Tensions are running high in Maine, where Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s string of comments comparing the IRS to the Gestapo, has Democrats openly questioning his fitness to hold office, and Republicans charging that anyone offended by the remarks is a hypocrite.“What I think the governor is saying — he’s not a politician, everybody knows he’s not a politician, he’s a regular person, he’s a successful businessman and he isn’t politically correct,” Charlie Webster, chairman of the Maine GOP, told TPM Thursday. “His point, I’m sure, is that we’ve got to get government under control. And we can’t have government dominating our lives at every moment.”
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