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Originally Posted by Riot
No, I fear they are dead, Chuck. They have done badly. They lost the NY 23rd Congressional seat, a seat that hasn't been Dem for 40 years?
The GOP didn't even support Scott Brown. He was on his own. He ran against a rock, a nothing. He ran a brilliant campaign, I give him great credit for that - he's really a very moderate guy (pro-choice, voted yes to Mass healthcare, etc) who didn't campaign as a Republican at all (it was not mentioned in any of his ads), and who campaigned essentially on two inflammatory hot button issues. And notice that since he's been on the national scene, he hasn't made much commitment one way or the other.
The GOP didn't really win Mass as much as the Dems lost it by lack of participation (and deserved the loss). In other words, I can't read Mass as a massive GOP resurgence.
I think alot of the RR won't vote for a GOP if a Tea Party candidate is available. That's how NY 23rd was lost - split vote Teabag and GOP, the Dem won clearly.
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You put more credence in a rural NY state seat than Ted Kennedy's senate seat? Your take on the NY thing is totally offbase as the split vote between political enemies in the same party cost them the election. It was a case of personalities leading to a last minute upheaval. Hardly some anti-conservative, anti-GOP trend.
You believe that the Scott Brown won Kennedy's Senate seat because of voter apathy? I guess Kennedy wasnt the icon that CNN and MSNBC made him out to be if the people he represented for 40 years couldn't be bothered to vote for his replacement.
Do you really believe some of the stuff you write? Brown didnt run as a Republican? Did his ads not have that "paid for by...." at the end of them? So the people of MA were tricked into voting for him because they didnt realize he was not a Democrat?