Well, gee wiz, Sparky, maybe you should ask some of your Democratic comrades about how they went after Mitt Romney for things he did as a high schooler, George W. Bush, multiple Republican Supreme Court justices, and so many more
Amid Mounting Democratic Concern, Platner Says His Past Is Being ‘Weaponized’
Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, moved to quell mounting Democratic anxieties about his candidacy on Friday, telling supporters in a defiant speech that his past behavior was being “weaponized” by his political opponents.
A day after The New York Times reported that three women — a conservative and two Democrats — who had been romantically involved with Mr. Platner described volatile and “toxic” relationships, Mr. Platner addressed a crowd at a theater in Bar Harbor, expressing confidence that Maine voters would stick by him.
“When politically motivated, serious and false accusations are made against me, Maine, you have my back,” Mr. Platner said. “The state of Maine raised me, and the state of Maine saved me, and to all of you out there, Maine, I will always have your back.”
“Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated and weaponized, you have my back,” he said.
Mitt Romney cut a kid’s hair and had “binders full of women” (which was totally misconstrued by Dems and their pet media). He didn’t have a Nazi tattoo he boasted about for decades.
Holly Woodworth, a 57-year-old Democrat sitting near the front, said Mr. Platner was the first politician she had seen “in many elections” whom she felt “inspired by.” She said that the allegations had not shaken her support, and that they hadn’t surprised her given how Mr. Platner had previously described going through a dark period after his military service.
Still, she said the stories about Mr. Platner were making her anxious.
“I care whether the Democrats win the majority,” Ms. Woodworth said, expressing concern that revelations about Mr. Platner’s past would drag down his candidacy, and Democrats’ chances of winning the Senate along with it. “I want a change.”
Again, winning is all that matters to most Democrats. Platner could still be talking about how much he loves his Nazi tattoo and they’d still vote for him. A similar article from the Washington Post has
Ro Khanna (D-Ca), who has become a leading advocate in Congress for women who accused disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein of abuse, walked a fine line in his speech defending Platner, saying Platner was not perfect but had owned his mistakes.
“No one should make excuses for his past relationships, some of which were toxic and volatile,” Khanna said. “And no one on our side should attack the women who came forward.”
But Khanna added the United States “broke” young men like Platner, a combat veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, by sending them to war. “If someone felt hurt by Graham in a past relationship, we can listen to them, and we can listen to Graham,” Khanna said.
So, Ro has found a Reason to blow off his advocacy for women to really support Platner. Surprise?
A proposed state law that would force dozens of fossil fuel companies to shell out $50 billion to help pay for the cost of climate change has taken another step forward in New Jersey.
The floodgates to common sense have busted open, testing political natural selection. Take Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who when faced with a choice between his own political survival or persisting with the same “net zero” policies as the “UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance” that he founded and championed in pre-political life — before all banks ditched it, as the Canadian media reported last year. Guess which path he now favors as he finally rushes to build pipelines so Canada can realize its potential as an energy superpower? Still, he’s stuck explaining to at least one of the true believers, now citing environmental impact in ditching Carney’s Liberal Party, that “things change.”
What’s more important: How a man talks about and treats women, including his wife, or whether he supports abortion rights?
The Trump administration is dismantling a $370 million ocean-floor observatory network installed a decade ago to collect critical climate data on coastal environments, marine ecosystems, and powerful global ocean currents.
Today, the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) released a
