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December 02, 2010

Crazy Extremist Governor-Elect Makes Surprise Comment

So what sort of extremism are we talking here? Nuclear power plants on the coast? Damming all of Maine's rivers? Behold the extreme extremism.

Members of Maine’s tea party movement have said they plan to find a candidate to challenge Sen. Olympia Snowe next year in her bid for a fourth term. And while polls show both Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins remain popular in the overall electorate in Maine, some conservatives hope they can unseat Snowe during the GOP primary.

Snowe campaigned for LePage leading up to the November election, and LePage credits the senior senator’s first husband, the late Peter Snowe, with helping him gain acceptance into Husson College.

So it was perhaps no surprise when LePage told a reporter from the National Review on Wednesday that he would support Snowe in 2012 regardless of who runs against her, adding that his loyalty to the senator would “never turn.”

Wait...but...but...during the campaign we were told LePage was a lunatic conservative who would never compromise. He was scary. And Snowe is a RINO's RINO. How can this be?

Maybe, just maybe, it's time for Democrats to revisit their view of the governor-elect. He's put Democrats on his economic and transition team, he's talked positively of President Obama, and now he's supporting a moderate Republican over her potential tea party challenger.

It seems LePage is more nuanced than the stereotype created about him by the left. Go figure.

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