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.
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I’m not a Mainer. I’m a Tennessean. I just stay abreast of the political scene in all 50 states. ;-)
Maine was the greatest place I ever lived (1970-1985). Back then it would never have elected these two clowns. I hope they can get it back.
I’m from Texas, but I was up on a tour through New England. In Connecticut, RI and Massachusetts we kept running into rude people. Maine, not a soul. It was like being in the South again. Very friendly.
I've been following politics for 30 years and I know how it works. But thanks for the lesson. : )
Wait until they are up for re-election. One month before primary date, kick them out of the party and run a real republican candidate.
Let’s see if they can mount an independent run like CT Senator Lieberman, only talk them down significantly.
Snowe, Collins and Spectre. They need to be kicked to the curb.
Got a call today, too. I told them I had no faith in the Republican Party anymore, and I would send my contributions to the NRA instead.
Funny you mention Specter, that is where I live now. I am trying to fix it down here.
Oh, well, you can run into bad seeds anywhere. I was warned about Miami being a hellhole and almost everyone was quite warm and friendly down there. No problems at all. People is people.
When there isn't a yellow bellied republican turncoat available in conservative areas and instead there is a weak republican candidate, they will run a faux conservative democrat and do all they can to get these type of spies elected.
Then when they are assured of a vote, they will have some of their democrat operatives vote against the democrat vote to show "bipartisanism."
Some months ago I saw a democrat who runs this operation laughing and explaining how they have been doing this for years.
The democrats are ruthless no-rules street fighters.
Republicans don't know how to fight against these guerrilla political methods.
Good for you!!
As someone else indicated, they betrayed America...to heck with betraying the republican party. Truth is, the democrats betrayed America as well, but no one holds any hope that democrats would place the nation above their personal greed and hunger for power...they did what is their nature to do.
The Massholes have turned southern Maine into a suburb of
Boston.
And a whole passel of other RINO turds need to go also.
Margaret Chase Smith, an icon? ME voters sent her into retirement in 1972, as they reelected Nixon.
The problem here is the Republican primary voter. On average, he is so uninformned that he doesn’t know what to do but approve the “friendly incumbent” whose name, at least, he recognizes. 2008 demonstrated forever more how dumb Republican primary voters actually are — just approving familiar name McPain.
People there in ME are still waiting for their “check in the mail” and have been for a half-century!
My daughter volunteered last year to work in the GOP campaign office where she lives, and I’m going to do the same in 2010, hoping to get someone nominated in 2012 who’s not a damned RINO.
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