Remember what our moms told us when we roughhoused as kids? It's all fun and games until, er, ... someone discovers your Nazi-tatted Kik creeper buddy gets accused of rape.
Now that Der Oysterführer has departed the scene in Maine, suddenly the leading lights in the Democrat Party have lost interest in the Senate race. Semafor's Burgess Everett reported earlier today that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have a new strategy, which is to keep their traps shut. The state party apparently has heaved a collective sigh of relief:
Senate Democrats are adopting a new strategy in their Maine Senate primary: staying all the way out of it.
Chief among them is Bernie Sanders, who propelled Graham Platner’s rise and supported the gubernatorial bid of Troy Jackson. Though Jackson is seeking the progressive mantle in the race to replace Platner on the ballot, the Vermont independent is done with trying to be a Pine Tree State kingmaker.
“It’s an unprecedented moment. The people of Maine should work it out themselves,” Sanders told Semafor this week. “Right now it’s best that the people of Maine make their own decisions without outside influence.”
Sanders is no outlier as the Maine Democratic Party weighs who to nominate. Democratic lawmakers seem to have gotten the message that their forays into Vacationland did not help their effort to defeat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, according to interviews this week with multiple senators.
Gee ... ya think? Sanders and his DSA allies literally created their Totenkopfenstein monster out of whole cloth in the first place. Daniel Moraff and Morris Katz crafted a "working class" character and cast parental-mooch ne'er-do-well Platner to play it. As soon as Platner hit the ground, the socialist left's leading lights went all-in for Platner despite him being a parade of red flags that might have made Khrushchev envious on any given May Day.
Now that it has fallen apart, everyone wants to distance themselves from the stench.
Local Dems are putting a brave face on this steaming pile, but ...
Jordan Wood, a Senate candidate who ran for Congress in Maine’s battleground district, said that “it seems DC has finally learned how to read the room. Mainers will choose their next senator — not Chuck Schumer, not Washington lobbyists.”
About that. Mainers aren't choosing the next Democrat nominee to the Senate. Thanks to the debacle they created with the big push for Platner, Democrats had to force Platner to withdraw to save face, but that means they just negated the entire primary. The party has to select a nominee before the July 27 ballot deadline, so they have no time for a do-over. Instead, the Maine Democratic Party has called a special nominating convention, with 600 party insiders as the delegates, to anoint someone as their next nominee.
If this process looks familiar, it's because Democrats threw out their primary results two years ago when they hoodwinked their voters into thinking Joe Biden really was Sharp As a Tack™. Instead of using their upcoming convention, Democrat insiders handed the nomination to Kamala Harris. And look how well that worked out!
The word "Democratic" in "Democratic Party" looks more anachronistic in every cycle.
Speaking of stench, Everett reports that Chuck Schumer has grown more optimistic of late about the party's chances against Susan Collins:
Still, there is intense interest in the race, and Schumer is eager to get a nominee. He believes his party’s chances of defeating Collins are better than they were before Platner imploded, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
He has one advantage already: It will be a completely different campaign, without the negative advertising bomb that Republicans had planned for Platner.
Schumer must be kidding himself. Republicans will use that Platner bomb every time a Platner endorser even so much as speaks in Maine, and likely everywhere else. Collins and the GOP will remind voters that the Democrats lined up foursquare behind the man with a Nazi tattoo and kept supporting him even after allegations of domestic violence emerged, not to mention Platner's extramarital sexting and still-unknown Kik exchanges. That stench won't dissipate merely because Democrats filled a back room with smoke and emerged with a new nominee that they totes swear they stand behind. Democrats gaslighted Maine voters for months, and you better believe that the Collins campaign and the NRSC will bring the receipts to remind those voters of it.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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