this election season.
Posted on 10/07/2011 8:04:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He may have been the first major victory of the Tea Party on a national level, but Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown may wind up looking a bit lonely in that regard has he prepares to run for his first full term in the upper chamber. The Daily Caller is reporting that Tea Party activists are feeling rather lukewarm toward Brown at best.
…Scott Brown was the tea party movement’s first electoral victory. But now that he’s up for re-election for a full six-year term in 2012, tea party activists tell The Daily Caller they’re not going to bother putting together the same operation that swept him into office the first time.
That’s not to say tea partiers will not vote for Brown, or even put up much of an effort to oppose him since a serious primary challenger has yet to be found. The movement has matured into realizing that sometimes the “least of two evils” — as one activist put it — is necessary in a traditionally blue state like Massachusetts.
But don’t expect tea partiers to be happy about it.
“Scott Brown has disappointed us a few times,” Carlos Hernandez, state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, told TheDC. “So are we going to go out there and hold signs for him everyday? I don’t think so.”
The “disappointments” by Scott Brown were not only evident, but predicted long before he was sworn in to office. Many of the same people who were celebrating the stunning victory during the 2010 congressional races began falling out of love with the upstart as soon as he began voting like a … Massachusetts Republican. And let’s be realistic here. We grow some pretty fluffy RINOs here in New York, but we don’t hold a candle to the Bay State. I’m fairly sure that all nine of the registered Republicans in Boston are pro-choice, among other things.
But Brown knows his own state and clearly can sense which way the wind is blowing. He had every intention of being competitive in this race, and he’s less concerned with impressing conservatives in Alabama than he is with the independents back home who he will need to vote for him next year. The good news in this is that there doesn’t seem to be any momentum to getting a primary challenge going against him. It will be hard enough sending Scott back for a full term, even if he is the most popular politician in the state. And while he’s at it, he might want to avoid any more references to Elizabeth Warren getting naked.
He’s a dolt, but better than the alternative. And like a junior high football coach once point out: when crap meets crap, someone still has to win.
This is foolishness. We can’t afford another voting block D to have that Senate seat. People need to WAKE UP!
Definitely disappointed with some of his votes, but were I in MA, I would vote for Scott in a heartbeat.
Your point is valid.
Even if Scott Brown votes with the conservatives 30% - 40% of the time, I can pretty much gaurantee that Elizabeth Warren or Martha Coakley or Joe Kennedy would vote with the conservatives in the U.S. Senate 0% of the time.
My late father used to say, “A half loaf of bread is better than none.” He wasn’t talking about politics, but the saying applies to the world of politics, too.
Scott Brown over Warren anyday. And his response was a perfect candid smackdown of her posturing statement.
We should be careful about media attempts to characterize what the “Tea Party” says. We also should be careful about letting self-appointed Tea Party “leaders” speak for the Tea Party. It is a very decentralized movement still. I consider myself “Tea Party” and I’m not bitter about Brown. I gave him money and knew he would vote Lib on some issues. I am disappointed on some votes but I don’t feel “betrayed.” That whole concept is so childish and is a media creation. I’d venture to say most Tea Party adherents aren’t bitter and betrayed about Brown. They may not give him more money but no one is going to undermine him. I felt great about the GOP taking the “Kennedy seat” despite Brown’s shortcomings. And I want to keep it out of Warren’s hands.
That state is just too blue. They are gonna eat up Elizabeth Warren’s banker bashing eat-the-rich rhetoric.
Start dusting off the ol’ centerfold portfolio Scott.
I’ll settle for him because it’s the best we can do.
I also will remind people of the ad the Dems ran against him. You can probably still find it on YouTube:
“Who is Scott Brown, really? A Republican. Who will vote in lockstep with Republicans in Washington. At times like these, we don’t need a Republican...like Scott Brown.”
Has he voted in lockstep with GOP? No but a Dem would vote in lockstep with their party (and he does vote our way more than a few times). Could you picture “Senator Martha
Coakley” voting the way Scott has on certain issues? He slammed lax immigration policies. Meanwhile, Coakley said on WCRN in Worcester “Technically it is not illegal to be an illegal in Massachusetts.”
Add to that the fact that the word “Republican” was pronounced as if it were “Nazi” in the ad.
Sorry, I am not convinced Brown or the Maine backstabbers would stand with us anymore than Durbin or Boxer would. A liberal is a liberal, they are liars and totally devoid of honor. How many times do you take a knife in the back from an alleged “friend and allie” before it sinks in on you what they really are.
Well, Brown has a good start with the $8 million he had left over from the special election campaign, and now he has almost $10 million. A lot of the $8 million unspent from his first senate campaign came from Tea Party support.
You can click on the map and get to Mass. and pick Brown to see his finances. For whatever reason links to the specific candidate pages don’t work.
this election season.
Scott and his wife just love the DC scene with all the parties they attend. I hope Scott is liked well enough in MASS to win a full term in 2012.
Do they not realize what state they are in? Brown is in some real trouble and stands a really good chance of being defeated.
Circular firing squad forming.
Then they are losers who deserve what they get. They dont want 74% on important issues, then get 0. Some people are never happy, and some want to be angry. Those people dont build anything useful.
This is Romney’s curse. Mass. is so damn liberal they know they have to act this way to succeed there. I would choose to keep the republican seat but even I’m struck by what a traitor Brown has been to conservatives.
Scott Brown represents his core constituencies - Reagan Democrats and pro-abortion single women - very well.
The MA Tea Party can meet in a phone booth.
As an incumbent Senator, especially one who will be in the majority come 2013, money won’t be a problem.
He’s a lock.
I hope Scott puts the chardonnay glass down and gets up to Bean Town to fight for his job. We will need every GOP hold we can get in order to win enough new seats to control the Senate. If we win the WH and keep the House but fail to win the Senate, scrapping Obamacare and other of his awful laws will be almost impossible.
Deval Patrick is gov exactly because of the same Romney
machine pushing Romney clones by WRKO and
the Boston MSM.
Anyone can beat Brown.
Are you trying to get a LIBERAL/Marxist senator in his place???
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