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GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

Dutch said:
Folks are in a bad mood out here, winny. Democratic party members seem to be the only ones that don't know this.
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And what do you think is going to change with the GOP having an extra seat in the Senate. You guys act like this is some huge change. Have you seen how our government operates? Of course you have. You know as well as I do this will make no difference.

You're not happy about any change in government, you're just happy because now the GOP can be a slightly stronger party of No. Big whoop.
 
Ikari said:
I like the RINO's because I have seen lately that those typically labeled "RINO" are actual conservatives with small government tendencies.
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Olympia Snowe, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Crist have "small government tendencies"? :confused:
 
Strucky said:
The Dems don't care.
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Yes, they do.

They may say they don't, but Babs Boxer in California is starting to **** cinder blocks. She's up for re-election and she's not popular with the Americans in her state, only with the Democrats and the Invaders.
 
Winnb said:
Um not to burst your bubble, or your hyperbole, but the GOP only controls 41% of the Senate. And they're still almost non-existent in the House. Not to mention 3 more years (at least) of Obama.

So maybe drop the iceberg analogy. More like an ice cube.
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I hate to burst your bubble but that is all it takes......Its just the beginning though, wait until November..............
 
MyOwnDrum said:
More work has yet to be done. Plus, we need a new political party.

Apparently, most of these people in MA call themselves 'Independents'.

If the Republicans want votes, they had better act independently!
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On that statement I can agree.
 
cmckinney said:
I'm pretty sure that's his daughter.

This is really isn't that shocking, considering how terrible a campaign Coakley ran. When you confuse a Red Sock for a Yankee, there is always hell to pay.
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Oh... I disagree good buddy.

She wasn't supposed to even have to campaign.

The timing of The Turn isn't so much Coakley, but the Health Care debate; when the news that Dems hadn't been open, that Obama's promise of having CSPAN in, with Pelosi telling the press to F-off, there won't be any CSPAN coverage... that's when the numbers started melting like ice in the Sahara... and that change, the fast tide was only a couple/few weeks old.

This is more to do with the Dems in the White House and on The Hill than with Coakley.

It's earth shattering. This win is as big, if not bigger than The 1994 Sweep.

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Rachel Maddow LET ME TASTE YOUR TEARS
 
Navy Pride said:
I hate to burst your bubble but that is all it takes......Its just the beginning though, wait until November..............
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We'll see. Brown reminds me of McDonnell, who recently won in VA for Governor. I doubt he's gonna be anything other than another self-important opportunist.

I suppose in a few months you guys will be calling Brown a RINO.
 
New Jersey, Virginia and now Mass...this is just a start.........I wish Kerry was up for election.......All I have to say is he had better listen to the people of Mass.........No universal socialist health care...............
 
Another important thing to note about this is that Obama has yet again failed to deliver votes for his Democrat minions. I guess that's the end of "run in, blame Bush, and hope for the best" strategy for stumping. :lol:
 
Ding Dong the Ted is dead, the wicked Ted is dead. And long live the new Republican senator from Massachusetts......Senator Scott Brown (R)
 
Hopefully the Obama Kool-aid drinkers have come out of their stupor and realized that Obama was leading us down the road to Communism. Matthews on MSNBC openly admitted his Marxist leanings. We had partisan Democrats come out and say they would cheat to win this election it was so important for them to change this nation from a democratic nation to a communist nation. We were on the precipice and stepped back from the abyss.

Having said this, the word is that Obama still intends to ram this misbegotten health bill through regardless of how many seats are lost in November. This is a modern version of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Obama is the worst president in U.S. history. And the worst is yet to come.
 
Navy Pride said:
He was after votes.....Lets see what he says now that he has won.........
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The point is that people voted for him based on the above platforms. The electorate is changing. People no longer care as much about the social issues.
 
Navy Pride said:
He is pro life, pro gun and anti gay mariage to start.......He is a hard rock conservative and ran as one........
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He won because he campaigned against Obamacare and the people of Massachusetts already have government insurance; a lot of them are very disappointed with it, as they should be, and the ones who do like it don't want national health insurance either. That's not to say his fiscal conservatism wasn't crucial in his victory, because it underpinned his entire message, but you seem to be overplaying the significance of his socially conservative stances, like abortion and gay marriage.

Moreover, his stance on the aforementioned issues can't really be encapsulated by simplistic terms like, "pro-life" and "anti-gay marriage". They're a little more nuanced than that.
 
Navy Pride said:
New Jersey, Virginia and now Mass...this is just a start.........I wish Kerry was up for election.......All I have to say is he had better listen to the people of Mass.........No universal socialist health care...............
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This is me...........smiling :2wave:
 
Winnb said:
Um not to burst your bubble, or your hyperbole, but the GOP only controls 41% of the Senate. And they're still almost non-existent in the House. Not to mention 3 more years (at least) of Obama.

So maybe drop the iceberg analogy. More like an ice cube.
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This throws a giant wrench in the Obama machine. I'm positively thrilled right now.
 
Ockham said:
Let's just hope Republicans don't act the way Republicans have acted in the past 20 years... for if they do, this will all play out again. I really hope Republicans start to embrace conservative roots and kill this liberal populist nonsense that is the modern Democratic / Progressive politics.
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I think this is the "real" lesson of the last election. The democrats thought the country wanted a liberal regime with liberal policies. I think the american public was simply tired of bush's spending policies. I'm with you. The republicans, assuming they win big this fall, better come through for us.
 
Ethereal said:
This throws a giant wrench in the Obama machine. I'm positively thrilled right now.
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And accomplishes what? Besides stroking the anti-Obama crowd.

So let's break this down. A moderate Republican won a seat in Mass. Great. Good for him!

Now do you think he would have won that seat if it had been against against Kerry or a half-alive Ted Kennedy or any heavily entrenched incumbent Senator? Hell no. He would have gotten destroyed.

So the GOP picks up one (vacated) Senate seat in a special election in January. Again. Big whoop.

Until I see serious changes in the GOP and their style of governing I refuse to get excited about any of this bull****.
 
The comments from the left are hilarious. Expect mass suicides tonight.

Not that the right didn't behave the same way in 2008.
 
Dutch said:
I think this is the "real" lesson of the last election. The democrats thought the country wanted a liberal regime with liberal policies. I think the american public was simply tired of bush's spending policies. I'm with you. The republicans, assuming they win big this fall, better come through for us.
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That, or we're going to repeat the damned cycle again. People are starting to get fed up with the government, especially over the economy. Most of us are hurting pretty bad, but those in charge don't seem to care. Whatever helps their buddies on Wallstreet and in the banking sector. That's not limited to just the democrats but I hope the GOP can understand the point that the People are sick of all the government and all the spending and getting nothing in return. We desperately need some real small government people in charge to tear things down. I really do hope we get it. I can vote for the GOP if they offer a true small government candidate.
 
Ikari said:
That, or we're going to repeat the damned cycle again. People are starting to get fed up with the government, especially over the economy. Most of us are hurting pretty bad, but those in charge don't seem to care. Whatever helps their buddies on Wallstreet and in the banking sector. That's not limited to just the democrats but I hope the GOP can understand the point that the People are sick of all the government and all the spending and getting nothing in return. We desperately need some real small government people in charge to tear things down. I really do hope we get it. I can vote for the GOP if they offer a true small government candidate.
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Well said. I can agree with that.
 
Dav said:
The comments from the left are hilarious. Expect mass suicides tonight.
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So you think someone would kill themselves over a freaking election? :roll: It not that big of a deal.
 
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