{"id":2650,"date":"2010-01-12T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:32:44","slug":"report-incomplete-coakley-vs-brown-the-not-especially-conservative-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Report Incomplete:  Coakley VS Brown&#8230; The Not-Especially-Conservative Conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Report%20Incomplete%3A%20%20Coakley%20VS%20Brown...%20The%20Not-Especially-Conservative%20Conservative%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Looks like this week I&#8217;m gonna be focusing in on crappy journalism. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2010\/01\/12\/its_the_peoples_seat_and_its_up_for_grabs\/\">quick description<\/a> of the two candidates running in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s old seat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The policy differences between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown were as clear during last night\u2019s debate as they have been throughout this short special-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Coakley supports ObamaCare, opposes the war in Afghanistan, and favors higher taxes on the wealthy. Brown is against the health care legislation, backs the president\u2019s surge in Afghanistan, and wants across-the-board tax cuts \u00e0 la JFK. Coakley is an EMILY\u2019s List prochoice hard-liner; Brown condemns partial-birth abortion and is backed by Massachusetts Citizens for Life. Coakley has no problem with civilian trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Brown thinks it reckless to treat enemy combatants like ordinary defendants.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>But the most striking thing about the debate was not that the very liberal Democrat and the <em>not-especially-conservative<\/em> Republican disagreed on the issues. It is that they are both viable candidates in a race too competitive to call. In Massachusetts!<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen on Jan. 19th,\u2019\u2019 Coakley said. She wasn\u2019t being coy. <em>Nobody <\/em>knows what\u2019s going to happen next week.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When Ted Kennedy died five months ago, who would have guessed that the contest to replace him would be anything but a slam-dunk for the Democrats? Yet there was no slam-dunk on that stage last night, and the race certainly doesn\u2019t feel like a slam-dunk now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the \u2018Kennedy Seat,\u2019 \u2019\u2019 Brown has been reminding Coakley lately. \u201cIt\u2019s the people\u2019s seat.\u2019\u2019 Amazing thing is, he could be right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My big surprise is not that the seat is up for grabs; Kennedy retained his seat as much on the power of being an incumbent as he did on being a Kennedy. No, I&#8217;m really baffled that Brown, as described in this article &#8211; he against Obamacare, is against PBA, and supports the surge in Afghanistah, has all the credentials of being a solid conservative &#8211; yet is labeled as <em>not-especially-conservative<\/em>! Is there something about Brown that we don&#8217;t know?\u00a0 Did he vote for Obama last year? Does he support cap-and-trade? Is he &#8211; GASP &#8211; an atheist????\u00a0\u00a0 What exactly make him <em>not-especially-conservative? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dan and Bruce @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaypatriot.net\/\">Gay Patriot<\/a> are following this race and Brown much closer than I. If you want some real election coverage, and want to find out if Scott Brown is a sort-of conservative, go have a peak at their site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Report%20Incomplete%3A%20%20Coakley%20VS%20Brown...%20The%20Not-Especially-Conservative%20Conservative%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Looks like this week I&#8217;m gonna be focusing in on crappy journalism. Here is a quick description of the two candidates running in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s old seat: The policy differences between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown were as clear during last night\u2019s debate as they have been throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}