It’s funny that every conservative I heard talk about Brown’s vote said the same thing — they expected it. I’m not sure why it’s so important to always put the tea partiers in a bad light — what motivates this?

I don’t go on RedState sinz not after what I heard about them.

You are correct on some points rbottoms, the GOP isn’t willing to call out the far right crazies. Demographically, it’s not looking good I agree with you on that. But the shrieking base never really care about expanding the party, they just say “Court us only and screw every other voting group”. Everytime I tried talking about reaching out to other groups, they think it means becoming a Democrat.

I’m sure you have, but they must not be important sites or you would have named them — the point is that Tim’s portrayal is wildly exaggerated in order to make the tea partiers and conservatives look like ignorant dupes– there was no big surprise or rage against Brown among conservatives or tea party spokespeople. Most conservatives yawned — although I’m sure they don’t want Brown to really surprise them and vote on something big like healthcare reform. I’m sure every prominent conservative who understands politics, and every tea party member who knew Brown, expected votes like this — Brown won’t get re-elected if he doesn’t act bipartisan on some issues.

Demographically, towards the dustbin of history.

Gay Republicans? Yes, there are hordes of them.

And as usual, elected blacks, still zero.

The most intransigent, crazy (Michelle Bachmann), and tin earned jerks (Trent Franks: Abortion Is Worse for Blacks Than Slavery Was) are the face of the party.

You can’t call off the teabagger hounds without the snarling pack turning on you, and elected members of your party are lunatic enough on their own to force swing voters to think twice. Flirting with the militia in the 90’s hung Tim McVeigh around your necks, I take it you’re not interested in learning from history. Between stunts like Sen. Bunning halting the unemployment and Cobra benefits of already desperate working class people, and teabagger terrorists (Joe Stack IRS attack: All-American rage?) willing to pull 9/11 style attacks on the citizenry the Far Right will bring the GOP down.

Of course not satisfied with courting the fringe, mainstream anti-Latino attacks on the subject of immigration will help keep young Hispanics from ever pulling the R-lever.

Long term direction of the GOP, down and out.

Why don’t you guys stick to predicting how the tea leaves in the bottom of Obama’s tea cup will cluster –you have about equal credibility on that as judging where the GOP is headed.

Throughout Brown’s campaign for the Senate, RedState.com refused to support him or work for his election. Because RedState.com has a policy of only supporting pro-life candidates.

When Brown voted for the jobs bill, RedState.com took a rather non-committal attitude: It’s a small bill and as everybody recognizes, a Republican from Massachusetts isn’t going to agree on everything with a Republican from Texas or Alabama.

It’s his pro-choice stance on abortion they can’t accept.

Brown promised to be the 41st vote against ObamaCare.

Brown also promised to work for a tougher line against terrorism than Obama has pursued.

And what turned off the social conservatives the most was that he said he was pro-choice, though he wanted to pursue ways to reduce the need for abortion.

And that was good enough for me. I like that platform. So I voted for him.

mike farmer, I’ve browsed some conservatives websites where they were already bitching about Scott voting for the Jobs Bill when it happened.

This site has generally supported Arlen Specter, warning that the conservative Toomey would cause a Democrat to be elected in PA And arlen Specter is a Republican — er, scratch that he IS a Democrat now…

Now we hear NOTHING on that race at FF, because the facts are inconvenient to Frummers, rhymes with Mummers.

It isn’t conservative Republicans who are unable to see nuance and distinctions. It’s Frummers, who can’t manage to distinguish a Massachusetts race(Ted Kennedy’s seat at that) from the Pennsylvania that elected Rick Santorum not so long ago.

This site is a disgrace.