Discussion for article #224528
Looks like an excellent pickup for a Democratic US House seat. Go Mainers! Let’s add this one to the win column. LePage is toast. He’s nuts too if you haven’t figured it out yet.
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I thought the open seat was Michaud’s old slot. If so, it’s a Hold, not a Pick-Up – not that I’d turn it down if Cain knocks Poliquin into the bay.
I’m just pleased the indie candidate for guv isn’t doing the same damage he did the last time around: He’s stuck at 15%, despite the fact that he’s a self-funder with a ton of cash. Maine’s not going to make the same mistake twice, particularly if that mistake lets Pepe LePage keep a gig he wasn’t fit to hold in the first place.
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Here’s a quote from the silent majority of the Republican Party:
“The establishment Republicans are being yanked from office because they have been obstructionists and hav e NOT being doing the work of the people. I’ve voted to protest the Republican obstructionist ways and that means tossing out the Republican incumbents…I think the Tea Party politicians are crazy and have no intention of voting for them in the general elections.”
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Paul LeRage is a deeply unbalanced Gooper, re: his tiresome record and “Sovereign Citizen” buds.
And there are many, many of his ilk out there.
If people want these amoral nihilists gone, perhaps we’d better show up at the polls in November, and OF COURSE with that thar Eye-Dee.
Just saying!
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Death to the GOP as it exists now.
Replace it with something sane that offers credible opposition instead of Burn-Down-The-Village-To-Save-It fanaticism.
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“If people want these amoral nihilists gone, perhaps we’d better show up at the polls in November, and vote for the fucking Democrat and not the preening egotist Eliot Cutler.”[/quote]
FIFY.
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Technically illegal if you are from Mississippi. But maybe not if you are a corporation of five or fewer majority owners and it conflicts with your core religious beliefs.
Bruce Poliquin:
High School at very rich Phillips-Andover Academy; Harvoard Business School, NYC banker and worker pension fund scoundrel where he made millions on fees levied against workers that he now demonizes for state and corporate spending, and a flat out fraud as State Treasurer under LePage until we finally took back the majority in the state legislature and forced his ejection.
Bruce Poliquin: a bribing tax cheating Republican that fits right in with the Tea baggers. He is a complete fraud! It is amazing that he isn’t in prison for tax fraud…amazing!
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The Baggernuts will make the Rethuglican party into the modern day Whigs. The label may live but the lifeblood will be gone. Please continue.
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Don’t underestimate these people. The Tea Party is a dangerous fanatical fringe that uses a distorted view of constitutional democracy to sell their insanity and anarchy. Do all you can as often as you can to weaken and defeat them, if America is to be preserved as something other than an oligarchic theocracy that injects mindlessness, discrimination and hate into every crack of American democracy There vision is a mindless anarchy imposed by them on all who disagree with them.
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Overreach results in backlash? Compare these two paragraphs and ponder how such a reversal could occur, if not for that overreach.
We can only hope this is a national trend.
“Four years ago, in 2010, the far-right of the Maine Republican Party scored big when Paul LePage won the GOP gubernatorial nomination and then, as Republicans took both houses of the Maine Legislature, went on to win a plurality of votes in a multi-candidate race. Suddenly, Maine ended up with a very conservative, all-Republican state government”
then, just two short years later, this?
“In November 2012, Republicans faced big defeats, as Mainers installed Democratic majorities in both the Maine House and Senate, endorsed same-sex marriage, elected moderate Independent Angus King to the U.S. Senate, and voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. Democrats held onto both of Maine’s two U.S. House seats and Senator King soon announced that he would caucus with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate.”
Either they cheated somehow in 2010, or their conservative overreach woke up a lot of moderate voters who showed up to reverse the mistake.
Unfortunately for Maine, their Governor is also a loose canon. Who knows where his next volley will be aimed, but no doubt it will be outrageous.
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I tend to agree in general but the money wing of the party will soon tire of losing winnable races to keep the party “pure”. There are some grown-ups left and I hope by 2024 (I want the Dems to retake some state legislatures in 2020 for redistricting) the Baggernuts will be a permanent minority like their Bircher forefathers were even in the GOTP.
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As someone who was born and lived his first 33 years of his life in Maine (and now lives further south), I am horrified at what I see going on in the government in what I will always consider my “home state.” LePage is an unmitigated disaster for the state and I wonder how much tourism dollars the state has lost because of this imbecile.
Sadly, Maine’s political environment (and laws) are partly to blame for LePage’s presence. The state has a long and strong history of independent candidacies, which makes three way races much more competitive. And because of that, LePage may very well be re-elected. I guess that’s just the risks you take with a strong independent political streak.
I’m not optimistic that Maine will be “LePage-free” come 2015.
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If you think of the Tea Party as a scam, this makes perfect sense. The guys rakes in the campaign contributions, distributes them to his political-consultant associates, then loses the election and spends the next few years raising even more money by appealing to old white wingnut outrage as whatever democrats are doing. If he won an election that might actually jeopardize the graft.
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And yet, Michaud is only a little ahead of LePage, because of Eliot Cutler, the independent candidate whose candidacy elected LePage four years ago. What is it going to take to get these “independents” to understand that they are stalking horses for the Republicans?
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Good grief! LePage is not a “tyrant” he is just a bad governor. There are legal ways of handling bad governors. Please do not promote casual assassination.
The dems already control that seat. Mike Michaud is running for governor against LePage. It wouldn’t be a pick-up if Cain wins.
This.
This is so very off topic, not clever and distracting. I;m sure you are proud of yourself for learning how to use a rhyming dictionary, but you better throttle it back.