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Sen. Scott Brown will support tax money for Planned Parenthood
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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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 112th; abortion; abortionfunding; brown; proaborts; rino; scottbrown
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To: GeronL

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.


61 posted on 03/22/2011 2:56:06 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda (Sarah 2012)
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To: Sarabaracuda

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.


62 posted on 03/22/2011 2:57:42 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: GeronL

No, I think not. It is part and parcel of the liberal worldview. License on someone else’s dime.


63 posted on 03/22/2011 2:59:04 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: Jim Noble
He's going to be reelected (overwhelmingly) next year

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.

64 posted on 03/22/2011 3:00:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Luke ScottWalker - The Force Is With You)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Scott doesn't have the courage to call it abortion.

Hopefully his constituents plan to abort his political aspirations after his 1st term.

65 posted on 03/22/2011 3:12:15 PM PDT by 4woodenboats
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To: Owl_Eagle

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.


66 posted on 03/22/2011 3:17:07 PM PDT by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: grumpygresh

You’re completely correct. MA is a lost cause. CA has a better chance of going GOP at some point.


67 posted on 03/22/2011 3:18:21 PM PDT by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

Is that “Kerry Orange” he’s wearing?


68 posted on 03/22/2011 3:20:41 PM PDT by 4woodenboats
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To: Rational Thought
Yes, I do get tired of it. Of course if conservatives would work harder at choosing electable conservative candidates in the primaries, we wouldn't have to worry about it. Then again, in a state like Mass, Brown is probably the best we are going to get until we can change Massachusetts society.
69 posted on 03/22/2011 3:22:28 PM PDT by Sarabaracuda (Sarah 2012)
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To: fabrizio
Abortion-on-demand subsidized by 'government' (tax) money to give infanticide the patina of legitimacy is sacrosanct to liberals and nowhere more than in very liberal Massachusetts. Like many conservatives, I'm disappointed by Scott Brown generally and especially by his position on federal funding for abortion. I don't know how such politicians can sleep at night, knowing that, by their vote, they are abetting infanticide. However, Senator Brown obviously feels he is doing the will of the people who elected him and feels quite justified in his stand although his weasel words on the issue that carefully avoid the word 'abortion' belie his supposed conviction. No, I wouldn't vote for him, either.

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.

70 posted on 03/22/2011 3:39:15 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: fabrizio

“Why can’t he run as a Democrat??” (C)(TM)


71 posted on 03/22/2011 3:45:25 PM PDT by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we revolt.)
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To: newzjunkey
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Oh wait a minute. I forgot. He kinda loves himself.

72 posted on 03/22/2011 5:09:47 PM PDT by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: supermop
Turns out REAL PROTESTANTS never listen to (meaning "obey") mere church leaders.

I know that's always a surprise to some, but it's a very imbedded custom.

73 posted on 03/22/2011 5:53:42 PM PDT by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Amercans)
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To: hattend
Why does this sentence make no sense? "one of the only"?

My thought as well. Terrible writing.

74 posted on 03/22/2011 6:01:24 PM PDT by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: ROTB
Scott's parents have each been married 3 times ~ that right there will disqualify you from being a Democrat ~ they, after all, don't really believe in marriage.

He's also saddled with too many women in his household and obviously is not given a chance to develop independent ideas regarding reproduction.

75 posted on 03/22/2011 6:02:26 PM PDT by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Amercans)
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To: fabrizio

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.


76 posted on 03/23/2011 6:08:17 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Capt. Tom
I would have bet if you asked voters outside his District to name a state republican senator at that time, Scott Brown wouldn't be named. - Tom

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.

77 posted on 03/23/2011 7:57:47 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
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

78 posted on 03/23/2011 8:11:36 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: massgopguy

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.


79 posted on 03/23/2011 7:15:55 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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