Posted on 01/14/2013 8:05:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s not often an ex-senator gets a shot at his old job just months after losing. So Scott Brown is widely expected to jump at the chance, running in a special election for John Kerry’s seat that presumably will become vacant within weeks.
But there are compelling reasons for Brown to pass on what would be his third Senate campaign in four years — and he’s thinking long and hard about them.
Topping the list: In 2014, he could run instead for Massachusetts governor, a job that Republicans have had much more success winning and keeping, as Mitt Romney can attest.
Even if Brown were to win an expected late spring special election for the Senate — he would enter as a favorite — he’d have to pick up and do it all over again next year, in a higher-turnout contest that could also be tough to win. A loss in that race could end his political career.
That all makes for a wrenching decision for Brown: To make another run at Capitol Hill or hold off for the chance to reign over Beacon Hill. Sources tell POLITICO he has not made up his mind.
“My sense is that Scott has a good chance of succeeding if he decides to enter the special,” said Republican National Committeewoman Kerry Healey, who served as Romney’s lieutenant governor. “However, there’s a lot of appeal to waiting for the governor’s seat. … There are opportunities in both.”
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A conservative out of MA? While the RINOs are a nuisance, it sounds like you’re much happier with the radical left taking all the seats. Get real!
I agree
I thought that Ted Cruz and Deb Fischer took his place in the Senate?
My understanding of “purity tests” isn’t what you described. A Scott Brown gets a slight pass ONLY bc he was taking Ted Kennedy’s seat in MA and promised to vote against Obamacare (which he did, but Reid’s trickery made that irrelevant). Scott Brown actually RAN as more conservative than he voted once he got in.
In general, your description would make us all big fans of Olympia Snowe, Colin Powell, Mike Bloomberg and every lily-livered liberal Republican you can name. Lisa Murkowski and ALL the routine backstabbers...
THAT’s not it.
Purity tests objected to revolve around someone who is mostly right on their issues and votes but has gone a little, or even more, astray on a particular issue, or had a judgement lapse and said or did something that was mistaken when looked upon in hindsight. Something in their public or private record that is amiss from perfection.
By the time Conservatives get through throwing all such imperfects under the bus, there aren’t enough supporters left of any one of the candidates to get them anywhere. And disgusted, disgruntled Conservatives have split off in all directions like scattering jackrabbits to a pickup truck filled with hunters firing away at them. Why? Because there was something wrong with all of those who ran, in their minds, or the one they supported, they overlooked the foibles of only that one person, and that one person couldn’t get anywhere, either.
That’s the purity test I’m aware of. Yours would indict Conservatives who object to purity tests as being supportive of overwhelmingly obvious, self-admitted, across-the-board liberal Republicans.
Not.true.
I believe they were being sarcastic by saying two losers took his place in the Senate. Didn’t happen, because they lost, and that seemed to be the point being made.
My experience has been to get screamed at whenever I or anyone else says “No more rinos”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2977448/posts?page=100#100
An example of what I am talking about.
Oh yeah, and House GOP member Jeff Flake from AZ won the seat of the retiring Jon Kyle. THREE new members...Deb Fisher being the only one that replaces a Democrat, the pretender Nelson who voted for Obamacare after making a deal for Nebraska. For which the voters of that state never forgave him. Ted Cruz replaces Kay Bailey Hutchinson and that is a good thing even though it wasn’t a party change.
Usually the mention of Akin and Mourdock are an effort by rinos to hide the extraordinary victories of conservatives in recent elections, and the failings of the rinos.
True, I was glad to see him take Kennedy's seat and we will always have that, and I thought that I was prepared to watch all the compromises that he would have to make, but I thought that he would be striving to move things gently right, while still trying to survive politically, what I did not anticipate was him moving left when he didn't need to.
Brown seems to be a true liberal at heart.
We should remind people that Akin was not the tea party candidate.
Rinos just gave Jimmy Carter his second term, they are desperate to get off that topic.
How about Senator Tommy Thompson and Senator Connie Mack IV ?
I lean towards the latter. It's difficult to determine how a conservative candidate would have fared, as we haven't had one in decades. The last one we had, did quite well though.
“One thing the Romney campaign taught me is that even when the GOP runs the most moderate guy possible and a genuinely generous guy with no skeletons in his closet, society’s teat suckers and their cheerleaders in the enemedia will demonize him just as much as they will any conservative. Looking at the electoral map from November, it is hard to imagine any conservative who would have done better than Romney. It is equally hard to imagine any one who could have done worse.”
Thank you. My feelings exactly.
Romney, for all his faults, did not hate America, the constitution and the roughly half of the people in this country who would not vote for him under any circumstances. The same cannot be said about BO.
We've reached the tipping point. I can no longer see a way that we can reverse this nation's problems through elections. It will require either outside forces beyond the control of any of us or a deterioration of conditions so bad that those outside forces arise.
For the first time since America was founded, we are no longer in control of our own destiny. Just a few short months ago, I was among the most cautiously optimistic that we could reverse this downward spiral. And it's not just how badly Romney got beat, it was senate seats we should easily have won in red states like Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and Indiana.
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