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fishnbanjo
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My senator, Olympia Snowe, is not seeking re-election
fishnbanjo
Senior MemberPosts: 240 Senior Member
one of the best of Maine, whose shoes have stood in the foot prints of some of our finest, and the Republican Party is dancing in the streets because Olympia never walked the party line and are happy to see her leave, sad state of affairs indeed.
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In the current light of the GOP she's considered a RINO. I know she was a moderate who ran afoul of the GOP good ol boy club more than once.
Any chance her seat could be taken by and independent like Bernie Sanders?
Yeah but she has become a bit of a nutter as of late also.
Jim
Come on some of her statements regarding Obama and socialism during the whole debt ceiling debate did not seem a bit off kilter to you?
Much agreed, Sante. I love how teh Gubnor likes to speak about his "Mandate" when he barely scraped through a tie with Cutler with under forty per cent of the vote.
Jim
Rino
i wouldn't mind seeing peter mills run for her seat; replace one moderate republican with a slightly more conservative republican who has more common sense, and isn't a part of the DC machine (let's not forget olympia entered the senate with a net worth under 100k and is now a multimillionaire)
gonna be interesting.....pingree, baldacci, ambroise, mills, that whackjob ian dodge, michaud, possible saviello (another middle of the roader i wouldn't mind seeing)
hopefully cutler holds off - voted for him for governor last time, and would gladly do so again - if he has patience, he is the next governor of maine.....
thank you
but then again remember in recent years it has been neccessary by the Newba Raight to paint the long venerated Teddy Roosevelt as a 'communist'
Last Sunday on 'This Week' George Will briefly but eloquently described how the present day party is self destructing
when the party (or IF) regains it's sanity then maybe the sane (is RINOs) along with a chunk of the moderate vote will return to the party
it's probably why in '08 you saw SUVs with DU / PF stickers (you know gun owners) and Obama stickers on them, and then there is this one I saw on Sunday last (BTW Sherb the rear window sticker was a USMC sticker) when I pulled up next to the truck at the next light it was being driven by a St Paul FD EMS Paramedic ... you know one of those commie type people sucking at the public teat
i'd take baldacci over pingree or d'ambroise or dodge!
right now, i'd be ok with michaud....or mills....or abbott, if he decided to run.....probably saviello, too.....all more or less centrist.....mills is the farthest right, but he's also the most pragmatic and anti-party line; i LIKE peter mills even though i disagree on some issues.....
perfect time for a rebirth of the Bull Moose Party
She isn't the moderate she once was.
I got word that LePage is looking at the seat. He's done such a great job for Maine.