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Scott Brown and Olympia Snow should go

By: chrysostom15 (Diary)  |  February 6th, 2012 at 04:40 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

I have had a chance to think about it.  I think the GOP would be better off without Brown and Snow in the Senate.  While they sometimes pretend to be moderates, most of the time they are liberals when it counts.  Some examples include:

  • Both voted for the end of “don’t ask don’t tell”
  • Olympia Snow voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts
  • Brown voted for Romneycare
  • Both are pro-abortion and anti-family and consistantly vote that way

I could go on, but the point would be the same.  Neither of them really helps the GOP brand.  They are both liberals.  Yes, on some votes, some of the time, they vote conservative.  However, I’m not actually sure of a single time when their 1 vote made a difference for the conservative side. 

Give the choice between a real race between a real conservative and a liberal, voters could vote for something.  As it is, voters have only a choice between 1 liberal and another.  Frankly, it is not clear that a liberal with an R by his or her name is that much better than a liberal with a D next to it.

 

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  • acat

    We’re not going to get better from either northeast-liberal bastion.

    Nominating a “Real Conservative” candidate will lead to a Dem in the seat.

    The Dem will proceed to vote against the GOP every time.

    This is blindingly obvious, Chrys.

    If you’re desperate for GOPers to primary, let me suggest reading through the replies here for a list of which Senators supported SOPA, and cross-checking it against a map Moe Lane put up recently with projected 2012 States we can win in …

    We’re not going to get Massachusetts or Maine. We are going to get Texas, and the SOPA nonsense was *sponsored* by a Texan.

    We’re quite likely to win in Tennessee- how did Corker vote? We’re likely to do well in North Dakota and Montana, where we can replace Dems .. if we have good candidates on the ground.

    In short, Chrys, in a target-rich environment, you’re facing precisely the wrong way.

    Mew

  • exitsfunnel

    If the GOP cedes these two seats to the democrats, which is essentially what you are suggesting, the chances that the GOP wins the senate drop from pretty likely to probably a coin flip. A primary challenge to either of those candidates would just be the strategic equivalent of shooting yourself in the head.

    -exits