But he has broken the spell over DC that was pushing the monstrosity forward. We still have to keep watch. I fully expect more closed back room middle of the night shenanigans. But now we have a chance to stop them. Just yesterday Nancy broke from her 0-script. And the closer we get to election day, the more nervous the blue dogs get about their crazy aunt running The House and their crazy uncle running the Senate. They’ll want them mostly locked away in the attic while they run their campaigns to hold their seats in those purple/red districts. I stand by my statement that it Obamacare won’t be dead until January 21, 2011 at the earliest, but we’ve got real hope now. Before it was more prayer.

He probably won’t get re-elected just by catering to the Massachussetts conservatives. He has a fine tight line to walk and he has to throw his Democrat supporters a bone once and again. I don’t love it, but I understand it.

I don’t see anything here that causes me concern that he’ll vote for Obama/ReidCare. He believes reform of some kind is necessary, but I don’t think there are many people who are arguing that’s not the case. I’ll wait and see before ultimately judging, but I remain hopeful that his ideas of reform are along the lines of other conservatives’ ideas.

I do believe that Brown will end up being a bit more moderate than most people at RedState, myself included, would like. At the end of the day, though, he’s representing Massachusetts and they are just not as conservative as most of us here are.

We have to remind ourselves that Brown’s victory was not just a victory for Republicans, but a symbolic gesture that has already sent a powerful message to the liberals in Washington — no matter how Brown ends up voting on the issues.

…so I’m not surprised he’s taking this tack. That’s what liberal Republicans do, they go wobbly. He may not be an establishment Republican, and he may not even be a RINO, but he certainly isn’t a tea party conservative.

in his ear, so he’ll feel like he can go all “mavericky” whenever it suits him. Somehow the message needs to be gotten to him that it wasn’t John McCain, the person who lost MA by twenty-something, who got him elected.

I can understand true conservatives being concerned about Scott Brown having a wobbly spine, but consider the alternative. Coakley is to the Left of Obama and Brown is to the Right of McCain. He’s already said he would vote against funding the closing of Gitmo and believes water boarding is not toture. He is already more Right than a third of our Rebublican Senators.

I think he’ll do fine, not perfect.

IF he votes for it he will be gone in 2012! He needs the Republicans and TEA Party people in MA as much as he needs the D’s in MA and all of those factions want this bill DEAD and if that is the ONLY thing he does for ME personally then that is all I expect of him. He has to do political speak for the sake of STUPIDITY because they all do it but when his honesty is called into question like The Idiot with his CSPAN LIES he will go down so fast as to make his head spin!

The question is how much or how little to do and how to attack it, but if he were to say he was going to vote against any health care plan that would be stupid.

…it would have been unthinkable for even an Olympia Snow or Susan Collins RINO to take the “Kennedy seat.” Clearly it was the conservative and Tea Partiers’ fervor that made the Scott Brown victory possible, but that in no way can be expected to transform a Massachusetts Republican into a red-state conservative.

In Brown’s post-election speech, he said that he (paraphrasing) is determined first and foremost ‘to represent the interests of and be responsive to the people of his state;’ that’s what he’s supposed to do (within the confines of the US Constitution).

Of the three legs of the Republican stool, the one that most often gets short shrift is fiscal conservatism. Judging by the behavior of the entire party in the past decade, even the Senators and Congressmen who we generally consider to be the best of conservatives have been MISERABLE in the fiscal conservatism department. They talk a good game but they were ALL in on the spending spree.

If Scott Brown is ONLY with us as a fiscal conservative then he will be adding a lot to the Party. But he has said the right things on National Security too which means that he is good for two of the three legs and that makes him as good as most of the Republican Senators and perhaps better than a lot of them.

At least for now, having given us the most hopeful week of political activity since the elections in 2004 he deserves some credit and the benefit of the doubt.

it was off in that clip

,,.but as Gillibrand proved, up there people will say anything. He has much proving to do. Time will tell. (Check out Carly Fiorina in CA to see a west coast version of this forked-tongue two-step.)

What is significant about this (his) election , other than the obvious victory for and by the American people in dodging the health care bullet, and others, and scaring the crap out of every Member of Congress….

…is that is was conservatives who made this happen. You (RS and others) made this happen, and there is now a sudden power shift inside the GOP, where, as we speak, the kitchen help are out dusting off a chair, and setting a place at the grown-up’s table for the conservative movement…just as soon as they can figure out which one of you to invite.

Ha!

several of their commentators saying that he would have to be bipartisan. LOL with being bipartisan with uber left policies and bribes for votes.

Personally I would have loved an argument instead of a handshake with Harry Reid from a Foxnews clip, or a “I’m hear to take your job,” in the same scene.

This seems to be more of an anti uber liberal phenom.

You settle for half a pie…this is one case…a RARE case…I always say, “What is his record”?
Ignore what is said, watch what is done…the best saying about politics ever…
I am concerned that both left and right are now sniping DAILY about Brown…good grief, give this guy till June before dropping the hammer.
Repeat after me, Teddy K held this seat 4 ever!!!

For the Republicans to have control of the chamber so that we drive the agenda, we need 51 Senators.

To block the worst of the Democrats, we need 41 Senators.

The NE Repubicans will for the most part be on our side on strong national defense, fiscal responsibility in government.

If we can get to 51 to 54 by the time 2012 runs and find a good candidate then we get another four years of putting people on the courts and that is another area where the NE moderates come in handy.

I will take pretty much any Senator from NY, DE, ME, NJ, MA, CT, IL, or CA.