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Gingrich Calls Tim Burns 'the Next Scott Brown'

By Robert Stacy McCain on 4.28.10 @ 9:26AM

Less than three weeks remain before the May 18 special election to fill the Pennsylvania 12th District House seat formerly held by Democrat Jack Murtha, and Newt Gingrich explains the significance:

[T]his special election is a huge opportunity.
In fact, in Tim Burns I believe we have a chance to win an upset election that will reverberate through the country much like the election of Scott Brown did in January. . . .
PA-12 is a Democratic district, but it is also very rural and culturally conservative. While it had overwhelmingly elected Democrat Jack Murtha for decades, it has rapidly turned against the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine . . .
Tim Burns' opponent, Democrat Mark Critz, a former staff member of Jack Murtha, has been put in a nearly impossible situation.
He cannot support the policies his party is pushing so he has run ads saying he opposes Obamacare, is pro-life, pro-gun and that "that's not liberal." He even (eventually) came out against the left's energy tax, despite working to pass it as a congressional staffer.
However, Critz also has to raise money; and to do so, needs the national Democratic leaders that are pushing the job killing policies his district opposes. So he's taking money from Nancy Pelosi, who hosted an event for Critz in Washington, D.C., and appeared at campaign events with Vice President Joe Biden, who last week came to the district to support Critz.
Imagine trying to position yourself as opposed to Obamacare and a friend of the coal industry while surrounding yourself with anti-coal Democratic leaders who spent the last year ramming Obamacare down our throats. . . .

Read the rest. The comparison to Scott Brown's Senate campaign is perhaps more apt than even Gingrich suspects. Like the Massachusetts special election, the campaign in western Pennsylvania is attracting grassroots conservative volunteers from across the country. One of Tim Burns' local supporters, whom I spoke to by phone this morning, traveled to Massachusetts to work on the Brown campaign and, in the days leading up to election, several volunteers from Massachusetts she met during that January trip will be staying at her home in rural Washington County, Pa.

Another Pennsylvania GOP source told me last night that many voters in the 12th District "are Democrats because their grandfather survived the Great Depression" and feel "obligated to . . . the old Democratic Party." However, many of those same voters "don't like Pelosi, they don't like Obama, they don't like what's going on in Washington," he said. These are the Pennsylvanians whom Obama described as bitterly clinging to guns and God.

You can lean more about the PA12 special election at the Tim Burns campaign Web site.

View all comments (12) | Leave a comment

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.28.10 @ 10:53AM

Team America just sent a contribution to mr. Burns.
I hope you guys can too.

Let's keep the ball rolling.

bagsmkt| 4.28.10 @ 12:09PM

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A. K.| 4.29.10 @ 1:44PM

I can neither speak or read Spanish. English please

Derek Leaberry| 4.28.10 @ 12:23PM

Is this a curse Gingrich is giving Mr. Burns? Newt is King Midas in Reverse, to borrow from an old tune by The Hollies.

Margie| 4.28.10 @ 12:50PM

No curse. Conservatives know conservatives. No matter whether Newt Ok's them or not.

Go Mr. Burns! The sleeping giant is us and we are awake.

Jeanie| 4.28.10 @ 1:03PM

Go Mr. Burns GO! We are taking back our country - one election at a time -

A conservative through and through.

WM| 4.28.10 @ 2:24PM

If Critz is so opposed to his party's policies, why is he a member of that party? What kind of POS would even associate with those monsters? He's just another skulking, lying lefty shamelessly trying to pass himself off as a moderate.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.28.10 @ 2:42PM

Note to self: Dig DEEP into this guy's record before sending support. Moot Spingrinch is NOT to be trusted. Mr. Spingrinch, Speaker Pelosi called & wants you to rejoin her on the "man-made glo-bull warming" loveseat. Thoughts of the November midterm elections are giving her the chills. Moot Spingrinch, the Michael Smerconish of GOP pundits. Go away please Mr. Spingrinch!

mark tigner| 4.28.10 @ 3:04PM

I'm not a liberal, nor a conservative but I'm smart enough to know that the two parties hate each other. We must stop the over spending and Pelosi is clueless about the people of the United States of America. No one can spend there way to prosperity, except Obama and that's proving to be a disaster in the making.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.28.10 @ 7:24PM

mark tigner,
Congratulations, sir, you ARE a conservative.
2+2=4

Not complicated at all is it?

Harlan| 4.29.10 @ 7:01PM

So Newt calls Burns "the next Scott Brown". Does that mean Burns will pose as a Conservative and then, when he gets the reins of power, will reveal himself anything but? Newt's personal "Conservative" values were revealed when he was screwing around on his wife while he was impeaching BJ Clinton for lying about doing the same thing. BTW, in NY23, didn't Newt back the wrong candidate?