After months of debates and millions of dollars in television ads, Massachusetts voters will render their verdict Tuesday in a US Senate race that offers a choice with deep roots in the state’s rich political history: an outspoken leader on liberal causes against a moderate New England Republican pledging to be a beacon of bipartisanship.
US Senator Scott Brown casts himself as representing a rare species, one of the dying breed of independent Republican senators who seek to broker peace in a divided Washington, in the tradition of Leverett Saltonstall, Henry Cabot Lodge II, and Edward W. Brooke, Republicans who represented Massachusetts in the Senate.

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No matter what happen on Tuesday. I hope S Brown wins a seat that he has earned and held with integrity. He is and will continue to be a solid and reliable Senator for our state. What value is there in turning back that clock?
Scott Brown will never be a leader for any cause or become more than he is already. When he was a new senator some 22 months ago, people thought he would be a Vice President candidate - that eneded fast.
Elizabeth Warren at least can stand out and make Massachusetts a leader again in the senate. If there had been a primary, voters would have seen Warren is not that extreme liberal and many believe that the other democrat candidates were pushed out as it would have been seen she is more moderate and actually to the right on some issues compared to many liberal's views.
President Obama is being re-elected - give him a Congress he can work with this time and keep Massachusetts Blue - there are more than enought red states out there for balance. It is not for Massachusetts to give them more.
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This quaint myth of so-called "moderate" Yankee Republicans serving as some sort of beau ideal for today's Republicans needs to be embalmed, cremated, and buried. Herter, Saltonstall, Lodge, Sargent, and, further down the ladder, Hatch and Weld, and, still further down, Sears, were all Harvard-educated "nice" men. (Brooke was an outlier.) But the ascendancy of the New England type on the national scene ended long ago. There is a different battle currently raging. It is against the paladins of big government. It calls for different weapons: intellectual force and toughness. It is not being led by "moderate Republicans" a phrase that, in my experience, now accurately describes those who (how to say this kindly?) lack either the metaphysics (Scott Brown) or the moxie (Olympia Snow, say), or both (the majority of Republican state legislators) for the struggle at hand. Moderates too often resort to "process" and to "bi-partisanship" because they are ill-equipped for anything else, especially the intellectual war of ideas. And bipartisanship now means Republicans capitulating on principles to enable Democrats to get what they want, not the other way round.
It says something about the times when The Boston Globe seems to be seriously saying that a candidate that has pledged never to raise a single extra tax dollar to solve out serious problems is "a moderate New England Republican pledging to be a beacon of bipartisanship."
If Elizabeth Warren wins, I'll be watching for the Boston Globe to proclaim her the first Native American Massachusetts Senator, because that is exactly what she says she would be. Why run from it?
And, I'm wondering if she'll finally share these pictures that prove she's a Native American that she says she has but "They're not for you!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goFaSfyQHdc
This clip by the way is EXACTLY the type of thing that Warren gets a pass on continously that Brown would get 'hammered' with. Nevermind that Brown met the Globes request for tax returns and Warren came up short.
That this is STILL all that Brown supporters have is truly sad.
esf - not true! But you can look up Brown's voting record yourself. Warren has no voting record, never even run for political office before and she starts at U.S. Senator?
No GOPer who willingly signed Grover Norquist's "No Taxes" pledge can be construed as a bi-partisan moderate. Brown is a stealth conservative ever eager to grasp the bundles of cash rained down on him by corporate contributiones...and corporations do not give a hoot in hell for the average working person. Brown will pretend to be otherwise but he's just another Republican liar looking to keep his place at the trough.
I still say Brown is dreamy!
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Elizabeth Warren now leads 50 percent to Brown's 45 percent. The Brown/ Warren campaign has gone on long enough that Republican Scott Brown’s claims of bipartisanship have been exposed as misleading. He votes with the Democrats only after he counts noses to be sure it doesn’t make any difference to the outcome. Scott has taken millions of dollars from Wall Street and is their poster boy for supporting Corporations. He also voted to continue giving our tax money as subsidies to the five richest oil companies. Scott signed the Grover Norquist Pledge for no new taxes on millionaires. He voted many times against women and equal pay for women. Judge Scalia, who says repeal Roe vs Wade, is his model Supreme Justice. Scott voted three times against jobs bills that would have helped lower unemployment. Karl Rove helped him promote his many negative mailings of false information and lies against Elizabeth. Elizabeth Warren we know will fight for us on education, education jobs, construction jobs and research. She is free to vote for what is best for Massachusetts middle class not beholden to the Koch brothers.
Kerry votes 98% of the time ( vs Brown's 54% with Repubs) with the Dem majority, so will Warren ... no need to 'count noses' there!
Brown claims being bipartisan and avoids talking about his Republican voting record.
No complaint if he would stand by his record of voting Republican whenever they need his vote.