ME-Press Herald: Collins up 35

[smoltchanov]

The only thing that will get Collins out (unless she retires) is death. However, once she's out, Maine won't have a republican senator for a (very) long time...

Probably, yes. I don't see another Collins or Snowe in Maine's Republican party. and party itself became markedly more  conservative - in the past it routinely ran  substantial number of pro-choice candidates, for example. Right now i know about few for state Senate, and almost no one - for state House..

[smoltchanov]

Why does Maine keep electing America's worst senator?

Collins is far from worst. In Republican party - probably even the best or, at least, among the best..

[smoltchanov]

Why does Maine keep electing America's worst senator?

Collins is far from worst. In Republican party - probably even the best or, at least, among the best..

No, i meant wat i meant. I really like moderate Republicans, but you don't give us Charles Mathiases (my role model) anymore..

[smoltchanov]

Why does Maine keep electing America's worst senator?

Collins is far from worst. In Republican party - probably even the best or, at least, among the best..

No, i meant wat i meant. I really like moderate Republicans, but you don't give us Charles Mathiases (my role model) anymore..

So you like Republicans who aren't actually Republicans, good to note.

Absolutely. I absolutely prefer situation of 1960-80's, when Republicans had Javits, Case, Mathias and so on, and when there was a healthy choice of conservative Democrats in the South, to present day hyperpolarized idiocy. I, personally, (and many people i know) am forced to support not a candidate whom i like more these days, but those whom i hate less, and vote holding my nose.

P.S. That's exactly the reason i was banned so many times on DKE and RRH. I don't  like neither far right nor far left. And most people on these partisan sites belong to one of these two categories. So, one can imagine what happened on DKE when i called Obama a "second worst President since 1932"(after Bush Jr.)....

[smoltchanov]

Why does Maine keep electing America's worst senator?

Collins is far from worst. In Republican party - probably even the best or, at least, among the best..

No, i meant wat i meant. I really like moderate Republicans, but you don't give us Charles Mathiases (my role model) anymore..

Well I'd argue one of the most admirable things about him was that he refused to leave or be pushed out of the Republican Party.  He had a vision for what he wanted it to be, and he tried to change it from within.

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