It is rare to see a self-styled alpha populist so thoroughly emasculated as we have just witnessed with Graham Platner.
It was tough to watch. It brought back memories of Platner devotee Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption.
Ouch.
Just last week they loved him. He was all the rage.
But Maine Democratic honcho Devon Murphy-Anderson, the Maine Democratic Party establishment, and Chuck Schumer were not having it when the upstart oyster farmer decided to press on after the latest rape allegation came to light.
Just like that, Murphy-Anderson and the posse tied him up politically and treated him like a caught burglar in Graham Platner’s Washington, D.C., apartment.
Maybe they tied him down with all the hyphens that Murphy-Anderson and all the middle-aged women of Kennebunk use to assert their dominance over their eunuch “life partners” while preserving their WASPiness at the other end of the hyphen—just in case.
Broken and battered, Platner released a video Wednesday announcing that he is suspending his campaign against Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, citing the withdrawal of support from party leaders and the Maine Democratic Party.
“For the movement to continue, it can’t be me,” he said, adding that he intends to file paperwork to formally withdraw from the ballot. He maintained that he completely denies the rape allegation against him.
Probably a wise move, just in case law enforcement comes calling.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” That’s the iconic quote attributed to H.L. Mencken.
This time, it wasn’t just Maine Democratic voters who got it good and hard at the hands of the party establishment. Platner himself received the full gimp treatment from Washington, D.C., power brokers and their local enforcer by way of Florida.
Don’t complain, Graham.
Remember the words of a fake oyster farmer when posting on Reddit about women who get raped: Women should not “get so f*cked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.” And women should “act like an adult, for f’s sake” to avoid rape.
Act like an adult, “P-Hustle.”
Well done.
Thanks Tom. I enjoyed the laugh.
I can’t decide which one ( WHO ) I think is worse .
Platner …….
Or …..the peroxide blond robot girl with the hyphenated name .
If robot girl is in fact the NEW face for the Maine democrat party …..
They REALLY ARE in deep trouble ….LOL
This is going to be hysterical ! Let’s boogie !
Who are they gonna put up against Collins now to fight the OLIGARCHY? The police should now be paying a visit to the serial rapist. I was hoping he would have hung in there until Monday at 5:01 pm.
An immature, undeveloped, unemployed, life time liar. Been saying this day one. Everyone knew. Unqualified on every count to be a US Senator. Still lying. Look at that broken face. A baby. Never has taken responsibility for any actions. A joke and an embarrassment for all if Maine.Go away!
If beginning to think this is the new Dems play book for electing their candidates. Get your feet wet with one then dump them off if things aren’t working out. Mills will be the chosen one.
Re-enter Janet (I really screwed up Maine) Mills.
😢😢 waaaà the commie got dumped by big money demorats
Of the 1.4 million residents of Maine, Platner was the best they could come up with to run for senator? Any random person grabbed off the street in Portland would have been better qualified.
If Janet is the replacement, my guess, she got the rape victim or, ahh alleged rape victim to come forward. Janet probably also unearthed the rape come ts the scum bag made. Perfect storm he has found himself in. Sorry, not sorry, when his previous statements about rape, how does one really believe gmhis side of things.
The typical hyphenated name. The only thing missing is the blue hair and nose ring.
3 weeks ago i visited friends in central PA. And then friends near Cincinatti. Both had ties to Maine and both said what to heck is going on up there? The Maine democrats are all over our news.
Id bet its happening today too.
They should be looking at Lewiston’s prestigious mayor, frumpy Carl Sheline.
The title of this article says it all.
King, as of yesterday, with his arms around him, still loves Graham Cracker, but not in a gay kinda way.
This morning, however he is trying to gnaw his arm off to get away.
Today, platner is crying in the porta-potty.
Another good job done by the Maine Democratic Party.
Setting aside the blatant misogyny of this opinion it actually defeats its own argument! What’s the point? Platner exposed as irreversibly unelectable? By the Democrats!! Ha! Gotcha!
Of course the DNC did not want an upstart in Maine screaming about the billionaires and private equity sharks buying Washington. They are just as content as the Republicans feeding from the same trough. But I am pissed, and so should you, and so should the author of this opinion. You should be pissed off that health care costs can be a $1000 a month with a $6000 deductible. Graham was.
Platner is deeply flawed as a person, but as a candidate he packed houses, barns and VFW halls across the State—consistently—for months on end and clearly positioned himself as a preferred alternative to Susan Collins who held zero Town Hall meetings.
As a Democrat the one redeeming element of this is that the democrats actually called on him to step out. Brett Kavanaugh, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump all have rape allegations and sordid pasts too and therin lies the difference. The Republicans (not so long ago the party of family values) has chosen to overlook and downplay such allegations to the point of absurdity, For this opinion piece to so brazenly project moral superiority is laughable.
@ MaineReason, I could have sworn that Obamacare was supposed to fix healthcare costs. As for billionaires he took money from them, Soros etc. cannot have it both ways. Proof of, Hegseth, Trump, Kavanaugh raping anyone? The only reason you sidelined him was because he was losing, period.
Glad you are ok with the NAZI tattoo, though. Bernie used to rail against millionaires until he became one. And hate to break the news but almost all of our issues are brought to you by the democrat party, from housing, to healthcare, affordability.
I disliked Platner, but this reads more like a middle school insult contest than political commentary.
If the strength of your argument depends on sexual innuendo, emasculation jokes, and mocking “middle-aged women of Kennebunk,” maybe go back to school and learn how to make an actual argument.
Weak journalism.
Adios-Scram-Beat it-Amscray just go away please, the level of buffoonery that has been reached by these Democratic Simpletons has already reached epic proportions.
@MaineReason, you do know it was the democrats who ousted Platner, right? And I am not sure you are aware but Medicare is not free we pay every month, a nice deduction from our SS. And also Medicare denies claims more than any insurance company. And it has not worked in any country, Canada kills their citizens off to save money.
@Islander… well Obamacare did make health care more affordable unfortunately someone made it go away…Bernie still rails against billionaires (daily) and Platner was not “sidelined because he was losing” he was sideline for being a deeply flawed person. Thanks for reminding me that Pete (crusade tattoo, domestic violence), Brett and Donny were not convicted—last time I checked neither was Platner. Claiming democrats are responsible for healthcare costs and housing costs? When in the past three decades have Republicans put forth any legislation for either. Still waiting on Donny’s plan on health insurance and he just vetoed a bipartisan housing bill….Hey if empty promises, continual lies and insider trading are your gig have at it.
@MaineReason, Lets see, Why the envy of the successful? I would rather have a flat tax that everybody pays, not just the rich. Obamacare did not make it less expensive, we still have it last I looked. What is wrong with a Christian tattoo, besides we did not elect him. Who did Trump supposedly rape? Some crazy women financed by a billionaire ( created a special law just to get Trump), who could not even remember the date, you actually think Trump assualted her in a dressing room, sounds like a Bernie fantasy. Kavanagh actually did bring in his calendar to prove that he could not have been near another n crazy lady.
Now lets take a look at the democrats history of treating women like dirt, JFK Dodd, Clinton, Teddy Kennedy left a young girl to drown,. These guys you loved year after year, so why did your party turn on Platner? Of course the multimillionaire Bernie complains about people who have more than he does, it is the communist way. The guy was even thrown out of a commune for pulling his own weight.
I have no idea what happened to Trumps plan for healthcare. I guess the dems would not help pass it.
Just think this state has been run by dems for the last 60 years, with a few exceptions, how is it working? Low taxes, plenty of housing (only if you are an illegal), healthcare, low electricity rates? How about that ZERO economic growth, all good right?
Can you give us a country where taxing the billionaires, free healthcare has worked?
This will not be a tax on billionaires income, but a wealth tax. And then it will be a tax on millionaires and eventually everyone else until we end up like Venezuela
@islander fine have it your way. That harmless Hegseth ‘Christian’ tattoo represents the killing of an estimated 8-10% of Europe’s population at the time. Seems you are fine with terrible things as long as they are perpetrated by people you like. Trump=28 sexual assault allegations, cheated on previous wives, bought Stormy Daniel’s while his wife was home nursing their newborn, never mind he’s one of the most often named person in the Epstein files and bought a teen beauty pagent then bragged that he got to walk through the changing room. Anyway, my initial point on Platner is that he called out the DNC too recognizing both sides of the aisle need to do much better for the average citizen. Flat tax would be fine as long as google pays their share too… never mentioned free health care….clearly big money is getting more and more power, I for one feel strongly this is not a good development.
Irony is Maine demos showed an utter lack of reason by supporting a woefully flawed and underqualified person in the first place. They in doing so, lost credibility and this new “process” of deciding who the candidate will be is further eroding trust. It should be the person who got the second largest number of votes. But the Maine demo politburo will decide. Maybe they should get a Nazi tattoo too.