Balanced Views Quotes
At that time Brown’s Republican Party was dominated by extreme conservatives who tended to attack the character and motivation of anyone who did not agree with them—including members of their own party. Brown however came from a state with a strong Republican tradition of liberalism, which however then had a majority of Democrats as most of the liberal Republicans had been driven out of the party by the Republican extremists. At the time, the Republican party had become so extremist that many thought him disloyal to the part for making this statement. The Tea Party credo then as good people do not support evil and immoral policies and they tended to see almost all policies in moral and ethical terms.
