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By W. James Antle, III on 1.17.12 @ 6:09AM

Could former Tea Party favorite Scott Brown miss out on some outside conservative support during his reelection fight?

Does Scott Brown have a Tea Party problem? For the second straight quarter, the Republican senator from Massachusetts has been outraised by his likely Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. Brown isn’t exactly in the poorhouse. He raised a respectable $3.2 million during the fourth quarter of 2011 and his $12.8 million cash on hand is more than double Warren’s.

But Warren’s impressive $5.7 million haul over the last three months of 2011 is 50 percent higher than Brown’s fundraising over the same period. The cash came in handy for a $1.6 million television ad buy in December. While Warren touts her support from small donors — she has reported that the average contribution to her campaign is just $64 — in the past she has raised up to 70 percent of her campaign moolah from out-of-state donors.

Some of these donors could be from Wall Street firms that benefit from federal bailouts. Warren told the Boston Herald last week that she was accepting donations from Wall Streeters who “want reform.” The best way to prove you want reform, naturally, is to vote with your dollars for Elizabeth Warren.

Warren has also become a genuine phenomenon among grassroots liberals across the country. She is both a darling of and an intellectual influence behind the Occupy Wall Street movement (despite earnings that make her a member of the 1 percent). Many fervently hoped Warren would be appointed head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She’s collecting lots of money from liberal voters who would now like her to hold a different job: United States senator.

Just a year ago, it was Scott Brown who was collecting vast sums of money from conservatives nationwide who hoped claiming Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat — and securing the 41st vote necessary to sustain filibusters — would halt the Obamacare juggernaut. That was then, this is now. The president’s health care bill became law despite Brown’s opposition.

“He had his uses,” a correspondent wrote to me about the disparity between Brown and Warren’s recent fundraising. “Tea Partiers needed him and he needed us.” Brown has since angered many of the out-of-state conservatives who sent money to his campaign with his support for Planned Parenthood and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Brown also voted for Dodd-Frank and backed President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray for the CFPB post once intended for Warren.

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips accused Brown of throwing conservatives “under the bus” and said the senator was motivated primarily by “self-preservation and self-promotion.” “I think there will be a primary challenge,” Greater Boston Tea Party president Christen Varley predicted in late 2010.

No serious primary challenger has emerged, nor is one likely to. Even many of Brown’s critics acknowledge that his independent streak is designed to be competitive in Massachusetts’ tough political environment. Brown will be running for reelection at the same time as Obama, who is likely to carry the commonwealth even if former Gov. Mitt Romney is the Republican presidential nominee. On Election Day Brown will need Massachusetts’ unaffiliated voters more than Tea Party sympathizers living far from New England.

Where the drop-off in conservative support could hurt Brown, however, is in out-of-state fundraising. Brown can’t count on the kind of outside help he enjoyed in the special election, while Warren is holding successful money bombs. Conservative money will flow to other Republican candidates in the busy 2012 election cycle and Warren will be the new sensation.

Crossroads GPS has done some advertising in Massachusetts — Warren has called the group’s adviser Karl Rove Brown’s “wing man” — though Brown isn’t encouraging third party ads. Many grassroots conservatives seem at best indifferent to Brown’s fate this time around, however.

Scott Brown is the rare Massachusetts Republican who has never lost an election. He knows how to win in hostile territory and under difficult circumstances. But this time around, some conservatives won’t lift a finger to help him even if necessary to keep an Occupy ally out of the Senate. Brown will have to concentrate on the late Bay Stater Tip O’Neill’s maxim that all politics is local instead.

About the Author

W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.

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Jack in Wi.| 1.17.12 @ 6:28AM

Just another rhino. The party is better without him. The same can be said for Hatch, Lugar, Tommy Thompson, Hutcheson, the Maine twins, Kirk, McConnell. Murkowski, etc.

Nick099| 1.17.12 @ 10:51AM

That is all we have in the Northeast. Remember, this is Progressive Marxist Imbecile central. Even if you are a gifted orator and cunning politician, as a Conservative, the Media would ignore you and the idiot sheeple would blindly believe them. Tis is harsh I know. But can you reconcile a people who decry high taxes, corruption, crime, violence, lousy home prices, and poor education yet continue to blindly vote for the same party and people who have overseen those events so miserably for decades???? Itś called stupidity. So Brown is doing the best he can. Better yet, Tea party folks are being very foolish.....look what is the alternative....Elizabeth Warren. Beter to have a 75% Republican than a 1000% Marxist Democrat.

crooked wren| 1.17.12 @ 11:03AM

Agreed. Warren is to the Left of Brown.

I understand the difficulty, Tea Partiers. It's a quandry. We know the stripes on both these cats, and it's that old political trap -- voting against someone rather than for someone. The better of two evils. Etc.

But wouldn't Brown be fine with a repeal of ObamaCare? Or has he changed his mind on that?

Trish| 1.17.12 @ 7:56PM

While he has been a horrible disappointment to the conservatives who supported him, he did vote against Obamacare. My dear friend worked tirelessly for Brown. She will not do so this time. She will vote for him but that is all. I have friends from Mich. who stayed in Boston for weeks to work on his campaign. Not this time. I have not sent him any money as I did last go round. I hope he gets re-elected, but he lied to folks and that does not sit well.

David in MA| 1.19.12 @ 12:33PM

How did he lie?

denise| 1.17.12 @ 9:46PM

I agree with most of what you say, or at least understand why you it, but why waste the campaign cash for a moderate when we can't depend on their vote when it counts. At least we know our enemies when their in their blue chairs. Murkowski is a perfect example, she won re-election with the help of democrats in Alaska.

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 11:25AM

Jack,

How about we support these "RINO's" from the Northeast in the hopes that they will move their states, districts, etc. in the right direction instead of cutting off our nose to spite our face?

I say we support these clowns but reduce their influence in the party as a whole. Scott Brown, the Maine Twins, etc. would sit on very few committees unless they could demonstrably prove the districts they represent have become more conservative (if only slightly) because of their leadership.

Come on. Lets get real. Elizabeth Warren is a HUGE rising star in the liberal community and we simply cannot allow her to be a voice in the senate.

Bite the bullet, hold your noses and support Brown.

denise| 1.17.12 @ 9:49PM

But lets put one of them in the White House, right? Nope.

denise| 1.17.12 @ 9:51PM

I'm tired of holding my nose aren't you? Stop letting the republican establishment have control, just look how they have handled the House/Obama this last year.

Bob Grant| 1.18.12 @ 2:01PM

I didn't say anything about allowing RINO's or "the establishment" to have control.

I'm saying smart politics dictates a Scott Brown is about as good as your going to get in a state like Massachusetts and would be much, much better than the alternative across the aisle.

I would get him re-elected and then tell him in no uncertain terms he will have no sway in the party. If he finds this unacceptable, then he can pull a Specter if he so chooses.

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 11:33AM

...in addition.

A RINO in the northeast is tolerable, a necessary evil.

RINO's in heavily conservative areas - however - ala Bush, McCain, Murkowski, etc, are completely unacceptable and should be shunned and booted out!!!

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 4:24PM

Bob, what you suggest requires the ability to think in a logical progression. Let's see now. If we elect a Republican President and give him a Republican majority in the Senate, by golly we could probably end up with a Strict Constructionist on the Supreme Court, we could probably repeal Obamacare, we could probably cut government spending, we could probably actually reduce the size of government. But, no way in hell am I going to support Scott Brown for re-election. He's just another RINO. Nope, not gonna do it. Unfortunately, Bob, that's the way too many Conservatives think. Their idealogy gets in the way of winning and the nation suffers. Idiocy!

Quartermaster| 1.17.12 @ 5:53PM

The major reason the Liberals are able to keep their dogs liberal is by punishing them when they stray from the reservation. To reward Brown is to go against the simple fact that what you reward, you get, and what you punish, you get less of. If brown survives by the skin of his teeth, you go to him and ask him if he wants help from the people who got him there, or if he wants to keep kicking them in the teeth. The NE RINOs are what they are because they have paid no price for betraying us.

I would contend that Brown is a lot less then 75% GOP. A lot less. Same with the Maine twins.

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 7:54PM

The simple fact is a Goldwater conservative will never compete in a state like Massachusetts. Plain and simple!

It's madness to kick a Cocker Spaniel for not acting like a Golden Retriever.

Punish Brown all you want but all it will lead to christening the next superstar in the liberal community: Elizabeth Warren.

I say support this clown, get him elected, and ignore/shun him for the next six years.

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 7:58PM

We gotta play this smart. Like you said, we need his vote on the really, really important matters like repealing much of the dictator's legislation and, hopefully, nominating a few Supreme Court justices.

Unfortunately, there are too many conservatives who would prefer to be ideologically pure and go down with the ship than moving the ball forward just a bit.

Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:49AM

Yeah. So if we have 49, and they have 51, it''s better for Conservatives if Harry gets re-elected Majority Leader and sets the legislative agenda in the Senate because our guy wasn't as CONSERVATIVE as Jim DeMint in MASSACHUSETTS?

Jim wants Conservatives elected, but ask him if he buys that logic.

Clint| 1.17.12 @ 6:30AM

" Sen. Scott Brown has thrown his tea party supporters “under the bus” with his recent critiques of some Republican budget cut proposals, a movement leader said Friday.

Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, on Thursday denounced GOP suggestions to cut social and cultural programs as “irresponsible,” and Judson Phillips, a leader of Tea Party Nation, is steamed.

“Brown is a politician, and that is meant in the worst sense of the word politician,” Phillips wrote on his blog. “Scott Brown used the Tea Party to get elected. Now he no longer needs this movement and we are tossed under the bus.”

The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.

Richard Baker| 1.17.12 @ 6:42AM

He wants to be seen as a conservative but act like a liberal. Believe that's called being two-faced. As you reap, so shall you sow. Duplicitousness will have him back his pre-Senatorial job. Hope he enjoyed his time in DC.

Mender| 1.17.12 @ 10:33AM

He's from a state where 86% of voters support civil unions or gay marriages. If he ran as Pat Toomey, he would have lost.

Face facts, not trusting him to do as he sees fit given where he's from probably means accepting that the GOP will never be truly competitive in the north-east.

Doug| 1.18.12 @ 12:22PM

The problem is that too many of the Northeast "Republicans" vote for the Democrat's agenda. The Maine girls constantly sided with Dems against Bush and work with Reid to help Obama. Better to have someone who you know will vote against you than someone who indicates one thing and votes another.

Mike Hawk| 1.17.12 @ 6:52AM

Given a choice between a Liberal Democrat and a Liberal Republican, Liberals will take the Democrat every time. Why do RINO's like Brown think this will change. He is dumber than Jack.

Michael Tomlinson| 1.17.12 @ 6:54AM

I'm sure a Senator Elizabeth Warren will be more "conservative" than Scott Brown probably like Harry Reid's "bitch" blue lapdog Jim Webb or the Obama's other vaunted "conservative" blue lapdogs.

Scott Brown is a bit like RINO Ron "First Class Only" Paul except that Brown's support doesn't come heavily from the leftists and he doesn't use George Soros as a source to bash real conservatives. Between the two I'd trust Brown more than RINO Ron "Jihad Jane" Paul.

Clint| 1.17.12 @ 7:19AM

We Ain't Buyin' Your RINO-CINO "Lesser Evil" Arlen Specter Crap Sandwich, RINO-CINO Boy.

" Palmetto State Tea Party favorite and GOP heavyweight endorses Ron Paul

COLUMBIA, SC – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul received today the key endorsement of tea party favorite and South Carolina political heavyweight, state Sen. Tom Davis (R-Beaufort)."

The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 2:30PM

Clint,

Aren't you at least A LITTLE embarrassed at your Boy Toy's performance last night?

His incoherent ramblings on foreign policy SHOULD put his supporters to shame.

But then again, there's a reason you and your ilk are referred to as RonBots.

Let the worshiping continue...

Bob Grant| 1.17.12 @ 3:10PM

Or is it PaulBots?...who knows, who cares!!

Matthew Quigley| 1.18.12 @ 12:07AM

I've heard them called Rongoloids and Ronulans.

emo| 1.17.12 @ 6:54PM

yeah, youre buddy Paul is going to come in 3rd or 4th in SC. Also among Tea Partiers, I bet the #1 choice in Gingrich, not Paul

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 11:04AM

The thing a lot of people are forgetting, Mike (and I agree with you) is that Scott would vote for McConnell or DeMint for Majority leader and Warren would be a vote for Reid.

Paulbots, like their master, have no sense of practical politics. That's why Ron Paul's legislative record at the end of his unlamented run will be nil.

Joe M| 1.17.12 @ 6:57AM

As a conservative living behind enemy lines in Massachusetts, I make no bones defending Scott Brown. However, we must not take our eyes off the prize, repealing Obamacare! Scott Brown has said he would vote to repeal that disaster, and we're going to need 60 votes in the senate to break a democrat filibuster. After Obamacare is repealed, Scott Brown is a Massachusetts moderate that conservatives can live without, in 2018.....but we need him in 2012 just like he still needs us.

Timothy L. Pennell| 1.17.12 @ 7:31AM

Fool me once.

He got his chance to be something special, and he p*ssed it away.

These Republicans, in Red States, never learn. A man must remain True to his Beliefs, especially in the Lion's Den.

The Scott Browns, of the world, owe US, for their Seats in Congress. So, why do they always seek APPROVAL, from those who would rather see them dead? (Politically)

They never learn.

Purp| 1.17.12 @ 8:13AM

Hate to tell you, but Massachusetts is a Blue State. He's just following in Willard's footsteps, "tell me how to win in Massachusetts without upsetting too many Republicans" - they both believe in nothing except their own ego.

Timothy L. Pennell| 1.17.12 @ 9:02AM

Ya got me.

Whatta ya know: I'm human.

Blue State.

Al Adab| 1.17.12 @ 2:02PM

Actually guys, red is the color of the Soxcialist international and the revolution. Maybe we got it backwards?

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 4:30PM

Al, The Press decided who was going to be described as "Red". No way they were going to allow the liberal states to be tagged with that label. They didn't get it backwards, they got it just the way they wanted it. I remember the first time I heard the states described as Red or Blue, I think it was Wolfe Blitzer on CNN, and I thought to myself someone is a marketing genius. One more way to sublimate for the great unwashed.

Indy| 1.17.12 @ 7:32AM

He has to win on his own, he completely dumped the Tea Party as soon as he was elected. His vote for Dodd-Frank along with his embrace of John McCain tells us all we need to know. I understand in MA you will not elect a true conservative, I hope he wins because Warren is a radical leftist but if I am going to chose candidates to actively work to elect, Brown is not one I will waste my time.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 11:06AM

Brown might be the one you want to work with, not because he isn't a snake (he is), but because we need a guy in Massachusetts who will vote to let Republicans set the agenda from Massachusetts.

In other words, who will help DeMint more from the most execrable State in the Union?

Indy| 1.17.12 @ 12:45PM

I understand your point and I hope Brown wins, I have a limited amout of time to help candidates by making calls, I will focus on those I can believe in, Brown is a big boy, get in the truck and engage with voters, make the case why he is the best candidate for MA over radical Warren. He voted for Dodd Frank and the over-reaching Consumer Protection Agency, it's up to him to defend, I cannot.

Spoonman| 1.17.12 @ 3:58PM

Scott Brown is the best person to represent Massachusetts in the Senate. Warren is a snake in the grass just like Reed/Pelosi/Obama - if you cannot find time to help him, send his campaign a donation. I live in New Hampshire and I supported him before and have made a donation this year to his campaign. A rino Senator Brown is worth far more to our cause than a elephant like Warren.

RR Crossing| 1.17.12 @ 7:33AM

Joe M. while I understand that Sen. Brown might say he will indeed place his votes to undue Obamacare, well, talk is very cheap.

He is not a good man; Scott Brown cannot obtain forgiveness for that.

He crossed a moral line. He obviously 1) has no morals, 2) hasn't the acumen to be where he's been permitted to serve by God Almighty.

Dump Brown in 2012.

He is neither a good nor godly man. (And he's trampled mightily on all the good will, sweat and toil that Tea Partiers gave him so freely -- gave so that he would have this opportunity. Without them, he's nothing. And yet he's dissed them all, in layman's terms.)

RR Crossing| 1.17.12 @ 7:41AM

Something deleted part of my remarks above.

I referred to specifically Scott Brown's vote in the U.S. Senate allowing full homosexuals participation in the U.S. military. (the ending of DADT)

This, Mr. Brown, is unforgiveable.

You stabbed the good America and the good Americans in the back with that.

He simply has no idea what he's doing or why God has allowed him this moment to serve.

(Frankly most of us in flyover country don't hear much about Sen. Brown unless one tries to do so. He quieted a good bit after going on his hawking his own book TV, radio, and photostop tours.)

That should also tell many about Sen. Brown. He campaigns telling Massachusetts voters that the nation is imperiled! Action is needed!

Yet his primary actions upon reaching Washington were feathering his own cap with plenty of speaking engagements and plenty of time to do this book and then sell it like the snake oil it is.

If the nation is in its 11th hour and terribly dire straits (it indeed is), where do U.S. Senators have time to do book deals, work with authors, do the photo layouts, review, talk to publishers, etc. etc.?

He's just one more self-serving, selfish imp.

Sad. (We were all conned once more -- same old story)

Bob K.| 1.17.12 @ 9:46AM

Makes no difference to me.

I stopped giving to Republican Senatorial Campaign committes and any kind of Republican Campaign committee collecting money under any name (including the Tea Party) for any office long ago. No one knows where that money goes.

I donate directly to the individual.

PolishKnight| 1.17.12 @ 9:50AM

Regarding the article's main issue, campaign fundraising, it probably doesn't make a serious difference. Unless the difference is steep (one candidate has a massive war chest and the other doesn't) AND they have the media on their side (the left), then the voters will generally make up their own minds using a minimum of information. After I've seen an attack ad once, I needn't see it again 40 more times to get the message.

Al Adab| 1.17.12 @ 10:21AM

Conservatives have been disappointed time and again by taking "the best they can get" and ending up with a Nixon, Dole, McCain and so on. Now we are faced with a Romney, an even greater failing.

Is it any wonder that the money and support dries up when those nominated or elected by the Conservatives govern as though they are expected to compromise with The Left.

Mender| 1.17.12 @ 10:37AM

So how do you propose that the GOP will win in culturally liberal states? Or should it just give up on them?

I would describe Brown as a 'Massachusetts conservative': on the spectrum of local political opinion, he's conservative. You won't ever get much better, sorry.

John Navratil| 1.17.12 @ 11:34AM

Mender,

If those in a culturally liberal state want liberal government (as much as I would like to shake sense into them), a conservative should not win. Of course the GOP should push its message. Supporting candidates who can push the message can help build the foundation for change. Without the foundation, one cannot build the house. Without a Conservative candidate, one cannot built the foundation for Conservatism. Scott Brown is the best example of this.

If the choice is to have the GOP abandon Conservatives, as they have for the last thirty years, in order to capture the seats, what do we have? Democrat-lite. You may have it!

Unfortunately, government is the natural home for the Liberal/Progressive. Not for the Conservative. To those who adhere to Thoreau's maxim: "That government is best which governs least", the position of the GOP for the last generation is "That government is best which governs less." It is oxymoronic.

Of course winning seats is critical to advancing an agenda. But not if the seat is filled with "wets."

Al Adab| 1.17.12 @ 11:54AM

Mender:
Voters in MA can and should support the best they can get. That being said, it does not obligate others on a national scale to support what they may perceive as a liberal republican. If, for example, Scott Brown is the best MA GOP can do, so be it. He will vote with the GOP to organize Congress. Nonetheless, we should not be surprised when his record is not a Conservative one. Romney may represent the right of the MA GOP, but he certainly is to the partys' left on the national scale. How far has independence fallen since the siege of Boston? Would we expect the "embattled farmers" to take such a stand today?

rhcrest| 1.19.12 @ 1:49PM

Isn't it ironic that here in Boston was where it all started and here Boston is now a symbol of where it is all ending. The Founding Fathers must be rolling.

Occam's Tool| 1.17.12 @ 11:08AM

Of course, all politics is local. I plan to donate to Cravaack and Klobuchar's opponent. But I would not write out Brown, because he will vote FOR a Republican Majority Leader, just like Ben Nelson, the "Conservative" D from Nebraska, voted for Reid. We need numbers.

John Navratil| 1.17.12 @ 11:38AM

Occam's Tool,

Do you count Olympia Snowe and Susan (I'm just advancing Obamacare procedurally) Collins among those numbers? Collins' principles have cost us mightily!

Sure it's better that they are R's than D's, but not by much.

Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:53AM

They are assholes in maine, yes? Agreed. But who will they vote for for Majority leader? Now, if you can get a more VIABLE Conservative in Maine or Mass, be my guest. But the goal in the Senate is to set the legislative agenda. Brown and the Maine harridans will be voting for, say, Jim DeMint, and then go to the back bench, where they belong.

KennesawJack| 1.17.12 @ 4:34PM

OT, you have it exactly right. At the end of the day, my enemy's's enemy is my friend.

Anthony| 1.17.12 @ 11:15AM

Brown needs to twist in the wind a bit longer. As someone who sent him money the last time, Brown needs to "get his mind right".
Beating a hard core Marxist like Warren should not be that hard, Scott. Get back to conservative basics!!

Purple Lips| 1.17.12 @ 12:03PM

I think the Log Cabin Republicans will continue to give him money. They just loved his nude photo form the 80s.

Pete| 1.17.12 @ 12:14PM

The Tea Party needs to run a third party candidate. Take a liberal state like Mass and Republicans become RINOS.

Joe D.| 1.17.12 @ 12:32PM

Why should he get money. He was a con-man. He was no conservative. He is a north Eastern liberal. When has he voted conservative since he has been in office. I can point to many liberal votes. We have better conservatives to give our votes and money to. If he had just voted right 50% of the time that would have been enough given he votes for Mass.

Benson II| 1.17.12 @ 1:02PM

Brown sure won't receive any money from me. All these excuses about him coming from a liberal state just don't fly. If he loses we just need to replace him with a Republican from a different state and with many more so we have a majority in the Senate.
Brown can take a flying leap as far as I'm concerned. He pretended he had some conservative leanings and then voted as far liberal as you can get. Replacing him with a Democrat liberal won't change anything we don't already have.

Ed| 1.17.12 @ 3:29PM

Good points. Warren will be worse, he's the best you can expect out of Massachusetts, blah, blah, blah. He doesn't get support based on breathing. If he wants to be a liberal R, then liberal R's can pony up the cash for their preferred candidate. No tea party/conservative R should waste a nickel on him. Wish him luck, hope he wins, no money and no help.

RCV| 1.17.12 @ 3:34PM

Brown is toast. Elizabeth Warren will be representing Mass. in the Senate come 2013. And she'll be a national player after that.

Please, republicans, concentrate your fire on Collins and Snowe. We need those seats as well!

Occam's Tool| 1.25.12 @ 12:54AM

Maybe, RCV. But I recall this lesbian bathhouse in Boston...;)

PattyMor| 1.17.12 @ 4:50PM

If Mass. goes for the Marxist Warren, then so be it. Scotty will get none of my money this time around. I'm donating it to more worthy causes.
Voting for the federal take over of finance (Dodd Frank) tells it all. Alnd they put this shadow agency in the Federal Reserve. Wonder why Obamantion wanted the head confirmed so quickly. Look at what's happening in Euroland. Financial repression and financial walls.

emo| 1.17.12 @ 6:48PM

Let's see:

Warren wins
GOP loses Senate by 1 vote
Warren becomes a star in the Dem party and unapologetically argues for socialism
Warren becomes Dem VP candidate in 2016
Warren becomes VP in Jan 2017.

GOP is the stupid party, but the conservative movement is the stupid movement

PCP Smoker| 1.17.12 @ 9:21PM

Time for this RINO garbage to go back to MA. If this country is to die from socialism, then let it be the Democrats who pull the trigger.

PCP Smoker| 1.17.12 @ 9:26PM

One more thing, remember when the likes of Brown tell us they are hard rock conservatives on fiscal issues? Glad that wasn't the case with Frank-Dodd

rightasrain| 1.17.12 @ 9:35PM

If we have to rely on Scott Brown for anything, we're in bigger trouble than we think. By all means, vote for him. But my limited time and money is much better spent on worthier candidates.

Soljerblue| 1.18.12 @ 6:14PM

megadittoes!

Steve| 1.17.12 @ 9:50PM

Fool me once...

POST American| 1.17.12 @ 9:52PM

--------------------BOTTOM LINE----------------------

Over 74% of all contributions from
the US Armed Forces to this year's
presidential candidates are going to
--------------RON PAUL----------------.

Seems SOME people have had enough.

Soljerblue| 1.18.12 @ 6:13PM

If the people of MA want Brown back, let them support him! With a war chest twice what Warren has in hand, he doesn't need "outside" conservative money. This Alabama Tea Party conservative will send his money to conservative senate candidates in other races. No RINOs need apply.

Brian| 1.19.12 @ 3:23AM

Don't worry, the RNC will stuff Brown's coffers with cash. They give 6 to 1 to RINO. And remember, every $1 dollar you give to Demint frees up $6 for a RINO

David in MA| 1.19.12 @ 12:31PM

In my opinion Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's funding should be looked into, I would not be suprised if much of it came from people like soros and even foriegn countries,
Elizabeth Warren is an obozo in a skirt, and I further believe a socialist to the core.
NO vote for her from me!

Jim Cooke | 1.19.12 @ 12:59PM

Really! Could you retire this "Kennedy Seat" conversation? Mr. Brown is in John Quincy Adams Senate Seat. Get used to it. He is bound to please and displease as he votes his conscience. Perhaps a vengeful party will one day turn on him for getting out of lock-step with his constituency - just as the Federalists did with JQA. The Tea Party is everybody's problem, not just Brown's.

Ron Thompson| 1.19.12 @ 9:45PM

To replace Kennedy a middle of the road person looked like a Conservative. Sort of like Fox and the other media outlets. Now, one thing people should look at is; do you want a full blown Communist in Congress or would you like a middle of the road person? Personally, I think that Brown has got the message, and to fork over an election to a Communist will be a huge mistake! I really think Brown should go back other wise it's over!

POST American| 1.23.12 @ 11:32PM

------74% of ALLLLLLL military donations
to candidates are NOW going to -------RON PAUL.

--------------------CASE CLOSED-----------------------

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