Why Brown's Victory Is NOT a GOP Mandate

FOX NEWS ^ | 01.20.2010 | Kevin McCullough

[jodiluvshoes]

Scott Brown's historic election win on Tuesday night communicated very clearly that the voters of America have had it with the direction that President Obama is taking her. In repudiating the choice hand picked by Ted Kennedy's family (though they couldn't seem to get her name right in public) the voters of Massachusetts did the nation a big favor.

With Brown on board -- he has already promised to be in Washington by Friday -- the Senate is no longer filibuster proof, and the call from the left to bring on even more hardcore "Chicago-style" politics has reached fevered pitch. Democrats are openly proposing ways they can cheat the rules in a last-ditch move to ram the government-run take-over of health care through Congress even after the punitive message from "We the People" in Massachusetts.

But hear me carefully on this next bit: The message of Brown's win is NOT a mandate for the GOP!

[dartuser]

Agree ... but it IS a repudiation of Democrat policies.

[icwhatudo]

Eugene Robinson on MSNBC said it best: “This is more a victory for the tea party movement than it is for the republican party”

I almost feinted when Chris Mathews agreed.

[JLS]

And who said it was a GOP mandate? If it is anything, it is a warning to Dims they don’t have a mandate either.

But it might be the leading edge of a 2010 tidal wave that could be a GOP mandate.

[getitright]

No, Brown’s victory is not a mandate for the GOP.

But the Tea Party movement is.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Why Brown's Victory Is NOT a GOP Mandate"

I agree, Brown's Victory was a Conservative Mandate!

The G.O.P. isn't Conservative by a long shot! Its why they lost in 2006 and 2008. Brown ran on Conservative principles in the Bluest state in the union and won convincingly!

[tobyhill]

It’s never been a mandate for the GOP, it’s a mandate issued by the people to all of Washington, get out of our lives and stop spending our money that we already don’t have.

[skeeter]

It surely wasn't a mandate for 'same-but-less' policies of the GOP leadership in charge.

But after Virginia, New Jersey, and now this it can easily be read as an indication of American sentiments on the ogre the US government has become, and Obama wants to greatly enlarge.

[diji]

No kidding, Chris Mathews agreed?

[growingpains]

We can only hope this is finally the ending of the Kennedy “reign.”

[Paperdoll]

CONSIDERING THE NUMBER OF CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS WHO SUPPORTED REPUBLICAN BROWN, I WOULD SAY HIS WIN IN MASSACHUSETTS IS A VERY LOUD AND CLEAR MESSAGE THAT MOST AMERICANS DO NOT WANT NATIONAL HEALTHCARE AND THE DANGER OF ALL IT’S HIDDEN EDICTS. TAHE TRUTH HIDDEN IN THE HEALTHCARE BILL IS SHOWN ON UTUBE BELOW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8

[sthguard]

"Mandate" is just another overused buzzword, with no real meaning. Consider, however, that every successful conservative candidate since Obama has run under the auspices of the GOP (yes, even Doug Hoffman), and that every third-party candidate ultimately gives votes to the Democrats. The GOP isn't perfect, but it's what we have, and right now it's our only legitimate conduit for conservative leadership.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[Leep]

I admittedly don't know everything there is to know about Brown.
Only time will tell.
Regardless, of how he turns out, this is one time a “R” in his title alone is enough to throw a major monkey wench in the progressive's agenda.

[tell me]

You’re exactly right. It’s a CONSERVATIVE MANDATE.

[Archon of the East]

Agreed that it is not a GOP mandate AT ALL! But it is a mandate to stand up and be honest and to work for the people with our Constitution in mind.

[skr]

Ted Kennedy was a lingering curse on our nation, although not the only one.

[JPG]

It IS the ascendancy of conservative values and the repudiation of liberalism/socialism/communism.

[FlipWilson]

I look at the Tea Party movement as standing on its own. Where the Republican Party is in step with the Tea Party Movement, the Tea Party Movement will support the Republican candidate. Where it is not, you will get NY 23 and Rubio (sp?) in Florida.

I am fine with the Republicans if they want to come along with the Movement for the ride but am not fine if they want to hijack it or belittle it. As a matter of fact there was one moment last night that bothered me.

Scott Brown thanked John McCain last night. This made me wonder if McCain (an establishment country club Republican if ever there was one) was trying to hijack the movement or act as if it was his approach to governing that worked for Scott Brown. I don't know about anyone else here but it seems to me that John McCain is anathema to what the Tea Party Movement stands for. This is a guy who is “of D.C.” and has taken every opportunity to ignore the voters so he can be a “Maverick” and get his face on a Sunday talk show. In my mind, Scott should stay closer to the true movement that put him in office and not cozy up to a guy who can't say the word “conservative” without gritting his teeth.

In my opinion, John McCain needs to be taken out as much as any democrat does. Some will say that he deserves credit for holding the line on health care. I have to wonder. If the Republicans were in the majority and Obama were pushing health care, woudl McCain be holding firm or "crossing the aisle" just so he could bask in the glow of being a "maverick?"

[FlipWilson]

Correction/clarification, I stated McCain was an “establishment/country club Republican.” Not sure that fits. But what does fit is that he is a guy who is entrenched in Washington and out of touch. He certainly is no liberal but is all to willing to compromise conservative values to get along with liberals.