AUGUSTA, Maine — While political observers in Maine focused Friday on whether Gov. Paul LePage would attend the Republican National Convention in Tampa later this month, a national political writer speculated whether another top Maine Republican would be invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention in September.
Joe Hudson, writing for AtlanticWire, listed Sen. Olympia Snowe, who earlier this year decided to halt her bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, among moderate Republicans whom Democratic convention organizers would consider as speakers to add an air of bipartisanship to the party gathering in Charlotte, N.C.
Hudson cited “an event planning document obtained by Politico’s Mike Allen saying Democrats want a ‘centrist Republican leader’ or ‘notable GOP woman’ to play a part at the Charlotte convention on at least two of the nights.”
“A punch in the gut could also come from Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, who could refrain from endorsing Obama but raise her own profile by pushing for bipartisanship,” Hudson wrote. “It’s possible she could go on stage with some sort of platitudinous unity message resembling her statements when she [announced plans to leave] the Senate.”
Snowe is the only political figure still serving in office to make Hudson’s list.
In addition to Snowe, other potential “GOP turncoats” on Hudson’s list include former Virginia Sen. John Warner, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also lists former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who is running a third party presidential campaign, and Arlen Specter, the former senator from Pennsylvania who switched from the Republican to Democratic party in 2009 after spending most of his political life as a moderate Republican.
Snowe spokesman Brandon Bouchard dismissed the notion that Snowe would attend the convention at which Democrats will nominate her former Senate colleague Barack Obama for a second term in the White House.
“Sen. Snowe has been a lifelong Republican and remains so, and therefore would not be speaking at the Democratic convention,” Bouchard wrote Saturday in an email to the Bangor Daily News.
The Republican National Convention will run from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30 in Tampa, Fla.
The Democratic National Convention will run from Sept. 3 through Sept. 6 in Charlotte, N.C.
I would love to see ahhhhh nold up there!
Personally, I think it would say something to the country that needs to be said. She will never get a better opportunity because ALL eyes would be turned on her. Am sure she has the courage and the willingness. Also, sure she will not be used to get Obama reelected. This would REALLY show bipartisanship.
No it wouldn’t, it would be just another Obama photo op like it was the last time the two met, nearly three years ago. Which by the way is very unusual for a Senator of either party and a sitting President.
No it is not unusual for a Senator and President from different parties to do a photo op. It took less than 2 minutes with Google to fins these
http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/bush_kiss_lieberman.jpg
http://www.illinoisloop.org/pix_bush_kennedy.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/kennedy_08_31/k15_20120853.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Barack_Obama_and_Susan_Collins_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg
http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lugar-obama.jpg
Tyke my point is that the last time Ms Snowe met with the President was for the photo op where he secured her vote for healthcare bill. Changes were made that she wanted later in return for that vote. She backed off support after that if you recall. Since that time she has never again met with President Obama….. not once. The fact that she never met again with the President is what is unusual.
A far as I know that was the last attempt of bipartisanship. I can’t recall a major piece after that.
Here is what you said and it’s not that easy for you to back off of it:
“… very unusual for a Senator of either party and a sitting President.”
It is not at all unusual.
I apologize for not making my point clear.
It is unusual for a Senator, one of the 100 most powerful people in the country, of any party, to NOT meet with a President of The United States for nearly three years.
I don’t think of Senator Snowe as being terribly courageous a representative… I think of her as being someone who is courageous when it doesn’t cost her anything, and towing the party line when it might have helped her constituents to do otherwise.
” ALL eyes”???? No one is going to be watching the Democrat’s convention!
Amazingly the Tea Party faction, showing no respect, has attacked Snowe, who quit because she saw the political environment as rancorous and, frankly, dysfunctionally stuck.
Why people have turned to the Tea Party is a mystery to me, though if Paul LePage is an exemplar, one of their weapons is anger, another is bullying, and a third is distortion.
Not anger, disgust. With both parties.
Disgust with both parties??? the Tea Party is not but a faction of one of those parties to which you reference. Affiliates with the Tea Party have been deceived into believing that those on the right of BIG government (GOP) are going to reduce the Big government jobs and spending that benefit both them and their friends (be it Dem or Repub).
Did you know that many years ago when the progressives started (similar to the Fabians) they were a more conservative group(at least some claim they were)? They originally were fighting big government and corporate collusion, and then it turned for the worse to eugenics and racism for a span (democrats as well).
So how did the original democrats end up becoming an offshoot of this party?
They just replaced those democrats with progressives.
I wouldn’t want to remind the Democrats of their roots. Hitlers Eugenics law were based on laws passed by Democrats in NJ. It was only after WW2 that American Progressives decided that Eugenics was a bad thing.
Yes and Karl Marx as well.
No, Progressives still live by Marxist teachings; “From each according to their ability… to each according to their needs”.
It was our own Lincoln who suggested: “You can’t make the weak man strong… by making the strong man weak…”.
I think I just said that Karl Marx was big on that?
And I was supporting your statement…
The Jamestown Colony under John Smith tried collectivism… and failed.
The Puritans tried collectivism… and failed.
Oglethorp tried collectivism in Savannah… and failed.
All, in order to succeed, turned to a much more Capitalistic form for their economies.
No work… no food… period.
Interesting. i thought that quote came out of the Bible (from the practices of the early Christian Church).
You would be wrong.
“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!”~~~~ Karl Marx
Chase Manhattan worked closely with the “German” authorities after seizing Jewish money in France. Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler USMC., told Congress back in the 30s, that a group of wealthy industrialists wanted him to lead veterans and overthrow the government of FDR.
Margaret Sanger is founder of Planned parenthood…
Margaret Sanger aligned herself with the eugenicists whose ideology prevailed in the early 20th century.
Eugenicists strongly espoused racial supremacy and “purtiy”,”
particularly of the “Aryan” race. Eugenicists hoped to purify the
bloodlines and
improve the race by encouraging the “fit” to reproduce
and the “unfit” to restrict their reproduction. They sought to contain
the “inferior” races through segregation, sterilization, birth control
and abortion.
from a website:
http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro.html
It should be noted that Sanger was not the only well known Progressive to favor such policies. Teddy Roosevelt was a big supporter.
The same FDR that thought bombing Germany would make it worse for Jews in camps?
You conveniently forget that the Red Scare was conducted by the GOP. Closest we’ve ever come to being a fascist country.
I acknowledge the Red Scare and it effect. The Progressives seem to run away from their history by deflecting. Why is that?
Mollie Sugden is gone but Mrs. Slocombe lives on in you, I see.
Trust me on this: nothing scares the willy out of the Republican party establishment like the Tea Party Movement, because they know they don’t control it and it isn’t interested in negotiating. The TPM wants the comfortable political establishment out and doesn’t much care which brand its members sport.
Snowe was neither a GOP member nor a moderate. She was a fake republican and wildly spent us into debt . That’s why the Maine GOP leaders have to be changed. If they tolerated her .. who else will they tolerate without consequences.
Answer: Paul (lame duck) LePage
Why low income and middle class conservatives vote for Republicans is crazy, they might as well stick a shotgun in their mouth and pull the trigger every 4 years.
The Republicans bait you with hot button social issues and then you vote against your economic interests.
How dare you to presume you know where another persons economic interest lie?
You are correct if you were talking about any one specific person.
Low income and middle class people collectively share the same economic interests on a large demographic scale.
Now are you going to tell me that there is no such thing as trends in the theory of large numbers? I dare you.
Never the less presuming to know where the economic interests of someone else lie is incredibly presumptuous. Your statement that “Low income and middle class people collectively share the same economic interests.” is not only false but authoritarian. It denies the individual. I guess your word “collective” allows you to make choices for others. Say that and people like you wonder why people like me think you are collectively authoritarian.
You are making a false argument out of what I said.
Interesting how you jump up on the word collective and then use it in an entirely different context than than how I used it.
I never talked about individuals in the singular.
Go sell your propaganda somewhere else.
You are the propagandist. It is you who claims my interests are the same as yours as the same as the guys across the street. You deny the individual and then claim I should vote according to your definition.
That sounds a lot like the old Communists with only one party on the ballot. Funny how they won with 100% of the vote all the time. Now you say…
“Why low income and middle class conservatives vote for Republicans is crazy.”
I say your attitude is no better than the communists who “KNEW” what the economic interests of the people were.
I said nothing about your specific interests.
You continue with your false argument in order to spew your right wing propaganda.
Exactly.
one word irrelevancies.
WTF is this???
“Low income and middle class people collectively share the same economic interests on a large demographic scale.”
“Why low income and middle class conservatives vote for Republicans is crazy, they might as well stick a shotgun in their mouth”
That certainly tells me that you think I should vote the way you say because my interests are the same as everyone else’s. Its right there.
Are you so self-centered that you think everything is about you specifically?
It certainly sounds that way.
Exactly.
Can you string two words together?
Or maybe original thought??
Ok I’ll leave me and you out of it.
The guy down the street and the guy on that lives on the other side of him may have completely different interests. You say they don’t. It’s really simple… That certainly tells me that you think they should vote the way you say because thier interests are the same as everyone else’s.
What’s simple is you. Your responses demonstrate an inability to understand the premise. Because of that you go down the blind alley of false argument in your responses.
Good luck on your next propaganda campaign.
You can’t see the basic authoritarian nature of your own premise. You are exactly why people call folks like you socialist.
lol
How very predictable.
Have a nice day.
I’m loving it! You called him out and he fell to pieces! Well done!
I was having trouble with the notion that he/she was talking about members of the middle class in one breath but wasn’t talking about members of the middle class in the next.
Trying to reason with a tea Bagger is an exercise in futility. Some people just love munching on shotgun barrels.
But we don’t sleep in parks and call it an Occupation.
You are absolutely correct. There is an excellent book ‘What’s the Matter With Kansas’ by Thomas Frank that describes what you have so smartly observed brilliantly.
A body of misinformation. Economics not social issues drives a great many of us.
I see you have dedicated the entire day dumping on the GOP and for what? You have accomplished nothing. Enjoy what’s left of your weekend!
The way the Rs/TPs are going, there’s a lot to dump on. No incentive needed.
Capt. “Courageous” Le Page’s is a model of the Tea Party/Republican Clan. His no-show during the Canadian blockade of our lobster fisher men and women, speaks volumes.
The Teapublicans condemn but do nothing to help. Snowe is an exception. No wonder she quit. Even now, she stands ten feet tall above Le Page and his cronies who did zilch in trying to end the blockade which threatens the livelihood of thousands of lobster fishing families.
Instead of getting off his couch and getting the job done, he welters, frets, and gets ready to bully people over the radio. Who will it be next – Kindergarten kids?
Self is a Teapublican.
Some are speculating it was because of the pending lawsuit.
I also think people were just tired of her being a progressive republican. We all know that the democratic party is not the same party of years ago, so people were frustrated that she was not standing her ground (what she would call being bipartisan).
I do feel bad she did leave on such bad terms, it would have been better for her to leave in better standing.
Same with Richard Lugar.
Hi John Adze,
It takes an organization of size to fight corporate corruption. A weak government has not the power to serve any cause. Any opposition to eugenics and racism is hardly “much to the worse”. I hope it is that you message did not come across as you intended. The democratic party which you reference did not morph by aligning with those they despised (the corporations). Instead they aligned with the other big business of unions. However, many years later it is hard to differentiate between one party or the other in regards to corporate allegiance. It is only by their differences in their disregard and abuse for the sector of the economy (the heart & soul of the working woman/man) which provided the strength that made this country the greatest in the world. I do not believe that a majority of those in support of the Tea Party have any knowledge of the philosophy or logic of Libertarianism or its history. Many of the same followers are not aware of their leash being in the hands of the Republican party. Thus they follow blindly while forcing the ejection of hard working and intelligent representatives of the Republican party (such as Olympia Snow) with inexperienced, unqualified, and ill-serving candidates compromises our future. It upsets me greatly that Olympia did not stand in defense of her beliefs until the dire end. It hardly represents the greatness typical of Maine’s national political figures (Margaret Chase Smith, Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell, and hopefully … Susan Collins, etc.).
I think the democrats have aligned themselves with big business (the list is growing).
Its disguised under green initiatives, healthcare, and bank and industry bailouts.
The progressives socialist movement went to the worse with their racism and eugenics beliefs…you can read that here if you like;
http://www.publiceye.org/racism/Eugenics/MQ%20Eugenics%20Paper-01.html
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/bios/Cattell/HPPB/killed.htm
This is the background of the progressive movement which has now infiltrated both parties, but primarily the democratic party.
In other words progressive socialists have taken over the democratic party by replacement. This is the “hope and change”, “yes we can”, “a new world order”, context.
Progressive socialist think of the masses as “stupid” or genetically inferior people…this should ring a bell with the defamation of tea party people in our current political climate.
Marx would say we are heading into phase 3; fuedalism, capitalism, to socialism.
Also. this should give people some “thought” as to how they held previous presidents and leaders in this country who were of this movement.
When the progressive government makes people dependent on them, they can make the ignorant masses / people do whatever they want.
After all they are the well educated and genetically superior citizens…who better to determine the course of the people via their government?
That is why you saw people like Van Jones trying to use American Indians for “green initiatives”, or the President trying to use illegals in similar fashion. They are tools.
Give up on Susan Collins!
“Why people have turned to the Tea Party is a mystery to me,…”
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Respect is earned. People are choosing to respect themselves instead of politicians, that’s why.
From your posts, it’s easy to see why you are incapable of understanding the Tea Party.
Not trying to be snarky, it’s just quite obvious.
http://goo.gl/IyfIj
Turncoat !!!
I believe she is an American.
Oh that’s a shocker. Been a RINO for years
So what are you? Don’t tell me! Are you one of those people who thinks one political party is the good guys and the other is the enemy to be destroyed? Are you one of those people who believes EVERYTHING their good party leader tells them? Are you one of those people who longs to destroy the other political party and favors a one-party system and just doesn’t understand that this wish would mean wishing for the end of democracy. Are you someone who frowns on independent thinking? It sure sounds like it.
I am a registered Republican and I don’t always agree with or obey everything the good party leader tells me to. No party is always right or always wrong. I for one can appreciate any politician with the guts to look at all sides of an issue instead of taking the easy way out and mimicking the cloned response of the party. Senator Snowe is not necessarily my favorite politician but I would never criticize her for independent thinking. In fact I respect her for being able to stand up to a powerful political party and tell them she will not behave in a cult-like manner and allow anyone to do her thinking for her. In my opinion we need more politicians who are willing to make an effort to try to understand the issues and use their own head to contribute to the solutions. I have no respect for blanket party opinion acceptance without regard for right or wrong. The USA has a democracy and I want it to stay that way. I am not in favor of a one-party system.
I’m the same as you and agree 100%. My comment was to let Frank know the obvious.
frank5 – Why because she puts our country before party?
Hardly.
Unfortunately in this, her last term she has most certainly put Party before Country. Perhaps you might take a look at her record these last 4 years.
Ah, but she hasn’t agreed to–yet. Save your venom for if she does.
Make them work for it, Olympia! You are the voice of reason in an increasingly crazy political world. You have the respect and esteem of this life-long Democrat. I think you could make a difference because you tell it like it is about the dysfunction in American political life today. But don’t give in too easily or you will be seen as a sell-out by the GOP.
I’d agree, ONLY if she’d also call out Harry Reid for his failures as Majority Leader, failing to bring forward a cogent Budget, and hateful speech… all from a Mormon.
She is a sell-out to the insurance industry and to Leader Mitch McConnell.
This is pure speculation based on a Politico story that never names Snowe. Why is this in the BDN as news? It really should be one of your poll questions.
And no, I don’t think the DNC is reaching out to Sen. Snowe to speak at the convention in Charlotte.
You would know. btw Are you going to vote for Dill?? Please Please.
Is that an uncomfortable silence?
Hoping and praying for that magical split vote that got LePage into office?
Naah..Doesn’t matter. Just poking my favorite Democratic hack.
Hmmm, well 1955? Summers must be asking you to retake your drivers test? You studying? ;-)
Maybe. I chatted with him for a moment when I renewed my license last month in Bangor. Businesslike fellow.
You like everyone assume that the 1955 is for the year of my birth. Sorry. Wrong guess.
More like an assumption than a guess. WnD does that a lot.
Just wanted to say I like the way you seem to think. You are much better at taking their abuse than I am.
Have a great day!
I don’t take them seriously, many of them are bottom dwellers and MPA types. This is their big moment. They probably benefit from my contributions to the homeless shelter.
Please Snowe, just go away. For the last 12 years in Maine, the rich have gotten richer, the poor have become much poorer. We buy our ammo for the Military from China?? Why not introduce a bill that all U.S. military supplies must be made in the US, and send us up a factory or two. How about addressing the school funding issues, instead of letting the taxpayers be robbed each fall. What I am saying, is, why and hell don’t try to help MAINE, if you truly have guts, use them.
It is more typical for Senator Snowe to speak at the Democrat Convention, since that is where her sentiments lie. She is not a Centrist–she is more liberal.
Charlie Crist, former governor of Florida would be my guess. He has been shoved aside in FLA by right wing extremists and is much, much more popular there than any other politician.
He would meet all of their stated goals plus give the Democrats a boost in Florida.
Plus, they believe he’s gay, though not openly so.
Not sure his wife buys that theory.
Who cares?
I’m not saying I do, but I’m guessing many voters might, especially older Republican voters.
Sadly, I agree with you. I am an older Republican voter but I am also an independent thinker. I do recognize that far too many people have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into believing they must obey their party leader and hate what he/she hates and love what he/she loves. To me that’s the kind of behavior you see in all cults… none of which are good.
You’re right about that. There used to be much more blending and overlap go on between parties and candidates/Congressmen, but now it’s all about purity.
In terms of the gay thing, I think it’s very sad. We shouldn’t feel like we absolutely need to elect people who are identical to us in status. I’m startled that Romney being a Mormon is an issue for some!
Thirty percent of Republicans think Obama is Muslim
100% of Democrats don’t think Obama is a socialist.
No, that would be 100% of Republicans. Democrats know what a real Socialist is and Obama is not one of them.
Let me rephrase then. 98% of Democrats don’t think that Obama is a socialist and the other 2% are in on it.
Let me rephrase then. Show me examples of Obama’s socialism.
The question inherently posed in my post challenged you to prove he wasn’t. The onus as a Democrat/Obama supporter is on you.
LOL, lazy. You made the claim, onus is on you.
The onus is on you for claiming he is a Socialist.
It is almost impossible to prove a negative but it would be very easy for you to prove he is a Socialist ir you truly believed he was and notjust you parrotting someone else’s words.
They could be right! Shows good analytic thought.
I really don’t care what religion any politician practices… that’s their personal choice. I also don’t care who is gay and who is not. It’s not my business and I was not appointed by God or anyone else to be the judge of anyone. I’m just not that arrogant to think that anyone is better than anyone else…
EJP, no comment?
Would have been a cool move. I’d ask her to reconsider.
It demonstrates a willingness to open their minds to other points of view. This is the single most important and effective means of mediation… bring the differing parties together and examine each parties point of view looking for similarities and differences. After all both parties are supposed to have the same end goal… and they need to work together to attain that and stop all this silly nonsense of stubbornly taking a stance of “my way or the highway”. That never works… not ever. And we all better hope that one party does not destroy the other. If that happens we become a one party system. I for one would miss our two party democracy… even with all it’s differences of opinions and debates. It’s truly faulty thinking that a one party system is ever a good idea.
I wish that there was a centrist democrat to invite to the republican convention but all centrist democrats call themselves independents.
So… what does it matter? Many Republican who are independent thinkers become Independents too. Politicians from both parties shift from one party allegiance to the other and back again. People need to understand that a two party system is a good thing. One party is not the good guys and the other the enemy to be destroyed. People need to be careful what they wish for… one day we might just become a one-party system and that would be the end of the United States of America as we know it. I for one appreciate that we have a democracy, a two party system and I don’t want that to change.
On that, we agree. My post supported exactly what you said but democrats WANT us to be a one party system. Republicans cannot even agree on what they stand for.
I would add that it is my opinion that politics itself seems to draw people who are power hungry, selfish, deceitful and most of all motivated by personal gain. It’s pretty sad to think that we’ve got an entire government comprised of narcissists who are all acting in their own best interest and without any regard for anyone else. Even our freedom is taking a back seat to the political power and greed of many of today’s politicians. THAT is the biggest mistake our leaders could ever make.
Will Rogers said that he belonged to no organized political party, that he was a Democrat. How times have changed. I wonder how the betting is going on whether Governor LePage will attend the Republican convention. I’d go to 3 to 1 that he goes.
They can have her. The GOP needs a no returns policy for lame duck politicians who share the same vision of the Democrats – those who are destroying the next generation by spending us into a fiscal cliff through their openly socialist policies. Olympia Snowe has no restraint on spending like most others in the Senate – good riddance. We can at least look forward to her retiring in the private sector the same time that Obama does once American’s go to vote on four years of absolute failure.
You are very naive if you don’t realize that BOTH PARTIES have contributed to spending us off a fiscal cliff… That is precisely why it was not the time to extend tax breaks to the top 2% wealthiest Americans and corporations. GIFTING away much needed revenue is just as bad as spending it unwisely. Both parties are guilty of doing of poor fiscal management.
I am a registered Republican and have been since 1972… I lean conservatively and I would never have supported the ridiculous Bush tax extensions for the top 2%. Not only did they not need it but it was total nonsense that these extensions would create jobs… I mean really, who bought that nonsense? The top 2% had the Bush tax cuts for a decade and all throughout the job market decline… what on earth made anyone think keeping it was going to do anything but more damage? Well, I hope America learned THIS TIME that extending the Bush tax cuts to the top 2% does not create jobs – that was all a lie. I truly hope that Americans just aren’t foolish enough to repeat the same mistake a third time when the extensions expire again. But… people can be gullible beyond expectations so it’s entirely possible that the can be tricked into believing that the Bush tax cuts extended to the top 2% will “trickle down” to the average American. Anyone who believes that again… well, politicians can get another chuckle knowing that they could sell them ocean front property in Arizona.
As for Senator Snowe… I may not always agree with her views but I do appreciate that at least she uses her own head to think with. The vast majority of Democrats and Republicans think with two collective party heads. If that’s what everyone wants… two parties, two opinions why do we need a bunch of politicians, let’s just pay two of them! In my opinion it’s a cult-like mentality to agree with EVERYTHING their party leaders say and do. That’s not how I want to see government operate… I want debate, I want conversation, I want conflict and resolution… I do not want followers put into leader positions.
Tax cuts didn’t get us here – out of control spending got us here – Obama has written more blank checks then Bush could ever dream of. We don’t have a revenue problem – we have a SPENDING problem. Why does Congress keep raising the debt ceiling with Obama’s wishes and refuse to pass a budget – because neither the President nor most of Congress has any intestinal fortitude to make the right choices and CUT SPENDING
The biggest Check that he wrote was the Two
Bush Wars that wheren’t on the books but in supplemental budgets!
Bush was a credit card addict!
You missed the point entirely… it takes two parties, not one to create this mess and to fix this mess. You’re out of your mind if you think we were not in debt when Obama took office… unless you weren’t following the news at that time. He came into office and in the first month signed the stimulus bill… please tell me that you don’t think one guy wrote and approved any bill in a month… No one could be THAT naive.
Please identify the socialist policies you refer to.
It’s too bad that Ronald Reagan opened the floodgates to deficit spending. The budget under Bill Clinton was brought back under control only to have George W. Bush get into the White House, then it was Reaganomics on steroids. Here is Bush’s VP Dick Cheney’s thoughts, speaking to the Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill, “You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.” The quote came from O’Neill’s book – The Price of Loyalty.
Will Snowe be introduced as the Queen Appeaser and Godmother of Obamacare ?
Snowe is the reason we do not have a public option.
Snowe is the reason we DO have Obamacare and a bigger and more tyrannical government .
The folks in Florida, just want Charlie Crist to go away. He’s an embarrassment to either party .
I don’t think so… he was one of the only politicians that I’ve ever had personally and quickly respond to a basic concern I had when I lived in Florida…and not during an election year either. I personally like the man and know many other Floridians who did.
Snowe is NOT a moderate. She votes right wing whenever her vote is needed. The ONLY times she votes with Dems is when the right has all the votes it needs or can’t win even with her vote. Those votes are designed solely to make her APPEAR moderate. Do not be fooled, she is right wing all the way as is her colleague Collins!
Amen.
That’s what I think, too. Very, very seldom has she voted against her party when it mattered.
Amazing that when the election comes they start talking about bipartisanship again. That disappeared right after the ’09 inauguration. So did the transparency.
Actually, bipartisanship disappeared at the inauguration when Mitch McConnell (also speaking for nascent TPers), said his (and the Rs) sole mission was to make Obama a one term president.
And Snowe has done all that she could to support McConnell in this.
actually bipartisanship ended even before the inauguration when Reid and Pelosi said that they had the numbers needed now and they would not need the Republicans to pass legislation.
Good luck, Dems, trying to appear moderate at your National Convention. Maybe that is why fellow Dems are bailing out left and right instead of attending?
Obamacare/Romneycare is modeled on a plan that came from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. A Democratic administration pushing a conservative plan seems moderate to me.
Personally I do NOT think this would be a wise thing for Olympia Snowe to do….
What an incredibly ingenious way to promote Global Warming and other liberal-contrived hoaxes … especially since there’ll be no Snowe in Maine this winter!
Humorous? Not. Not even that cute.
As long as you brought it up, you’re pushing the real hoax.
There is no way that Saint Snowe will speak at the Democratic convention. She is no moderate. She would not be leaving the senate if she had had the gumption to support moderate views. Her main interest has always been her own power and now that she has lost power she is picking up her marbles and going home. In this, her last term she has showed herself to be nothing more than a political hack. She has voted in lockstep with Mitch Mcconnell on every issue to the detriment of the country and the state of Maine. She has done all that she could and all that Mcconnell has directed her to do to obstruct the President.
I think that her last term has been a disgrace. I say good riddance. She does not belong at the Democratic convention.
Snowe would be a great choice for the Dems! They don’t come much more Liberal than her.
Ah, yes . . . bipartisanship. Defined by the left as meeting on the left. Never by the left moving to the center.
What frightens me the most, is just how uninformed the people are who pts here and who vote in elections. The consequences of the uniformed, or misinformed effect us all. Please pay attention to what BOTH sides of the issues represent.