Elizabeth Warren’s Potential Senate Bid May Reunite Scott Brown With Tea Party

FoxNews ^ | August 20, 2011 | By Stephen Clark

[TribalPrincess2U]

Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren’s likely entry into the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts could re-energize Tea Party support for Sen. Scott Brown, whose moderation in Washington has deeply disappointed the conservative grassroots movement that swept him to office in early 2010. “I think she has the capacity to do that,” said Christen Varley, head of the Greater Boston Tea Party, who described Brown’s relationship with the Tea Party as “tense.”

[CatQuilt]

If you think he’s so great, *you* move to MA and vote for him. I, for one, will kind of find it disgusting if he sucks up to the Tea Party again.

[MissyMa]

Agreed. I live in Massachusetts and was shocked Brown won considering we are so blue.

I’ll be voting for Brown again as it’s better than the alternative which will be another liberal and we have enough of them in this state.

[Lazlo in PA]

So you are cool with a few more decades of one party rule in MA from the Rats? That is what will happen if this Warren wins, guaranteed.

[Jim Noble]

Scott doesn't need the Tea party, he's got unregistered single women 90-10/

Massachusetts is very peculiar. Most of the voters are a good deal more conservative than their elected representatives, who are selected by the communist hard core that owns the Democrat party lock, stock & barrel.

Scott has found the key to their hearts. If the Dems nominate another icy white bitch who's commie connections are easily demonstrated, Scott will win in a landslide.

Warren has been described as "Martha Coakley without the charm".

Go Warren!

[cranked]

Not at all, but for the NE RINOs, he fits in perfect.... =.=

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. I’m a jerk.

[Perdogg]

I don’t like Scott Brown. However, if Warren wins, she will be in the US Senate untll she dies or the end of Republic, whichever comes first.

[wizwor]

I don’t like Scott Brown. Never did, never will. He is an opportunist — just like every other hack in Massachusetts. We disagree on dogma most of the time. Still. I prefer him to the alternatives. You should too. Hold your nose and vote for him because he is not Teddy Kennedy.

[Baynative]

"If it were me, I would probably vote for him but keep all references to the tea party out of it."

You and I agree on that. But, what a good stock of ammunition that gives the media in being able to say the tea party lost its way. Then again, it could prove that we are the one's willing to compromise for the greater good.

[bwc2221]

Let's target Republicans that we have a chance of unseating like Lugar and Corker.

In 2014 there will be so many targets - Alexander, McConnell, Graham, Cochran - so many RINOs, so little time.

[cripplecreek]

I certainly don’t envy the decision that needs to be made there.

[Lazlo in PA]

LOL. I didn’t say that you were a jerk. I just think that unless Brown gets Primaried, he is your best shot of having at least a little Conservatism over absolute Socialism.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve lived in this socialist paradise my entire life. The most rightwing politician I’ve ever known in this state is Mitt Romney. So the difference between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown seems somewhat negligible to me. The state isn’t going to get better.

[hattend]

TEA Party to Scott Brown: “Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice...uhhh, well...uhhhh”

[Raider Sam]

He voted conservative on 17 of the 22 issues that the ACU graded all Senators on, and his score for 2010 was 74.

He voted liberal on Fannie Mae overhaul, Auditing the Fed, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, Food Safety, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Nuclear Arms Treaty.

He voted conservative on Earmark Moratorium, DC School Choice, Repealing Obamacare, Immigrant Health Care, Federal Salary Freeze, Border Fence, Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Estate Tax Repeal, Supporting Arizona’s Immigration Law, Kagan Nomination, Union Elections, DREAM Act.

It seems he has voted the conservative route consistently on immigration and judges. He has voted conservative on restraining government spending and taxes, but has voted liberally on financial regulations.

The Nuclear Arms bothers me the most of his liberal votes, and the gay military one was very public, but his record is pretty reliable on administrative issues (judges, spending/taxes, Fed pay) as well as immigration and reigning in the reach of government.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Elizabeth Warren is a Ted Kennedy sycophant and clone. She has no business running on a GOP ticket.

I am disappointed in Brown too but unless a true blue Conservative steps up, Brown is the one. There is no way I would vote for Warren even in the face of Brown's deception.

Besides, Brown is in a perfect position to deal some serious trouble to the Dems. They see him as a kindred spirit at this juncture. That could be a mistake on thier part.
If he could be turned from the Dark Side...

[LostInBayport]

Massachusetts is very peculiar. Most of the voters are a good deal more conservative than their elected representatives, who are selected by the communist hard core that owns the Democrat party lock, stock & barrel.

When you speak to regular people here (not moonbats, who are just nuts), you find that they are more libertarian and independent-minded. They unfortunately still buy the old myth of democrats being "for the working man" and Republicans being "for the rich". The fact that anyone with an 'R' after their name on the ballot won a Senate seat is amazing in that respect.

In these terrible times, I'll take any bit of improvement or bolster any firewall. Scott Brown being right half of the time (or 74% if you take the ACU number) is better than another angry, America-hating, malevolent liberal. I don't think Scott Brown hates America, but I bet Elizabeth Warren has a very different view.

If he wins a proper election and feels safer in his seat, maybe Scott Brown will make the conservative choice more often. Is it ideal? Not at all. But when Brown won I felt, for the first time in all the years I've been voting, that I have an elected representative in Congress who MIGHT give a damn about what a conservative constituent thinks. I'll take that over going back to the alternative.

[kempster]

Is an occasional good vote from Brown better than 40 years of Kennedyesque votes and policies from Warren? As much as I don’t respect this guy I say yes.

[Raider Sam]

Which issues are you speaking of?

[Raider Sam]

Also, I wonder hos the district shapes affect that. To begin with, I dont know anyone in Ma and I dont know anyone who has lived there, but looking at the map, it seems that some of the conservative areas in Boston are split into districts that extend all the way to the sea. Ive also heard Gloucester is somewhat conservative. I just wonder what it would look like if Boston had one or two all encompassing districts and the rest were parts of suburbs, rather than how it looks now with districts starting at a point in Boston and growing out like a triangle to cover the suburbs.