Posted on 11/09/2010 4:45:37 AM PST by chickadee
She wasn't on the ballot last week, but Tuesday was a bad night for Sen. Olympia Snowe. With conservative insurgents taking on GOP incumbents across the country, Snowe is a prime target for a Tea Party challenge in 2012. To fend off such a challenge, Snowe might have pointed to the failed candidacy of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and warned Tea Party activists that if they want to hand a Republican seat to the Democrats the best way to do it would be to replace her on the ballot.
But that argument lost some of its currency when Tea Party favorite Paul LePage was elected Maine's first Republican governor since 1995.
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Perhaps they can move the Snowe like they do in The County. That would be Aroostook County, the Crown of Maine. Scrape it up and toss it in the river for the spring meltdown.
“Without Olympia Snowe, there would be no Obamacare. She cast the lone, deciding vote that moved it out of committee. Remember that.”
Considering that the committee vote was 14-9, she must have counted as three votes. But what heck, it’s ALWAYS good to blow off some steam in the morning.
Hey voters,that’s Snowe with an “e!”
I will work against Snowe and Collins at every chance.
I warn everyone though, in a state that sent the lapdogs Pingree and Michaud back to Washington with the large margins they sustained is not a state that will easily have the RINO leftist senatoressess lose.
Why would you be so sure that Repubs would lose? They did elect LePage.
Drydock means she is in for overhaul.Send her to the breakers instead.
LePage won by 7,000 votes in a five way race. I voted for him, but there is NO way that a conservative can win here in a two way race. You would get Sen. Pingree and that would be worse, far worse than what we have now.
Thank you for a thoughtful post. You are using logic—not emotionalism.
What ever I can do to assist, ask. She and her fellow sob-sister Collins have been a bone in my neck for way too long.
Down here, we are planning a going away party for Jim Webb. Y’all are most cordially invited.
Well, you’ve got two years to pass out copies of “Liberty and Tyranny” wherever you go:)
Rotary track plow on the Union Pacific. Designed to clear those mountain passes in wintertime!
Thanks for the info. It looks like it could certainly do the job being discussed:)
Re #26:
Hey I would love to be wrong. But those who support Tea Party efforts to replace liberal Repubicans with conservative ones must know there are inherent risk. The end result could well be that you have a state like Delaware that simply refuses to send a conservative to the senate. In the case of Maine if the hypothetical conservative lost the new senator seated would be to the left of Snowe. That’s a risk I for one am willing to take and I believe is good for conservatism in the long run. But Tea Party folks must know, damn well better know, that from time to time their efforts won’t produce the results they want.
HA!
At least if that happened, the public could properly place blame for the D replacement's voting record on RAT ideology instead of "an independent streak".
On the other hand, replacing her with a real Republican would help kill the myth that "both parties are alike".
Hopefully, the Maine candidate wouldn’t be undercut by the GOP establishment (at least after the primary) and would be able to withstand the brickbats of the media.
It would be tough, I agree, but our state ousted Feingold for a very conservative candidate. I never thought I would live to see Feingold voted out of office, let alone for a conservative. In Wisconsin, once elected, the job is yours until you retire or die.
Alright TEA Party, here's a "shovel-ready" job.
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