During my 45 years in DC as a Navy Captain and federal official, I could not help but notice that the majority of people in Congress were not adept at critical reasoning. Now and then, I would identify bills that overlooked unintended negative consequences and help get them reworded to minimize them. As any lobbyist will likely affirm after 1 beer, legislators are rather easy to talk into promoting something they view as likely to get them re-elected. Most legislators are nice, affable, sociable folks. They are just not deep thinkers. Supposedly, they have staff for that - and many do.
In that environment, it is not a stretch to see that the Platners in politics are not as rare as the MSM's coverage might suggest.
Working my way through college, I worked as a private investigator. I checked out candidates for executive promotions, high-level new hires, and people applying for insurance policies. It was great work because my working hours were flexible enough to not miss classes. I soon realized that it was not very tricky to find skeletons in people's closets and ghosts hiding under beds. Just chatting up neighbors, landlords, and even the police, negative history would seep out in conversations that I could later verify for my clients. So I wonder, what the heck do party operatives do to explore the fitness of potential candidates? Obviously, the answer is not very much.
What bothers me at this point is that someone is stone cold lying, and I doubt it is Racicot. And I was thinking about Thomas and Kavanaugh. How do you go through life having lied so blatantly like that?
Aside from a smattering of You Tube videos and related Substack publishing, I had never heard of Platner. It is my proximity to his state that caught my attention, being a New Englander who has traveled extensively. I thought he was the real deal, I was fooled as were many others. Now I know. His appeal as a "manly" man is not without allure to many of us who are the real deals but as I have found throughout my life in the trenches of male-dominated jobs, posturing men usually have something to hide or compensate for. Give me an FDR any day. I won't get fooled again but these days, who knows.
FDR and my grandpa went through polio at about the same time. FDR and Lincoln are what used to be what this country expected, now it's different, to say the least.
The Pod Save America hosts were not pro Platner. Their position was let the voters of Maine vote and decide for themselves. They were also worried about his back ground but not enough had come out at that time to be disqualifying. They were against the Democratic party picking a winner before a vote was cast in the primaries by Maine voters.
When I first heard of Platner and thought he was one who would beat Susan Collins, it had nothing to do with who he appeared to be. He expressed the frustration that so many people feel. Who he is and what he did were secondary. Frustrated voters are tired of the standard bearer. They want someone who will fight for them, particularly against the Epstein Class. Watching our taxpayer dollars go to a Country that has universal Healthcare and slaughters babies, makes you blind to someone's past. Secondarily his campaign promised to build an infrastructure that would stay in Maine, regardless of the outcome of his campaign. Watching all the money that was spent on the Harris Campaign ( $1 billion) and see it all leave the states and communities where the people worked, is just too hard to swallow. The Obama campaign tried to build and leave an infrastructure behind, only to watch it be destroyed by entrenched party loyalist who wanted money for consultants. People want to see that shit destroyed and they didn't care what he did when he was a drunk, a soldier or an immature prep-school brat. Shades of DJT- without military service. People are angry, Frustrated and tired. Samuel Adam's was no choir boy.
Although I should not have been surprised, in response to the Platner controversy, my jaw dropped to the floor when the lying Kevin McCarthy had the gall to say: "The one thing I know about Republicans is that when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away."
Are you F-ing kidding me? Seriously? Kev, have you had a lobotomy? Just to refresh your faulty memory, let's start with the most vile worst of the worse: DJT. Moving on , there's Ken Paxton, Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore (the troll who ran for a Senate seat in AL), the current Secretary of Defense, Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter who were both re-elected to Congress in spite of indictments for insider trading and campaign corruption to name just a few.
Granted, there have been Dem scoundrels too. But, for Kev to get on his high horse with this faux "holier than thou" schtick would be laughable if it weren't so outrageous.
Yet again, the Dems have a tough challenge on their hands (see Biden's disastrous debate performance in the 2024 presidential race that resulted in the end of his campaign). It appears that Mainers are up to the task and are working to implement a process that will result in a viable candidate who can put the mealymouthed, pearl-clutching "I have concerns" Susan Collins out to pasture.
Looks like an image from The Shining
During my 45 years in DC as a Navy Captain and federal official, I could not help but notice that the majority of people in Congress were not adept at critical reasoning. Now and then, I would identify bills that overlooked unintended negative consequences and help get them reworded to minimize them. As any lobbyist will likely affirm after 1 beer, legislators are rather easy to talk into promoting something they view as likely to get them re-elected. Most legislators are nice, affable, sociable folks. They are just not deep thinkers. Supposedly, they have staff for that - and many do.
In that environment, it is not a stretch to see that the Platners in politics are not as rare as the MSM's coverage might suggest.
Working my way through college, I worked as a private investigator. I checked out candidates for executive promotions, high-level new hires, and people applying for insurance policies. It was great work because my working hours were flexible enough to not miss classes. I soon realized that it was not very tricky to find skeletons in people's closets and ghosts hiding under beds. Just chatting up neighbors, landlords, and even the police, negative history would seep out in conversations that I could later verify for my clients. So I wonder, what the heck do party operatives do to explore the fitness of potential candidates? Obviously, the answer is not very much.
What bothers me at this point is that someone is stone cold lying, and I doubt it is Racicot. And I was thinking about Thomas and Kavanaugh. How do you go through life having lied so blatantly like that?
Aside from a smattering of You Tube videos and related Substack publishing, I had never heard of Platner. It is my proximity to his state that caught my attention, being a New Englander who has traveled extensively. I thought he was the real deal, I was fooled as were many others. Now I know. His appeal as a "manly" man is not without allure to many of us who are the real deals but as I have found throughout my life in the trenches of male-dominated jobs, posturing men usually have something to hide or compensate for. Give me an FDR any day. I won't get fooled again but these days, who knows.
Good point. FDR didn't pretend anything, except his being in a wheelchair, and ended up being such a force for Main Street in spite of his background.
FDR and my grandpa went through polio at about the same time. FDR and Lincoln are what used to be what this country expected, now it's different, to say the least.
The Pod Save America hosts were not pro Platner. Their position was let the voters of Maine vote and decide for themselves. They were also worried about his back ground but not enough had come out at that time to be disqualifying. They were against the Democratic party picking a winner before a vote was cast in the primaries by Maine voters.
When I first heard of Platner and thought he was one who would beat Susan Collins, it had nothing to do with who he appeared to be. He expressed the frustration that so many people feel. Who he is and what he did were secondary. Frustrated voters are tired of the standard bearer. They want someone who will fight for them, particularly against the Epstein Class. Watching our taxpayer dollars go to a Country that has universal Healthcare and slaughters babies, makes you blind to someone's past. Secondarily his campaign promised to build an infrastructure that would stay in Maine, regardless of the outcome of his campaign. Watching all the money that was spent on the Harris Campaign ( $1 billion) and see it all leave the states and communities where the people worked, is just too hard to swallow. The Obama campaign tried to build and leave an infrastructure behind, only to watch it be destroyed by entrenched party loyalist who wanted money for consultants. People want to see that shit destroyed and they didn't care what he did when he was a drunk, a soldier or an immature prep-school brat. Shades of DJT- without military service. People are angry, Frustrated and tired. Samuel Adam's was no choir boy.
Although I should not have been surprised, in response to the Platner controversy, my jaw dropped to the floor when the lying Kevin McCarthy had the gall to say: "The one thing I know about Republicans is that when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away."
Are you F-ing kidding me? Seriously? Kev, have you had a lobotomy? Just to refresh your faulty memory, let's start with the most vile worst of the worse: DJT. Moving on , there's Ken Paxton, Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore (the troll who ran for a Senate seat in AL), the current Secretary of Defense, Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter who were both re-elected to Congress in spite of indictments for insider trading and campaign corruption to name just a few.
Granted, there have been Dem scoundrels too. But, for Kev to get on his high horse with this faux "holier than thou" schtick would be laughable if it weren't so outrageous.
Yet again, the Dems have a tough challenge on their hands (see Biden's disastrous debate performance in the 2024 presidential race that resulted in the end of his campaign). It appears that Mainers are up to the task and are working to implement a process that will result in a viable candidate who can put the mealymouthed, pearl-clutching "I have concerns" Susan Collins out to pasture.