The uniter: Scott Brown’s center-right-indie coalition
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(Photo of Northeastern University rally sent in from reader Scott T.)
On Sunday night, Public Policy Polling (swing state specialists) released the latest stunning numbers in the Massachusetts Senate race. Martha Antoinette Coakley is hemorrhaging independents and the enthusiasm gap is widening as the Bay State heads into the January 19 special election.
Reports PPP:
Over the last week Brown has continued his dominance with independents and increased his ability to win over Obama voters as Coakley’s favorability numbers have declined into negative territory….
-Brown is up 64-32 with independents and is winning 20% of the vote from people who supported Barack Obama in 2008 while Coakley is getting just 4% of the McCain vote.
-Brown’s voters continue to be much more enthusiastic than Coakley’s. 80% of his say they’re ‘very excited’ about voting Tuesday while only 60% of hers express that sentiment. But the likely electorate now reports having voted for Barack Obama by 19 points, up from 16 a week ago, and a much smaller drop from his 26 point victory in the state than was seen in Virginia.
-Those planning to turn out continue to be skeptical of the Democratic health care plan, saying they oppose it by a 48/40 margin.
-Coakley’s favorability dropped from 50% to 44% after a week filled with perceived missteps. Brown’s negatives went up a lot but his positives only actually went from 57% to 56%, an indication that attacks against him may have been most effective with voters already planning to support Coakley but ambivalent toward Brown.
-56% of voters in the state think Brown has made a strong case for why he should be elected while just 41% say the same of Coakley. Even among Coakley’s supporters only 73% think she’s made the argument for herself, while 94% of Brown’s supporters think he has.
Those “missteps” aren’t merely “perceived.” They’re quite real, piling up, and epitomize the entitled, elitist mindset of Coakley and her party. As Boston Red Sox great Curt Schilling put it at a rally Sunday after endorsing Brown, Coakley’s clueless jab at him is “another sign of her aloofness, and just the fact that she’s very out of touch, I think, with the people.”
The Left’s tired, old “Blame Bush” bromides aren’t cutting it. Who’s Martha Coakley kidding? Her supporters accuse Brown — an Army National Guardsman from a middle-class-upbringing who has campaigned across the state in his truck — of being a “Bush crony” candidate while Coakley parties with Washington lobbyists and the Kennedy clan (at least one of whom reportedly can’t even get her name right).
She’s the proven voice of fatcats and corruptocrats.
He’s uniting Tea Party activists, rank-and-file union members, GOP party faithful, and independents.
How did he unite this coalition?
Some moderate Beltway Republicans think Brown’s center-right-indie coalition vindicates and validates their agenda to turn the GOP into Democratic Party Lite.
I know. The coffee spurted up my nose, too.
Tea Party-basher David Frum, for example, is using the Brown surge to praise himself — and to take another of his endless smacks at “talk radio conservatives:”
The Scott Brown who may rescue the country from Obamacare is not a talk radio conservative.
Strong on defense and school choice, opposed to the Obama administration’s signature initiatives, Brown voted in favor of Mitt Romney’s health plan in Massachusetts. He describes himself as pro-choice (subject to reasonable limitations), accepts gay marriage in Massachusetts as a settled fact, and told the Boston Herald editorial board he would have voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor. He calls himself “fiscally conservative and socially conscious.” He’s got an environmental record too: In the state senate he voted in favor of a regional initiative to curb greenhouse gas initiatives.
Most important: Unlike his arrogant, brittle opponent, Brown has shown himself an open and accessible candidate, optimistic and without rancor. In short – he’s running exactly the kind of campaign that we alleged RINOs have been urging on the GOP for months now.
It would be a travesty if Brown’s victory is seized upon as a victory for anger, paranoia, and ideological extremism.
Maggie Gallagher politely corrects Frum on Brown’s gay marriage stance:
I love David Frum. But his account of the Brown/Coakley race fails to note that Scott Brown was one of a small band of state legislators who voted to let the people decide marriage — through a state marriage amendment defining marriage as the union of husband and wife — and that Martha Coakley, as attorney general, championed the current lawsuit aimed at overturning DOMA.
Being a gay-marriage champion (as Corzine and, most lately, Dodd have found) apparently doesn’t help you win many elections, even in the the liberal Northeast.
As for disparaging “talk radio conservatives,” every major local, state, and national “talk radio conservative” has thrown his/her voice and audience behind Brown. And it is thanks to the power of talk radio, Tea Party grass-roots, and conservative online activism — not through RINO armchair campaign managers — that Brown has been able to raise money and get his message out.
As for Brown’s vote for that greenhouse gas initiative, he admits he was “sold a bill of goods” and unlike, say, Barack Obama, he is incorporating the ClimateGate scandal’s new discoveries about data suppression and manipulation into his thinking.
Brown opposes adopting a federal cap-and-trade boondoggle scheme that would amount to a massive new energy tax on Americans. He has repeatedly emphasized a bread-and-butter economic platform contrasting Coakley tax-and-spend liberalism with his opposition to imposing new tax burdens on working Americans during a recession.
In contrast, Frum has pushed for Republicans to abandon the traditional, mainstream low-tax/less-government message in favor of things like a national carbon tax.
As for Frum taking credit for the “kind of campaign” Brown is running, don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.
Brown may not be the most conservative Republican who walks the Earth (a fact I’ve readily pointed out many times over the past few weeks), but he is promising loudly, clearly, and proudly to stop the bribe-stuffed Demcare legislation and to reject business-as-usual backroom deals.
In contrast, Frum crusaded for Republicans to go along and negotiate on Obama’s big-ticket initiatives and bemoaned the “furious rejectionist frenzy of the past 12 months.” He accused the GOP of losing its mind and pouted that Republicans looked “clueless” and “silly” for standing against the stimulus boondoggle and Obama’s generational theft. Who looks silly now?
Frum and others are pointing to this analysis claiming that Brown is “a more liberal Republican than Dede Scozzafava.” Nonsense. On the core do-or-die issues for mainstream Republicans, Brown is on the Right side. Scozzafava was on the radical Leftist side. He’ll vote against the Dems’ new stimulus schemes. She supported them. He’ll vote against the Dems’ cap-and-tax legislation. She would have voted for it. He’s opposed by the teachers’ union hacks. She raked in campaign cash from the National Education Association and an entire alphabet soup of Big Labor groups.
On social issues, they wrongheadedly lump Brown and Scozzafava together as pro-choice Republicans of the same mold. Scozzafava rubbed the issue in the faces of her constituents with Planned Parenthood/NARAL endorsements and her glowing acceptance of an award named after notorious eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Brown, on the other hand, has not made abortion a focal point of the campaign and the Tea Party activists whom so many critics accuse of “purism” have been fine with that.
Instead, Brown has run on the core Tea Party issues of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and a strong national defense, while appealing to a broader swath of voters by emphasizing integrity, independence, and willingness to stand up to machine politics. After a year’s worth of Obama’s phony fruits and congressional foxes guarding the henhouse, voters have had enough of the enablers and water-carriers. Unlike Frum, Brown is channeling the energies of taxpayers of all stripes who are disgusted and angry — yes, ANGRY! – with the culture of corruption in Washington. That is how Brown has struck common ground with his insurgent center-right-indie coalition: By stepping up to oppose the Dems’ plans to rig the game and undermine representative government, instead of sneering at angry taxpayers’ “ideological extremism”/”paranoia” and instead of trashing the talk radio networks through which those angry taxpayers communicate, commiserate, and organize.
Reality check: With his small-town, anti-elitist appeal, Brown’s campaign has much more in common with Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber populism than it does with David Frum and Beltway GOP Re-Branding defeatism. Yes, we can all get along — except for those Washington worrywarts too busy pissing on the very same right-wing “rancor” that is fueling 2010′s GOP comeback.
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What we are uniting against:
According to ad-buy information provided to the Fix, there are 13 — yes, 13 — groups paying for ads in the race’s final days, with Democratic groups outspending Republican-aligned by more than $1 million.
Coakley’s ad advantage comes from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is set to spend $1.4 million on ads in the final week of the race — a staggering sum given the overwhelming Democratic tilt of the Bay State, and yet another sign of how worried the party is. (The National Republican Senatorial Committee is not running ads in the state.)
The other major Democratic groups in the mix are labor-affiliated. The Service Employees International Union is up with $549,000 in ads, and Citizens for Strength and Security, which is funded by unions, is spending $425,000 on ads.
And this:
Even if Democrats lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator, Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.
“Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for the process of using reconciliation,” said Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
“Getting health-care reform passed is important,” Van Hollen said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “Reconciliation is an option.”
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uh oh! Looks like some of the purple shirts have mutinied!
And the other options being “the Franken Option” or delay in seating Brown.
This is setting up to be a week of extreme frustration that will only lead to an explosive November.
Crash and burn. Patrick Kennedy doesn’t even know Coakley’s name, but she is awesomely awesome.
Heh.
I hope everybody gets that because it will cause much hardship later among you Republicans if you don’t.
It is very important to remember that although MA is routinely labeled as “the bluest of the blue states”, independent voters outnumber Dems and Reps combined. And yet the establishment pundits choose to stress that Dems outnumber Reps by 3 to 1. MA isn’t about Dems vs Reps but about citizens vs entrenched corrupt government. There is no Republican story in this election.
As the pendulum shifts away from incumbents and towards the Tea Party movement, the current GOP leadership is now finding that being Assistant Democrats is a major liability and is now trying to find a way to be the Assistant Tea Party while making it appear that they are leading it. Pathetic.
It is ironic that with the likely election of Scott Brown, an “independent” liberal, the Tea Party will have turned the corner by electing the type of candidate the “big tent” GOP was pushing but wouldn’t back in this election. That’s what happens when a party doesn’t believe in anything including its own BS. There is never any traction with anyone except those who believe in security blankets tooth fairies.
It’s great being us.
I donated twice to Brown because of what I have read here and have heard on Rush’s daily radio show. The “national” (aka beltway) Republicans are still mostly RINOs in my view and are still personae non gratae with me. The fact that they have provided minimal support to Scott Brown’s campaign is no surprise. After all, they are completely clueless as to the political climate of the country.
Good luck to Scott Brown.
He takes after his dad…too self absorbed to care about the details.
A little clarification on my last post (#5) (and not just the “and” missing between “security blankets” and “tooth fairies”), when I stressed that “There is no Republican story in this election.”, I meant that the GOP cannot spin this as a positive for themselves which many of their fans (hello Dah Riehl and Powerline) are trying to do. There is no finessing this story as a favorable for either party. Republicans will gain seats in November because they are the “other” party in an anti-incumbent “throw the bums out” election.
I also should clarify my referring to Brown as a liberal. He is clearly not Dede Scozzafava or anywhere near it. But he has demonstrated that he is independent enough to dare to challenge the status quo and their formidable money and propaganda machine. It means he is listening and learns from listening. He may never be Jim DeMint but then he will never be John McCain either. Or Martha “Marcia” Coakley.
Reconciliation? These fools should not be surprised when they are thrown of the office over irreconcilable differences.
Incredible work, Michelle, as always….
I’m going to have to print and frame this post by Michelle. It gets better every time I read it.
great post michelle; great post phil; and mr frum and like minded “let’s do a round and lunch at the club rinos” you did no heavy lifting in this race, as usual. tea party and normal folks fed up with d.c. crap brought this about. and you can bet that come november a whole lot of d.c. brahmin will be gone, from both parties. and then you can write about how lonely it is at the watering holes without your posse.
We need to all take a deep breath and not “count our chickens before they hatch”. No matter what the polls say Scott Brown’s election and seating as a US Senator is still facing long odds. We are talking about a state where the wheels of government are completely in the hands of a party that is not above “lying, cheating, and stealing, even when they aren’t under any pressure. There is no telling what the Dims are capable of when pushed into a corner.
This, in my opinion, is the money quote, Michelle. Directly related to this statement
…resulting in this
Yes, people are ANGRY! This admin just does not think that anyone is looking at them. Like a 9 year-old delinquent trying to steal a candy bar and thinking he is smarter than the adult that owns the store.
This administration gives not a rat’s a$$ if anyone sees or cares what they are doing. It’s warp speed towards complete government control over everybody’s life…or not.
I have not seen ANYWHERE putting things this clearly to everyone to see & yet it ‘s a shame that Michelle was not chosen in the top-10 Conservatives list by that clue-less British paper.
Wel done again, & thanks Michelle.
I am waiting to see what kind of names all these people will be called by the
” Elites”.
Should I wait until Wednesday morning to threaten Evan Bayh with his walking papers?
Nah. I’ll call his office today!
All this makes great theater. What would the TV stations do without this boondoggle that we call ‘elections’.
Think about how much good that money could have been used in Haiti instead of campaign commercials. Will Ma have better representation because more money was spent? not likely.
The funny thing really is how it all played out. Now, even if they don’t pass health care, they are ALL ON RECORD VOTING FOR IT. They’ll have to run on cuts to Medicare, higher taxes, increased burdens with unfunded mandates to the states – without having gotten them.
Obama has to wish he never started on health care. The very public way this plays out sours the public on Democrats especially. No Republicans is bad enough. Now they are going to try to do even more damage to their credibility to pass something that nobody wants.
It could not have come out better for the opposition. Al Franken helped too. Without their 60 votes, they would have had to have been bipartisan from the beginning. It showed how partisan they were and how petty they were to the public.
This health care debate has years and years worth of campaign ads to run against those who voted for this bill. . . and they still might not pass it.
Truth – stranger than fiction. And God is in control.
…as for David Frum, just another Democrat Ass in RHINO clothing.
They will be accused of driving around in pickup trucks as Coakley did last night to Brown with a smirk. It was an incredibly snide comment to make in a campaign speech trying to win votes and that alone should make it clear what she thinks about the non-elites.
It will be a good thing if Scott Brown and the people of Massachusetts pull this off-a good thing indeed. But this 48/40 margin, even in a Bluest of Blue States, bothers me greatly. On issue after issue the percentage of Americans holding dear to their rights as a free people, their autonomy as individuals is nowhere near as big as it should be-near 100%.
It does not seem to matter if the issue to the Right of Assembly and Petition, to worship freely, Keep and Bear Arms or Private Property there is huge percentage of our people who either do not understand those rights or feel the government is the originator of and thus can restrict them. It is only we of ““furious rejectionist frenzy of the past 12 months” that understand this? I guess so, this Talk Radio Conservative now renews his Rush 27/7 membership to irritate David Frum and other good reasons
Is this available in all 57 states?
You’re missing the point. It’s not about Brown winning this election. It is about how, in an anti-incumbent election year, the “out” party is poorly positioned to win. They declared the end of partisanship, reached across the aisle to declare war against citizens in general and conservatives (us) in particular and lost.
The Dems already know they are going to lose big in November. The irony is that the GOP is losing elections too. In NY-23, in Virginia, NJ and soon in FL (Crist), CA (DeVore) and hopefully AZ and other places. Even when the Republican candidate wins, it is OUR candidate, not the RNC’s.
The RINOs kicked us out of the party arguing “electability” and now they are losing elections to those of us they were blaming for losing elections.
There IS a God after all and He has a keen sense of humor and irony.
What are you getting with those extra 3 hours?
I had to look twice at that photo. It gave me a case of jaw drop.
The fact is, conservatives are not all typecast the way Frum and his RINO associates would prefer. The Tea Party movement is not right wing as much as it is centrist. Traditional (historical) Democrats are attracted to it because the Democratic Party used to believe most of the same things. The Democratic Party has been taken over by the radical left wing. Most old-time Democrats weren’t socialists, and most (not all) were strong supporters of American exceptionalism. Not any more. Obama is a radical leftist; always has been. Those who have lined up behind him are NOT interested in representative democracy, they are interested in enforcing their own soft tyranny. I am now convinced, and grateful, that Americans are not going to stand for it. And by the way, kudos to those SEIU members openly supporting Brown. But watch your backs, folks, your union and its thugocracy don’t play fair or by the rules.
Obama saved or created them.
Yes we ARE angry. But when we are angry, we don’t break windows, throw bottles of frozen urine at police, set fire to cars, beat up people who disagree with us or trash the neighborhood. Our protests are like family picnics and we leave the place with more friends than we came with and leave the place cleaner than when we arrived. We are what makes civilization civilized.
Patrick Kennedy: Vote for Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! She’s awesomely awesome! (hic)
This nut did’t fall to far from the old tomato stake did he?
Thanks, Michelle. I am memorizing this quote by you, expressing our core values:
Brown will win by 8-10 points…..You heard it here first!
In other news……Inside the beltway set to explode on Wednesday……
Should Congress cram Obamacare via reconciliation before Brown is certified, the first thing Brown should do is team up with DeMint and anyone else to force November candidates to pledge to overturn the bill. It will be the surest way to get elected so it shouldn’t be a tough sell.
Does anyone have a breakdown of Brown’s source of donations? I feel it must be publicized that his donations are from individuals in small amounts, as opposed to Coakley, who is supported by huge donations from DNC and SEIU, etc.
Very interesting post by RedState’s Erick Erickson today on Buzzworthy commenting on Fred Barne’s argument that regardless of how long MA delays certifying Brown’s election, Paul Kirk’s status as interim senator ends tomorrow night. He cannot cast the 60th vote by law.
Going the reconciliation route, with the extra levels of opaqueness and tricky maneuvering, will only elevate the problem for incumbents to the stratosphere. There must be a scientific name for this pathological disorder.
Sorry, Michelle. I didn’t realize you were about the report the same thing.
Yep, as swede and Pasadena Phil noted, the same Patrick Kennedy who previously e-mailed out the SOS to
is now the source of the current top headline on the Drudge Report:
The linked story says:
Michelle Malkin calls her
Maybe we should change that to
As to reconciliation: What if the Dems can’t get 51 votes?
Including the states of Chaos and Chicago I understand -if Chicago has anybody named Mark (inside joke).
From the Washington Times
Radio Equalizer’s Brian Maloney captured MSNBC’s Ed Schultz making a startling remark on his radio show yesterday about supporting voter fraud in Massachusetts, so Scott Brown would lose. The audio is below along with the transcript.
“SCHULTZ (23:02): I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right. I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ‘Cause that’s exactly what they are.”youtube
That is who they are aren’t they? Being hated by a jerk is a wonderful thing.
Whoa, don’t hold the part just yet, folks. Brown hasn’t won yet. This is MA we are talking about.
Anyway, even if Brown does win, I think it is still likely the healthcare bill will get passed.
Over the past year, I don’t know how many times I’ve seen some Washington-insider smugly say that the healthcare bill is dead. They apparently don’t get the fact that the Dem leadership has no regard for the people, voters, the rules, the law, or the Constitution. They have the majorities, and they will dictate.
It is because they understand this: it doesn’t matter if they get voted out in droves over the next few years. By passing this bill, they will have created another entitlement, which will ensure Democrat rule over the long term.
The healthcare fight is not over, regardless of who wins in MA.
Filth is the only word that comes to mind, nothing scientific about it.
Now that is crazy talk. I like it!
By Texas standards, Brown would be a RINO, he ain’t no Barry Goldwater, but he is such an improvement over the alernative, I encourage all our Bay Staters to do the right thing.
Not unlike the primaries, where 4 or 5 candidates claiming the mantle of conservative, vs 2 libs, one, Giuliani, running a pathetic campaign and open primaries allowing Demonrats to vote for McCain.
Cheesed me off deeply.
But I voted for McCain, because he was the only one with a shot to beat the Obammunist.
Compared to other Northeast Republicans, like the Maine gals and former Republican Arlene Spectre, Brown practically is Barry Goldwater.
Patrick Kennedy was the tard who got smashed and then wrecked his Lexus at 3 am, and avoided a breathalizer test and DWI by claiming Congressional immunity and saying he was on his way to the House to vote on a bill.
I suspect the DWI Killer taught him that trick.
Just how I think, Phil.
If I were a chickenpoop Dem fearing November, maybe I could hold on to my seat if I voted against it.
Or if I were a ticked off Dem who got pushed onto the liberal/progressive steamroller … maybe this is my way off.
Either way, I walk away with my head held (almost) high.
If Brown wins I think they will have a hard time getting 45 votes. There will be a horde of scared Dems trying to distance themselves from this thing and and the progressive thugs currently running this country.
Barack “who”? Obama? Never heard of him. And I only voted yes because Harry Reid told me it was a bill to lower taxes. I’m surprised as you are as to what is in this bill.
Phil, you nailed it with that one sentence.
My eldest was at the Brown rally in Worcester last evening. I would have gone too, but had obligations elsewhere; however, a steady flow of text messages kept me abreast of what was happening.
The crowd overflowed Mechanics Hall where the rally was being held, so they moved the overflow into the Crowne Plaza Hotel where they had big video screens set up.
But that too soon overflowed, so they bused more of the crowd over to the building that housed Brown’s call center in Worcester, where screens were also set up for viewing the rally.
And afterward, Scott Brown took the time to stop by both overflow venues to personally greet people, shaking hands and posing for pictures with people.
The contrast between that event and the one with Obama [the rock star] and what’s-her-name couldn’t be clearer.
Mr. Frum, those are traits most often shown by the far left, not the far right.
But don’t take my word for it. Read what the moderate Democrats at HillBuzz say about who is treating them with “anger, paranoia, and ideological extremism”.
A Brown win; will usher in the ‘RISE & FALL OF THE OBAMAN EMPIRE’ (short as it may turn out to be).
The close race is not about Coakley being a poor candidate…
…Dems are in denial; that this MA Senate election IS EXACTLY A REFERENDUM about voters rejecting the Obama Regime’s national agenda in one of the least likely states to see that happen.
Brown win or lose; it pleases me to see this race as a good sign which will resonate positively into the biz community, the market and for our nation’s future.
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It’s also significant that Obama’s visit was in Boston at Northeastern University while Brown was out in Worcester. It says that Coakley is campaigning to hold her liberal base at its heart: college students. And it reportedly fell flat.
There are some strong similarities between CA and MA in that both states are governed by liberal minorities whose base is concentrated in the largest cities. MA is not as liberal as portrayed and CA even less so. Citizens just need to retake control by refusing to get sucked into the phony and destructive Dem/Rep, liberal/conservative.
In this “us vs them” struggle, we citizens are now more united in being “us” than our one-party system is in being “them”. And we are winning.
From MM’s post:
This is indicative of the qualities I’ve noted and appreciated in Scott Brown; he takes the time to look and listen, and by doing so he learns – and then he puts what he’s learned to work for his constituents.
And he isn’t afraid to admit when he’s been wrong about something.
Those qualities are invaluable in a public servant – which is what politicians ought to be but too seldom are.
Thank you for the great post, Michelle, and for everything you’ve done to highlight this historic contest.
Of course they have not. The Republican Party is useless. We will wind up saving those morons in spite of themselves, because that is the best path for us to take to win back our country.
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Seeing SEIU and Police Union members supporting Brown changes my mind on Massachusetts voters never putting a moderate Republican in as senator.
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Finally they have wakened up to the much higher taxes Comrade Obama (PBUH) will soon put on us peons (aka taxpayers) as he changes the U.S.A. into his new United Socialist States of America. Or possibly the Christmas B**T BOMBER episode and The One’s response reminded them of the ongoing war on terrorism–and our government’s incompetence on security issues. Scott Brown wears our Country’s uniform and helps to defend us all.
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And if this miracle really occurs–The Messiah will have more S**T ON HIS FACE than ever. Nothing like backing a candidate who fails with your help.
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. And I liked the look of the SEIU members–average looking Americans. But I think they will be getting a lot of mystery “accidents” to their cars in the Union parking lot! Brave people.
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John Bibb
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This may also be a referendum on MA’s social medicine program as well.
I think President Obama is learning what equality is all about. More folks are looking to him as our President and not our First African American President. IMO, a step in the right direction for race relations in America.
The Dems will just caterwaul that they just couldn’t get their message out! Well, we the people, heard your message, and it sucks!
The only thing he is learning is it will be a lot tougher for him to implement his agenda in a patriotic America.
I just logged on and haven’t read the comments yet, so this may have been said. If so, forgive me. But I listened to Obama’s speech yesterday and most of what he said were lies. One thing he said was true, however, and really showed who Obama is. He was disparaging Scott Brown by saying “His record is very partisan. He voted with the Repubicans 96% of the time.” Like that was a bad thing! Uh…excuse me? Duh! Isn’t Brown a Republican?? Was he supposed to vote with the liberals?? I mean, how stupid was that comment? And also, Mr. Obama…if your democrats don’t vote with the democrats 100% of the time, you will break their kneecaps. Geez…that guy has definitely lost touch with reality.
On January 18th, 2010 at 10:39 am, happyscrapper said:
A lot of it was classic projection… taking the wrongdoings of Democrats and projecting it upon Republicans.
Who was it that stood on the sidelines after winning their party’s primary?
Martha Coakley.
Who was it that left the state to meet in Washington D.C. with lobbyists/protectors of the big insurance companies and big drug companies?
Martha Coakley.
Who is known for the Alinsky and Cloward-Piven methods and taking advantage of a crisis?
Democrats.
Who created the crisis at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
Democrats.
Who controlled both houses of Congress in 2007 & 2008?
Democrats.
Who used “sleight of hand” and let the other party take responsibility?
Democrats. They controlled Congress but used “sleight of hand” to constantly blame Bush. A large number of American voters mistakenly believed that Republicans, not Democrats, controlled Congress. The Democrats created the crisis and let President Bush make tough choices that he thought would rescue the economy (TARP), and then they tapped into voters’ anger and frustration in order to win the Presidency and larger majorities in Congress.
Anybody know why SEIU members would openly support Scott Brown?
What’s in it for them to support Brown? Their union is getting concessions from health care taxes …
Is it because they had to join a union to even get their job? Seriously, I don’t get it.
Are they reacting like the folks in Nebraska are?
I was going to comment about how a Brown win will mess up the Dems and the RINOS’ plans by referring to the article in Huffpo about how Brown might also mess up the RINOS’ secret plan to pass health care, too.
In checking to see if the article was still there, I saw a headline attributing a rape remark about Coakley, to Brown! However, once you click several times, you will find that someone in the audience said it, not Brown. And the jist of the nasty slur is that because Brown didn’t verbally reject the comment, he tacitly approved it. Boy are they despicable!
Maybe I should have posted this in the Ed Shulz thread about cheating.
Gladys, not all SEIU members are in liberal industries. In some places they include emergency responders, etc. People who see human misery everyday and would rather have law and order than the nanny state.
right on phil and others! this is a peaceful revolt of the citizenry who do the work, pay the taxes, and fix what’s broken, over the anarchist/communist groups who sit and squeel for gubmint to give them what their parents won’t. americans know in their heart all these wonderful social programs are ponzi schemes with the debt falling on their children and grandchildren. every time something for nothing has been tried throughout history it has come up short with massive unrest and problems. the adults need to say no to the screaming children sometimes, but that is not in professional politicians vocabulary, because as we all know, parents are hated by their children until they reach majority, then they start seeing their parents aren’t booger eating morons.
Thanks Happy, first responders, of course.
It amazes me that anyone still reads what Frum has to say. I think we do ourselves a disservice by even mentioning his name. He should be placed in the same persona non grata category as Newt and Al Sharpton IMO. The conservative media should ignore them and hopefully they will go away.
I agree.
To be fair, maybe he was just drunk. Or disoriented from an early morning car crash.
Geez just heard I might need a lawyer if Martha wins because I am a Brown volunteer? What???
http://michaelgraham.com/archives/the-ma-left-rsquo-s-coming-war-on-talk-radio/
I am less interested in his platform than I am his voting history. I am in agreement with Frum’s assessment of the candidate, even though typing that made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Brown’s a one trick pony. Kennedy, the independent, is the guy who actually deserves all this attention.
But Brown’s still better than the viable alternative, which is exactly how we’ve been choosing RINO’s for the past 30 years. The GOP must be tickled pink, because they’re playing us like fiddles.
I used to work with an attorney named Monica Coakley. So I am about 50/50 in getting it right.
Obama’s speech for Coakley. Scott Brown is for The Fat Cats.
This is a memorable FBN, Imus In The Morning commentator Dagen McDowell Quote, about what the present Government is seeking to do to us.
You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam, he is going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there…………..More HERE.
The late Bostonian, former head of Harvard and poet James Russell Lowell once asked in a beautiful poem, “What is so rare as a day in June?”
Now we could answer, “A Republican in ‘Kennedy’s Seat.”
And Dems say Tea Partiers are uncouth and uneducated.
National Review Online has this video of a Martha Coakley phone bank…..
“If a Progressive is talking in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, is the Progressive still lieing?”
The Progressive Rallying Cry was lets pass health care bill for Ted…Martha Coakley can’t find ANY Kennedy coat tails to grab onto.
Martha Joakley is trying to hold on to the Empty Suits Clown Shoes as he beeps his way through the day.
It would be a bigger travesty if this RINO hoax is accepted for why Brown wins.
Brown is winning because there are a large number of voters in MA who are quite PO’d with the arrogance of politicians of either party, and their refusal to listen to said voters.
Coakley epitomizes the attitude of the elite who believe they have no need to pay attention to the voters, and in her case, even campaign for their vote.
Brown hammering the point that it is the peoples seat illustrates this attitude perfectly.
RINO’s are similar. Swing with the wind and ignore the voters because they want so badly to be a part of the in-crowd in DC.
Phil…Your post has me busting my buttons with pride over WHO WE ARE as conservatives. You said it so well.
Good News: She found Patrick Kennedy.
Bad News: He can’t remember her name.
If they try this, Republicans should shut down the Senate.
If this is passed in this manner, the minority party may as well stay home since it can then be used for ANY legislation.
Of course, Senate rules and tradition have never gotten in the way of the socialists in the past.
Gee. Power-sharing anyone?
“Dem Mayor of Quincy, MA
endorses Scott Brown” This will have the Libtards and PMSNBC passing razor blades and cinder blocks. When Americans get mad, political parties of both stripes,we get mad.
The Brown and Hoffman races (NY-23) race shows that conservatives can favor whomever we wish, and we no longer need the GOP hierarchy to decide where the money/support goes. Rather, through the internet,we can bypass that at will. This was not manifest before on a national scale.
The real point of the Scott Brown enthusiasm is government by Democrats becoming autocratic and shutting out the voices of the poeple.
The real lesson for Republicans is, once they make their electoral gains, they must be more open to the people’s voices, their demands for a more responsive government, in their legislating than the Democrats have been. Or else as sure as I’m sitting here, the Republicans will lose their gains right back again.
I have a question. I have been hearing lots of news on early voting ballots and Scott is leading, how can the results be given out before the acutal election on Tuesday?
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letget said:
I suspect the Libtard tactic of releasing information like this to suppress voter turn out. The “Brown is winning already so why go vote”.
stillontheroad,
That does make sense. I did not think it was legal to give out that information till the election was closed.
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Ditto Bill Clinton.
Knew chap was lurking about watching all the MM folks doing the happy dance.
Prozak and Welbutrin work well, but for this one you may need a stiff double of Dewars. Cheerio! Stiff upper lip, ol’ chap.
This was at least one reason why the Republicans lost their gains in Washington state after 1994. Gingrich-among other examples of self-aggrandizing leadership he showed- couldn’t wait to push for an unneeded Congressioanl pay raise about 1995…Rep. Linda smith (R), a write-in candidate from 1994, vocally opposed Gingrich on that issue…What was her reward?…Paltry funding by the GOP when she had a good chance of replacing Sen. Patty Murray in 1996. I would say now that amongst grassroots conservatives-psychologically and organizationally- this kind of GOP stupidity can now be avoided on a natioanl scale.
We just simply walk around them now..
odumbo let’s the “progressive” cat out of the bag?? listen carefully at the 4:28 point if you can stand him that long…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJRjFhxaAz0&feature=player_embedded
Thats just another day that ends in “y” for me.
I don’t know how I would feel about a Coakley loss. She obviously does not deserve to win. I have been fairly impressed with Brown, though I think he is disingenuous on some issues like health care and cap and trade (it seems, like Romney, his position changes to suit the target audience).
The health care bill should have been wrapped up with a bow by now. It was stupid to waste time trying to bring Republicans on board and it was stupid to waste time arguing about abortion. It is entirely the fault of the Democratic Congressional leadership that they are in this situation. And it is entirely their fault they propped up such a horrible candidate when there were other, better ones.
So….I can’t say I am hoping for a Brown win, but at most I will be somewhat annoyed and curious to see what the Dem’s next move is.
Vice Moron and former Senator Joe Biden complains that the Senate doesn’t pass all its legislation on a simple majority.
Hmmm…
Source: US Senate
He’s kind of right about this. You can go back to previous Congresses and find all sorts of examples where votes for cloture occur, but the underlying bill gets less than 60.
How many of Bush’s judicial nominees were held up for being Black or Hispanic, where the Demonrat leadership didn’t want a constitutionalist off the Demonratic plantation getting too prominent on the bench.
Nobody has used the filibuster like the Demonrats.
Well…going by this list and searching the first 28 names I came up with a grand total of:
25 whites, one black and 2 people whom I could not identify race (one was named Saad and I think he may have been Arabic).
So maybe, just maybe, they were blocking people based on politics regardless of skin color?
flyoverman
According to Ann Coulter Coakley is too immoral for Ted Kennedy’s old seat.
My response Huh….
http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/18/martha-coakley-too-immoral-for-teddy-kennedys-seat/
Then maybe the Senate should stop writing its own bills and simply vote on the bills that are presented to it by the House.
That’s how the system was supposed to work.
They spend far too much time trying to figure out how to circumvent the simplest set of rules by creating a myriad of complicated rules for them to get any sympathy from me on this issue.
Too immoral?
C’mon, Coakely never actually killed a woman and failed to report it for half a day….
If morality was the Senate standard all the Demonrats, and not a few Republicans, would have to step down, and I’m not talking Mother Teresa morality, just the standard felonies and adultery type morality.
That’s also why the Senate was never supposed to be elected directly. Their power was intended to be derived from the states, not from the people.
More like a noose.