Tea Party Uses (Republican) Scott Brown's Victory To Target (Republican) Mark Kirk

Hope the tea baggers work really hard to knock Kirk off. He's the only hope the Reps have for winning the seat.

Kirk was going to have a hard time against either of the two top Dems Hoffman (getting all the endorsements) or Giannoulis (has all the money and connections to Obama). But he was the only shot in Hades the GOP had of getting the seat, especially if its framed by the Cook County Dems as saving Obama's seat.

It appears obvious that Tea Partiers are neither republican nor democrat but independent voters who lean center right (like the majority of the country). They believe in smaller government and lower taxes. They also seem to want a sensible health care bill that won’t bankrupt the nation, does not increase taxes, and takes the best common sense ideas from both parties for the better of the nation. I think Democrats need to consider tort reform and republicans must accept intrastate insurance exchanges to provide insurance competition. They agree eliminating the denial insurance due to pre-existing medical conditions. Small businesses grouping together to volume purchase employee insurance. I agree there are some right wing crazy tea party folks but ever side has the extremist.
Many here on TPM seem to have allowed the media to frame the tea party as racist crazies and I believe you are incorrect. In my opinion we could be watching a new moderate political party growing out of both dems and republican candidates. Also, if the new folks recently voted in by tea party support do not vote as they promised I expect they will be kicked out just as fast as they are being put in. I would not be surprised to see as many repubs who are currently frothing at the mouth that Mark Brown's win was a sign that the voters have returned to the Republican Party. I believe they are very mistaken. I think many Americans immediately want jobs and U.S. foreign and domestic policy made from the middle road of common sense.

Oh, that's going to be fun when Scott Brown vtes with the Democrats on some issues.

Why have you posted that picture? We here in his congressional district, those of us who have seen him recently, refer to that picture as his high school yearbook picture. He doesn't look like that anymore, not for a decade or so. We pressured him to stop using that picture on his own site and it's the only thing he's actually listened to us on. We also pressured him to stop lying about terrorism and health care reform, but he's still doing that.