ME-Rasmussen: In SHOCK poll, Collins (R) drops below 60 ;-)

[free my dawg]

>Rass. She's still gonna win. Quit bashing her because she's a Republican. If you're gonna do that on party only, you clearly have no idea what she's really like

At the end of the day, Susan Collins is still a Republican. The people of Maine don't realize that a vote for Collins is a vote to give Republicans control of the Senate.

[free my dawg]

>Rass. She's still gonna win. Quit bashing her because she's a Republican. If you're gonna do that on party only, you clearly have no idea what she's really like

At the end of the day, Susan Collins is still a Republican. The people of Maine don't realize that a vote for Collins is a vote to give Republicans control of the Senate.

So what? The people of Maine care about the person and the issues, not the party. Collins is a good person who lines up with their ideas and is known for pushing the idea of working together, which is why Snowe and King are also so beloved, but LePage and Baldacci are so lukewarm there. If you're really going to say pushing to work together to END the gridlock is less important than a letter after someone's name and maintaining muh majority, then I have no respect for you whatsoever.

I had a completely different response to your Navy SEAL-esque ragefit because I dared to criticize one of the last "Rockefeller Republicans". Never mind the fact that Shenna Bellows' political views mirror mine, or that I think she's a good progressive like Sanders or Feingold or even Warren. The fact that she'd easily be my favorite Senator if she got elected is irrelevant. Apparently it's because I'm blindly supporting a Democrat and want a majority (because let's face it - you'd do the same for me). Hell, even some Democrats like her because she wants gay people to marry (even though she bravely came out for it as soon as she won her primary), or that she doesn't like guns, or that she believes birth control should be available. Let's look at some bills she opposed.

• Ah, the DISCLOSE Act, which required superPACs to actually show where they get their money.
• The Paycheck Fairness Act, which mandates that women be paid the same amount as men.
• Tax cuts for small businesses.
• The DREAM Act, which gives immigrant children who came here illegally a pathway to stay in the country they grew up in.
• Chuck Hagel's confirmation to Secretary of Defense, because he's too soft on Iran and could leave a country actively engaging in genocide open to danger.
• Student loan relief, which would help ease the burden of debt that we saddle our students with.
• Tax cuts for businesses that keep our jobs here instead of to Asia and keep our profits American.
• Improving care for our veterans, and giving back to those who served us.

These are only a few of these important, common-sense bills that your messiah opposed, along with the rest of the Republican Party. Even her former colleague and staunch conservative Rick Santorum said that Collins was always a team player, and would vote GOP in reality. Yeah, she may line up with some of the Democrats' "pet issues" sometimes, but when it matters, Susan Collins bows down to Mitch McConnell, not the people of Maine.