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Republicans feeling blue as Scott Brown win backfires
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Mar 26, 2010 11:30am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Jessica Van Sack and Hillary Chabot |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Herald |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats - and slammed by irked conservatives - after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday.
Brown’s backers from the insurgent Tea Party movement want to know if they’ve been had.
“We start to wonder whether we helped a RINO (Republican in name only) get into office,” said Tea Party activist Jeffrey McQueen, who traveled from Michigan to campaign for Brown in the final days of the Jan. 19 special election that rocked the nation.
“If it wasn’t for the Tea Party movement, Scott Brown wouldn’t have gotten that seat. We expect to see a true conservative in there.”
Bill Whalen, a former Republican operative and research fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, likened Brown to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, calling both a “political novelty.”
“The luster has worn off,” Whalen said, adding that Brown staked his campaign on health care and many Republicans don’t know where he stands on other issues. |
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