In which we say something nice about Susan Collins (R-ME).
As opposed to, say, Tom Allen (MoveOn-MoveOn).
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[UPDATE]: Donations to Senator Collins' campaign may be sent here.
While it turns out that MoveOn.org did not take down its embarrassment of an attack ad - that would have been, after all, the sensible thing to do; and sensible people do not join groups like MoveOn.org - Dan Riehl's post should still be perused for this point:
While many conservatives may have issues with Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, on the heels of the General Betray Us nonsense, I doubt they'd like to see her replaced by Tom Allen who, in his own words, has been bought and paid for by Moveon.org:
Allen: It is. Of course. MoveOn.org did this huge push for me in June when they found out that Joe Lieberman was doing an event for her (Collins) on June 21st. A couple of weeks before they pitched to their members, and in five days they raised $250,000 for us. That whole netroots community just gets very riled up by the fact that Susan's been a supporter of the President. She's tried to hide it. You can't find much about Iraq on her website. But that's the truth. She's been with Joe Lieberman on this from the beginning.
According to a CNN report, Tom Allen has received more Moveon.org money than all Democrat presidential candidates combined. Moveon.org's disgraceful ad today has shown the group's true colors to be something other than red, white and blue. It's time for Tom Allen to either give the money back, or simply move on himself.
Read on.
It is of course futile to expect that Tom Allen will give MoveOn.org back its money. Either he knows what they're truly like, in which case he's dead to shame anyway; or he doesn't, which means that he's unlikely to have mastered the arcane art of signing checks. I assume that Dan knows this also, and that he's just trying to get somebody out there in the organized antiwar movement to rekindle his or her sense of shame over it all. If that's actually the case, then I applaud his idealism, without sharing it in the slightest.
So let's get back to Senator Collins. I'm aware that from a pro-life viewpoint she's anathema, believe me. The woman's a liberal Republican from a Blue State, after all... which is why MoveOn's so, ah, anxious to replace her with one of their guys. That's because "liberal Republican" isn't the same as "liberal Democrat" (or even "conservative Democrat"), you see - and having a Senator, any Senator, is worthwhile in its own right. It's a question of access, you see, and it's not even particularly clandestine. A hypothetical Senator Allen will be happy to listen attentively to MoveOn's concerns and desires. Why not? They helped elect him, after all.
Now, if you want to see Senator Collins given a primary challenge, go right ahead. I actively encourage it for everybody's incumbents, right across the board: for one thing, we have too many incumbents in Congress. For another, we want the ones that we want to keep to not get complaisant about it all (the ones that we don't may lotus-eat with my compliments). But before you decide how far to push, take another look at that link on where she stands on the issues. And ask yourself: Is Tom Allen going to give more conservative (or just conservative) results in any of those categories?
Any at all?
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Given the current environment, Maine, and the time of the cycle, it would be futile to launch a primary challenge against Collins anyway. That said, there are countless reasons, most notably her votes on partial-birth abortion and her participation in the Gang of 14 agreement, that I would neither give a dime nor lift a finger to help her get reelected. I'm much more interested in protecting the more conservative of the incumbents, which pretty much covers the entire Republican caucus.
will be the 2008 Susan Collins campaign slogan.
It is really sad that the only reason anyone can come up with for supporting Susan Collins is that her opponent is a certified resident of bizarro world.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
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However, I hope we don't forget that the NY Times was an accomplice to Moveon.org by permitting that ad to run and they should receive equal denunciation for it's disparaging content. I hope there are others that will take the time and register their dissatisfaction directly to either they NY Times or their Public Editor. General Petraeus does not deserve this kind of treatment regardless of one's political persuasion.