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Maine GOP rejects censuring Collins over impeachment vote
Associated Press ^ | March 27, 2021

Posted on 03/28/2021 12:06:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The Maine Republican Party State Committee decided Saturday against censuring GOP U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over her vote to convict former President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial.

The state GOP rejected the motion by a vote of 41 to 19, Collins’ office said.

“Today’s decision is a testament to the Republican Party’s ‘big tent’ philosophy that respects different views but unites around core principles,” Collins said in a statement. …

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: bigtent; censure; collins; fakeimpeachment; gopestablishment; impeachment; rino; rinos; susancollins; tds; treason; uniparty
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1 posted on 03/28/2021 12:06:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

You ever hear her talk? She sounds half ways ‘tard. Most in government are worthless and useless for America.


2 posted on 03/28/2021 12:11:25 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Olog-hai
The Maine Republicans refused to support a chapter of the College Republicans, and allowed the university to disband the real chapter and replace it with a sham chapter created by the dean.

It is my belief that some of the election fraud was either caused or purposefully ignored by GOPe and RINO anti-Trumpers in the GOP. I believe Maine is filled with that sort of scum.

3 posted on 03/28/2021 12:13:46 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Olog-hai

What else do you expect from liberal Maine. Not a tent I would want to be under.


4 posted on 03/28/2021 12:29:52 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeInJesus.com/ https://www.patburt.com)
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To: Olog-hai

The GOP in the NE of the US are weak and feckless RINOs, period.


5 posted on 03/28/2021 1:15:11 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s give Maine to Canada.


6 posted on 03/28/2021 2:11:24 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they are excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai
“Today’s decision is a testament to the Republican Party’s ‘big tent’ philosophy that respects different views but unites around core principles,” Collins said in a statement. …

Puked, got vomit in my slippers.

FMCDH(BITS)

7 posted on 03/28/2021 2:11:27 AM PDT by nothingnew
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To: cranked

Maine, like the Atlantic Provinces in Canada, is an enigma. A small mostly rural or small town population, generally very polite, religious, law abiding, and still mostly white. But when it comes to politics they lean heavily to the left. I don’t know the situation in Maine, but in Atlantic Canada it’s primarily based on economic dependence on the federal government. We’ve had a hundred years of economic malaise, with vast federal subsidies and high simultaneously propping up our economies, and stifling growth. It’s infuriating.


8 posted on 03/28/2021 2:12:17 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I believe you are correct. She is a symptom of it... not the cause. We have a political body that is pure evil in the US right now and it intends to remain in power at all costs...not much different than the CCP. We are living in a time where evil rules.


9 posted on 03/28/2021 2:17:45 AM PDT by WinstonSmith1984 ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Olog-hai

“Today’s decision is a testament to the Republican Party’s ‘big tent’ philosophy that respects different views but unites around core principles,”
Obviously more important than the Constitution./s


10 posted on 03/28/2021 3:23:16 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Olog-hai

This may be a preemptive action to try to keep her panties un-bunched before the filibuster vote. It is well known that she is an undependable R vote so let us not annoy her with what is essentially nothing. After all, how many ‘strongly worded letters’ actually deterred the recipient from doing what they wanted to do anyway?


11 posted on 03/28/2021 3:49:38 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Slo-Joe and KamelToe are not my leaders.)
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To: Olog-hai

Note to Maine’s GOP: If you really wanted to save Maine, you’d repeal RCV.

But you’re not going to do that, are you...


12 posted on 03/28/2021 4:15:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: littleharbour

As long as Maine has Ranked Choice Voting, Collins isn’t going anywhere.


13 posted on 03/28/2021 4:15:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Olog-hai

The uni-party in action again.


14 posted on 03/28/2021 4:27:29 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Collins represents her state.

She often votes as Free Republic would like her to vote, and when she does not it somehow is lost on the conversation here in Free Republic that she is representing her States voters and not people here in this conversation. The bottom line on all of this is no other Republican could have held her seat in Maine as long as she has, and if a Democrat had held that seat then we would never ever have gotten any votes we might prefer from that seat.

Now in terms of her specific response, the issue is the definition of the core principles that she talks about. She has been in Congress for a very long time and she is part of the swamp. She does not accept that a core principle of the GOP is draining the swamp. She is not the only one in the GOP with that opinion.

Of all of Trumps positions that had broad appeal, draining the swamp is the single one that will be most difficult to carry the day because eventually it must necessarily turn into support for term limits. Absolutely no swamp monster have either party is going to support that.


15 posted on 03/28/2021 4:33:47 AM PDT by Owen
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“The bottom line on all of this is no other Republican could have held her seat in Maine as long as she has, and if a Democrat had held that seat then we would never ever have gotten any votes we might prefer from that seat.”

You seem to be going over the heads of may with your comment, particularly the person who posted the article.

Anyway, as they’re rounded up for ‘re-education’, they’ll probably come to realize that maybe RINOs really are better than Democrats, although they’ll learn in the camps that they must keep thoughts like that to themselves.


16 posted on 03/28/2021 4:51:17 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: Olog-hai
"Today's decision is a testament to the Republican Party's `big tent' philosophy ...
LOL. In Maine, any conservative who wants to join that "tent' in any power role has a strong current to swim against.
17 posted on 03/28/2021 4:57:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: littleharbour

Maine is a mix. The rural part, the northern 2nd district, that is much more conservative than “Massachusetts North,” which is what the southern part of the state is.


18 posted on 03/28/2021 4:59:39 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: BobL

Bill Cohen could have held the seat as long. But he was plucked out of it, to serve as Defense Sec. under Bill Clinton.

Snowe/McKernan just aged out, I think.

Big insiders club.


19 posted on 03/28/2021 5:02:46 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

don’t know..but would wager most of the illusion about “progressive Massachusetts north” is Electoral Fraud

the bulk of progressivism/leftism is just that


20 posted on 03/28/2021 5:05:59 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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