I wouldn’t call Brown a conservative either actually, but still a far sight better than Coakley.

The really funny thing about the NRSC in this case is that this is the general election and they should be there helping. Instead they are too busy pushing agendas in the primary races elsewhere.

This should upset every republican, regardless of how conservative they may be.

There is nothing wishy washy about being tactical or working with shades of gray.

You’re fond of calling me a purist for going after RINOs like I do but here is a specific example where backing a pro choice socially liberal Republican is the right thing to do. I’ve never been as black and white as you paint me so here we have an instance were the right thing to do is back Browne….full bore because this is Ted Kennedy’s seat for Pete’s sake, even a moderately good showing would yield dividends for the Republican Party….

The Party gave #1,000,000 to Scozzafava to attack Doug Hoffman, they gave millions to Weld in his Senate run….they pour millions into races for Kirk, Castle and other Liberal Republicans in primary after primary…and now we have a special election in an off year and there is nothing else for them to spend money on at the moment….it’s a season when the Dems numbers are dropping like a stone…the public is pissed beyond measure because the Dems are forcing HCR through against their expressed wishes….I would argue this is the absolute best time to double down and put everything we have in this….

Now…contrast $50,000 which is barely enough to cover filing fees and office space….and this after the millions the national offices give to Weld in his Bids for the Senate.

But I was really commenting on the extremes. Do you really think they would promote a “moderate” if Brown was polling ahead of Coakley?

Maybe what I said is extreme…and maybe even absurd…but I wouldn’t say it is insanely absurd when they were out pushing several different moderates to run against Toomey who was running ahead of Specter after he made his switch! if you take the whole of the NRSC’s behavior of late I don’t see why what I said is a stretch at all!

finally…this plays into something I’ve been saying for a long time…if you refuse to fight the battle…then the battle is lost….the NE Establishment has refused to fight for decades now all the while pointing the finger at southerners and conservatives as an excuse for their virtual extinction…this is just one more example of them following the same failed strategy of refusing to fight while expecting to win for doing NOTHING!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson