MA Senate televised debate analysis; Brown, Coakley, Kennedy.
WBZ-TV hosted the first televised debate for the Massachusetts's special election being held on January 19th. The full video can be found on the WBZ archives . My impressions for each candidate. Scott Brown (R): Mr. Brown has demonstrated his polish and was extremely smooth, on message and confident. While he generally espoused traditional Republican talking points about taxes, jobs and fiscal responsibility there was a very obvious and underlying big government aura about him. On one particular question about single mothers he mentioned offering government assistance, training and education while in the same breath talking about tax cuts - a contradiction in terms. Just like staying in Afghanistan indefinitely, Brown offers nothing new from the standard GOP platform yet used his political skills to sound very appealing to fiscal conservatives. Truth is Brown's record demonstrates that as far as lowering taxes he has been missing in action. He can claim that he n