Posted on 07/21/2012 1:51:50 PM PDT by firebrand
We all remember the euphoria when Scott Brown won the special election to the so-called Ted Kennedy seat in 2010. He was supposed to be the 41st vote against cloture on Obamacare.
And we all know how that turned out. Despite the clear voice of the people, the president pulled out every trick imaginable to force that bill down our throats.
That does not diminish Scott Brown's victory.
But the truth is that because his original election was a special election, he had media attention and voter support from all over the country. Now we are approaching an important general election and the attention of the country is spread out among many candidates.
Although Brown still has a substantial war chest from the special election, his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, has been raking it in in recent months. And worse, in spite of the negative publicity surrounding her controversial checking off of the "Native American" box to kick-start her academic career when it was in a slump, she is beginning to close the 8-point lead that Brown held just a few months ago.
Brown told us back in 2009 that he would be independent and would be working with nonconservatives in the Senate and Congress. He never could have won that seat with views on the issues that would have awarded him a 100% rating from the ACU. His rating is 50%, just about where we could have predicted from his statements.
The difference between the two candidates is profound, however.
Warren is a staunch tax-and-spend Democrat and a stalwart supporter of regulation, as Obama's Special Adviser for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She is a no-holds-barred supporter of abortion on demand.
Brown, on the other hand, while he is not as purely pro-life as many on this forum would wish, is against partial-birth abortion and federal funding for abortion and in favor of parental consent--as far as he can go politically on this issue and retain his seat. Moreover, he is a firm supporter of the right to conscience, an important issue in 2012.
Brown's other strong points are his support for the Second Amendment, his advocacy for veterans, and his sound approach to improving the economy.
He has voted in favor of a bill to prohibit EPA aerial surveillance of agriculture, in favor of the Keytone XL Pipeline, in favor of a balanced-budget amendment (Hatch Bill), and in favor of the bill to prohibit the appointment of "czars" without Senate approval, among many other conservative votes. He is against ending the Defense of Marriage Act and of course in favor of repealing Obamacare.
Scott Brown has received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security, and the Meritorious Servce Medal; he continues to serve in the Army National Guard as he has since 1979.
This is the Senate race that threatens to get away from us, after Scott Brown's triumph in 2010 gave us such a heart-lifting boost in morale.
Every single Republican Senate seat is very important, in this most crucial election of our lifetime.
I sent Scott Brown a few bucks last time. This tiome he is on his own as far as Iam concerned.
Hopefullt we will gain enough seats in other States to offset a potential Brown loss.
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No thanks. He is anti DOMA
The second installment. And thank you all again for your groundwork.
It was lovely to see BrownEye slam Bachmann, Goehmert and the other GOP Reps who want answers regarding Huma Abedin’s potential links to the Muslim Brotherhood. He is a douche.
“He would not vote to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.”
—Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post
Before Warren, I figured on sitting this one out. Now I'll crawl over a field of broken glass to vote for Brown.
He's impure, don't you know, while seemingly precisely what he claimed to be when they supported him in the special election.
In rhetoric they say one thing but in action they actually hate America as they hate themselves and support Reid, Pelosi and the Obama agenda.
Thank you for seeing reason! May many more do the same.
Correct. No one ever satisfies these fringe elements.
I agree. I don’t like a lot of the stands Brown takes but he is light years better than Warren. He is the best conservatives can get in MA. Anyone who thinks a MA Republican can be 100% conservative is living in a fantasy world.
Saame way I feel about Mitt. He would be my last choice, but to defeat Obama, there is now no other choice.
Thank you. I don’t hate Brown and I feel the same way about Romney. I’m also beginning to feel that I’ve sort of fallen into the yet-to-be-formally-named Pragmatist Party
Being a life long resident of Massachusetts and having a pretty fair knowledge of state politics Scott Brown is the *very* best that anyone can expect today from Massachusetts.For example."Americans For Democratic Action" a large and completely filthy left wing group does annual ratings on every member of Congress...House and Senate.They rate on a percentage basis...100% means they love the office holder (because he/she votes pure Marxist) and 0% means they hate him/her (doesn't vote Marxist).Their rating for Brown for 2010 (the only one they've published since he was elected) has him at 20%...meaning that,in their opinion,he votes "fascist" 80% of the time.
I guarantee you that,if elected,Princess Liawatha will get a 100% approval from them versus a 20...40...50% approval for Brown.
A barn jacket and a truck - and he won Teddy's seat. And with with Tea Party support to boot. Did Peggy ever show up?
This time there is his voting record and it +'s and -'s. Opposition is Liz (dis-owned native American who clearly "gamed" the system) ...
Brown can sink or swim on his our.
We worked hard for Brown first time around, even freezing out butts off in the snow carrying signs. I won’t be doing it this time. Instead, we have been supporting and will continue to support candidates in other, more important races. He moved left toward the center. I don’t do left to the the center.
Senate needs to go R.
House needs to stay R. (pretty safe bet)
Romney POTUS
in order to repeal Obamacare.
So all elections are important; every SENATE election.
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