This is a pretty wild opinion piece by Joan Vennochi, which also notes Maine gov Maura Healey’s support
For women, Platner vs. Collins is a tough choice because of abortion rights
What’s more important: How a man talks about and treats women, including his wife, or whether he supports abortion rights?
With Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, support for abortion is trumping what Democrats, especially women, would consider abhorrent behavior from a Republican.
Consider Governor Maura Healey’s explanation for why she plans to back Platner in the general election if he wins the Maine Senate primary. During a Tuesday appearance on GBH radio, Healey said, “I’m disgusted by what he posted and I’m disgusted by his other behaviors and antics. But, here’s the thing, come November, there’s going to be a clear choice: There’s going to be Susan Collins, on the one hand, who has stood with Trump.”
In follow-up comments to the Boston Herald, Healey was more specific, saying, “We need to do everything we can to defeat Susan Collins, who is the reason that we have the Dobbs decision, the reason that Roe v. Wade was overturned.”
So, because Orange Man Bad and abortion (which is purely legal in Maine, as a state right per the SCOTUS ruling) she will support Platner? As will so many Democrat women? There’s no reason to reiterate how horrible Platner is, right? Or that the media would be in Category 5 apoplexy if Graham was a Republican, right? Or that the GOP would have dropped all support for him from the minute the Nazi tattoo came to light, right?
To that end, Democrats, including powerful women like Senator Elizabeth Warren, have backed Platner despite a series of controversies, including a tattoo inspired by Nazi symbolism that he has since covered up and old Reddit posts in which he downplayed rape in the military and used crude language to suggest that rape victims should take some responsibility for what happened, especially if they drink too much. He has since apologized for those comments. (snip)
Warren, who famously called out Michael Bloomberg on the 2020 presidential debate stage for past sexist comments, is still backing Platner. And Healey, who initially endorsed Governor Janet Mills in the primary, is now saying she will be with Platner in the general election.
It’s all about the power and the Democrats 1st Commandment, abortion on demand.
How can Democrats like Warren challenge questionable tattoos from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and sexism from Republicans in general when they accept it in one of their own? Once you give up the high ground, you never get it back.
Hegseth’s tattoos are Christian in nature: Platner’s is a Nazi symbol.
(Breitbart) Several women who previously dated Graham Platner have described “unsettling” and controversial behavior by the Democrat looking to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
The New York Times profiled several women who shared a romantic past with Platner, further piling onto the controversies that have plagued the candidate since discussions about his Nazi tattoo. In one interview, conservative commentator Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner between 2013 and 2015, said that he would often be rough with her while discussing violence, clarifying that he never physically assaulted her.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” Fifield told the outlet. (snip)
Regarding his Nazi tattoo, Fifield also expressed doubt as to Platner’s claims of being ignorant of its meaning, saying that he would sometimes describe it as “my Totenkopf.” Jewish Insider previously reported that a former acquaintance described him using that term.
Good on the Times for actually covering this, and not burying the article. Democrats won’t care. They don’t care about any of it. How bad would Platner have to be for them to drop support? If he was shown to be a member of, say, Stormfront or some Nazi organization, would that drop their support? Or, is winning the election and abortion more important?
Platner’s main accuser Lynsley Fifer had previously worked on several republiacan campaigns. They dated according to her for more than years, he broke up with her.
The Internet never forgets
Platner’s main accuser is a paid GOP hack. She formerly founded the Ladies For Kavanaugh group. And worked for years at the Heritage Foundation. WEird she dated him for 3 years.
The Demonrats would support Lucifer himself…red skin, tail, horns and pitchfork…as long as he was promising to vote for THEIR agenda.
Lucifer is make believe. Senator Collins and candidate Platner are real people.
obviously this treatment of women is not considered a problem in regards to Trump.
Would Republicans drop there support for Trump for his association with neo Nazi group leaders of groups chanting They Will Not Replace Us?
Yes I hope that winning the election will be the most important. Trump’s horrible record with women 16 sex assault suits, 3 marriage always with adultery pale in comparison to Platners allegations.
His main? accuser She was a former worker for the Heritage group. Sound like an ideal couple dated him for 2 years around 2016 whhen they were both about 30yo. He broke up with her.
#Believe All Women
#Me Too
Bwaha! Lolgfy Maine Kampf!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
Well, of course Senatrix Warren found Pete Hegseth’s Jerusalem Cross tattoo “questionable.” To the uneducated, it could kinda, sorta look like a swastika, and Mrs Warren is deeply uneducated when it comes to things which are actually important.
Mrs Warren occasionally attends Methodist services, but her religion, the way she described it, according to CNN’s “Elizabeth Warren: ‘My faith animates all that I do’” is pure Democratic politics. She supports prenatal infanticide, homosexuality, and transgenderism, is herself divorced and remarried, and very supportive of the welfare state. The Jerusalem Cross, a symbol carried by the third Crusaders, is a symbol of a very masculine, aggressive Christianity, one which actually pushes the message of Jesus and of Christianity, and Mrs Warren would want nothing to do with anything like that!
And you wonder why her husband won’t drink a beer with her.
But didn’t the crusaders slaughter Jews and Muslims alike?
The Rhineland Massacres (1096), The Siege of Jerusalem (1099) where the Christians rounded up Jews and burned them alive, The Siege of Haifa (1099), York Massacre (1190). And since they were Catholics, no doubt lots of raping of children along the way.
Both early Christendom and Islam were as much political movements as religious. The centuries-long transition saw the gradual separation of church and state, beginning in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Age of Enlightenment, gaining momentum during the French and American Revolutions, and evolving into the modern secular state.
Mr Dana has made clear that he does NOT believe that women should have political agency, much less power. He is a white, Christian, male nationalist. If he were king, Mr Dana would force United States’ citizens to practice Christianity, ban all abortions, ban homosexuality, transgenderism and divorce, and have white, Christian males in charge.
Mr Dana typed: “The Jerusalem Cross… is a symbol of a very masculine, aggressive Christianity, one which actually pushes the message of Jesus and of Christianity…”
Was the murder of non-Christians the message of Jesus and Christianity? Catholicism as “very masculine”? That’s laughable. Child abuse is masculine?
This aligns with 1) his desire to force christianity on Americans and 2) his misogyny.
1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…
Rimjob imagines himself relevant.