Republicans across the U.S. are celebrating the upset victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown in heavily Democratic Massachusetts. Brown said he was part of a "new breed of Republican coming to Washington," and Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, wrote at RedState.com that the party can make big gains in November elections if it can recruit more candidates "who, like Scott Brown, have also had enough of the spending and taxing and heavy-handed governance." Is Scott Brown showing his party how to make a comeback? (Watch a Fox report about Scott Brown's Republican agenda)
Yes, Brown's fiscal conservatism is the key: Scott Brown's "historic victory" proved that America is sick of liberals and ready for new conservative revolution, says Jeffrey T. Kuhner in The Washington Times. "Brown ran on sweeping, Reagan-style tax cuts, slashing government spending, restoring political accountability, and opposing having terrorists tried in civilian courts and as a skeptic of man-made global warming." Brown, the "conservative insurgent," is now the model for Republican candidates in the 2010 midterms.
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