Posted on 01/18/2010 12:13:22 PM PST by American Dream 246
For crying out loud.
I like your handle.
You must keep in mind if you make a new account you won’t be respected because people will think you are a “newbie”. ;)
Thank you! Oh you can’t transfer over to a new user name?
In that case, I’ll stay put! Thank you for the heads up Impy!!!
You might be able to ask them to change the name on your account. I don’t know if they facilitate such requests, they might.
Brown takes upset bid to Bruins game
By Karl Vick
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BOSTON - Republican Scott Brown positioned himself just outside the entrance to The TD Garden 45 minutes before the Boston Bruins faced off against the Ottawa Senators inside. The fans converged from every direction, including underground, the elevated train tracks that shrouded the old Garden having been moved, like so much of Boston, underground.
It is a city that bears little of the feel it had two decades ago.
“The liberals are gone, too” announced Dennis Sheehan, an electric technician from Lowell. “They went too far. They left this country.”
Sheehan, 54, was at the edge of perhaps 200 people who swarmed around Brown as 1 p.m. approached. Born and raised to vote Democrat in a blue collar, Irish Catholic family, he went Republican for Ronald Reagan and stayed there.
Half of his family did the same, but the other half continued to vote Democrat, at least through last year’s presidential election.
“The half of my family who voted for Obama are for Brown,” Sheehan declared, from beneath a stocking cap of thick wool. “They felt sold out. He said he’d bring the whole country together. I’ve never seen the country so divided in my life, and I grew up in the 60s, with Vietnam.
“That was a generation gap. It’s a cultural divide now. If we say something, they say it’s racist or something. And they can say whatever they want. It’s like we’re living in two different countries now.”
A man behind him shouted: “Who’s seat?” The crowd shouted back: “The people’s seat!”
A Toyota 4x4 drove by, tooting. A rocker and American flag were fixed to the roof, a stuffed elephant on the spare.
“We’re not being heard no more,” Sheehan went on. “We lost our say in government. And that’s what our government was based on in the first place.”
Martha Coakley, the state attorney general who won the Democratic primary, emerged from a party establishment he sees as both arrogant and a bit lazy. Up by 30 points after the Dec. 8 primary, polls show her even, at best, a day before voters will go to the polls.
“They thought the whole election was sealed already, and surprise, surprise surprise!” Sheehan said, with evident glee. “She didn’t campaign til last week. This guy is meeting the people. He’s a people person.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/brown-takes-upset-bid-to-bruin.html?wprss=44
Yeah, I guess I’ll stick with ‘the original’! :)
GOOD on Scott.
This radio show is disheartening.
Thanks again... I will check our local Rochester library and see if they have the movie!
Well .. there’s 3 times the dems in
MA over the pubbies, so it’s not
shocking. The VOTAHS are getting
their battle rest for tomorrow, anyway ... ;)
Brown takes upset bid to Bruins game
By Karl Vick
###
BOSTON - Republican Scott Brown positioned himself just outside the entrance to The TD Garden 45 minutes before the Boston Bruins faced off against the Ottawa Senators inside.
The fans converged from every direction, including underground, the elevated train tracks that shrouded the old Garden having been moved, like so much of Boston, underground. It is a city that bears little of the feel it had two decades ago.
“The liberals are gone, too” announced Dennis Sheehan, an electric technician from Lowell. “They went too far. They left this country.”
Sheehan, 54, was at the edge of perhaps 200 people who swarmed around Brown as 1 p.m. approached. Born and raised to vote Democrat in a blue collar, Irish Catholic family, he went Republican for Ronald Reagan and stayed there. Half of his family did the same, but the other half continued to vote Democrat, at least through last year’s presidential election.
“The half of my family who voted for Obama are for Brown,” Sheehan declared, from beneath a stocking cap of thick wool. “They felt sold out. He said he’d bring the whole country together. I’ve never seen the country so divided in my life, and I grew up in the 60s, with Vietnam.
“That was a generation gap. It’s a cultural divide now. If we say something, they say it’s racist or something. And they can say whatever they want. It’s like we’re living in two different countries now.”
A man behind him shouted: “Who’s seat?” The crowd shouted back: “The people’s seat!”
More here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/brown-takes-upset-bid-to-bruin.html?wprss=44
BTTT
SCOTT BROWN, US SENATOR, MA (R) 1/19/10
drove thru the pickup window at KFC today - the tab was 4.50 and adding all the new MASS TAXes brought it up to $5.34. I gave the kid collecting the money the hairy eyeball and said “that’s the new added tax, right?” The nice young fella said he and his boss were talking about the tax and how it would affect their business, and he said he was voting for Scott Brown.
This kid was proud to be a new citizen and took the time to consider it in HIS OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION! Chalk up another anti-Obama voter from the minority group he thinks he has in his back pocket.
“I gave the kid collecting the money the hairy eyeball and said “that’s the new added tax, right?” The nice young fella said he and his boss were talking about the tax and how it would affect their business, and he said he was voting for Scott Brown.”
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Way to go bitt!...it’s small gestures like that, over time, truth telling and giving people the right to be different, to vote with principle - that MATTER...:)
Keep giving, calling, volunteering and running Conservatives folks...but also, like bitt, let’s engage people out there in conversations like this.
I’ve also found that humor can work wonders in the right circumstances (’Have you noticed how Obama always speaks with a teleprompter - I feel like I’m watching a tennis match...’ or whatever...:))
So how was the Scott Brown victory celebration last night??? I loved watching it on Fox News, but I know it would have been even more electrifying in person. He brought the house down with his “I’ve got two eligible daughters” and his wife jokingly chided him , he rescinded it for the younger daughter (probably cause she might have a boyfriend (?) and his older daughter Ayla laughed but chided him as well.... what a great looking family!!! Great speech with not a note or piece of paper in sight, and especially no teleprompter telling him what to say!!!
I actually didn’t go...it would have been too hectic for me...My son had had a long day at afterschool. Tuesday is a 1/2 day for him...I picked a bottle of wine and we came home, whipped up a Macaroni & Cheese dish out of the box and just reveled and savored every minute on t.v. and our radio station celebrations here! LOVE IT LOVE LOVE IT...I was gloating pretty proud today. O’h Yeah!
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