Now is not the time to reward a caucus whose strategy was to gain power by obstructing compromise. Richard Tisei's bipartisanship should be applauded and rewarded in a legislative body that is committed to finding solutions to our real problems. As Paul Kirk blogged in the Globe's "Voices of New England", we are not currently engaged in the civil public debate Richard Tisei would attempt to engage in. Richard Tisei was able to engage in bipartisanship in a MA legislature that was held by a Democratic Majority. I wish I could observe the same pragmatic, compromise-reaching goals of our current US legislative body... Had there been no compromise on Obamacare, the Democrats may have pushed through a public option at a minimum, or a single payer system. Republican ideas were adopted, but not a single Republican would support it. Richard Tisei repeats the Republican line on Obamacare, deficit reduction, and job creation. To his credit he disputes the Medicaid solution. I find the obstructionist strategy of the US Republican-controlled House, and the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate, more scandalous than returning Congressman Tierney to office. As reflected in the Globe's endorsement of his challenger, Congressman Tierney has genuine accomplishments. He has represented my positions on the issues well, and on that basis, as well as opposition to the current Republican leadership, I will be casting my vote for John Tierney on November 6.

Will I support the guy who has worked diligently for every Democratic value my family has shared since the last time the Republicans put us in a Great Depression? Yes I will. John Tierney's been a workhorse for our district not a show horse while Mr. Tisei served the Republican Party for 26 years without changing it one whit. In fact they have gotten worse. Before my Republican friends get too high on their horse, please remember Clarence Thomas. A witness and victim came forward and gave testimony against him, yet he was confirmed. The only witness here was the Eremian toad who claimed to have evidence but then could not produce one shred. Did John Tierney know about his brother-in-law's gambling? Of course! It's legal in Antigua. He denied knowing about the illegal gambling and I believe him.

I believe that for some strange reason the Globe believes they can convinve System and others like him that they are middle of the road. They basically give Brownie a free pass and now their giving an endorsement to a man who will only make Baenor, Cantor, and, by extension, the senate's Mitch McConnel and Inhofe even stronger nationally. We'd never elect those guys here but they'll certainly effect us for years to come!

It comes down to this for LGBT people and allies: Mr Tisei, nice as he may be, belongs to a party that opposes equality and would like to enshrine inequality in the US constitution. Mr Tierney's party has equality as a plank in its platform.

I am disappointed in Mr. Tierney with regard to his wife. I'm also disappointed that he never really pushed legislation. However, Mr. Tisei, a good man and a decent politician, was pretty strident and  a naysayer, in my opinion, during his years in the MA Senate. I can't believe he wants to destroy Obama Care and could honestly vote with the worst Republican Congress in my lifetime - I'm not young. The right wing of the Republican party is a national embarrassment, something akin to an American Taliban. Because of the stakes for our country's future, I'm sticking with John Tierney.

It seems like John Walsh, John Tierney et all have started chiming in. I am extremely proud to vote for Richard. He has a stellar record of reaching across the aisle on key issues that really matter to me. He will be a voice for women in the Republican Conference that admittedly needs a lot of posuhing. He has said he'll buck the Party leadership whenever it's not in the interest of his constituents, when has John Tierney ever said that. Face it, he's a crook who has at best 'meagher accomplishments' that don't outweight the lack of trust voters, like myself. As a senior citizen I am ecstatic to say I am casting my vote for Richard Tisei.

The drugs I took last night must have been a lot stronger than I thought because I've been halluncinating all morning. For example, I just read this editorial and it appeared that the Globe is actually endorsing a Republican. Maybe I should go to the emergency room.

Unlike Mitt Romney and Scott Brown, who distort their records, Mr. Tisei is a true "New England Republican". Fiscally conservative, yet willing to compromise to produce results, and socially libertarian so that others have the liberty to make their own decisions without government interference. A combination that will get him elected. He'd get my vote. Romney and Brown, not so much!

As a gay man, I find any gay Republican of questionable character...someone who embodies the old Grouch Marx joke: "I don't want to belong to any club that wants me as a member."  Politically, I guess that means go Republican if you're gay.

As others have noted, with such a rabidly Republican Congress, Tisei will soon find himself not fitting in or towing the party line.  My guess is that it'll end up the latter.  And honestly, that's worse than anything Tierney will bring to the table.

I wish I lived in the sixth district so I could cast my vote for Tierney.  Scandal or not, he's on the right side of the fence...mine.

The question is, is Tisei really a moderate on gay rights issues who would "press for tolerance and moderation among his fellow Republicans," or is he a radical on gay rights issues who would press for radical Libertarian positions on reproductive technologies including use of stem cell derived gametes to allow same-sex couples to have genetic offspring together? Libertarians  tend to be ideologues who oppose laws that regulate or prohibit reproduction and reproductive technologies, especially same-sex reproduction technology. But opposing those laws would lead to a debacle, a wild-west free-for-all of human manufacturing that puts people at risk and harms human dignity, and we would very soon need to regulate and subsidize the technology and make it available and affordable for everyone that wants to have genetically improved offspring or reproduce with someone of the same sex. It would be incredibly expensive and energy intensive.

A better approach on gay rights issues is a moderate one that does not claim a right to conceive offspring with someone of the same sex, and supports a law that limits reproduction to a man and a woman using their unmodified gametes, but encourages "tolerance and moderation" by settling on Civil Unions that give all the other rights of marriage but do not approve or allow the couple to conceive offspring together. I don't know if Tisei could moderate his Libertarianism enough to concede on that point, but maybe he could. He needs to state his views and stop being evasive: does he believe people have a right to reproduce with somenoe of the same sex using lab-created gametes, or not?

Tisei is a Charlie Baker coat-holder. You blew it here el globo

Wow...the Tierney tribe is really bitter. Better double-down on some prozac or plan a road trip to Foxwoods to cheer up. Tierney makes Tim "Dale Earnhart III" Murray sound half-honest - no small feat. You know what they say John: there's never a good mob lawyer when you want one. 

Liz Warren has endorsed John Tierney and has campaigned with him. Indeed, this past weekend, they both appeared at the same North Shore rally. Liz tried to be cute by waiting until he left the room before going on stage. She is just another machine Democrat who will contribute to a culture of corruption.

The good news is that the Tea Party will never support anybody rational enough to be endorsed by the Boston Globe.

If Tierney were homosexual, do you think the endorsement might have been different?

Why should I vote for someone who has vowed to repeal Obamacare?  What is the Globe thinking?

The Globe now wants Obamacare to be repealed? For shame.

Isn't a vote for Tisei a move closer to repeal Obamacare?

How can a paper be in favor of Obamacare and be in favor of someone who wants to take it away from me and my family?

This Globe endorsement of Richard Tisei and the repudiation of John Tierney's high handed stonewalling and evasiveness makes all the sense in the world. Somewhere , along the road of entitled incumbency, Mr. Tierney conveniently forgot that he is accountable to his constituents  and that he should drop the shield of plausible deniability and come clean.

As the editorial states, Tierney's stonewalling on the controversy has " strained the credulity" of intelligent voters. Perhaps he, like his wife, can also be charged with "willful blindness" to wrongdoing.

Now of course, all the usual suspects, Beacon Hill coatholders and media talking heads and consultants will come rushing to Congressman Tierney's defense. (Calling Sgt. Schultz!!!). Unfortunately, they will not come armed with anymore credibility on this issue than he has.

To much weight is being put on Tisei’s position as a supposed moderate and the fact that he supports single sex marriage and abortion.  His positions are commendable but how do they make him effective? Gay marriage is approved at the state level.  Does anyone really think that Tisei is going to take on the Tea Party and champion single sex marriage in Texas and Alabama? Any challenges to Roe v. Wade would come from a Supreme Court appointment, which falls on the Senate, not the House. 

The real concern is that Tisei intends on repealing Obamacare.  There have been so many diversions in this race that many do not know this.  And the Globe has not focused on this issue with any emphasis.  Why would we want to send someone to Congress knowing they will be part of the continued government stall?  Are we really going to spend the next 4 years fighting about Obamacare?  I think most voters in the 6^th District do not know this position of Tisei’s because the focus, instead, has been Tierney’s brothers-in laws.   

wow - is this really a GLOBE endorsement for a bipartisan candidate who also happens to be a competent Republican? I am in shock as I am sure are many of your readers.

Senator Scott Brown also deserves voter support for the remarkable job he has done in Washington.