Posted on 02/19/2009 7:46:41 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Maine's Grand Old Party sank to a new low this month when its two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, bolted across the aisle and helped the party of President Obama pass the $800 billion stimulus bill.
If past is prologue, we probably should have expected as much. Snowe and Collins, who pride themselves as being centrist Republicans with a maverick streak in the mold of the late Maine political icon Margaret Chase Smith, have time after time voted or taken positions that are counter to the principles of their own party.
For conservative Maine Republicans, the Snowe-Collins rogue mode has been mostly an irritant, something like a pimple in your nose — annoying but not worth seeing a doctor or making a federal case over. We have known, too, over the years that there is a purely useful political dimension to the independent image that these two have striven so calculatingly to cultivate. It was pragmatic. It helped them curry the favor of Maine's pretty-much liberal media and, at election time, their middle-of-the-road image attracted crossover votes from Democratic voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangornews.com ...
How does the GOP do in main generally? In state and local elections.
The ENTIRE US GOP HOUSE caucus representing the entire country voted against this.
These 2 beasts will eventually have to answer for their arrogance.
The GOP has tolerated these 2 and will remain a minority party as long as action is not taken against them.
Shocking.
It's time they were fired.
I hear you, and I’ve gone a step further. I give to individual candidates whom I’ve personally researched and found sound (i.e. HARD RIGHT).
They have to check the water in Maine. A “R” stamped over a hammer and cicle in washable ink does not a Republican make!
These two senators have betrayed an entire generation of Americans. It wouldn’t have been so bad if it were only the GOP they betrayed(as usual).
RINOS such as Collins and Snowe (and Specter, and Graham) do the GOP and our great Country more harm as "Republicans" than they would as Dems.
Let's encourage states with RINO Congress peeps to field some strong conservatives (VETERANS PREFERRED), and pry the RINOS out of the GOP at the next available primary.
Operation Clean Sweep
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These two are prime examples of why I donate to the candidates of MY choice rather than the NRC.
The Bangor Sisters..groupies to the Dems.
We should find viable candidates to run against them and the party should never give them another dime or ounce of help for re-election. And their fellow R Senators should completely alienate them.
Competitive, but in the minority. The Democrats have won the Governorship, for example, with just a plurality (38% in ‘06). We got 45% in the 1st district for Congress in November for an open seat (and that lady is a world-class moonbat). We were one seat away from winning the State Senate from ‘07-’09, but slipped back 2 seats (but still 3 seats away from control now, quite “doable”). In the State House, we were just 1 seat away from the majority prior to the ‘06 elections, but have slipped down since.
... paging Michael Steele. Make them walk the plank off the party.
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum.
Whenever evil wins, it is only by default:
by the moral failure of those who evade the fact
that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”
AYN RAND ‘Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal’ 1966)
Will never happen.
"You vote 'yes' for pork for my state while I vote 'no'......and I'll do the same for you next time."
'Twas ever thus, and ever will be.
I was a county commissioner for two decades, and it happened at every voting meeting.
Leni
Like your state, and the people, unlike those further south, are nice. I see, the building along the coast, however, and I gather that Massaachusetts is reannexing your state.
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