Posted on 12/13/2009 5:12:46 PM PST by massmike
As most of you know, Tuesday's primary election to fill Ted Kennedy's US Senate seat wasn't much of a stunner. Both frontrunners won. In the Democratic primary Attorney General Martha Coakley beat out three other candidates with 47%, and State Senator Scott Brown got 89% against Jack E. Robinson.
Coakley and Brown will face each other in the general election January 19. This race has huge implications, both locally and nationally.
The kind of representation we get in the US Senate could hardly be different.Coakley is even more radically left-wing across the board than Ted Kennedy, if that's possible. Her long record of aggressive anti-family positions and activities is breathtaking. Scott Brown is a pretty decent conservative (though not completely pro-life) who has mainstream positions (including pro-traditional marriage) and doesn't back down to left-wing pressure and intimidation.
Most people in Massachusetts have no knowledge of the extent of Coakley's radical-left anti-family, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual record. That certainly needs to change.
But from a national standpoint, this REALLY could make a difference. Scott Brown would replace the 60th Democratic vote in the US Senate which is needed to stop a filibuster. This would effectively stop the tidal wave of hideous Obama legislation, starting from the health care bill (if that's still being debated then). This is a big deal for the entire country.
We hope that the Brown campaign takes advantage of this and hammers the voters here about how their lives will be changed - even ruined - if the Left's agendas are allowed to run rampant.
Do the Republicans have the guts to run the kind of aggressive campaign this will require? We'll see.
Let's just hope that none of John McCain's national campaign staff is allowed anywhere near here!
(Excerpt) Read more at massresistance.org ...
(Am hoping all ‘change’ can be handled inside Repub Party or we ARE doomed. Worry about Palin’s interests and power of ‘tea party’.) Here we do need to take a page from our worst enemy here at home. The Dem’s changed entire Party and the only thing new in their Party name was created by just addiing two letters - ‘ic’.
Assuming that you are,in fact,in Nebraska I must tell you....
....yes,our beloved Governor...Couple Deval....is deeply unpopular.But remember,this is Massachusetts...a state that *reveres* Ted Kennedy.So what's the problem with your apparent optimism? The RAT Treasurer of this state has just announced that he's switching to "Independent" and running for Governor.Rumor has it that he was put up to this by RAT Headquarters.His candidacy will split the anti-Coupe Deval vote resulting in him being re-elected with 35-40% of the vote.
Plenty of complete idiots have voted for “Kennedy” there in the past. The seat’s belonged to a Kennedy for 55 of the last 57 years. If half of them would vote for “Kennedy” out of habit instead of voting for “the Democrat” out of habit perhaps Brown could squeak through with a 35-40% plurality. Brown should phrase all his ads as running for the “Kennedy seat.” Those who can think, his only possible voters, will understand. Alas, I fear a two way split of the left won’t suffice in this state. We need to add candidates named “Ted,” “Kerry,” and “John.” to the ballot. And it might help if our guy’s campaign photos were as underexposed as his name.
That's not entirely true.Yes,Weld and Romney called themselves Republicans but then a fella can call himself *anything* these days.
and America is sick and tired of what the democrats are doing.
Yes,America is sick and tired but you've made the mistake of assuming that the voters of Massachusetts have the faintest interest in "America".
I’m with you!
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