The "moderate" Republican Senator from Maine made news today by going along with the local wingnuts from her home state. Apparently the right wing up there is much like the rest of their brethren across the country and even Bill O'Reilly. The website in question wrote a post that attacked Sen. Collins challenger Tom Allen for associating with Daily Kos and other "hate" sites on the left. I wonder if this commenter below has a User ID at dKos....I seriously doubt it.
From Crooks and Liars:
It appears Susan Collins doesn’t want to risk having a career ending blooper, like George “Macacca” Allen. One of her supporters posted this today on the Maine Web Report:
Markos Moulitsas’s hate-site The Daily Kos, the foul-mouthed fem-blog FiredogLake, and other ‘netroots’ extremists like MoveOn.org, have become the dominant fundraisers for Tom Allen’s senate campaign. This may be good news for Allen financially, but allowing these fringe fanatics to take over his campaign is creating a political atmosphere that will undoubtedly be rejected by Maine voters come next November.
Tom Allen’s involvement with these groups, particularly his participation in the website The Daily Kos, came onto the radar screen of Maine voters recently, as national media exposed a pattern of hateful, vulgar, and anti-semitic postings on the site. Now Allen’s extremist friends have landed on the ground in Maine, and are engaging in the same childish bullying campaign tactics that made Connecticut voters reject their attempts to unseat Senator Joe Lieberman in 2006.
The comments have been very interesting on MWR, especially this one:
Wanting to blow up an entire city with liberals (as in PEOPLE who are liberal) isn't a hateful thing to say, is it? For Ms. Collins to support these people is a smack in the face to America itself and the decency we would like to see in our political dialogue. To endorse a terror attack on our nation to persuade people to vote Republican is delusional at best. Of course these wingers will never learn, but Senators should have a better sense of morality.....obviously not here.
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