The National GOP will try to claim this as a GOP victory.
I know, I know. Predicting that The Stupid Party will act, well, stupidly is like predicting that the sun will rise in the east. I just wanted to be out ahead of the curve. In any case, they had about as much to do with any Scott Brown victory as the queen of Sheba... Not that it won't stop them from trying to take credit, but they should definitely be called on it.
The only people responsible for a hypothetical Brown win are the Brown campaign workers and Scott Brown himself - they've waged the very epitome of what a political campaign should be.
That is all.
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The only thing I would want to see from the Republican Party out of this is an acknowledgment that Brown is the sort of candidate they should be identifying and grooming across the country.
And for the incompetence from Martha Coakley and the Coakley camp.
Jay, you're behind. GOP is already doing it. Supposedly the national GOP was quietly funneling money into Brown's campaign. I'm guessing the real reason is they didnt wanna look bad when Brown lost, but they're claiming it was to help build the momentum without the DNC noticing right away.
The last GOP candidate for US Senator from MA lost by something like 40 points.
How could they POSSIBLY have looked worse than NOT SUPPORTING BROWN AT ALL???
ESPECIALLY given that it was a special election and the outcome could very well change the way things happened in the Senate???
THE. STUPID. PARTY.
Ugh. I need a beer.
More than 600,000 on Massachusetts Voter Rolls Had Died or Moved, Nonpartisan Analysis Discovered
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59993
"The polls haven't closed yet in Massachusetts, but the Republican National Committee distributed a memo to committee members and reporters Tuesday boasting about their under-the-radar efforts to help Scott Brown defeat Martha Coakley in the Senate race. The memo, written by RNC chairman Michael Steele, asserts that the national party "has been working very diligently behind the scenes" in Massachusetts along with the state Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/19/steele-rnc-worked-behind-the-scenes-in-massachusetts/
Jay, do you really think public support from the National GOP would have helped?
I suspect Scott actively avoided all visible help!
I think the GOP did Brown a big favor by staying out of it.....
By them stayin out of it they probably gained him some more moderate voters who can't stand the GOP because of the stupid politics that have been had....
and by the DNC coming in at the last minute to get the vote out so hard, may have lost her some 'centrist' voters for the same reason that Brown gained some....
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