Brown Rallies A Revitalized GOP
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA -- State Sen. Scott Brown (R) brought his surging campaign to this western MA town this a.m., rallying a crowd of GOPers more energized than many in attendance could remember.
Standing on a platform in front of the truck he has often touted in his stump speech and campaign ads, Brown was in high spirits as he addressed a crowd of more than 100 supporters. The crowd responded enthusiastically as Brown made his case against AG Martha Coakley (D) -- even interrupting frequently to make Brown's case for him.
"I'll tell you what," Brown said, using a megaphone to address the crowd. "There's negative campaigning, and then there's malicious campaigning."
"She's malicious!" a man in the crowd cried out. "She's a phony!" shouted another. "Shove a curling iron up her butt!" a third man interjected a few moments later.
The campaign has taken a turn for the negative in recent days, a development on which Brown sought to capitalize. He whacked Coakley for going negative against him, even while striving to keep a light-hearted tone in his own campaign. At one point, he told the crowd that he went bowling last night with his wife, his daughter and her boyfriend, and later went to a Chinese restaurant afterward.
"And wouldn't you know," Brown said, "there were seven ads in a row -- seven in a row -- from not only Martha, but from all the special interests ... hammering me and distorting my record and lying."
"The difference is, I actually have a voting record," Brown continued, eliciting cheers.
He urged supporters to volunteer and make calls for his campaign.
"You can continue to fight the good fight, because we have a chance," he said.
Brown continued his assault on Coakley's stance on taxes, health care and nat'l security, warning the crowd that "al Qaeda right now is in our airports, they're in our shopping malls and they're trying to kill us."
Chants of "Go, Scott, go!" followed Brown as he stepped down to shake hands and take photos with supporters.
In a brief interview with OnCall after the rally, Brown renewed his stated opposition to Pres. Obama's proposed bank tax, turning the question back around to Coakley even as Dems have tried to make an issue of Brown's opposition.
"There's not a tax that Martha Coakley doesn't like," Brown said. "When banks are trying to stimuluate the economy and lend money, they're paying back not only the amount they borrowed, they're paying it back with interest."
"So I'm not in favor of the tax," he added. "While I certainly don't agree with a lot of the large payouts to the executives, to have people like this pay another tax in the midst of a recession, it doesn't make any sense."
Brown, who had asked Obama to stay out of the race just a few days ago, reversed course today, when Obama will headline a rally on Coakley's behalf in Boston.
"Anytime a president wants to come to Massachusetts, whether they be Democrat or Republican, I welcome them," he said.
Brown will hold his own rally later today, headlined by ex-Boston Red Sox ace Curt Schilling, ex-BC/NFL quarterback Doug Flutie and "Cheers" actor John Ratzenberger. The rally is set for this afternoon in Worcester.
Schilling has reportedly recorded robocalls supporting Brown. A Brown spokesperson said the campaign did not have any knowledge of the calls.
After the event, several GOPers in attendance said they couldn't remember the last time they'd seen members of their party so energized.
"I just feel like there's hope now," Kevin Gray, a 58-year-old retired letter-carrier from East Longmeadow, said after the rally. "Seeing the polls and everything, I said, 'Wow, we've got a chance. We can turn this thing around, you know?'"
Some in the crowd praised Brown as a "regular guy" and said they thought Coakley's attacks on him would backfire.
"When you look at Scott Brown, and his truck was here, he's just the average guy," added Paul Santaniello, 47, a financial adviser from Longmeadow.
"She's throwing everything, and he's like Superman," Northampton banker Chris Casale, 49. "This thing is like bouncing off of him and it sticks back on her." Coakley, by contrast, "puts her foot in her mouth, and the average person can't relate," Casale added.
Santaniello agreed and predicted that the Schilling comment would come back to haunt Coakley.
"When you say something like that, the average person might not understand all of the issues," Santaniello said. "But when you say Curt Schilling's a Yankee fan, I think they just start to say, 'Hey, wait a minute. Now what else did she just say beside that?'"
Go Scott ;)
From the home of the Shot Heard Around the World, Let's make this the Vote Heard Around the World! Go Scott!
Scott Brown: mediocre State Senator with no accomplishment to list, naked centerfold model for Cosmo, elected official who addresses a high school assembly with a stream of profanity and f-bombs, uses Nat'l Guard uniform in ads but in 30 years never stepped up to even 1 day of combat (but wants to send my kids in to fight for him), gets caught in a lie during a debate and when his opponent and the press call him on it, he sends his daughters to face the press and charge Coakley with negative campaigning...
Yes, Scott Brown, pretty face and empty suit...hiding behind daughters skirts and winking approval with out of state bussed in supporters who scream obscene things about his opponent at rallies and on the phones. Real classy act. Man up, Brown. You are on a very low road.
"Shove a curling iron up her butt!" No negative campaigning there, is there? And when you say this, "al Qaeda right now is in our airports, they're in our shopping malls and they're trying to kill us," there couldn't possibly be any negative campaigning, let alone appeals to fear and hysteria, could there?
""When you look at Scott Brown, and his truck was here, he's just the average guy," added Paul Santaniello, 47, a financial adviser from Longmeadow." ?????
Give me a break. According to Mr. Brown's financial disclosures, he and his wife own five pieces of real estate, including a 3,000-square-foot home in Wrentham, three condos in Boston, a Rye, New Hampshire home, and a timeshare on the Caribbean island of Aruba. And now Mr. Brown is opposed to President Obama's efforts to make the banks that created the economic crisis pay back the money used to bail them out.
It is clear where Mr. Brown's interests are, and it is not with average working Americans.
I love Coakley's desperation. I'm watching her rally with POTUS and all she's doing is going negative.
So far she's tied Brown to Bush. Gee haven't we seen that before like in NJ & VA? Here's a little hint for her....Bush is gone. Obama's been in the job for a year and the overwhelming majority of the country loathes Obama's Marxist agenda.
Then, she trying to tie Brown to Wall Street or as its known to Democratic insiders...."Schumer's Street". Has she seen the disclosures from Wall Street firms lately. A significant higher portion of their contributions are going to the Dems.
And, more amazing, she's now going on about the bank tax to pay for Tarp. Give me a break. All of this tax will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher fees, higher interest, lower rates on savings, and anything else that will be passed on to the consumers. Do you really think the bonuses are going to stop? And just who still owes the TARP? Let's see GM, GMAC, Chrysler, Freddie, Fannie, and AIG. Hmm, looks like we'll be paying higher bank fees to keep on paying for "YOUR FATHER'S OLDSMOBILE" if Martha gets in. But of course Obama gave GM & Chrysler to the UAW. Since they can't even sell their crappy cars with a government rebate, Martha and the Dems have to keep them afloat otherwise. I guess all that Dem talk about stopping too big to fail doesn't count when you're one of the main constituencies.
Oh, please. You can't control everything everyone at a rally says. You want to compare that to the usual rants heard at hardcore lefty Dem rallies? About Bush? The left out-uglies the right every time.
No one is saying Scott Brown is perfect, but he is what's needed in Washington right now, not Coakley. Bogus efforts to cast him as some kind of high-spending millionaire are just that -- bogus.
Democrats have been bankrolled by barely-sane billionaires for years now. Their campaigns are flush with Wall Street money, which is why they are looking out for Wall Street interests in their government policies.
To everything there is a season, and right now is a season for a man who understands America's core: individual freedom, equality of opportunity, not outcome, clear-eyed and fearless defense of the country, and unashamed pride in American traditions, history and culture. No apologies. Vote Brown.
After hearing what these two have to say about each other and discovering the accuracy of it, I think I'm going Libertarian.
Good Read. I'll look forward to your next piece
Their campaigns are flush with Wall Street money, which is why they are looking out for Wall Street interests in their government policies.
Really?
Except Brown is the one who wants to protect the big banks and Wall Street fat cats who ruined our economy AND half of his funding is from big business executives and Wall Street.
Tell me again how he is a regular guy who is for the little guy and not the banks?
I'm not surprised at the negative attacks against Scott Brown in these comments. Coakley's supporters are just taking their cue from the machine that has placed her in this race. Attack, becuase she has no platform, no ability to speak to the issues, and nothing to claim except it is "Ted Kennedy's seat". That arrogance is what has her trailing SCOTT BROWN!
Too bad, it might have been interesting to hear what she really thinks without having to read from a script!
The whole curling iron up the butt comment was in reference to an infamous incident years ago when Coakley failed to prosecute a man that raped his 2 year old niece with a hot curling iron.
“The shove a curling Iron up her butt” refers to a police man that did just that to his niece and Coakley did everything possible to let the perp go. She let him out of jail with no bail and had to be forced to prosecute him. I live in Texas and I’m supporting Scott Brown in hopes the people of Mass will elect him and send a vital message to the democraps that we do not support their socialist agenda.
Stop picking on my dad! You coakley people are so mean. After all the nice things that my dad said about Dear Martha.
You all should be ashamed.
Stop picking on my dad! You coakley people are so mean. After all the nice things that my dad said about Dear Martha.
You all should be ashamed.
Scott Brown and his loud voiced male followers think it is funny to suggest shoving a curling iron up Martha Coakley's butt is funny. Brown obviously smiled when he heard that comment....I was thinking of voting for him until I saw that reaction....the women of MA better pay attention before they vote this guy into office...he is no better than the rest of the loud mouths screaming at his rally if he thinks that comment was cute.
Martha gets my vote for sure now.
It's obviously faked. Not a single person reacted to what the guy said, yet they react to a guy guy saying suicide. Fake
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