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Maine governor offers crude metaphor involving Vaseline
Washington Post ^ | June 20, 2013 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 06/22/2013 10:46:08 PM PDT by neverdem

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Thursday went after a Democratic state senator by using a vulgar metaphor involving lubricant.

LePage told reporters that state Sen. Troy Jackson “claims to be for the people, but he’s the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline.”

LePage then walked away, later returning to explain his comment.

“That comment is not politically correct,” he said. “But we gotta understand who this man is. This man is a bad person. He doesn’t only have no brains; he has a black heart.”

(Full audio can be found here, starting at about the 2:25 mark.)....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: maine; paullepage; petroleumpatrol; troyjackson
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1 posted on 06/22/2013 10:46:09 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: snowrip; ROCKLOBSTER; Cboldt; mirkwood; M-cubed; Chickensoup; Madame Dufarge; Kenny Bunk; ...

Bully for LePage!


2 posted on 06/22/2013 10:51:04 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: neverdem
LePage told reporters that state Sen. Troy Jackson “claims to be for the people, but he’s the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline.”

LePage should have added:

"What's worse - he mandates that the people buy the Vaseline, claiming its a tax a la Obamacare ..."

3 posted on 06/22/2013 10:51:12 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Lmo56

With hat tip to Red Buttons, “And we never get a dinnah”.


4 posted on 06/22/2013 10:52:35 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: neverdem

That audio link didn’t work, but this one does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ely-hqmgBu0


5 posted on 06/22/2013 11:00:41 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: neverdem

Bravo! The time has long passed to take the gloves off.


6 posted on 06/22/2013 11:09:46 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: cynwoody

I love Maine


7 posted on 06/22/2013 11:13:49 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: neverdem


Sen. Troy Jackson



I'm sorry, but some people just look like shiftless weasels.
8 posted on 06/22/2013 11:14:15 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: neverdem

The state that is.
Maine has a lot of probs.
The Coast is realllly beautiful (i’m going next week).
Go 20 miles inland and over 50 percent of the people are on welfare.


9 posted on 06/22/2013 11:16:59 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: SpaceBar

Nice rug


10 posted on 06/22/2013 11:17:26 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: neverdem

Washington Post goes to the ends of the earth to report a Republican who admitted to being politically incorrect, but it doesn’t bother to follow what a national media celebrity like Bill Maher said about Trig Palin which was not politically incorrect but an expression of hate speech if there ever was an expression of hate speech.


11 posted on 06/22/2013 11:21:29 PM PDT by metafugitive
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To: neverdem

I love this guy, LePage.
The scumbag liberal Democrat Maine newsrooms will go after him relentlessly, thereby playing right into his hands. This is not a man who apologizes or grovels before the scumbag newsrooms, believe me. People will continue to see a man of clarity and unwavering principles, and they will re-elect him in a landslide.


12 posted on 06/22/2013 11:25:24 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: neverdem

He’s a great governor trying to fix the wefare state that Maine has become, but, sad to say, he’s going to get voted out in the next election cause that’s the Maine way.


13 posted on 06/22/2013 11:26:29 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: SpaceBar

He has the haircut, all that is missing is the little mustache


14 posted on 06/22/2013 11:29:53 PM PDT by Figment
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To: neverdem
Why does a Republican have to apologize for telling the truth? The tax paying American public is getting screwed without Vaseline, a reach around or a wet kiss afterwards.
15 posted on 06/22/2013 11:31:12 PM PDT by Nitehawk0325 (This conservative believes in a smaller government and NO EPA.)
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To: neverdem

LePage and his mom would regularly get their butts pounded by his abusive alchoholic father.
if i remember correctly his dad threw him down a flight of stairs then gave him a quarter to keep his mouth shut.
LePage then he ran away and lived on his own from the age of 11 and on, always holding on to that quarter.


16 posted on 06/22/2013 11:33:46 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: cynwoody

Thanks for the extra link, but I don’t understand. I copied the source code. The link worked at the WaPo source and at my post on the forum. It was an absolute link. Do you have any explanation, e.g. operating system, ISP, etc.?


17 posted on 06/22/2013 11:54:02 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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Jackson gave the Democratic response to the governor’s promised veto of the biennial budget, which was delivered Thursday during a State House rally.

“If I get a little upset with Troy Jackson, who sits up in Aroostook County and does nothing for Maine people, look, this man this year tried to take my pension away, tried to sell the Blaine House, then he realized he didn’t own it, that’s the kind of guy he is. Let’s get beyond that and bring me someone that really wants to talk,” LePage said. “People like Troy Jackson, they ought to go back into the woods and cut trees and let someone with a brain come down here and do some good work.”


18 posted on 06/22/2013 11:54:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: neverdem

Since pols think B.O.H.I.C.A is in vogue, the least they can do is supply the Vaseline.

Maybe if he had called it Petroleum Jelly there would be no problem.


19 posted on 06/23/2013 12:16:42 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Inside every 'older' man there is a 'younger' man wondering "WTF happened")
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To: neverdem
Thanks for the extra link, but I don’t understand. I copied the source code. The link worked at the WaPo source and at my post on the forum. It was an absolute link. Do you have any explanation, e.g. operating system, ISP, etc.?

Probably just my impatience. I clicked. It didn't respond. So, I googled for "LePage Jackson" and found (and posted) the Youtube link.

YouTube has its problems, but, in my experience, it generally works better than the various proprietary solutions adopted by major media outlets. And the commercials, if any, are more interesting and more easily bypassed.

20 posted on 06/23/2013 12:22:10 AM PDT by cynwoody
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