Teabaggers plan to teabag Scott Brown, Senator from MA, for voting like a Senator from MA. USA! USA!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Monday, Dec 27, 2010 11:47 ET
War Room
And the Tea Party's next target is ... Scott Brown?!

Look what happens when a senator from Massachusetts starts voting like ... a senator from Massachusetts

By Steve Kornacki

http://www.salon.com/news/scott_brown/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/27/scott_brown_tea_party



It was probably inevitable that we'd reach this point, but Tea Party activists and social conservative activists are now talking openly about backing a Republican primary challenger against Scott Brown in 2012.

"I think that there will be a primary challenge," Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party, told the Boston Globe last Friday. "There’s enough of an underground movement in the Tea Party movement as seeing him as not being conservative enough. There probably will be multiple people who attempt to run against him."

Brown's latest (supposed) crimes against conservatism include his support for the New Start treaty and for repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in the Senate last week -- this after he voted for Wall Street reform over the summer and a jobs bills back in February.

It's tempting to dismiss the right's threats. After all, Brown remains surprisingly popular in Massachusetts -- he's consistently scored better than John Kerry in polling since taking office -- he's armed himself with an impressive bankroll, and there's really no big- (or moderately big-) name conservative challenger waiting in the wings. Plus, we're talking about Massachusetts here: Brown's votes may place him to the left of most Republicans in the Senate, but he is also, on the whole, far more conservative than just about any Democrat who might otherwise hold the seat. He's doing what he needs to survive in a strongly Democratic state, in other words; surely, conservatives recognize and appreciate this at some level.

[Joanne98]

1. LOL they're just trying to intimidate him into voting the way they want.

[hughee99]

2. They should be more like us, and back their candidate no matter how they vote on the issues.

:sarcasm:

Isn't this exactly the sort of thing DUers talk about all the time when one of our guys screws us over, only when it comes time to put up, the "A vote for X is a vote for the repukes" people come out and Dino's get reelected.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. It's true...they hate R.I.N.O.s, we hate D.I.N.O.s...

...but the fun comes in establishing the point on the graph where they rise up in arms (us too, I guess).

It's not always a Joe Lieberman-scale seismic shift. Sometimes it's a tiny little affront that results in calls for their head on a pike.

:rofl:

[delightfulstar]

3. They'll do it, and one of two things will probably happen...

A. He'll change his affiliation or go independent.
B. The Repukes will split, and the seat will go blue in 2012.

He's termed a "liberal Republican," of course, which would put him much more in line with a Lincoln Chafee than a Michele Bachmann. He's one of the few on that side of the aisle who doesn't dispute the will of the public/SCOTUS on gay marriage and abortion, and he is in favor of civil unions, and he supported the lifting of DADT, so I give him a little more credit than most Repukes. However, I disagree with many of his personal views on other things.