With gas prices surging and Democrat Troy Jackson leading in the polls, Collins is struggling to defend her pro-Trump record with a restless electorate in Maine.
I SO hope these polls hold up! Susan Collins has pulled one election after another out of the fire. I hope this is the time she gets burned. Troy Jackson sounds like an honest-to-goodness Mainer, which is refreshing.
Dear Lord how I hope that Mainers are finally tired of that cow. Please help her to retire 'cause she won't do it on her own. The benefits are too good.
Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years. That fact is interesting because, when she first ran in 1996, she swore she'd only stay in office for two terms if she won during an October debate that year.
“I have pledged that if I'm elected, I will only serve two terms. Twelve years is long enough to be in public service, make a contribution, and then come home and let someone else take your place.”
As Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Peter Carr from Paris in August 1785, “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
And, as Dr. Johnson was famously quoted by James Boswell, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Almost always omitted, however, is what then followed: “But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”
— James Boswell (“Life of Samuel Johnson,” 1791; p. 253)
Thank you for the article, Mr. Burns. When I lived in Maine there was campaigning for Susan Collins who claimed if her campaign took 150 thousand dollars from big pharma. She claimed she would she would return it . Her husband is a lobbyist. She is not the person, I would say is honest according to my friends. She campaigns along the lines that she is making her upteenth vote.
I SO hope these polls hold up! Susan Collins has pulled one election after another out of the fire. I hope this is the time she gets burned. Troy Jackson sounds like an honest-to-goodness Mainer, which is refreshing.
Dear Lord how I hope that Mainers are finally tired of that cow. Please help her to retire 'cause she won't do it on her own. The benefits are too good.
Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years. That fact is interesting because, when she first ran in 1996, she swore she'd only stay in office for two terms if she won during an October debate that year.
“I have pledged that if I'm elected, I will only serve two terms. Twelve years is long enough to be in public service, make a contribution, and then come home and let someone else take your place.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/susan-collins-pledged-only-serve-105957985.html
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As Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Peter Carr from Paris in August 1785, “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”
And, as Dr. Johnson was famously quoted by James Boswell, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
Almost always omitted, however, is what then followed: “But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”
— James Boswell (“Life of Samuel Johnson,” 1791; p. 253)
I wonder whether it's time to resurrect my infamous (i.e., unknown) Sen. Susan Collins "He's learned his lesson" Award? Any thoughts ;-)
I sure hope so
Thank you for the article, Mr. Burns. When I lived in Maine there was campaigning for Susan Collins who claimed if her campaign took 150 thousand dollars from big pharma. She claimed she would she would return it . Her husband is a lobbyist. She is not the person, I would say is honest according to my friends. She campaigns along the lines that she is making her upteenth vote.
Concerning.