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Will Brown avoid becoming just another loser from Massachusetts?
By adamg on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 1:13pm
Jay Fitzgerald cautions the Senator Elect against the tidelet of enthusiasm for him as a national candidate:
Is Brown the next Duke, Tsongas, Kerry and Romney? ... [T]hey're handy local reminders why Brown shouldn’t go down the constant-campaign road: Duke, '88; Tsongas, '92; Kerry, '04 and Romney, '08. One might as well add Weld and Cellucci to the list, if you’re counting all the annoying Massachusetts pols who mentally checked out early on us. ...
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"Independent" was more of a slogan that a characteristic.
What Jay is arguing is that Scoot Brown will fail is he tries to go beyond US Senate. But Scott Brown, if he takes every vote the same way as the other 40 Republicans in the Senate, will fail anyway. "Independent" was more of a slogan that a characteristic. To be fair, we should let him vote and then say.
Already The Religious Right Is On His Case
It didn't take long for someone in the religious right to question Scott Brown's orthodoxy. Behold the comments of anti-abortion zealot Randall Terry:
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/1785812792.html