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Related: About this forumYou ARE going to be able to beat Collins after this, right?
Is there any possible way she can STILL persuasively claim to be a "moderate" or even competent, after getting played by Trump, McConnell and Ryan on the tax vote?
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You ARE going to be able to beat Collins after this, right? (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Dec 2017
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Skittles
(160,142 posts)1. she wasn't played, she was complicit
she is not that stupid
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)2. OK, complicit then.
This does totally take the "I'm a moderate" card out of her deck, doesn't it?
nt.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)3. One problem in Maine are the 'independent' candidates
They take votes from the Democrats
and tip the election to the Republican candidates.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)7. The ultimate manifestation of which is the fact that your OTHER U.S. senator, Angus King...
...IS an Independent...
msongs
(70,249 posts)5. wanna be she will retire at the end of her current term? nt
mitch96
(14,742 posts)6. Yup, fell on her sword...
for the "cause"... I think there is an alternate payoff somewhere in there...
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