Woohoo! Go, Scott Brown.

[Aemilius Paulus]

He is the most liberal republican in the governemnet even more so than olympia snowe.

Yeah, but McCain had a stunning score of mid to low 50s on his conservative voting record score. I remember reading somewhere that he even had a '47% liberal score'. Washington Post article, for instance, notes him as having a paltry 56% conservative score in 2006, and his conservative score has been falling ever since 1980s, when he consistently shown higher than 80% scores. According to the article, again, these ratings change when the point of view shifts. On social issues, Senior Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas seems to have the highest liberal rating, with a mere 53% conservative rating. McCain, in comparison, has 46% conservative rating on social issues. But Seantor Brownback's liberal stance on social issues is balanced out by his stunning 92% conservative on economic issues. Then again, fiscal conservatism is more popular than most Republican social stances.

All this, however, is from a 2007 article, so Scott Brown is not mentioned, of course. But neither is Olympia Snowe, strangely enough, and she was very much there back in 2007... Who knows.

I agree, the backlash is absurd. He has to march lock-step with the GOP on every issue? C'mon.

Well no, but I think bi-partisanship is a tad overrated - over-hyped is the more correct word, since no one actually tries to be bi-partisan even to the more limited extend I would favour. But just as media neutrality/non-bias, bi-partisanship is unnatural. Party discipline still exists. Then again, I have no idea what is the record of Scott Brown. So I cannot say just how much he agrees with his party.

One thing I will note, however, that I live in a district (1st Florida) which elected Jeff Miller, one of the most, ahem, rectal Republican representative alive, with a wholly perfect or almost-perfect 99/100% conservative score. He even boasts of this on his site. Gawd, and I signed up for his newsletter too, like a good boy who minds his politics. This bloke is now tea-partying. What a surprise... Except that he began doing it back when it was still called astroturfing even by numerous conservatives.