GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown has been all but abandoned by the same national Republican committees that pumped hundreds of thousands in campaign cash to former governors Mitt Romney and William Weld during their long-shot bids for U.S. Senate.
The snub has outraged local Republicans who say national conservatives should be jumping at the chance to nab the first open Senate seat in decades despite Brown’s tough odds in the Jan. 19 special election.
This is why they're the stupid party. The GOP has a chance to send a real message here - strike early, strike deep in the heart of the liberal beast - and they are once again painting a bullseye squarely on their shoes. Even if Brown doesn't defeat Coakley (and I'll be honest, this is David slaying Goliath territory here), if the GOP makes it a close race and keeps the heat on, it will energize the base for 2010. They have the chance to take a strong stand, support someone deep behind enemy lines, and, in a long shot, change the makeup of the Senate before 2010.
Instead, they're sitting back and letting Brown sink, just like they did for Chase in '06 against Kennedy and Beatty in '08. They've written off MA as a lost cause (much like the NRA) and seem unwilling to review this assessment even in light of recent public sentiment against the Democratic party. They're going to pass up a golden opportunity to reach out to the anti-incumbent sentiment and instead hand the Democrats an easy victory. Once Coakley gets in, she's not leaving - this is our only chance to re-take the seat until Kerry gets appointed to a Cabinet or keels over. The time to strike is now, has never been better, yet the GOP seems content to sit back and continue business as usual.
I hate a Roman named Status quo...
That is all.
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The GOP will claim that they don't have the cash to through at a "lost cause", but the reason that they don't have any cash (from me, anyway), is that they don't engage in winnable contests where the Republican is a conservative.
That is why the Republicans disgust me more than the Democrats. At least the Dems have a vision and a set of balls to carry it out. The R's got nothing. I know that is music to the ears of the dems out there.
Let's be realistic, if it was Juan McCain in the Big Chair, we'd be selling out just fast on healthcare, but the Republicans would be leading the charge.
GOP=Whig party.
From Wikipedia;
"In today's discourse in American politics, the Whig Party is usually mentioned in the context of a political party losing its followers and reason for being, often exemplified by the phrase "going the way of the Whigs."
Final warning GOP, Lose Steele and wake up, or Tea party stand by...
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