RSS Feed MenuAn exclusive interview with Scott Brown conducted by FrumForum before his surprising swing in voter support paints a picture of a hardworking candidate; a moderate, New England Republican; and, if he is elected, a senator that will be sorely disappointing to the tea partiers currently backing him.
If he gets elected, look for Brown’s political philosophy to put him on the centrist side of the Republican caucus. He stressed to FrumForum that he has no qualms with working through legislation with Democrats. “I’ve always been an independent voter, and when I have to cross party lines, I do. I don’t usually care what my party says,” he said.
While the Tea Partiers have gleefully lined themselves up behind Scott Brown, it seems as though Brown is not particularly behind the tea partiers. In fact, it has even been recently alleged that Brown denied being familiar with the tea party movement at all.
We know that Brown has heard of the movement, because FrumForum was the first political news outlet to ask him whether he considered himself a tea partier. He replied, “Look, I’ve always tried to model my political beliefs after my (own) political beliefs, and let others say, ‘gee, I’d like to be like Scott Brown’. I’m not beholden to anybody.”
He further distanced himself from the Tea Party movement by suggesting an adherence to New England Republican political tradition: “I’m a Massachusetts Republican… I look at the issues and make a determination based on the facts.” He also told FrumForum: “I’m the closest thing [Bay Staters] will get to a Reagan Democrat.”
Looking back at the Republican disaster in the special election held in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Brown faults those who divided the conservative movement into two camps. “If we start drawing lines in the sand, we’re all going to be losers, collectively,” he remarked. “I think there is room for everybody, there has to be, in this tent that we have.”
If Brown pulls off the stunning upset required to beat Democrat Martha Coakley, the nation will be looking to him to provide the crucial 41st vote against the Democrats’ healthcare reform legislation.
Obamacare, he said, is completely different from the healthcare reform he voted for under Governor Mitt Romney, pointing to the process of consultation as a key distinction. “You can’t compare it. It’s apples and oranges. [Obamacare] is put together entirely by politicians, [and] that scares me. That’s unlike what we did here [under Romney], where we had input ad naseum from the medical community.”
In a sign of how he’s managed to swing momentum his way, Brown continued to construct lawn signs when FrumForum reached him on his cell phone in November, when he was over thirty points back of Martha Coakley. “Just putting up a couple of signs, then heading out to Worchester to speak with an editorial board this afternoon,” he remarked.
A Lt. Colonel in the Judicial Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. armed forces, Scott Brown has been working on his campaign at a furious pace, sleeping just four hours a night and door-knocking deep into Democratic territory.
At this point, it’s looking like his assiduous efforts are paying off. Next Tuesday, Scott Brown might be able to pull off a miracle in Massachusetts – and send a thoughtful, moderate Republican to Washington, D.C.
BruceMajors // Jan 16, 2010 at 7:17 am
Mike I don’t know why you posted those silly 1982 “Cosmo” photosd that every gay site in the world, plus the working girls at Wonkette and even “Red Eye” have shown. I am an openly gay Tea Party activist and the fact that Scott Brown (and for that matter his whole family) is totally hot makes me more likely to support him.
On the one side we have hot athletic families like the Browns, the Palins, the Bachmans, the Romneys, hell, even Rand and Ron Paul or in his younger days McCain. On the other side we have freaky fatsos like Barney Frank, fugly liars like Chuck Schumer, walking cadavers like Harry Reid, bobble head plastic faced idiots like Nancy Pelosi, screechy cartoonish bitches like Debbie Weiss what her face, lardo clowns like Alan Grayson etc. It’s a freaking Ayn Rand graphic novel. All these horrifically ugly Demwit bitches and bastards, rabbit toothed Joan Walsh and monster choppers Michelle Obama, and robotic FrankenKerry and wooden Al Bore, should be wiped off the earth and our TVs just for being ugly and boring.
franco 2 // Jan 16, 2010 at 7:46 am
Axelrod: Did you hear about the disaster?
Obama: Yes, it’s terrible we have to do something.
Axelrod: We can send Clinton
Obama: Which one?
Axelrod(rolls eyes): Ha ha, funny Barry..
Obama : Maybe I should go personally…
Axelrod: Too dangerous..
Obama: Oh c’mon, you’re exaggerating again, David, I have Secret Service protection with machine guns..they are thugs with machetes
Axelrod: It’s not that, it’s just a really volatile environment right now, and you would look bad if things don’t turn out..
Obama: They need relief…
Axelrod (slams open palm on desk): But you don’t need to actually go there! They need your inspiration, Mr President. They need a rousing speech to get them off their duffs… remember “Hope” Barry? That’s how I got you here, and that’s how you.. and I, will stay here! Got it?
Obama (cooly): David, I’m beginning to think you are taking this emphasis on giving speeches too far. Everyone needs inspiration but sometimes they just need food and water and medical supplies….
Axelrod: We’ll get to the food and water crisis in the second term. Right now it’s Health Care, Health Care, Health Care. Stay focused, Barry.. are you smoking again? I don’t mean cigarettes..
Obama: I’m President, David, I’m going to fly in and rescue some bodies from the rubble myself if I have to.
Axelrod: Oh, who’s exaggerating now?
franco 2 // Jan 16, 2010 at 8:05 am
And Tim, go have your argument with Chuck Shumer, who says:
“Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy’s term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican,”
One of the big problems with you moderate wimps is that you can’t see practical realities.
1.Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity Glenn Beck and the rest of talk radio aren’t going away. They aren’t going to change their message. Their message happens to be POPULAR. They are much more popular than your inside the beltway cabal.The Tea Party movement isn’t going away either.
2.Democrats will always try to associate any Republican candidate, no matter how moderate with them.
You have two choices.
1. You can defend your allies to the right of you.
2. You can try to distance yourself.
If you choose option #2 you will still be smeared by Democrats and you risk losing support of your allies as well.
When you choose option #2, don’t expect us to have your back. Please stop whining that conservatives won’t support your candidates. Go stop Shumer et al from smearing you with conservatives and “teabaggers” if you don’t like it, don’t come to us begging.
MikeNYC // Jan 16, 2010 at 11:24 am
Bruce, I’m glad you’re a tea bagger. Have at it. And I agree that the general level of mentality of the the current Republican voters is for hot babes (Carrie Prejean and her “film”, Sarah Palin and her “no sex before marriage except in the case of me and my daughter”) and hot dudes like old Hot Scott (wonder if his daughter has his center fold on her bedroom wall?). However, intelligent Americans vote for people who support the rights of all Americans (not just a few). While old Hot Scott apparently had his day with the “boys” he now supports “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (the military one and the one with his own family) and seems to have a problem with who people he doesn’t even know marry. By all means, Bruce, vote for the hot guy but some of us will vote for America and what it stands for.
neomom // Jan 16, 2010 at 12:07 pm
MikeNYC –
Since when did America stand for oppressive taxation, redistribution of wealth and the nanny-state?
Just sayin’
teabag // Jan 16, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Franco.
You are confusing Obama with Bush.
Remember the flight suit complete with Codpiece. Remember the fake landing on the carrier deck.?
Remember the fireman’s outfit and bullshit, sorry bullhorn at ground zero?
Remember the fake bush clearing at the fake ranch and the Texas accent on a new England elite?
Surely you jest.
Tim Mak » FrumForum Interview with Scott Brown: He’s No Tea Partier // Jan 16, 2010 at 7:12 pm
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motamanx // Jan 17, 2010 at 10:19 am
Scott Brown is an empty suit. Another Rove pick whose job it is to stab any sort of progress the American people voted for in the back.
A lot of comments in the spaces above are confused as to the definition of fascism: Fasciasm is allied with large corporations, as favored by the previous administration.
jakester // Jan 19, 2010 at 12:39 am
The teapartiers aren’t very artful or classy, but most of them are average people who would probably rally behind a reasonable moderate. Let’s stop demonizing teapartiers and try to listen and co-opt them.
jakester // Jan 19, 2010 at 12:42 am
BruceMajors,
I think you are attempting parody, but if not, you need some help!
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