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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Graham Platner in Maine and Dan Osborn in Nebraska. I’m not talking about presidential candidates at all, these are Senate candidates, but they have the “vibe” that a lot of independents are going for. Blue collar, scruffy, white guys that appeal to labor and populist on economic issues. [/quote]

You sure you want a guy with a Nazi tattoo?[/quote]

A guy that admitted he made mistakes in the past and has a lived experience with war and recovery from trauma, and a man who immediately got the tattoo removed once he realized what it symbolized? Sure. [/quote]

Cool. Now apply this logic to Justice Kavanaugh or any number of Republicans that have been pilloried for things they did and said decades ago that you jumped all over. And I'm a Democrat, by the way.[/quote]

What?! I don't even know what you are referring to!

Did you watch the same hearings I did? When did Justice Kavanaugh admit he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford? He absolutely did not.

He admitted that he "liked beer" and that he still "liked beer" where his friends and former roommates said he was a frequent drunk who would get belligerent.  He said he never blacked out where his own friends said he became "incoherent" and "passed out."

Kavanaugh is an example of the OPPOSITE of Graham Platner. He refused to admit what most of watching the hearings believed to be true AND he reacted in a forceful, scary, unsupreme court justice kind of way. The only thing he admitted to was regretting that he acted in a cringeworthy way in the hearings!

I actually think Graham Platner is too controversial and am not the PP. But what he is accused of is a totally different level: 1) getting a skull tattoo that supposedly everyone knows is a Nazi symbol. Given that I have a PhD and never in my life knew that was a Nazi symbol, I find it credible. Either way, HE ISN'T a NAZI so there's that. and 2) [i]writing[/i] a bunch of inappropriate offensive things that he has apologized for. Words matter, they do. But do not compare that to raping someone![/quote]

Platner used the r-word in an interview within the last month. It's very obvious to this nearly 60 year old woman that his apologies are empty and entirely self-serving, and it should be reiterated again and again and again that the apologies only came after he was caught out red handed for having deleted all those reddit posts and tried his best to totally hide from the Maine electorate who he *was* a decade ago - which utter character failing tends to suggest it is who he *IS* still, today. It's also repugnant that he tried to blame his ugly words and thoughts on PTSD, which doesn't cause racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia or a general disdain for one's neighbors who Platner called 'all racist and stupid' - the very people he's asking to represent. He's every bit as disgusting as Kavanaugh and I have little doubt - as a woman in this world who was once a girl in this world and for too many years a criminal attorney in this world both defender and prosecutor - that Platner has raped someone in his past, which is undoubtedly from where he developed his disgusting perspective that women who make claims of rape are all liars regretting drunken sex.[/quote]

And whatever your PhD is in, Platner claims to be a big history buff particularly military history and he has 6 years of college under his belt despite never managing to complete a degree. It's a hard pass on buying that in 20 years he never figured out that he had a Totenkopf tattoo on his chest - until it became a political liability while he's trying to don sheep's clothing and sell himself as a good natured populist.

He wrote on reddit that he was excited to go to the Middle East and kill some brown people. This is not a man of good character, period. Anybody who would say such a thing after his frontal lobe has fully developed has serious character deficiencies.[/quote]

+ a million[/quote]

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