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Heads, I Win; Tails, You Lose

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Heads, I win; tails, you lose is the game the Democrats are currently playing with the voters in the State of Maine.

On July 9th, Yahoo News posted a CBS News article that reported:

Democrats are facing a rapidly closing window to replace Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who dropped out of the race Wednesday following a sexual assault allegation.

…The party will now have less than three weeks to pick a new candidate to go up against Collins. The exact process is not clear, but state Democratic officials have promised “transparency” — and say Platner himself will not be involved.

…State law does not delineate how the party should choose a replacement. The Maine Democratic Party announced Wednesday it would hold a nominating convention to select a nominee. It said it would announce the timeline, details on the process, how to participate and requirements for candidates “soon.”

Graham Platner was elected by a large majority in the Democrat primary in Maine (which used ranked choice voting). The Democrats ran a test and gambled to see how much Democrat voters would put up with and still support a candidate. The Nazi tattoo did not drive the voters away–voters were aware of it before the primary. The initial charges of sexual misconduct did not cause Platner to withdraw. It was only the charge of rape by a Democrat that has caused him to suspend his campaign.

So what did we learn? The ‘me, too’ movement and the statement ‘believe all women’ only apply when the charges are against a Republican or made by a Democrat supporter. If a political party puts up a questionable candidate who wins a primary, but is forced to withdraw, they can choose the replacement candidate–not the voters. In Maine, the candidate will be determined by the people selected to attend the nominating convention. The people attending that convention may or may not be representative of the voters in Maine. When President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, were the voters represented in the choice of his replacement? There seems to be a pattern here.

We Really Can Select Better Candidates

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Graham Platner is the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about some of his recent statements.

The article reports:

…his campaign manager fled the campaign to “spend more time with family” after it was revealed that the political hopeful had Nazi symbolism as body art.

Mainers should consider this a rare moment of truth in political advertising. Platner recently urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All.

During a town hall event in Windham, Maine, Platner stated that to advance progressive policies, his supporters must be willing to “impose costs” on lawmakers who don’t support the initiative. Free Beacon contributor Jessica Costescu has the details:

“We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a public dinner without getting yelled at. Because that’s power. That’s real power.”

Platner justified those tactics as a way of building “secondary power.” He said they’re a proven form of political pressure and that “American history tells us that that’s exactly the power that we have.”

“We also have to build secondary power. Real power of organization, the power to turn people out, the power to shut things down, frankly, the power to impose costs,” Platner said. “If we can’t impose costs, then they’ll never listen to us, because they won’t care.”

This is a false argument promising free stuff that working Americans have to pay for.

If we can get the government out of healthcare, we can go back to the days when healthcare was actually affordable. As an example (the 1970 number is from personal experience in Rhode Island), in 1970 it cost $600 to have a baby (without health insurance), that would be about $5,009.94 in today’s dollars. Today, according momlovesbest.com the cost is $4,884 – $10,681 with health insurance and $9,013 – $19,775 without health insurance. That is well past the rate of inflation. Where is the extra money paid going? We have always had hospitals. We have always had doctors. What we haven’t always had is a huge bureaucracy controlling medicine. That’s the expense to get rid of.