unless he has a D next to his name and we Conservatives tend to have longer memories than the average voter, probably because we’re far superior in intellect (take THAT Establishment Elitists!).
He could be inviting his own defeat in ‘12.
The other side of this is perhaps he actually believes in Federally funded abortions, in which case he’s probably in the wrong party.
No, I think not. It is part and parcel of the liberal worldview. License on someone else’s dime.
With more Dems than Republicans defending Senate seats, they are going to go after vulnerable Republicans with a vengeance. Democrats know that conservatives are going to stay home if the RINO wins the primary, so this is how they plan on winning back the Senate.
Scott Brown won because of the Tea Party and out-of-state donors. That money and support is going to dry up now.
Hopefully his constituents plan to abort his political aspirations after his 1st term.
Scott Brown was elected to stop ObamaCare as the 41st votes against it. He didn’t do it because he is against socialized medicine, but because he had already helped cram RomneyCare down MA taxpayers’ pieholes, and didn’t want the citizens of his state to be taxed for both a socialized state pland and the federal plan.
The difference between Brown and Coakley, after the Dems outwitted the GOP on healthcare, is minimal at this point. I hope Brown gets primaried so the GOP can get a legitimately conservative candidate to run in the general election. I can’t stand Dems, and while I tolerate RINOs, I trust them less than the Dems. At least the Dems are predictable, and adhere to their party line.
You’re completely correct. MA is a lost cause. CA has a better chance of going GOP at some point.
Is that “Kerry Orange” he’s wearing?
I live in neighboring Connecticut, just about as politically liberal as Massachusetts and a state that, until recently, boasted both Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman as our senators, which tells you how liberal the 'Nutmeg state' really is. In Connecticut, abortion-on-demand is also viewed as a sacred right of all women and no politician that ever expects to actually win an election in this state would dare vote against federal funding for Planned Parenthood's abortion mills. Those charnel houses are like churches to the leftists. A principled Republican politician wouldn't do what Scott Brown is doing, but then, how many principled politicians do we have in the Republican party? Besides, it's painfully obvious that Scott Brown likes his job and wants to keep it so, as far as he is concerned, conservatives can just suck it up if they want a senator with an 'R' after his name to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. senate. There you have it.
“Why can’t he run as a Democrat??” (C)(TM)
Oh wait a minute. I forgot. He kinda loves himself.
I know that's always a surprise to some, but it's a very imbedded custom.
My thought as well. Terrible writing.
He's also saddled with too many women in his household and obviously is not given a chance to develop independent ideas regarding reproduction.
Mass is one of those places where the leftist marxists of our nation have a strong presence at the polls. What is at issue is not that they are there in numbers but that they represent only a percentage that creates the image of overwhelming support for the left. If the right minded people in Massachusetts actually got off their tails int he numbers that they exist in they would erase this issue and the Scott Browns would do what THEY say and NOT what the left says under the false assumption that it would mean re-election.
Massacusyesst CAN be turned around...hte communist left just wants the impression to remain that it can’t be done.
He was a regular on the Howie Carr Show, the biggest New England talk show. He had statewide name recognition. Don't recall Shilling on Howie's show.
I am talking about before the dumb republicans decided to run him.
Popularity comes quickly when you start getting publicity.
At that period in time ,some Mass voters might recognize the name Bob Hedlund, but Scott Brown would be unknown to most people.
Once a person is chosen, the name recognition can be built up. Here are 3 examples of built up unknowns- the unheard of Gov from Georgia Jimmy Carter; the unknown Gov from Arkansas Bill Clinton; and the newly minted Sen from Illinois Barrack Obama. Everyone knows about them now, don't they. They, like Scott Brown, were unknowns when they started.-Tom
that was you that did that?
i saw them when I was putting push cards for my groups ...
you covered a lot of ground, ‘specially in West Springfield
me and my teammate did 1900 in 24 hours.
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