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The news that Scott Brown opposes defunding Planned Parenthood probably shouldn’t be too much of a letdown for social conservative Republicans. Brown didn’t portray himself as a pro-life candidate. Unlike voters in Alaska who ended up with Lisa Murkowski as their pro-choice Republican senator, Massachusetts voters never had a real pro-life candidate to support.
Nevertheless, one reason to consider a vote for Scott Brown a pro-life vote was that he could cast a decisive vote against Obamacare, which, among its other faults, would otherwise represent a massive expansion of abortion. The news that he is now opposed in principle to defunding Planned Parenthood (he didn’t state that he would vote against a budget that defunded the organization) doesn’t change the logic of that vote.
Meanwhile, Tim Carney sees this statement from Brown as a reminder that, for political purposes, the fiscally conservative, socially liberal legislator is a fiction.
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Jonah| 3.22.11 @ 4:12PM
What else do you expect from a Northeast RINO?
God Is Truth| 3.22.11 @ 5:23PM
Something told me last year during the Tea Party hysteria around putting this man into "the people's seat" to stay away & not fund him. I now know it was advice from God, Himself & I now know why He gave this advice. It truly amazes me how some people are unfazed at the notion of getting blood on their hands. Be it directly or indirectly, it is still innocent blood nonetheless. Brown is no fiscal conservative either. That makes him an all around fork in the eye of the conservative movement & a waste of a vote. Might as well bring back Arlen Specter & re-elect him too if Brown is acceptable to The Stupid Party & the "Tea Party".
Floyd Looney | 3.22.11 @ 5:46PM
Very true, there is no such thing as a social liberal and fiscal conservative.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.11 @ 6:35PM
The Good thing about Brown is that he will vote for a Republican Majority leader in 2012, and that would be DeMint. Otherwise, he is the most Conservative politician we could expect out of the People's Republic.
Clint| 3.22.11 @ 8:21PM
Who You Kiddin'?
Mitch McConnell holds his Senate Seat to 2014.
We can't count on this RINO-CINO Traitor Brown to Vote for Our Tea Party Kingmaker & Senate Point Man Jim DeMint for Senate Majority Leader.
Brown didn't even join The Senate Tea Party Caucus.
Clint| 3.22.11 @ 8:37PM
" Brown sided with Democrats on some very important pieces of legislations, like the New START Treaty, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Financial Reform and the Jobs bill in 2010 — bills geared to increase America’s security and economic standing, but vastly different from the Teaparty’s ideas on where they wanted America to be.
Now, because of his stance on these and other issues, the Teaparty is trying to unseat Brown.
Scott Wheeler, a Republican activist whose Political Action Committee invested “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in Brown’s election campaign is livid! In a recent article Wheeler wrote called, “Why Scott Brown Must Be Defeated,” Mr. Wheeler said;
An organization I run, The National Republican Trust PAC, raised and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Scott Brown win the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat vacated upon the death of Ted Kennedy. That organization will now do everything possible to see that Brown is defeated by a primary opponent when he faces reelection in 2012. Why? Because there is no difference between him and a Democrat.
Brown is caught between a rock and a hard place. His party is turning against him, his Teaparty supporters are turning against him, and with his re-election coming up in 2012, Democrats will prefer seeing one of their own reclaim the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. Mr. Brown is feeling the uprising from all sides."
Jonah| 3.23.11 @ 12:01AM
Why vote for democrat-lite Brown when you can vote for the real thing?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.23.11 @ 8:09AM
He's from Massachusetts. That makes him a MASSHOLE. He's a LIB. He was MOLESTED, for God's sake. He's probably a closet Homosexual, for all we know. He sure VOTES like one.
hmrhonda| 3.23.11 @ 8:38AM
Scott Brown needs to get reelected. Period.
BUT someone should hand him the article by Kristen Power on where the funding to Planned Parenthood actually goes and how less than 1% of those who use Planned Parenthood replied that they have no other place to obtain contraception. He is campaigning on the idea that most people believe planned parenthood is about "contra" ception. Most people (as apparantly he himself) don't realize most of it is for abortion (either education or performance). If they did, they would feel otherwise and understand that being against Planned Parenthood is NOT being about providing contraception to the young, the poor, and the ignorant. But who has time to educate the populace during a campaign so I for one will give him a pass. THEN I want him (after he wins) to get educated, educated his constituency, and defund it.