Comments on: Lefty Repub. Collins Mad at Dems For Their Election Attacks

By: Diogenes314

Diogenes314 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:57:47 +0000

For over a decade he was NOW and NARALs favorite republican because of his pro-abortion stance, even though it was well known that he was a serial sexual harasser. Then they get a Dem in the White House (and the majority in the Senate) for the first time in 12 years, and all of a sudden he is a pariah and sexual harrasment is the new crime du jour.

Until Bill clinton's past comes out. Then it's all a personal matter, of course.

By: indym

indym — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:44:40 +0000

If the Republican party is to be a majority party again, it will have conservatives, moderates, liberterians and others. There are areas of the country that are not very conservative and a more moderate candidate is the best choice. I think the northeast and Atlantic have become for republicans what the south has become for democrats. The battleground is going to be the middle west, mountain west and southwest. Things change over time. Political opinions today will be different next year or in four years. Republicans actually enjoyed success in the Northeast and Atlantic in the 1990s. Gorge Patacki in New York, Bill Weld in Massachusetts, John Sununu in New Hampshire, Chrissy Whitman in New Jersey, Tom Ridge in Pennsyvania and there either recently have been republican governors in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. The party will come around again in these areas. The spending and tax plans being presented will turn off voters.

By: charliehall

charliehall — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:52:37 +0000

She was the only Republican to be elected to Congress this year in all of New England -- a region in which McCain carried only a single county, and even that one cast less than ten thousand votes.

Instead of deriding her as a RINO, why aren't Republicans asking her about her secret?

By: wag

wag — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:20:00 +0000

By: reldim

reldim — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:33:01 +0000

Collins is actually the more conservative of the two. And a quick scan turned up a number of times where the caucus was able to hold her vote against cloture on some bills.

The 2008 race might not change her underlying views, but nothing that the Democrats try to do is going to be “moderate” or “bipartisan.” And perhaps the chip on her shoulder will stay for the next 2 years and serve as a helpful point when McConnell is looking to hold the caucus for a cloture vote.

I’d note that she stuck with us on the Card Check cloture vote – I see no reason why she would change her vote there. She also voted for Laci and Connor’s Law (which makes a harming a fetus in the commission of a crime a separate criminal act and the fetus a separate victim) – which Snowe voted against – so I don’t take her to be some radical on the subject. You’d be better off worrying about Snowe or Specter being a problem when critical cloture votes come around.

By: itrytobenice

itrytobenice — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:06:35 +0000

It's what happens when the stupid party comes up against the evil party.

Our leaders are too stupid to know they're evil.

By: SeriousLaff

SeriousLaff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:46:31 +0000

Gordon Smith and others fell for this crap too. The $700 billion bailout vote is an example. The Dems DEMANDED Republicans vote for it and then used it as a club to beat them with. This is the reason for about half of the senate losses. They could have demanded Pelosi and Reid film TV commercials saying, "We have our differences, but this isn't one of them". No. The Democratic Senatorial Committee probably had the ads already made.

They will keep "reaching across the isle" and idiots like McCain will never make the Dems pay for bipartisanship that backfires with the public.

I really wish someone would "primary" McCain. I wouldn't mind if he switched parties. I bet as a Democrat his "Reaching across the isle" days would come to a screeching halt.