Seriously, how have Maine voters been duped by Susan Collins for so long?

[Azathoth]

How many times are they going to swallow the cynical little kabuki dance she does every time she prepares to vote in lockstep with Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz? She's like the narcissist who always pretends to read the menu five times and just can't decide which dish she wants, but then when the waiter comes, without fail, she orders the exact same thing every time. Once is cute. Twice is annoying. This woman has built her entire career around pretending to consider other dishes on a menu she isn't even reading.

And then she pretends afterward that she was "duped" into ordering the wrong thing and it wasn't her fault. I honestly can't think of a more craven, more pusillanimous, more passive-aggressive, more insulting racket. Morally, she's on the same level as the religious hucksters who convince cancer victims to cancel their health insurance and donate their money to the church instead. The average liquor store robber is more honest with his victims.

You really have to wonder how much insult Maine voters can swallow. Do they really want Collins to be one of the few female role models in the Senate that their daughters can look up to?

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Mainers? What say ye?

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

2. If She Wins In 2020 This Was All For Nothing

COLLINS MUST GO DOWN TO DEFEAT IN 2020.

[KCDebbie]

3. THESE same folks in Maine have voted racist LePage in

As Governor TWICE! Methinks that perhaps Mainers are just a bunch of backwards racists perhaps...

[jberryhill]

5. LePage doesn't get a majority there

He has benefited from opponents who split the anti-LePage vote, and he wins with a plurality.

[KCDebbie]

10. Maybe the anti-LePage candidates are PLANTS!

And splitting the vote was intentional...

[mainer]

8. In both elections, liberal vote was split

By a third (liberal) candidate. We liberals split the vote. LePage won eith a minority of voters.

[KCDebbie]

11. If the lib vote was split, one of the lib candidates,

The one that cared the most, should have dropped out so the other could defeat LePage.

But that didn't happen so maybe lib candidates were plants!

Another dirty trick from the Republican playbook...

[jberryhill]

12. Why not learn something about the people you are accusing

...instead of engaging in totally uninformed conspiracy-spinning.

[Hortensis]

21. Not plants, spoilers. We should all recognize those who

must oppose the largest liberal group by now. It's their nature.

And please, let's not call them liberals. I've read a lot about liberal personality, and those who must always oppose instead of unite to advance are not representative.

[NurseJackie]

18. Sounds familiar.

[NeverTrumpDemocrat]

4. It would probably HELP Collins with the Maine electorate to vote no -

It HURTS Heitkamp with her electorate to vote no, plus she's actually up for re-election this year. If Heitkamp is a profile in courage, Collins is a profile in cowardice.

But why will Collins vote yes?

She's a savvy politician; I think she'd like to vote no simply out of political calculation. I hear her lobbyist husband is pretty shady though, and it looks like the way things work with the Trump Republican Party is that they are not afraid to threaten their own with blackmail to encourage loyalty and punish independence -- a la Lindsey Graham.

Not a Mainer, but would love to hear from them! (We love Acadia National Park!)

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[Azathoth]

9. Maine votes for US senators by district?

I honestly didn't know that.

[jberryhill]

14. No, it does not

Maine has two Congressional districts, but Senators are elected at-large, like everywhere else (as required by the 17th Amendment). The poster is confused.

[mainer]

16. Yes i got confused.

Was thinking of congressional districts.

[jberryhill]

13. ummmm...

Senators don't represent "districts". Both Collins and King are elected statewide.

[sunonmars]

15. They need a heavyweight running to take this useless witch out.

[eallen]

17. Have you seen their governor?

He makes Collins look good.

[Azathoth]

19. At this point, I'd take LePage over Collins

At least LePage will stare you in the eye and grin as he pisses on your shoe. Collins waits until your back is turned to piss on you, then blames it on someone else when you spin around.

[Trumpocalypse]

20. Since the Clinton impeachment in the '90s

I've always thought Collins was an idiot. Can't believe anyone would vote for her.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate.

Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate.
She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.

The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.

The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining viable candidate.