Who in Maine can beat Collins in the next election?

[PhilosopherKing]

I live in another state, but would love to help defeat her.

[Varaddem]

1. A fucking seal?

[LunaSea]

2. Lots to choose from

Susan Rice Suggests She May Want To Run For Senate In Maine
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211239778


Maine Speaker Sara Gideon is also looking at challenging Collins
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211240221

[elleng]

3. Dr. Cat London

https://twitter.com/DrCat4ME

[libdem4life]

5. LOL...first thought...she's a Veterinarian? You know, Dr. Cat...

She looks like a winner to me! She looks like a winner to me!

[elleng]

9. Right, and some think Cat Stevens!

She looks like a winner to me too!

[libdem4life]

20. Thanks for the memories. Such a beautiful man and musician. Never saw him on video n/t

[libdem4life]

4. I think she is probably going to retire. She'll not have much political peace.

What a way to go...hanging on to Trump and Kavanaugh...both serial liars, sexual assaulters, etc. I've heard there was already a PAC with A Lot of money pledged if she did vote yes. I find it hard to believe that money hasn't been pushed around behind the scenes here. I'm sorry. The stakes were just too high. She was the last draw in Trump's "get out of jail free" full straight.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. Howard Dean just said on MSNBC that he doesn't think Collins will run in 2020

And that she'll get beat if she does

She might wait until a favorable red cycle to try for governorship. But memories are long

[Meadowoak]

11. I think a lot of republicans will retire in 2020! Its up to us to start organizing NOW to pick up

Those seats.

[Hortensis]

14. $2 million's already been raised for Collins' seat.

If she isn't running again, what could possibly explain this massive betrayal? Is she being blackmailed?

[Awsi Dooger]

16. Apparently Susan Collins never votes against any judicial nominee

I didn't realize that until a guest mentioned it about an hour ago on CNN or MSNBC.

It was a female guest analyst and she said Collins had only voted against one judicial nominee, and it was for some lower court.

I'm big on situational awareness and I wish I understood that trend earlier, assuming it is true

[Hortensis]

17. That's not a reason these days, though. Kavanaugh and Thomas will be

the most extreme right wingers on the court, Gorsuch only slightly less. They are all much farther right than conservative voters and are not put on the court to represent even their imagined "America." Collins is supposed to be "moderate" conservative and should be very worried about this packing of the court to serve social and economic extremists, not abetting it.

And if she had a shred of the temperament a U.S.senator is supposed to have, she would protect the institution, not help subvert it to get a very dishonorable person on. It is not too much to worry that this step could lead to the failure and takeover of our democracy after 235 years.

Other nations have voted to destroy their democracies, Germany only the most famous one.

[Awsi Dooger]

18. It's a reason if she thinks it is a reason

Collins always strikes me as very simplistic, including today

[Hortensis]

19. She told massive lies about the Democrat role, and

Kavanaugh. That's not simplistic thinking, it's profoundly dishonest and dishonorable behavior in the context of very vicious and dirty politics. She was every bit as bad as Graham, Kavanaugh and Trump.

[Blue_true]

6. My take.

Sara Gideon, Jared Golden, Dr. Cat London. If Dems there avoid splintering, either of those three could beat Collins.

[Snake Plissken]

8. After listening to her today, she's not planning on running again.

She's in lame duck gifter mode from here on in

[Meadowoak]

12. So is GrASSley, Hatch, Flake, Collins and a bunch more. Its up to us to start organizing

NOW to pick up those seats.

[Snake Plissken]

13. Yep it's time to find young talented leaders like Beto O'Rourke to run for those seats

who can control them for awhile because you know that the billionaires already have their people working on purchasing them

this is definitely not the time to lose focus

[eleny]

10. The Dem who runs for Senate from Maine will need to get a very long rake

[lindysalsagal]

15. Let me know when/where to send the check.

[libdem4life]

21. How terribly realistic is it to hope for:

1. Ending lifetime positions, i.e. term limits.

or...


2. Expanding the number of judges...after 2020

or both?