Scott Brown's Path From Tea Party To Centrist Aids Campaign

BusinessWeek:

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was the Tea Party's darling after he won Ted Kennedy's seat in a 2010 upset.

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[gendergap]

12:41 PM on 05/27/2012

Brown supports romneycare, the exact same thing as obamacare, which only 16% support, and which the SUPREME Court will strike down.

[pinetrale]

02:16 PM on 05/14/2012

The tea party will burn anybody who slides ideologically and trys to compromise. They are intolerant right wing fundamentalists whose loyalty is to a hodge podge of indigestable ideas, not the needs of the people. People to them are the lowest form of life.

[intolleft]

02:15 PM on 05/14/2012

I heard the tea party was dead.

[megancate]

03:04 PM on 05/14/2012

only from the neck up, and in that space where the heart should be.

[intolleft]

03:21 PM on 05/14/2012

Hold that thought.

[kmswriter]

01:50 PM on 05/14/2012

My MY - scottie can run but he cannot hide - his reputation precedes him - one only need look at his voting record...this is smoke and mirrors...ain't gonnah work - Mass. votahs are too smaht for scottie...

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice shame on....heh

Congratulations Liz Warren....

[sticks n stones]

02:56 PM on 05/14/2012

You can spread all the lies and distortions about Scott Brown you want, but voters here in Massachusetts are too smart to fall for them.

[kmswriter]

03:18 PM on 05/14/2012

you must be the only person in mass who feels this way - pretty lonely - btw - born and raised Mass...so don't even go there - I know bettah..LIZ will win.....

[IreneNH]

01:32 PM on 05/14/2012

Be very careful Massachusetts voters. Scott Brown is much like Mitt Romney. He will say anything to get re-elected. Look at some of his recent votes. He is in no way a centrist.

[rgilley]

12:49 PM on 05/14/2012

If the Koch brothers Tea Party doesn't like Brown that alone is a good reason to take a second look at him.

[WhatTheWhatThe]

12:27 PM on 05/14/2012

"let employers deny insurance coverage for birth control if it violates their religious beliefs."
The law Repubs are trying to pass would allow employers to deny insurance coverage for ANY PROCEDURES if it violates their religious beliefs. They cannot specify birth control as that would be writing a law to favor one religion - Catholic. But they don't want to admit that their law could deny coverage for blood transfusions, surgery, or mental health.

[DONCAL]

11:40 AM on 05/14/2012

He votes against the party line, with Mitches' blessing,to look centrist to Mass. voters when the bill has no chance of defeat or passage. A seat they have to hold for a chance to take the senate.

[sticks n stones]

11:59 AM on 05/14/2012

Complete nonsense.

[rgilley]

12:50 PM on 05/14/2012

Brown voted With big banking industry consistantly.

[They Call Me Mr Snark]

11:24 AM on 05/14/2012

He's the baggers Brown stain.

[TexianLife]

11:16 AM on 05/14/2012

Brown is not as severely conservative as the baggers first thought. lol

[bradenton]

11:09 AM on 05/14/2012

Brownie is far from a "centrist" and in fact he usually votes along Party lines. He is against equal rights, even for those who served in the military. A bad choice for America.

[sticks n stones]

12:00 PM on 05/14/2012

Wrong on all counts.

[rgilley]

12:56 PM on 05/14/2012

I agree Brown in all but an election year votes the same way McConnell and other corporate Republicans do....and Here is the list of just How he votes:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/18919/

[alice sophia]

11:06 AM on 05/14/2012

Hey, alexithemic Mitt, your partner-in-crime can do the PIVOT-PRANCE better than you can. Did Ann give him piovot-prance lessons, given her experience with those horses she owns? Come on Mitt, Jan van Lohuizen wants you and the entire GOP to reverse its course----start PIVOTING now!

[rsmorton]

11:05 AM on 05/14/2012

According to the Repubs, Obama and Warren"lie" and Brown "shifts". Obama and Warren are an "elitists" while Brown is a tobbaco chawin', pickup drivin' , tea bag lovin' man of the people. As we watch Brown divorce himself from his tea bag roots it becomes clear that the only thing he gives a shift about is getting re-elected.

[StillAmused]

10:50 AM on 05/14/2012

On the 'up' side — for Scotty — there IS no 'Tea Party'... just the Kochs, Armey and Rove, hiding behind the curtain and not all too pleased with their investment.

He's toast.

[RUKidding0]

10:47 AM on 05/14/2012

Brown needn't be a die-hard Tea Paty supporter.

By far, he is the lesser evil and that is the best that any of us can hope for in politics.

[rgilley]

12:57 PM on 05/14/2012

Elizabeth Warren has been fighting for the middle class most of her life......Brown has been fighting for Brown most of his.