As the national media dance around Graham Platner’s peculiar popularity from afar, they have yet to accurately depict why he is even a viable candidate for Pine Tree State Democrats.
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If all the political pundits of America’s “McNews” would spend some actual time here, they might just catch on that Platner is a stubborn version of the unelectable Kamala Harris, and that in the end it really is just all theater and in-your-face political nose-rubbing of blue dog Democrats.
And that like Biden, the hard left really doesn’t care about cutting off their nose to spite their face, as long as they can bench anyone wearing a jersey for progressive conservatism.
Because a state like Maine where its tallest structure is a deer stand, Mainers are likely to put back in office in November their veteran Washington moneymaker Susan Collins who has brought home the bacon for an impressive 29 years.
Albeit chronically dubbed a RINO, Collins is the longest serving female Republican Senator in U.S. history and has a perfect voting attendance, never once having missed a roll call vote in her three decades in service.
Dedication has not been lost to politics, at least just yet.
As the longtime Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she has fetched $1.5 million in federal monies for “The Welcome Home” tourism-dependent state, and that has included money to support military supplies manufacturing along with housing and economic aid.
Collins also is not “from away” as they say in Maine, and satisfies the state’s unofficial eligibility to be called a local — three generations buried in Maine soil.
Collins, as are her parents and grandparents, is a native of the deeply rural Caribou, nestled in the northern most reaches of the state in an area known as the “Crown of Maine.”
Platner, whose status as an “oyster farmer” is lofted by his supporters as if he’s a walking Yankee Magazine cover, was born in the art-enriched Blue Hill, Maine; its residents include Paul Stookey of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary.
His parents are also locals.
His grandfather, who he’s named after, not so much. But he was a celebrated modern architect from Baltimore whose designs include the fabled Windows on the World restaurant that sat atop the World Trade Center, making him likely (if anything) all the more alluring to educated progressivists who vote here.
It undoubtedly adds to their enthrallment of catching themselves a liberal from lily white America…kind of how Carolyn Kennedy’s son Jack Schlossberg put it about his uncle Robert Kennedy Jr. being of the family’s Democrat dynasty in Trump’s MAGA cabinet — “that they caught themselves a feral.”
But with his chest-sized Nazi-looking tattoo and his past victiming-blaming rants about rape, Platner’s native blood is hardly the reason he is drawing whole articles in The New York Times, CNN, and NPR.
To understand Platner’s popularity in Maine is to look at the transplants from blue Massachusetts and other pinkos and champagne socialists who have come to roost here, as locals say — ruin the rural northern New England state.
The political paradox is especially highlighted when you consider these denizens of states that embrace their sanctuary status like a puppy and dot their manicured lawns with Black Lives Matter signs as they feverishly flock to the whitest state in America every chance they get.
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Some of them even have Platner signs symbolically outside their Harvard Square homes that they zoom past on Saturday mornings on their hurried way up to white Maine where everyone speaks English and there’s not a gang of men riding unregistered scooters on the sidewalks through a debris of fast food trash.
What’s that saying? “Rules for thee, but not for me.”
As it turns out, it all makes sense. They and Platner are cut from the same cloth. They’ll happily put women in prison cells with men to be raped under the spirit of “transgender love,” but regard parents of Jocelyn Nungaray as hateful for wanting the monsters who brutally raped and murdered their 12-year old daughter deported.
Ask the real Mainers what they think of pro-illegal immigrant Platner and the reactive alliance bolstering his candidacy, and they’ll tell you it’s the same hypocritical anomalies.
Perhaps the Democrats’ never-ending voter fraud allegations are part of the phony virtue signaling behind their apple polishing of Senate hopeful Platner.
Besides traffic headaches and rude attitudes, these interlopers bring what remain ongoing concerns from state Republicans: that they may very well be voting here.
The charge is decades old and encompasses what’s known as the “2009 Referendum Claim,” when Former Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage publicly charged that Bay Staters had been bused in to push through a referendum to legalize gay marriage here.
The suspicion is by the very least, predicated on strong circumstantial evidence. After all, along with their hypocritic escapes from their liberalized neighborhood, these cultural vandals waste little time—in borrowing a term from neighboring New Hampshire’s Gov. Kelly Ayotte—to “Mass up” local culture.
If you want the bluntest of all perspectives on Platner and the identicide behind him, you have to catch up to a blue collar Mainer, the last vestige of the state’s heydays as a giant woodlot brimmed by a 228-mile shoreline.
They speak in terms of “flatlanders” and “Massholes” when it comes to the metal snake of cars bearing out of state plates that has wrapped itself around the state.
If they’re comfortable enough with you, they might even treat you to a joke or two about how tourists are their own version of illegal immigrants, infiltrating, say, state elections, in one way or another and that, maybe “MICE” is needed — as in Maine Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
So at the end of the day, while Collins may bear the RINO label for her centrist policies, Platner easily bears the label MINO — Maine In Name Only.
Alice Giordano is a writer for Newsmax Magazine, former senior political correspondent for The Epoch Times and past reporter for The Boston Globe and The Associated Press.
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