{"id":10970,"date":"2011-08-20T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:59:28","slug":"tea-party-to-back-scott-brown-over-elizabeth-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10970\/tea-party-to-back-scott-brown-over-elizabeth-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party to Back Scott Brown Over Elizabeth Warren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) hasn\u2019t\u00a0exactly been the reincarnation of John Adams, some Bay State Tea Party leaders are weighing whether helping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/08\/20\/elizabeth-warrens-potential-senate-bid-may-reunite-scott-brown-with-tea-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">reelect the moderate Brown<\/a> is better than sitting back and letting him duke it out with Harvard professor and Obama prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Elizabeth Warren next year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cElizabeth Warren is a game-changer,\u201d Varley said. \u201cElizabeth Warren is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive. We can say we may not be thrilled with Sen. Brown, but we certainly don\u2019t want Elizabeth Warren.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike other GOP moderates like Senators Olympia Snowe (ME), Orrin Hatch (UT), and Richard Lugar (IN), Brown will likely get a pass in the primary, and have uber-liberal Warren to show as a much worse alternative.\u00a0 Between now and November 2012, hopefully Brown gives Tea Party voters something to vote <em>for<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: FoxNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) hasn\u2019t\u00a0exactly been the reincarnation of John Adams, some Bay State Tea Party leaders are weighing whether helping reelect the moderate Brown is better than sitting back and letting him duke it out with Harvard professor and Obama prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Elizabeth Warren next year: \u201cElizabeth Warren is a game-changer,\u201d Varley said. \u201cElizabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,2975,159,281,1426,2399,725,28],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-massachusetts","tag-olympia-snowe","tag-orrin-hatch","tag-richard-lugar","tag-scott-brown","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}