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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Look at Scott Brown. He was elected as a "conservative" - he represented as a moderate. When he ran again - he lost - because he didn't represent the conservative ideals he ran on.
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Gotta disagree there Hap. Scott Brown would never have been elected as a conservative, with all that has come to mean, in this state. He ran successfully on a platform of fiscal conservatism sure but not on the social issues that have come to define the Republican party. His election was also about the electorate tweaking the nose of the Democrats for being overconfident.
This election he lost because the Dems were able to successfully tie him to the national GOP. As they said "Scott Browns biggest problem is the R after his name" .
It didn't matter how bipartisan he was. It didn't matter how well he did the job we sent him to do. All they had to say is a vote for Scott Brown would help put
those guys in charge of Congress and that was enough to scare the electorate into abandoning what everyone agreed was a good bipartisan Senator for a chicken neck elitist party hack who, when asked in the debate, couldn't name a single serving republican she would be willing to work with.