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Dan Rather: Collins 'misses her moment to be a hero' by voting for Kavanaugh
thehill.com ^ | 10/5/18 | John Bowden

Posted on 10/06/2018 4:02:56 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather argued Friday that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) missed an opportunity to be a "hero" by announcing that she would vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

In a Facebook post after Collins announced her plans to vote for Kavanaguh during a lengthy speech on the Senate floor, the veteran anchor called the nomination battle a "devastating loss" for "most women" and some men.

"So Collins misses her moment to be a hero, and the old bulls win again," Rather wrote in the post.

"For most women and many men it’s a bitter, devastating loss. Which makes it all the sweeter for the old bulls, and for the forces of power, privilege and money everywhere," he added.

Rather wrote that his wife was "furious and deeply disappointed" by the day's news that Republicans have the votes necessary to confirm Kavanaugh on Saturday.

"Fill your lungs with the determined air of action. I find myself humming that old but powerful anthem of the Civil Rights Era. 'We'll walk hand in hand!' 'We are not afraid!' 'We shall overcome!'" he wrote, invoking Civil Rights-era messages.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: brettkavanaugh; collinskavanaugh; danrather; kavanaugh; rather; ratherbiased; scotus; senate; supremecourt; susancollins
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To: djpg
They were Republican Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, who both voted YES for Kavanaugh. They were there to support Collins.

Good work Ladies!

101 posted on 10/06/2018 6:52:17 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: wild74
Susan Collins missed being a hero to who Dan? You...lol ---

Right. Dan Rather is bent.

102 posted on 10/06/2018 6:53:14 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: Chengdu54
It amazes me how Dan Rather can’t believe how stupid - what a pathetic tool - he is. -----

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If only he were not lucky enough to be in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 ...... we may never have heard of the SICK DEMENTED BASTARD.

103 posted on 10/06/2018 6:55:34 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: TruthFactor

I wish they had not looked so glum. They seemed disapproving.


104 posted on 10/06/2018 6:59:47 AM PDT by djpg
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To: a little elbow grease

Rather blew his chance to be a hero with all his lies.


105 posted on 10/06/2018 7:01:08 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: a little elbow grease

Dan Rather misses opportunity to get rid of a headache
by not taking a 9mm aspirin


106 posted on 10/06/2018 7:01:44 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: a little elbow grease

Now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Dan Rather and his wife are traitors. Trials for treason and execution are way past due.


107 posted on 10/06/2018 7:21:06 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: djpg

I’m not sure who the woman on the right was. The woman in blue was Sen. Shelley Moore Capito R-WV.

I was pleasantly shocked by Sen. Collins decision. I won’t be happy though until the final vote and Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed.


108 posted on 10/06/2018 7:23:58 AM PDT by Tammy60
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To: a little elbow grease

Dan Rather, the father of fake news since 1963.


109 posted on 10/06/2018 7:27:00 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: a little elbow grease

One unsung “hero” is whomever fired that filthy little twit for forging those air national guard documents about Dubya


110 posted on 10/06/2018 7:27:46 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Fire them all even though the heavens fall. (Fiat justitia ruat cælum))
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To: djpg; TruthFactor
"I wish they had not looked so glum. They seemed disapproving."

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They were terrible back there.

They both looked like their dogs died. It was gross.

111 posted on 10/06/2018 7:28:46 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease

Where is the word “disgraced” in this awful drek?


112 posted on 10/06/2018 7:30:09 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21
"Where is the word “disgraced” ......."

It's written into his name.

;-)

113 posted on 10/06/2018 7:43:08 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease
Dan Rather wants Collins to be a hero to these guys gays.
114 posted on 10/06/2018 8:15:04 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: a little elbow grease

And Dan has the document to prove it.


115 posted on 10/06/2018 8:22:59 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: JohnnyP
"Dan Rather wants Collins to be a hero to these guys gays."

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LOL ..... that coming from a guy who once said on election night: "This race is tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter during Gay Pride week."

116 posted on 10/06/2018 8:25:12 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (duct tape and cable ties hold more worth more than pussy hats and resistance)
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To: a little elbow grease
Dan Rather proving that Kenneth still doesn't know the frequency!
117 posted on 10/06/2018 11:09:59 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: goldstategop

[Next I’ll post to ‘all’ about Hillary smearing a 12 year old rape victim.]

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I wonder if Dan Rather or his buddies would find any of this as credible as Professor Ford of ‘shadow government’ fame?

We all know that Clinton frequented Pedophile Island. Not only is it reasonable to assume he is a pedophile, but as governor he was friends with another sleaze, a mobster named Dan Lasater who turned a virgin fourteen year old cheerleader into a cocaine addict and ultimately a prostitute. Roger Clinton went to prison with Lasater [and said that Bill had a ‘nose like a vacuum cleaner’ around cocaine], and Momma Clinton frequented the race track with the mobster.

Now for the evidence which Democrats traditionally ignored for the past two decades.

Doc Delaughter [Former Arkansas Police Investigator in charge of Dan Lasater case] worked for a state government under the complete control of the democrat party. That party’s ethics plummeted under Bill Clinton. Delaughter and many other employees [who spoke out in the Clinton Chronicles] of that one-party government failed to keep afloat, the sewer drowned their careers and threatened their safety, and it took Bill Clinton to cause Arkansas to vote Republican for the first time.

Note that the following transcript is of actual people on film:

LARRY NICHOLS: Dan Lasater, who was best friend of Bill Clinton, who went to jail with Roger Clinton for cocaine, and by the way, let me explain something, he didn’t sell cocaine. No, they were giving it away; huge piles of cocaine in his office. Ash tray upon ash tray full at the parties, and they would give it to young girls. That’s sick. I mean, they were giving a highly addictive drug to young girls.

DOC DELAUGHTER: One particular one that comes to mind is a fourteen-year old cheerleader out of North Little Rock. She was a virgin, and ultimately he ended up sending her to a physician of his. The physician put her on birth control pills. He used cocaine in order to - ultimately she lost her virginity and she got addicted to cocaine and the last I heard of her when we had her subpoenaed backed to the Federal Grand Jury, she was a hooker in Lake Tahoe.

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DOC DELAUGHTER: After Lasater was indicted, I started to receive quite a bit of harassment from my own department, the Arkansas State Police, and I knew the reason behind it, because the affiliation with the State Police and the Governor’s office, with Dan Lasater and his business associates.

SHARLINE WILSON (Grand Jury Witness): Mr. Lasater’s cocaine involvement at times was very heavy ...

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LARRY NICHOLS: Once [Lasater] was convicted, he went to a minimum security prison, a holiday hotel we call them. He spent, I think it was six to eight months and he got out. Unbeknownst to anybody, Bill Clinton the day after he got out granted him a full and complete pardon. So if you think he’s tough on crime, think about a man that pardons a man that gives cocaine to kids.

[Clinton Chronicles — a heart wrenching eye opener.]


118 posted on 10/06/2018 11:15:51 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: All

The old media has ignored this other shocker for years:

During the 2016 Trump election Hillary Clinton was caught on tape during her ‘tender’ years fresh from college as a young defense attorney, her sadistic laughter and glee when she trained the rapist of a young child. “I’ll never trust lie detectors again! Hahahah!”

Through intrigues she blocked key evidence in the trial and questioned the child’s sanity. She claimed it was ‘fantasies’, a ‘subconscious desire to be raped’.

Did having a daughter later change her? No. Candidate Hillary refused to apologise for any of it.


119 posted on 10/06/2018 11:16:46 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: Qiviut

Dan Bongino’s a good man. I’m happy he’s on our side...


120 posted on 10/07/2018 8:40:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (If a Supreme Court justice can't be presumed innocent, what hope do the rest of us have? -Greenfield)
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