Shorter Collins: Dont look at my support for tax cut/deficit balloning + Mainers losing insurance. I am still a goddamn moderate.
Exactly. Moore is certainly on another level of heinousness, but itās not like sheās fit for office either.
Blah, blah. blah. And when he becomes a Senator youāll vote in lockstep with him and Trump anyway. A real Profile in Courage, that oneā¦
Hey, Senator Collins: no props for being a āmoderateā if youāre using your moderation to lubricate the progress of dictatorship and the collapse of our constitutional order. Either join the Democratic caucus or be treated as the collaborator you are.
Caught a few minutes of a Frank Luntz focus group. Alabama voters. Most thought the accusers were paid to allege their stories. Most thought Moore was innocent until a fair trial determined otherwise. Most thought 40 years ago in Alabama dating or even marrying a 14 year old girl was not uncommon, and much ado about nothing. Many thought even if Moored did what he was accused of the women should just get over it. Some thought the women should have been grateful to have a district attorney show them attention.
The only people that hate women more than Republican men are Republican women.
Collins lies again.
Now watch when Moore gets elected and she warmly embraces him as every other RepubliKKKlan will!
This isnāt the first time Sen. Collins has come across as un-Moored.
Yeah, well, Susan, Iām disappointed youāre going to sign that abomination of a tax bill, but you are. Your disapproval of Roy Moore, if you do, in fact disapprove, is meaningless until you realize that you work for the people of Maine and the people of the United States, not for Donald Trump, the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, or Vladimir Putin.
And that is just sad.
Right. You keep telling yourself that Santa Claus is real, Sen. Collins, and that Mitch will never cut Medicare and Medicaid.
Now, now, be fair. Iām sure most of Luntzās focus group would think the jury was paid if it found Moore guilty.
I suppose Moore might survive judgment by a jury of his peers. Finding a dozen pedophiles would take all of fifteen minutes and a sandwich board on any Alabama street corner.
I think the scenario Rethugs are hoping for is a Moore win, an ethics committee hearing that leads to his potential dismissal and the governor appointing Luther the Strange to serve out the term.
I doubt Moore would ever voluntarily leave so this strategy has its issues. The Senate will also likely lose a legal challenge to them trying to toss/remove him, as the AL voters would have spoken and the misdeeds (predation) occurred before he would have been seated, so itās a charlie-foxtrot from all angles.
Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution does permit removal.
Yes, 40 years ago (and seemingly for forever before that) the area was filled with these characters - ones who were full of them selves, waltzed around wearing cowboy hats and āSouthern Gentlemenā vests and other garb - and called themselves āThe Colonelā or āThe Majorā or some other pretend title ā¦ they would seek out some demure young thing (age discussions never given much attention) - younger the better - because a more mature woman with a mind of her own would be inconvenient - so 14 & 32 is one way you can start inorder to get those odd 44 & 62 aged couples - a the dutiful wife will say āwhy yes, we would love to come to tea - but let me check The Colonelās scheduleā
Indeed it does. But he didnāt predate teens as a Senator hence no grounds to remove him. Thatās why a legal challenge by Moore should prevail, sez the talking heads I listened to on the radios.
David Leonhardt on Susan Collins in todayās NYT.
āhe wasnāt fit to serve in the Senate.ā
Neither is she, but oh look where we areā¦
The people in the mall forty years ago did not appear to endorse the propriety of a full-grown man in his thirties hunting for young virgins.