Susan Collins And The Crazy Wingers Of Maine

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.

Lieberman Stuffing Republican Coffers

Lieberman caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, but that is about all he does for Democratic causes. The man votes like a Republican on the crucial issues of the day (like Iraq) and now as a proud member of the Connecticut for Lieberman party, he feels that he can help fundraise for the right too. A spinster might call it a bipartisan event, but it is really just another knife being twisted in the back of the Democratic party.

From The Washington Post:

The event, which will be held in a Capitol Hill location still to be determined, will feature Lieberman and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) -- a very rare bipartisan fundraiser. Attendees are being asked to raise $3,000; $2,000 would come in the form of a political action committee donation while the other $1,000 would be a personal contribution, according to an electronic invite for the fundraiser obtained today by The Fix.

"Let's try to make this a bi-partisan tour de force," reads the invite.

"Senator Specter approached Senator Collins with the idea of doing a joint fundraising event with Senator Lieberman," said Collins spokeswoman Jen Burita. "Both senators are colleagues with whom she works well and good friends, so we thought it was a great idea."

Lieberman's willingness to work openly for Collins's reelection will surely not sit well with Democratic strategists who want Rep. Tom Allen (D) to oust the two-term incumbent. For Lieberman, his support of Collins is payback. She was one of a handful of senators who campaigned for him in the general election following his loss in the Democratic primary to Lamont. (He ran for and won reelection as an independent.) Lieberman and Collins also serve together as the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the Senate.

The June 21st event will be payback for Lieberman, who was endorsed last year by Senator Collins after Joe lost the Democratic primary. That primary should have been enough for Holy Joe to get the message that he was out of step for the Democrats in Connecticut. Unfortunately his massive ego and lust for power got in the way of any sort of dignity that he might have had left.

Now he is on the loose and hardly tied to his former party. Raising money for Republicans directly effects the chances to build on the size of the Democratic caucus in the Senate. Apparently this is the way Joe goes when his feelings are hurt by the people that abhor his Republican values.