Reason.tv: Live From Boston, Coakley & Brown Supporters Sound Off

January 19, 2010

Armed with a Flip camera, Reason Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan visited supporters of Senate hopefuls Martha Coakley (Democrat) and Scott Brown (Republican) outside of Boston's Northeastern University, where President Obama attempted to save Ted Kennedy's seat and a 60-vote supermajority with a late-breaking visit.

Today's special election may well decide the fate of pending health care reform legislation.

Filmed on January 17, 2009. Approximately 4 minutes.

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|1.19.10 @ 11:09AM|#

I feel like a bad libertarian right now, because I'm sort of hoping Brown wins...

Jordan|1.19.10 @ 11:35AM|#

Right now, divided government is the best outcome we can hope for.

Dave|1.19.10 @ 11:56AM|#

Last time we had a divided government we actually had a surplus. A Social Security surplus, but still a surplus.

|1.19.10 @ 1:07PM|#

Bingo, Jordan. Bingo!

My wife and I voted for Brown today. There have been no Coakley signs in sight. Brown could win big.

I hate both parties and therefore, IMO, neither party has a right to monopolized power. Bring back the late 1990s!!!

|1.19.10 @ 1:18PM|#

I can understand holding your nose while pulling the lever for Brown (and then having to vomit afterwards), but I I cannot understand the the glee and joy with which so many Tea Partiers have with Brown himself. They've got their pom-poms out and are cheerleading him on with a huge grin on their faces.

"Give me a T! Give me a U! Give me an R! Give me a D! What's that spell? Brown! Brown! Brown!"

|1.19.10 @ 11:22AM|#

OK this is making pretty good sense.

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Keith Olbermann|1.19.10 @ 11:36AM|#

"In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees."
Countdown--Jan. 18

John Tagliaferro|1.19.10 @ 11:47AM|#

Did Olbermann make all that stuff up or is there actually something out there supporting it?

Dave|1.19.10 @ 11:48AM|#

Next thing he will say is he wants to kill the unborn.

|1.19.10 @ 12:01PM|#

We're all ex-nude models.

Ratko|1.19.10 @ 12:37PM|#

..so therefore we are all Scott Brown?

TP|1.19.10 @ 12:25PM|#

Wow. I thought the Patriots were out of the playoffs.

|1.19.10 @ 1:55PM|#

bahaha. You can cahll it supaah tuesdaay fieta pahhty... AND TAHMMY BRADY IS THE GREAHTEST FACKIN QUATAHBACK OF ALL TIME AND FACKIN WELKAH IS ONE OF US! NOT A FACKIN DAHKIE!

|1.19.10 @ 2:03PM|#

This one will have to be watched very closely for fraud. I find it hard to believe the Dems would leave this vote to chance.

Ratko|1.19.10 @ 2:22PM|#

Were those Gadsden flags being displayed by the Brown supporters?

It's sad so many Americans today know so little about our own history that such a flag which once was a symbol of our unity against those who would walk on our natural liberties and by that a symbol of pride in our own self rule, that today they can be told such a flag has a negative symbolism and they will readily accept that to be so.

Given Coakley's abysmal track record involving her respect for our citizen's liberties there could hardly be a more appropriate place for the reminder that it was freedom that was the ideal which this nation was founded upon above all others.

Larry|1.19.10 @ 2:41PM|#

If Brown pulls this off, my socialist-progressive friends are going to go out of their minds, and I think I'm going to have more than my share of Shadenfreude (sp?) in observing their anguish. I'm not proud of it, but it's true.

I'm no GOP cheerleader, but the current dem party leaders are a bunch of nanny-state hippies with affectations of moral superiority. Such a party cannot be allowed to stay in power.

|1.19.10 @ 4:08PM|#

same here man.

CatoTheElder|1.19.10 @ 5:06PM|#

Hey, I used to be a hippie, and let me tell you that the Obamatons are no hippies. A real hippie loathes the State. His only political objectives are peace and freedom. Unfortunately, most hippies were drug-addled, stupid, or both, making them easy prey for nanny-statists with affectations of moral superiority. The statists' phony promises of peace and free stuff lured dimwitted hippies into their camp. But the two are groups -- hippies and statists -- are not the same.

see http://mises.org/daily/2762

Larry|1.20.10 @ 9:15AM|#

My apologies to all the nice, dim-witted hippies out there who may be offended by my comparing them to social democrats.

Xeones|1.19.10 @ 2:54PM|#

It's "schadenfreude," Larry, and i'm right there with you.

enrique|1.19.10 @ 3:31PM|#

Certainly looks (from this carefully spliced video) that there is a definite edge to excitement on Brown's side vs. Coakley's. Whether that translates into victory I suppose is another matter.

Jake_Witmer|1.19.10 @ 4:21PM|#

I'm amazed that there is no mention of Joe Kennedy, the Independent candidate, even here at Reason. ...So much for solidarity. So much for "alternative" media.

Jake_Witmer|1.19.10 @ 4:31PM|#

BTW: Joe is a member of the National Libertarian Party. http://www.joekennedyforsenate.com

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