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October 29, 2008
Thanks, Tom!
This year, I wasn't going to vote for Susan Collins. I wasn't going to vote for Allen, either. I was just going to write in the name of a relative or a friend. I'm not a fan of Collins and her particular brand of moderate-to-liberal conservatism and her penchant for joining Senate 'gangs.'
The DNC and Allen are obviously flush with cash this election season, so Maine has been subjected to a seemingly non-stop barrage of ads critical of Collins and the Bush administration. It's mostly boilerplate stuff and it just washes over me with no effect.
Until this morning. A radio ad critical of Collins hit her on her support of the Bush economic policies, the Iraq war, etc. Then the narrator said something along the lines of 'and even worse, she doesn't support Barack Obama's healthcare policies.'
What?!?! Are voters supposed to be horrified by the fact that a sitting Senator doesn't support the policies of a not-yet president? Are they so sure that Obama is going to be elected that they're preemptively critical of anyone who disagrees with him? The arrogance of that ad and the fact that Allen or his staff approved it, combined with the non-stop ad blitz he's been running against Collins, have had the opposite effect on me than he intended.
Senator Collins, you have Tom Allen and the DNC to thank for my vote.
Posted by slublog at October 29, 2008 09:58 AM
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That, and the Dems getting 60 is too steep a price to pay for weeding out RINOs. Though why people still count Lieberman on their side mystifies me.
Posted by: MainiacJoe at October 29, 2008 05:02 PM
Joe, if the dem's do get 60 full-time dem's and don't need Lieberman they'll dump his body along some strech of highway outside of Vegas.
We know how they repay loyalty - just as Hillary :)
Posted by: Murph at October 29, 2008 08:50 PM
I planned on voting against him from the start, and his constant negative commercial campaign has done nothing but solidify my decision. If you haven't seen them, the commercials superimpose a cheery Collins looking over the shoulder of President Bush while a voiceover and its accompanied text tells you about how she in is collusion with him.
I never liked her but I'd prefer a fence jumper rather then a gap-toothed Pelosi lapdog in the Senate.
Posted by: coldmexican at October 29, 2008 09:35 PM
Amazing isn't it? The non-stop stream of Allen's lies about Collins annoys me.
Like you I was going to pass on Collins this year, but Allen's campaign convinced me otherwise.
Posted by: Flyfish at October 30, 2008 08:23 PM