Lessons from the Brown Victory in Massachusetts

[CatholicAmerican]

2:20

"anti gay" So how do you spin positive the disordered sexual practice of stimulating your genitals on the digestive tract of a person of the same sex?

Same sex attraction is a disorder, just look at what the pro homosexuals have done to the Catholic Church. Saul Alinsky recruited Cardinals Dearden and Bernardin to destroy the formation of Catholic priests and actively recruit homosexuals into the priesthood. How many more priest scandals must we endure.

[CatholicAmerican]

2:20

"anti gay" So how do you spin positive the disordered sexual practice of stimulating your genitals on the digestive tract of a person of the same sex?

Same sex attraction is a disorder, just look at what the pro homosexuals have done to the Catholic Church. Saul Alinsky recruited Cardinals Dearden and Bernardin to destroy the formation of Catholic priests and actively recruit homosexuals into the priesthood. How many more priest scandals must we endure.

[Wildkkat1]

The problem is Washington thinks that shrinking Government is like severing an arm or a leg. Both parties fight tooth and nail to spend on their respective agenda's. The more money that goes to Washington, the more they run our lives, and it is that simple!

[yogeedogee]

@Wildkat1, And I'd like to add that they didn't spend it in the right places when they had the money---like our bridges and aging infrastructure. New England has miles of crumbling freeway overpasses. Awful!

[XCritonX]

The Brown revolution? Hummm, the name sounds kind of unappealing.

People want the Big Government Republicans and the Big Government Democrats out. Who ever shrinks government faster will win, I hope. Time for a new "Deal With The People". Put it down in writing, express it clearly and then stick to the map.

[nadeennadean26]

I thikn i need a breast reduction surgery

[Wormtail81]

The "Brown Revolution." I like it!

[xxramblingsxx]

It's not Kennedy's seat, it's the people's seat. Kennedy is dead. He was a blue-blood, privilaged drunk driver.  Let's look forward and move on.

[lancechamplain]

Wasn't cato the green hornets driver? I say driver cos I can't spell the other word. You know the french one that means driver? Starts with a C? Like what Coakley is. That begins with a C too. Hey! Coakley begins with a C. WOW! So does Cato. So is the Cato institute a school for drivers? Uh oh. Too many one hitters for today.

[AdvocatesForLiberty]

And this is why we give money to the Cato Institute (a four-star charity, by the way). When will the Republican Party get off of the gay bashing and Bible thumping. Leave folks alone and let the churches of their choices save their souls. Of course, if they really stood for small government, low taxes, more freedom, they would be LIBERTARIANS!

[screamore88]

I agree, if people truly and fully understood the economy, constitution and how government operates they would have no choice but be LIBERTARIAN!!!

[freesk8]

I like Boaz a LOT.

Yay, Cato!

Brown is a RINO. He is NOT a fiscal conservative. At least that is what his voting record in MA shows.

He helped design Romneycare for gosh sakes!

Seldom voted for a tax reduction. Seldom voted against a spending increase.

I hope he sticks to his campaign pledge to vote no on health care reform. What if he is a socialist plant!!!?

[mkwilliams]

You seem educated on Brown and MA. Tell me; how many times did Scott Brown have the opportunity to vote for a TAX CUTTING bill in MASS? Seriously? You need to bring a bill number w you!! We know where he is from and we will watch him like a hawk. BUT, you are laying out charges that are not resourced or backed up w anything of substance. I'd also like to see proof that he was the architect of RomneyCare.

[freesk8]

Hit the website for the centerforsmallgovernmentDOTcom­.

Click on the link that starts:

"Conclusion: Warning to Tea Party Activists..."

Skip the text on this page and go to the bottom and click on each of the two links "Part 1 Warning..." and "Part 2 Warning..."

These list the center's reasons for calling Brown a big government supporter.

That's all I know about his record, and I trust the folks at the Center for Small Govt.

[yogeedogee]

Brown is really an independent. Although, his views on many issues are right of center. A refreshing break from Ted Kennedy. I hope!

[UtherPendragan]

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."

-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

[UtherPendragan]

When Scott Brown said during the debate that it was not the Kennedy seat, but the people's seat. At that moment he won. All the rest is just window dressing. Both party's need to understand that We The People are sick of them doing things against our will.

[mkwilliams]

YUP!! Nail on the head comment here folks.

[jbjumpback]

Be advised:

Any politician that has even rubbed elbows with Obama has a stench on them, and because of that stench will be soundly defeated.

Not only Massachusetts,but all of America has awaken.

The ass whooping has just begun. Take it to the Bank.

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[RMMHS4RP]

I'll believe that this Brown guy is a principled opponent of the total state when I see it.

[1czelaya]

The republicans just basically need to adopt liberterian views and philosophy into their party.

If Republicans do get control of the house and senate, the only way they will stay in is by not adopting a far-right agenda. Again they need to embrace the liberterian philosophy of high personal freedom (repealing laws that constrain individual freedoms and stop protecting special segments of society- we should all be equal under the law) and high economic freedom (low taxiation).

[FlailingJunk]

Why would a career politician adopt views that will reduce his power?

[1czelaya]

Because the politician should be a servant to the people not to his/her own agenda. Government is suppose to serve the people. Not dictate its citizens. Government is the servant and the people it's master. It's a politicians duty to do whatever he/she can do to make things better for his/her fellow citizens, not to protect certain groups, push legislation that subdizes special segments of the economy, and so forth.

They are suppose to represent us (the republic).

[FlailingJunk]

I don't think they care what you think they are supposed to do.

[swastikstar2000]

Unfortunately, I never got that kind of feelings from any of our politicians we have. All are carrier oriented.

[mojavewolf]

I wish it were so, but I doubt it. Too many people think they're owed something.

[nivlac36]

The poster above is correct. National security issues were a big factor in Brown's win - not as important as opposition to healthcare but significant nonetheless.

[Auggie56]

Just get the RINO's out of the party.

[doodlehead72]

Thank god for CATO!

[Griniarns]

The Dems won by the inability of the Bush administration to defend against media attacks, and on its inability to clearly communicate the goals and principles of its government. Its big-government expansion was clear evidence of those missing principles.

But worst of all was the constant, deafening paean of 'news' media attacks for its last six years in office, equivalent to billions of dollars of negative campaigning. Small wonder the voters wanted Republicans run out of town on a rail.

[Auggie56]

You left out the constant lying on the left about President Bush.

[AmericanApologist]

Brown did run on national security. It came up in the televised debate, it was in his acceptance speech, and he campaigned on it throughout the election. How could anyone paying attention miss this?

[whoo689]

I know Cato is a radical libertarian group, but you know it's not a "gov't takeover." At the very least tell the truth, no matter how bad the bill is. Otherwise we come off looking like jackasses.

[pismo10]

It is a govt takeover if you look into it a little more and foresee the inevitable outcome a few years down the line..

[tms5018]

Not a government takeover? The Federal government is going to tell insurance companies who they must accept as customers (outlaw pre-existing conditions), how much they are allowed to charge them (community ratings), and what benefits must legally be provided (essential benefits package provisions). Plus, they are going to tell us what type of insurance we are required to own

How is that not a takeover?

[Thorbie]

Boaz is right. The democrats were never elected on their ideas. They were only elected, because the republicans in power were running the nation into the ground with increased spending, more entitlements and bigger government all around. The democrats have been doing the same, but in overdrive.

[FlailingJunk]

Back to Regan? You mean massive increases in government spending and debt Regan?

Hell no.

[pismo10]

Reagan spent too much but it was pennies compared to Obama.

[FlailingJunk]

Selling my children in to slightly less slavery is not acceptable.