Posted on 01/15/2010 9:51:31 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Frum sees him as an antidote to the Tea Party madness:
Strong on defense and school choice, opposed to the Obama administration’s signature initiatives, Brown voted in favor of Mitt Romney’s health plan in Massachusetts. He describes himself as pro-choice (subject to reasonable limitations), accepts gay marriage in Massachusetts as a settled fact, and told the Boston Herald editorial board he would have voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor.
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I think you’re right.
Oh yea, I forgot about the border thing.. normally that would be a done deal issue for most FReepers.
Kill Obamacare...*laughing*...like he killed Romneycare?
Oh, and that was just two days ago...on Fox News of all places!
Brown is a RINO and quite possibly a Romneybot. He should NOT be elected, unless the end result desired is another {Snowe, Collins, Jeffords, Chafee}.
Blah blah blah, nobody is doing any such thing. The problem here is not that Brown is a RINO, but that you are simply too dumb to think for yourself, choosing rather to let David Frum manipulate you.
Oh...he sounds worse than Brown (with regards to issues). I guess Brown is the best MASS has in this election.
Looking at your posting history find it odd how you never ever find any reason to ever be critical of anyone on the Left ever.
Why is that?
Of the two choices who is more conservative?
Kennedy dropped out, his name is still on the ballot but he threw in the towel, it was just a nothing show anyway.
Joe Kennedy in keeping with libertarians is pro immigration, anti war, pro homosexual marriage and I assume pro partial birth abortion.
Oh shoot, guess what bud? You just lost any and all credibility that you might have had, right there with that single sentence.
Kennedy is not a conservative. Kennedy is barely even a libertarian (which would be bad enough). He was a Democrat until he re-registered to try to serve as a spoiler in this race.
That fact that you BLINDLY want people to support Kennedy, simply because he's the "independent" candidate (which you ignorantly and incorrectly conflate with his being the "conservative" candidate) shows right there why people are right to warn against all of this third party/independent nonsense.
Well by golly, I guess that puts Coakley up on a pedestal.
Think Obamacare. Think tax until you drop. Think Cap and Tax. Think prisoners voting. Think immigration. Think unemployment. Think national security.
I don’t like it either, but at times...... life becomes is a collection of tradeoffs.
Not you again. I don’t need David Frum to manipulate me to know a RINO is a RINO when he NOT fully pro-life.
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
All those who demand ideological purity at all times are fools, and forgetting the lessons and words of the greatest Conservative President of the 20th century.
I’m not sure anyone is under the impression that Scott Brown is Ronald Reagan reincarnated. He, no doubt, has some ideological problems that would be a dealbreaker if he ran in Texas.
But, he’s the best viable option for the Senate that MA has had in the better part of 30-years.
Babysteps.
SnakeDoc
Take the victories when they present themselves and in this instance it is a major embarrassment to Obama if the Repubs take this seat.
Good enough I say
...which Brown supported too, apparently.
I know...I did go in blindly because I am wanting a conservative SO BADLYYYYYYYYYY to win. Shoot me for God’s sake :)
You know, I’ve had the same thoughts. It’s awfully telling that these same folks who bend themselves into pretzels to try to find some way - any way - to undermine reasonably conservative candidates are the same folks who you almost never see speaking out against the Dems. Wonder if a game is afoot.
There are times that I think that liberal trolls here on FR have gotten a lot more subtle. Like—putting forward the idea that a rightward move in Mass is not good enough, better we should have Coakley in the Senate than compromise.
Calvin Coolidge?
Ohhhh, I forgot! Conservatives want "charisma."
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