I’d been keeping an eye on Scott Brown’s senate race in Massachusetts with something slightly greater than disinterest. And then I read this:
You see, most of that money Coakley raised got spent fighting for the nomination. William Jacobson’s all over this topic: while he and I both think that she’s got more money in the bank right now than Brown, it’s not the 5-to-1 advantage she’s hyping. At best, it’s 3-to-2. She’s also facing the problem that her public retreat on abortion language in the bill is going to depress enthusiasm in the progressive netroots; and that Republican activists at least have noted that flipping Massachusetts could – could! – possibly derail the health care rationing bill, and are contributing accordingly*. [emphasis added, and if you like I'll add a little more]
And then I googled to find a certain link, and donated a hundred bucks to Brown.
Can you give that much? Can you spare just five bucks? Whatever you can give, it might come back to you in spades.
And be sure to tell the RNC when they come calling where all your spare change went.
$100! You go, boy!
As far as I can tell, Brown’s numbers, in terms of both cash contributions and numbers/enthusiasm of supporters, are soaring, even as Coakley and the old-boy networks of both parties are — in Glenn Reynolds’s felicitous phrase — “being disintermediated via the Internet.”
As Walt Kelly famously said, “Now is the time for all good men to come to.”
arhooley: Well said, sir!
We Tea Party types are working around the old-boy networks to elect people who still believe in the Shining City Upon a Hill.
I haven’t given anything to the RNC for at least a year. Instead contribute directly online to targeted small-government candidates both here in Taxachusetts and beyond the borders to the likes of such candidates as Doug Hoffman and Joe (“You lie!)” Wilson.
I already sent $100 last week. Plan to do it again next when I can help promote any momentum that may be building. Coakley is a typical Mass. liberal hack. The original American Revolution began in Mass. The second one can begin there as well on January 19.
Will Teddy find out of the Republican wins? God I hope so.
C note? Yea, well OK. Hell I’m broke but can put more than that on my overcharged credit card, and just did.
Spread the link and the story.
He is going to need a lot more money and support.
Papa Ray
I don’t usually make contributions, but I’m going to bet the longshot with hopes of a high ROE. *fingers crossed*
I couldn’t scrape up a whole C-note, so I just donated $91.20. Wanted Brown to know that it wasn’t coming from traditional Republicans. Nudge, nudge, 9/12.
I’d love to, but I’m unemployed…and barely hanging on. If I could figure out how to add a tip jar to my blog I would. On the other hand, I can publicize what I can, and maybe my 12 loyal readers can help.
Martha Coakley is a rapid MA liberal — just the type that liberal MA wants. She spent the money wisely in the primary: whoever wins the democratic primary in MA will get elected. MA liberals will only put a republican governor in the state house if the situation is totally desperate. And MA liberals are the majority of the voters.
The probability of a republican taking Senator Kennedy’s Senate seat is too small to be seen with the naked eye.
Check his website. He supports the tenets of Romneycare. I am a bit skeptical that he will be an opponent of Obamacare.
Pick your fights, this is not one of them. Massachusetts is the devils lair. I lived there ,it’s a lost cause. Fight in New York against Gilderbrand or whatever her name is. You might have a slight chance there.
It’s distressing to see some in the tea parties promoting a big government Republican like Scott Brown. There’s only one candidate in the race who truly supports liberty and small government, and his name is Joe Kennedy (no relation of course). His site is at my name’s link.
Well, I’m recently unemployed but I just sent $20. All my 2008 contributions went for naught but I think 2012 (and elections like this one) will be different.
Money is one thing, making sure that the votes are counted correctly is another.
He supports Rommeycare… not a good idea then. I think this is yet another example of “he is not as bad as the socialist”. If does not believe in the core values of the tea party movement don’t bother sending him your money. Keep it for someone who truly deserves it.
I gave $25.
Question: He needs courage and conviction more than money. His “message” hasn’t even been heard anywhere. He may not have one.
So the question is: Why doesn’t this guy – or any Repub save Sarah Palin (more manly and womanly than any of the men or women in either party) – have the guts to have a message and first principles and say them out loud. Is he a goofus, boobus, or coward – or is it something else?
Mike Mc, because Scott Brown doesn’t hold the principles you espouse. It’s not a matter of guts, he fundamentally disagrees with your principles. He voted for Romneycare and has no problem with it. He’s voted for billions in spending over his years as a career politician. It’s not a coincidence that Romney and McCain endorse Scott Brown.
Obi Dobi: Okay, but I hadn’t even heard his message to disagree with it. I find “that” fact itself to be astonishing, incredible, deeply depressing about America – let alone him and the feckless Republican Party.
Let’s set the context: His election is analogous to the “biggest game of the decade” if it were sports. The US Senate is all that stands between America and the end of America, between freedom and tyranny. One “State” – if we can still call it that – just elected as the 60th vote a former lousy commedian from SNL. A Communist/Fascist Cabal called Acorn, stole the election for him. The game is almost up; the odds are stacked against the good, the Death Star is bearing down on us and the entire nation and its history and our tradition and, yes, even the whole world is hanging by its fingernails on the edge of a cliff.
It’s time for a hero if there ever was a time. This is where the cavalry rides in. Add the that the fact that a great enemy of freedom and the good – Ted Kennedy – just went to his eternal reward, and we have the chance of a lifetime to say the day at the end, and turn the ship around.
And we get….nothing but a few bloggers saying give this guy some money.
Where is his voice? Where is the Republicanm Party sounding the alarm and ringing the bells? Where is Paul Revere?
How sad we never heard any of them. How sad we are waiting for the cavalry that won’t come.
My $25.? A futile gesture because futile gestures are all that normal, real, good and decent people like me have any more.
The country has gone to f*&k, and 66m of its peo-ple, and the party, and all supposedly professional pols, and so on.
Therefore, my gesture is louder than all of them – and its a pip squeaking. We are royally screwed. America is over.
We should all do penance, wear sackcloth, and sing laments. We broke the most precious thing there is with hardly a fight and Scott Brown is our symbol of juvenilty.
America didn’t die of old age and senility. It died from juvenilty.
That’s the saddest most pitiful way for greatness to die.
We, as the last generaltion of Americans, should feel nothing but shame. We should be embarrassed, each of us, to be out in public. When I look at my fellow citizens anymore (I can’t call them Americans) I feel as if I should look away from the shame of it.
I kicked in another $100.
In districts or states with brain-dead electorates – like the entire state of MA, Pelosi’s district in SF or Waxman’s in LA, the GOP should not even bother to run a candidate. Nominate Mickey Mouse or Sylvester the Cat. Any state that can return moral wreckage like Teddy to the
Senate for nearly half a century does not deserve to be taken seriously.
Career politician. Lawyer. Don’t we have enough of those?
If in MA I’d vote for him as “better than the socialist” but I would have fought him hard in the primary.
Anyway, I’ll pass on donating. I donated to a strong jawed politician from MA last cycle and, frankly, consider it money pissed away.
I hope he wins… but I hope that he isn’t the typical Republican nominee in 2010.
A third party can be successful by building a base and winning at the local level (city and county and then state wide), and then going national. If that base is not large enough to win locally, it is not time to challenge a right leaning Republican. To do so only elects lefties. I sent Brown $35 (big spender from Oregon).
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