Sen.-elect Brown says he supports abortion rights (and says GOP shouldn't take his vote for granted)

[Kadie]

Sen.-elect Brown says he supports abortion rights

Sunday, January 31, 2010


(01-31) 05:24 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he opposes federal funding for abortions, but thinks women should have the right to choose whether to have one.

Brown tells ABC's "This Week" that he disagrees with his party's position that the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion should be overturned.

Brown says the abortion question is one that's best handled by a woman, her family and her doctor. He also says more effort needs to go into reducing the number of abortions in the U.S.

Brown has said the GOP shouldn't take his vote for granted on every issue. He says he's fiscally conservative but more moderate on social issues.


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[Dappleganger]

1. Waiting for repubs to demote him down to piss boy

'cuz he disses the moral majority!

[Turbineguy]

3. Mel Brooks Moment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAgu6zI9v0

[Dappleganger]

10. LOL, guess I'm not the only one

who laughs at Count de Money!

:toast:

[pipi_k]

11. Don't get saucy with me, Bearnaise!!! n/t

[Dappleganger]

15. It's good to be the King!

[Mopar151]

7. Like Stafford of VT, Spector of PA

They'll bully and beat him until he "loves" them - or grows a spine and splits.

[Jennicut]

2. Well, he is a Republican in New England. My Repub gov here in CT is pro choice.

That is perfectly normal here. But Brown can kiss away higher office someday with the party leadership making the decisions on that. Not conservative enough.

[Mass]

4. He wants to be reelected. When he starts changing his position on this, we'll know he is running for

president.

[ncteechur]

5. don't think he will stay belle of the ball for long with GOP. he isn't

right enough for those folks--I think it will be Newt Gingrich/Sarah Palin.

[laughingliberal]

6. I saw an article on Huffpo last week that he told the Republican leadership

they can't take his vote for granted on everything. That was encouraging but we'll need to see what he does going forward. That said, I don't think he'll last long in MA if he becomes a lockstep Repub.

[dkf]

8. Ha!

I'm giggling at how he must be driving the crazies batty. Lol.

[chat_noir]

9. FReepers, for the most part, are in denial about Brown's support of abortion rights

A few are calling him a RINO, but most are keeping quiet about it.

[pipi_k]

13. Hee hee...so much for their celebrations...

he's looking more like a very conservative Democrat than anything...

Who knows...maybe we got the last laugh on them after all!

:7

[yourout]

12. Any chance he will be a Republican version of Lieberman.

[pipi_k]

14. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but we'll just have to wait and see... n/t

[Lyric]

16. rofl!

Didn't he hear about the Official Republican Purity Test?

Give our guys in the Senate a few years to show him the error of his ways on fiscal policy, and maybe we can snatch this one away too.

[tanyev]

17. No GOP purity ring for you, Mr. Centerfold.

[Democrat_in_Houston]

18. The repugs are counting on more "big tent" republicans from the northeast

to push their globalist, cheap labor agenda. Most of the movers and shakers in the party are not anti-abortion. They don't give a shit about babies BEFORE OR AFTER birth - not one bit. They just use the fundies, and someday you would think they would wake up and smell the coffee.

I've been waiting for that, but they just dig in deeper when I tell them they are being used.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Now there's a nail that will soon be hammered down

I imagine he'll be called into a "special meeting" very soon now.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. The repukes just voted on a watered-down purity test at their luxurious retreat

in Hawaii this past week. This means that they will have to defund this guy come 2012. :rofl:

[Vinca]

21. I guess this means the Palin/Brown ticket will never happen.

:cry:

[MadPossum]

22. Brown is dangerous in ways Palin is not

Brown is not only pro-choice, his position on gay marriage is exactly the same as Barack Obama's. (He's for civil unions; personally against gay marriage, but believes it should be "left up to the states" to decide.)

Listen--this guy is dangerous. So long as the public face of the GOP is Rush and Glen Beck and the teabaggers and the whackos with their Obama-as-Hitler signs, the Republicans will never regain majority status in this country. It is guys like Brown that represent the only hope of future success for the party. That is, conservative on economics but not tied to the Christian-fundamentalist-right wing that cares only about gays and abortion and teaching "creationism" in schools.

If the Republicans can divorce themselves from the moralists and move back to Goldwater-style small government, low taxes conservatism combined with libertarian positions on social issues, the GOP may be able to become a majority party once again.

I'm not suggesting I want this...just be careful about how happy we are that Brown has some "liberal" leanings. That's what makes him dangerous.