In 2010, he was the tea party poster boy. In 2012, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown may not get so much as a nod of acknowledgement from tea party groups.As moderate and even liberal on some issues Scott Brown is, he's still way better than extreme leftist Elizabeth Warren who will be challenging him. She comes from the "all money belongs to the government and you should be happy with what we let you keep" crowd. That woman is truly dangerous to freedom.
Brown shocked the country back in 2010 when he beat his Democratic opponent, Martha Coakley, and was elected to the state’s Senate seat vacated by the late Teddy Kennedy. The Tea Party Express paid to run pro-Brown ads. FreedomWorks activists campaigned for him.
In short, Scott Brown was the tea party movement’s first electoral victory. But now that he’s up for re-election for a full six-year term in 2012, tea party activists tell The Daily Caller they’re not going to bother putting together the same operation that swept him into office the first time.
That’s not to say tea partiers will not vote for Brown, or even put up much of an effort to oppose him since a serious primary challenger has yet to be found. The movement has matured into realizing that sometimes the “least of two evils” — as one activist put it — is necessary in a traditionally blue state like Massachusetts.
But don’t expect tea partiers to be happy about it.
“Scott Brown has disappointed us a few times,” Carlos Hernandez, state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, told TheDC. “So are we going to go out there and hold signs for him everyday? I don’t think so.”
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Tea Party Won't Back Brown in Massachusetts in 2012
Scott Brown's big win in Massachusetts last year, in which he took the so-called "Ted Kennedy" seat, may not happen again:
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How twoo, how twoo.
Abandoning the field is the way to lose the game.
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