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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a PoliSci degree holder and an attorney with a JD from Georgetown, where I attended during the late 90s and the height of the Gingrich Congress’s attacks on Clinton re: the Lewinsky scandal and anything else they could dig up to justify persecuting him and his much loathed First Lady. My earliest memories of childhood involve watching the Watergte hearings with my then SAHM; 27 years later I studied criminal law at GULC with the same Sam Dash I watched in those hearings as a very young child.

I say all this just to share that I’m a lifelong keen observer of American politics and all the roller coaster that entails. I’ve been fascinated by the rise of the MAGA cult - disheartened and disappointed, but nonetheless fascinated by all it revealed about the American electorate.

As someone who lived nearly two decades in Maine - including seven years at Orono earning three degrees, and several years living on the downeast coast the next town over from where Graham Platner calls home - I’ve been especially fascinated to see the rise of Platner and his own cult of personality over the last several months. It’s interesting to see how very like the rise of Trump and MAGA it all is, how very similar the way the Platner supporters deflect criticism and defend their candidate and his inexperience and ugly personal history.

I sense a FAFO coming for the cult of Platner supporters. I suspect there will be October reveals like the ‘grab ‘em by the meow’ but I don’t think Pig Platner will overcome them the way MAGA daddy did. We’ll see.[/quote]

You are probably right because [b]Democrats are much less likely to be cult followers and are much more likely to turn on politicians when they are imperfect. [/b]Right now, I don't expect perfection. I just want every single Republican who supports Trump out. I also want the major collaborators like Schumer out.[/quote]

Now we know you’re not a serious person.  Spare us all.  The left is full of LWNJ cult members.  And claim that you’re much more likely to turn on politicians when they are imperfect is not something to brag about.  Al Franken would like a word.   :roll: 
DP[/quote]
What? Al Franken is the perfect representation of what PP was talking about. He was imperfect (for more reasons than just that one photo, I think there were seven or eight allegations of misconduct before he resigned) and the Democrats pushed him out. [/quote]

That’s the point.  Al Franken never did anything worthy of being pushed out.  That was a classic example of Democrats overreacting and overreaching in their usual attempts to portray themselves as morally superior and it backfired big time.  Franken was a decent person who never should have allowed the Dems in charge to force him out.  What he did wasn’t even in the realm of something to resign for.  He was a good politician.  [/quote]

Huh. Democrats have high standards for their leaders. What a strange thing that must be to you.[/quote]

The Al Franken situation was a case of absolute overreach and hubris on the part of Democrats.  How typical that you can't even recognize that.[/quote]

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