You two ever read the autopsy of the campaign run by a guy named Goldwater?
Between Goldwater and Reagan, can you really say that you'd even support Ronald Reagan today, knowing that he allowed 12 million babies to be murdered during his 8 years, and that he annointed a total "kennybunk" RINO blueblood to succeed him in office? Much less a Goldwater conservatism who lost miserably in a much, much more conservative time in our history????
I just want people away from New England to know the size and shape of the pig in the poke they just bought. Use the old Pareto Principle ... the 80-20 rule. I know I am going to agree with about 65-80% of Brown's actions. The other 20% are going to give me and everyone else on my team fits. He was the best that could be done at the time and Thank the Lord for him. I wish he was twins.
We have a two party system*. It's a system, may I add, that has embarrassing factional overlaps. E.G., Massachusett's own Virgin and Holy Martyr, St. Jack of Hyannis, ALWAYS voted with the Southern Democrat Segregationists. Now he's an icon of the Civil Rights Movement. Did Scott P. Brown talk about Nixon and Reagan. No. He talked about JFK!
*It's really a one-party system, with factions that are in or out. Center Right overlapping Center Left, with absolutely no firm ideology dividing them except to stay IN. Far Right and Far Left, where the ideology happens. Scott Brown is right down the old middle and leans a bit to the Right. But he is our guy, and he's In! Nobody on the Far Right is In. Wish I could say the same about the Far Left. They are In all over the place and that is what is causing the pain.
No American will find his own ideology fully expressed in either party. If one needs that, move to Europe. They have a party for everyone, and with proportional representation in parliaments, one might even be lucky to have a representative voice!
In regard to Mr. Brown: It's a big win for sure. But every Massachusetts politician, like the natives themselves, is either a whore or a hockey player. And I repeat, we ain't seen our boy skate yet.