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    fudgesicleuighyrHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:27am

    To give her some defense - it’s her job to get elected and her party has tacked hard right in Maine in recent years. Gov LePage is like an actually blue collar Trump and Republicans love him. She’s probably going to take a hit for not voting for the orangutan.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesfudgesicleuighyr
      8/09/16 9:30am

      Didn’t she endorse Paul LePage for re-election, BTW?

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      fudgesicleuighyrGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      8/09/16 9:32am

      I am sure she did. I am not even 100% against this post because I’ve lived in Maine. Her and Olympia were always better than most GOP Senators, but they’d end up endorsing the assholes their parties put up for election because that’s the game they’re in. At least Collins is breaking with that trend now.

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:28am

    I am baffled at the things the Republican’s find a bridge too far for Trump. This woman specifically cited the incident with the Khans, the mocking of that reporter, and the “Mexican” (also known as “American”) Judge. And don’t get me wrong- those are all terrible things that should disqualify anyone from holding office. But.... those are your top three? Not the
    why can’t we use nukes?” comments? Or the weird incestuous comments about his daughter? Not banning people on the basis of their religion? Or banning people on the basis of their nationality? Or literally any of the million other things he has said? What is their fucking metric for what qualifies as "too much"?

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      Syphilitic Scalia SaysTheBurnersMyDestination
      8/09/16 9:32am

      Read her op-ed. She cites more than the “top three.”

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      weebleswobbleTheBurnersMyDestination
      8/09/16 9:43am

      Too many ignorant Americans are afraid of Muslims for a Republican to take a stand on that part of his platform alone.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:25am

    I...I...can’t even disagree.

    Yes, this is not a profile in courage by any stretch of the imagination, and if Trump was still polling well, she wouldn’t have done this. It should come as no surprise, because she’s always done this.

    Susan Collins (R-Me Too)

    BTW, this also reminds me of Illinois Senator Mark Kirk - who is in the fight of his political life made all that much tougher by Trump - who came out against Trump for being “too racist.” What the fuck is too racist? So, like, he was just the right amount of racist up until you decided to disown him?

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      QuintGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      8/09/16 9:32am

      Too racist is when you forget to use dog whistles. You know like actually saying the n-word instead of thug.

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      Dave GeorgeGeoffersonLives
      8/09/16 9:33am

      I like a LITTLE racism, you know, coded racism. Like systemic minority voter disenfranchisement, but not drunk uncle at Thanksgiving racism! —The GOP

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    MizJenkinsHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 11:24am

    Once again, HamNo, you have put your privilege (the privilege of a White man to rant angrily about his opinions and call people assholes) ahead of common sense.

    Even if all you say is true, it should be pretty obvious to someone of your obviously overweening intellect that mocking Republican leaders and calling them assholes in the press for vocally and unequivocally denouncing Donald Trump will tend to have a chilling effect on that behavior. And we want Republican leaders to denounce Trump. Because it is the right thing to do. Because it is the sane thing to do. Because it might appeal the few remaining sane people who are still thinking of voting for Trump. And because until Nov. 8th it’s not too late.

    That said, it’s legit to point out that the signs have been there for... quite some time.

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      You might be wrong.MizJenkins
      8/09/16 2:19pm

      That it is the right thing to do is exactly the point being made. Doing the only possible correct thing to do in a given situation isn’t something someone deserves credit for, especially when they’re otherwise a shitty person.

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      MistakebytheLakeYou might be wrong.
      8/09/16 3:47pm

      If it’s the right thing to do, don’t shit on someone because they didn’t do it fast enough for your liking.

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    medrawtHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:42am

    Collins and Snowe made a career out of being “moderate” Republicans except for when the Party said “hey, we actually need your vote on this, so don’t step out of line.” Maine GOPers might have actually tacked right enough that this is now of dubious appeal to conservative voters in the state (though I don’t think LePage wins if he wasn’t running against a split opposition), but this kind of shit has been a plague for a long time in New England.

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      j4x_medrawt
      8/09/16 10:08am

      That’s New England Republicans in a nutshell.

      Here in CT, I continue to oppose electing any GOP to the national Congress because whatever they say here at home, they will vote on party lines once they ascend.

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      medrawtj4x_
      8/09/16 10:37am

      There’s a kind of person who thinks party line voting is a sign of being a lemming, and the proper intelligent thing to do is keep an open mind and study the candidates and weigh their stances on the issues and choose accordingly; political independence is lauded as equivalent to mental independence.

      Those people are morons who don’t actually understand how politics works.

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    QuintHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:28am

    I'm still waiting to see if one republican up for reelection says it...

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      BouldersInMyNoseQuint
      8/09/16 9:30am

      One already has.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesQuint
      8/09/16 9:31am

      Mark Kirk has. But, it’s only because he’s one of the few states up for re-election this year where Trump will be a major, major liability.

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    KumichoHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:28am

    She’s only a hero when compared to every other spineless, worthless Republican who doesn’t even have the guts to distance themselves from Trump at all.

    Unfortunately in politics at the moment, Republicans are so bad they have to be graded on a curve...

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesKumicho
      8/09/16 9:30am

      Their supporters can grade them on a curve. The rest of us should be under no such obligation.

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      KateligulaKumicho
      8/09/16 10:11am

      Agreed. This isn’t speaking truth to power. This is speaking truth to dummies, which is just a bit easier.

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    KaidogHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:33am

    I’m overjoyed it took them this long. Otherwise, we might be looking at a frighteningly viable Ted Cruz for President and that SOB scares the living fuck out of me.

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      TheGCUKaidog
      8/09/16 10:10am

      Otherwise, we might be looking at a frighteningly viable Ted Cruz for President and that SOB scares the living fuck out of me.

      Ted Cruz would never win against Clinton. He’s like Trump in that the vast majority of the GOP simply hates his guts.

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      caekislove-caekingitupKaidog
      8/09/16 10:41am

      You’ll see him in the next cycle. His non-endorsement of Trump at the convention is going to be hailed as gutsy and visionary in about 3 months and he’ll be the GOP’s next Golden Boy.

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    UrbanNunEnthusiastHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 9:59am

    It took this long to reach your breaking point. Not when he called Mexicans “rapists.” Not when he said he would ban Muslims from entering America.

    How about “not when he kept stoking the fires of birtherism by claiming to send a special team to search for our president’s real birth certificate”? Some of us figured out he was a racist shithead well before he decided to run for president.

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      You might be wrong.UrbanNunEnthusiast
      8/09/16 2:25pm

      It’s kind of hard to criticize him for that at this point considering where that whole thing came from in the first place.

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      UrbanNunEnthusiastYou might be wrong.
      8/09/16 3:04pm

      Uhh... can you elaborate? I don’t see at all why it would be hard to criticize him ‘at this point’.

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    OdinrebornHamilton Nolan
    8/09/16 11:13am

    You are aware that politicians will often wait to see which way the wind is blowing before they run up a flag, shes not an asshole, shes a politician.

    hate the game not the player.

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      jbudOdinreborn
      8/09/16 2:24pm

      She was speaking out about Trump months ago. Last month in particular, she went on David Axelrod’s podcast and expressed some serious concerns about Trump.

      No, that wasn’t a refusal to endorse, but she wasn’t silent.

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      Odinrebornjbud
      8/09/16 2:30pm

      I am going to be honest, outside of LePages verbal diarrhea, I am not that plugged in to Maine’s politics. I am from Wisconsin and paraphrase Cousin Eddie, our political shitter is full.

      So all that said I will absolutely take what you said at face value, speaking out against someone you can walk back from, saying “I will not vote for someone” is a burnt bridge. So I stand by what I said. She was a politician doing a political thing.

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