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Tea Party Comes Full Circle
January 20, 2010
By now, most of you know the news: Scott Brown has won Massachusetts’s special election for Ted Kennedy’s seat. Although his platform was one of transcendence and accountability, the fact still remains that Brown is a Republican. A Republican in a seat that had been a liberal shade of blue for over three decades. One can also argue that Massachusetts remains one of the most liberal states in the Union. So what does this all mean?
I would argue that Washington has a lot to fear. Not just Democrats, but Republicans alike. Remember that Brown’s campaign was built largely around an anti-establishment platform. Like him or hate him, Brown represents the “every man.” As we saw in Sarah Palin, and will continue to see in 2010, the people have seen the path taken by liberal elitism, choosing to support the honest, relatable candidate instead. The American majority has discovered that the power does indeed lie with them and they have only just begun to exercise it.
Given the recent elections and the growing fear among the Left, it appears that history does indeed repeat itself. The contemporary tea party movement was sparked by the same government reach and growing bureaucratic policy that initiated the original act on December 16 of 1773. Originating in the harbors of Boston, the American people once again stand defiantly in the belief that the individual deserves the freedom to choose what is best for their family, unobstructed from a disconnected government. The tea party movement has returned home, to its roots, to secure a powerful electoral victory in Massachusetts. If there was any doubt on that cold December day about what the colonists were fighting for, they have now been laid to rest on this cold January morning…
The tea party’s rallying cry is clear, “We will support principle over party. We will support candidates that stand for fiscal discipline, Constitutional restraint, and a government accountable to the American people. If you do not stand for these things, you better stand aside.”
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it may be as you say, but i feel that once again the voters that want change have become the means to the politicians that want power… Brown stated, “(he) doesn’t think it (his win) was a referendum on President Barack Obama”.
i read that as politicospeak for “suckaaahhh”
The real question is “Did the Republican leadership learn anything?” They didn’t support Doug Hoffman, who could have won in NY’s 23rd, and they gave almost no support to Scott Brown in MA. If the leadership doesn’t understand that the Tea Party Patriots are real and should be taken seriously, then the GOP needs new leadership.
Austin, well thought out post but speaking as someone from Boston who knows the local politics I think you are crediting the Tea Party crowd way too much.
Massachusetts has its very liberal power centers like Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, etc, but those areas wont carry the state without blue color towns like Milton, Quincy, Braintree, etc. That is where Brown won and he did it using the ultra conservative catholic vote who to be very honest dont know anything about politics or tea parties. Having grown up in Milton I can tell you first hand what he used what the built in misogyny that the working class areas have along with an anti establishment line which has been used since the birth of politics and is nothing new to Scott Brown.
I know you wont believe that assessment on face value but I encourage you to look up MA’s track record on electing women to statewide public office (hint its 0/8). I love where I come from and I will always be a Bostonian, but even people who come from Boston and love it know that once you leave the city its as uneducated and simple as any small town in the midwest. Stone cold uppity woman vs down home truck driving man, thats what those voters saw, not a tea party….
The Teaparty movement did get the word out and gave in large numbers,I don’t know if he would have lost ,but the Teaparty’s help,sure didn’t hurt.
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