If Snowe runs again, I’m sure she’ll draw a great deal of support. This state is protective of its incumbents, unfortunately.

This the fallibility part of those who agree with you, that voting for a McCain is preferable than allowing a President Obama to get elected. I am one of those who disagrees. Why? Because there will never be a person put up to take out an incumbent like her until she loses her support and power. Yes, you will get 4 years of crap but four years of crap that can be set on your opponent lock, stock, and barrel. Then you can bring in some fresh blood that will KNOW that they aren’t Lord All Knowing Historical Purveyor but answerable to a GOP constituency that will hold them ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!

Maine is Maine. Like it or not, Snowe’s vote is helpful to conservatives far more often than the vote of a Democrat Senator would ever be. Is she what I wish the people of Maine would elect as their Senator? No; not even close. Are they going to elect someone I’d like any time soon? I doubt it.

The issue here is the disconnect between constituents and their representatives. Snowe, et al. don’t owe constituents fealty – the whole theory of representative democracy is we elect people to make decisions on our behalf & they exercise their independent judgment in making those decisions, then we decide whether they’re doing the job when (if) they run for re-election.

IMO, public opinion polling has bastardized the job – it has led to “representatives as weather vanes”, finger firmly in the air hoping to discern a breeze and vote accordingly. That’s not what the system was intended to be.

“History” bothers me because it indicates her focus is not on the merits/demerits of the legislation, which is where it should be.

However, I live in a state where the GOP is weak, to say the least. So until the day she is weak enough to defeat in a primary, I will continue to vote for her over the moonbats the state’s Democrat party has run against her in the past.

Easy to sit on the sidelines and state how weak the GOP is…Time for the Teddy Roosevelt quote for you to digest and get off your butt and help create a strong GOP…

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

You have no excuse voting for Olympia Snowe, except you were afraid to enter the arena…

Slublog’s right about her opponents, though. I suspect the Democrats pick the candidates they do to placate their lunatic fringe while assuring Snowe sub rosa “we won’t run a viable candidate against you if you play ball with us on the important stuff.”

It’s important to keep in mind that Maine’s very much an Establishment state and Snowe’s a part of that Establishment. A conservative opponent might have a chance with the voters but that opponent is going to get no play in the state’s media unless he/she’s a tax-cheating pederast.

In 1829, the entire state of Maine contracted the terrible blue lobster madness disease.

Now, Jeff… you DID make that up , didn’t you?

I replied that the service was great but I wouldn’t go back to Maine again to vacation because of Snowe’s vote last week.

Boycott the state – no vacations, no lobster and no LL Bean and let them know why.

Votes have consequences!

Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become. Before the kidnapping, I viewed the organization as a form of “Al Qaeda lite,” a religiously motivated movement primarily focused on controlling Afghanistan.

Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world.

So are there enough “moderate Taliban” for Obama to negotiate with ?

In the US, the only “moderate Taliban*” that Obama can negotiate with seems to boil down to Olympia Snowe .. and she won’t guarantee that she won’t change sides in the end.

* “Taliban” as defined by the DNC

There are conservatives up here still, but we’re getting lonelier all the time. Sometimes though, I think there may still be a silent majority of quiet, shy conservatives, and the upcoming vote to repeal homosexual “marriage” may reveal that. Could a some good conservative candidates galvanize them? Maybe. Maybe not.

Most times, however, I think that nothing is going to change this but the utter failure of liberal policies now being enacted here in Maine and nationwide. We conservatives see it unfolding, know what’s ahead, and are trying to stop it, but it probably has to run its very painful course. If we get more socialized medicine, it will accelerate the collapse. Let’s just hope we can still pick up the pieces afterward and rebuild.

Quit blowing snowe up your bohunkus and start changing things for the better.

At best you are talking about a delaying action.

Take the offensive!

So, needless to say, I wasn’t surprised at all by her vote to support the healthcare reform bill.

She didn’t even do that – support a health care reform bill. All Snowe supported was moving a legislative shell forward so that the dems could continue on with their un-Constitutional plans for a federal expansion into health care, with an eye to national socialized health care, including all the goodies that come with it, such as the power to dictate far more of people’s personal choices (since everything affects health, which the feral government expects to be paying for, when people are on their insurance).

If Snow had been voting for an actual bill, then that would have been something different. It would not have been good, but nothing like this travesty that she has kept alive.

Walter Matthau in Drag

Angry Old Woman

Kini on October 18, 2009 at 3:27 AM

LOLOL…..Iknew I saw him/her somewhere but I couldn’t put my finger on it!

I also love the vote percentage red herring. If the 25% are on relatively unimportant votes and she repeatedly screws us on the most critical ones, SHE NEEDS TO GO!

Angry Old Woman

Another thing that amazes me about Snow is she’s been sporting the same hairstyle for over 30 years.

mizflame98 on October 17, 2009 at 5:07 PM

You only need to use Dippity-Doo once and it’s set for life.

BHO Jonestown on October 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM

It may as well be ! Let Labrador take it ! It borders on New Brunswick anyway !

This is the kind of (ahem) “conervatism” we Canucks here have tried to avoid ! Well, some of us . Of course we have not been that successful…

“When history calls, history calls,” said Maine Republican Olympia Snowe

Justice Harry Blackmun must have felt exactly the same with his abortion vote. I wonder how he views his decision fifty million killed babies later.

SNL-Tina Fey PARODY at San Diego TEA PARTY EVENT

Great lines include:

* “I can see relevance from my house”.
* “I always park my Jag next to a Prius”.
* “I will accept this award on behalf of all my future achievements.”
* “When history calls, history calls”. (A tribute to Senator Snowe)