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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeriously, how have Maine voters been duped by Susan Collins for so long?
How many times are they going to swallow the cynical little kabuki dance she does every time she prepares to vote in lockstep with Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz? She's like the narcissist who always pretends to read the menu five times and just can't decide which dish she wants, but then when the waiter comes, without fail, she orders the exact same thing every time. Once is cute. Twice is annoying. This woman has built her entire career around pretending to consider other dishes on a menu she isn't even reading.
And then she pretends afterward that she was "duped" into ordering the wrong thing and it wasn't her fault. I honestly can't think of a more craven, more pusillanimous, more passive-aggressive, more insulting racket. Morally, she's on the same level as the religious hucksters who convince cancer victims to cancel their health insurance and donate their money to the church instead. The average liquor store robber is more honest with his victims.
You really have to wonder how much insult Maine voters can swallow. Do they really want Collins to be one of the few female role models in the Senate that their daughters can look up to?
Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)LandOfHopeAndDreams
(872 posts)COLLINS MUST GO DOWN TO DEFEAT IN 2020.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)As Governor TWICE! Methinks that perhaps Mainers are just a bunch of backwards racists perhaps...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)He has benefited from opponents who split the anti-LePage vote, and he wins with a plurality.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)And splitting the vote was intentional...
mainer
(12,033 posts)By a third (liberal) candidate. We liberals split the vote. LePage won eith a minority of voters.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)The one that cared the most, should have dropped out so the other could defeat LePage.
But that didn't happen so maybe lib candidates were plants!
Another dirty trick from the Republican playbook...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...instead of engaging in totally uninformed conspiracy-spinning.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)must oppose the largest liberal group by now. It's their nature.
And please, let's not call them liberals. I've read a lot about liberal personality, and those who must always oppose instead of unite to advance are not representative.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)NeverTrumpDemocrat
(48 posts)It HURTS Heitkamp with her electorate to vote no, plus she's actually up for re-election this year. If Heitkamp is a profile in courage, Collins is a profile in cowardice.
But why will Collins vote yes?
She's a savvy politician; I think she'd like to vote no simply out of political calculation. I hear her lobbyist husband is pretty shady though, and it looks like the way things work with the Trump Republican Party is that they are not afraid to threaten their own with blackmail to encourage loyalty and punish independence -- a la Lindsey Graham.
Not a Mainer, but would love to hear from them! (We love Acadia National Park!)
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Azathoth
(4,611 posts)I honestly didn't know that.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Maine has two Congressional districts, but Senators are elected at-large, like everywhere else (as required by the 17th Amendment). The poster is confused.
mainer
(12,033 posts)Was thinking of congressional districts.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Senators don't represent "districts". Both Collins and King are elected statewide.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)eallen
(2,955 posts)He makes Collins look good.
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)At least LePage will stare you in the eye and grin as he pisses on your shoe. Collins waits until your back is turned to piss on you, then blames it on someone else when you spin around.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)I've always thought Collins was an idiot. Can't believe anyone would vote for her.
keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate.
She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.
The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.
The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining viable candidate.