By Jon Fetherston
Wait.
What?
Are we seriously expected to believe this?
Democrats like Graham Platner, Hannah Pingree, and Chellie Pingree have settled on the same campaign message: Donald Trump is the problem. Everything is terrible. Elect us, and we’ll fix it.
The audacity would be impressive if it weren’t so insulting.
Who exactly do they think has been running Maine?
Who has controlled the Governor’s Office?
Who has dominated state government?
Who has been writing the policies that have shaped this state for years?
Now they want you to believe they’re riding in on white horses to save you from the very problems their own party helped create.
That’s not leadership.
That’s gaslighting.
Mainers don’t need another glossy television commercial. They don’t need another polished speech filled with buzzwords and carefully rehearsed outrage. They need someone willing to acknowledge reality.
Reality looks like families wondering how they’ll pay the electric bill.
Reality looks like young people leaving Maine because they can’t afford to build a life here.
Reality looks like housing costs squeezing working families.
Reality looks like government waste and fraud making headlines while taxpayers foot the bill.
Reality looks like communities like Lewiston struggling with escalating youth violence and asking whether anyone in Augusta is paying attention.
And after years of this, we’re supposed to believe the answer is…more of the same?
No thanks.
Hannah Pingree wants voters to see her as fresh leadership. But many Mainers see something else: Janet Mills 2.0, wrapped in newer packaging.
Listening to her recent interview on WGAN Morning News, I heard plenty about Donald Trump. What I didn’t hear were convincing answers for the problems Maine families are living every day.
Blaming Trump may energize a political base.
It doesn’t lower anyone’s electric bill.
It doesn’t make housing affordable.
It doesn’t make communities safer.
It doesn’t improve struggling schools.
At some point, governing has to replace campaigning.
Then there’s Graham Platner.
Campaigns are built on image, and Platner has certainly worked to build one. But voters should look beyond the speeches and campaign videos and carefully examine his public record, his own public statements, and the questions that have surrounded his campaign. Every candidate asking for the public’s trust should expect that level of scrutiny.
As for Chellie Pingree, hearing lectures about fighting “the oligarchy” rings hollow to many Mainers. After years in Congress, she isn’t running against the political establishment.
She is part of it.
The strategy seems obvious.
Talk endlessly about Donald Trump.
Convince voters every problem began somewhere else.
Pretend the last several years never happened.
Hope nobody notices.
Maine deserves better.
The people asking for another promotion are the same people asking voters to ignore the report card.
Don’t let slick advertising rewrite history.
Don’t let campaign consultants convince you yesterday never happened.
And don’t let politicians who helped create today’s problems market themselves as tomorrow’s saviors without first answering for the record they already own.
The record exists.
The results speak for themselves.
The commercials can’t change either one.
Pay attention, Maine.
Look beyond the slogans.
Look beyond the commercials.
Look at who has been making the decisions.
Then vote accordingly.
The ass the democrats have been riding so long has a severe case of hoof & mouth. Time for antibiotics.
Hee Haw
AMEN!
James Howard Kunstler “Okay, convince me that gay-Islamic-race-communism is a “progressive” political program America is going to buy like corn flakes. The Lefty-left wants to think so, as it lurches from one peak of mental illness to an even greater one in the 130 days to the midterms. Look how successful they’ve been with open borders, defunding the police, men in the girl’s swim lane, no cash bail, sex-change surgery for kids, free-for-all elections, hatin’ on white people, and open Medicare fraud. The new re-branding strategy as “Democratic Socialism” only tells you that reality has ceased to interest them.”
Excellent truth piece. The evil destroyers that have killed our state shouting they will “fix things” is terrifying. Turning our state RED is our one and only lifeline.
The Pingrees are like a cancerous growth .
The one we already have is bad enough , but now another one wants to put us over the edge .
Maine DOESN’T need another damn Pingree .
Vote for Bobby Charles for governor ?
PLEASE .
Spot on. Results matter to most sane people – but not to leftists. Janet Mills’ leftism failed so this year’s theme is even more leftism. I accept that there are leftist politicians that never acknowledge the failure of most leftist programs, but Maine citizens that enable leftist politicians is a bridge too far.
The other bit of gaslighting is that Collins’ vote for Kavanaugh threatens abortion rights. All Dobbs did was return abortion law to the states, and Maine isn’t restricting abortion any time soon.
Make sure all Maine democrats run on Mills record, tie them to her polices, do not let up.
Speaking of gaslighting… how is this free online rag funded!?
“The Maine Wire is funded by several nonprofits backed by conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo, including the Schwab Charitable Fund and DonorsTrust. Additionally, it is associated with the Maine Policy Institute, which operates as a conservative think tank”
So… Maine Wire is a handout rag!? Maine Wire exist thanks to socialism!? WTF!?
The Maine Wire has stirred up a libtard troll who changes its name for every post.
Hahahahahahaha!
Trump actually is to blame!!!?
Trump is fat, stupid, trust fund rich and 100% behind the warp speed Covid jab.
Trump has destroyed the economy. It started with his idiotic Covid era stimulus check but now we have a losing battle against the F’ing Persians to add to Trump’s list of lies and failures.
USA is running out of sour oil. Muh, no more jet fuel or diesel. Iran owns Trump.
Yup, Trump is a loser!
The US is not running out of crude oil sour or otherwise.
What the US IS running out of his refinery capacity.
We haven’t built an oil refinery over 50 years, we keep closing them down, and then suddenly wonder why gasoline is so damn expensive. Maine is lucky in a way because much of Maine’s gasoline comes from the Irving refinery in New Brunswick.
Don’t be lazy folks. You think Democratic socialism works for the average Joe? Seattle has an almost 1/2 billion budget deficit now under it. They antagonized their golden geese and they left and now the average Joes will pay with increased taxes. Do your research.
Mainers are dumber than most Americans. Bashing Trump is a hot bottom item which will work nationwide. The movement is a planned national takeover. I’m surprised TMW you Re playing right into their hands. I pretty sure your approach is assistance to the left. Platner must win to put the end to this Maine facade. Maine is marginalized, a useless state and the country know this. Circling the drain is a good thing for Maine.
A vote for any Democrat or fake Independent is a vote to continue to be victimized by the world’s biggest criminal enterprise !
I have read that George Soros and his Son have given the max amount allowed, $7,000, to Mein Oyster Fuhrer Platner for his run, as a 100% mentally disabled vet, to be our U S Senator for six years. I am a U S Navy, Nam era vet, and I will not be voting for a 100% disabled man to represent me in Washington.
Well Hanna says that adding 100 million more dollars to Mainecare for the “new Mainers” won’t affect taxes AND make healthcare better.
Platner says his plan of upgrading to wind, solar and unicorn farts, stopping all fossil, hydro and nuclear energy will lower energy costs, cutting the military by 50% will make us safer.
Sheena understands what Mainers need…She grew up in in Hancock Maine in a cabin with no running water or electricity until she was a junior in high school so she knows Mainers struggles well.
We just need to trust them.
Sadly most of the greying hippies and the TicTockers will believe them thank to careful grooming at schools.