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Multiple outlets are now reporting that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) will retire rather than seek reelection. This alters the Senate landscape for Republicans, as it makes the GOP much less likely to retain that seat, though not conservatives.
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Floyd Looney | 2.28.12 @ 5:35PM
One less RINO
SCPOret| 2.28.12 @ 5:54PM
If you can't say something good say nothing at all - She's gone - GOOD
Quin| 2.28.12 @ 5:55PM
This is a disaster. Olympia Snowe, on vote after vote after vote when the GOP really needed her, stuck with the party. She didn't stray very often on judges. She didn't stray on key procedural votes. She voted against Obamacare. She was loyal. People who complain about RINOs should understand that not all RINOs are alike. Snowe is not a finger-in-the-wind moderate; she is a sincere moderate. She's also a hard worker. And she's about the best we could get from Maine. Her retirement turns a safe seat, with a 60 percent conservative rating or better, into a seat very difficult to retain -- which could well mean it becomes only a 5 or 10 percent conservative seat. Plus, trying to hold it will cost all sorts of resources that otherwise would go to holding conservative seats elsewhere. Snowe was a virtual shoo-in for re-election, and would have cost the GOP very little to defend.
Again, this is very bad news.
C Bowen | 2.28.12 @ 5:57PM
What Quin means is that she voted for war and welfare, loyally.
Quin| 2.28.12 @ 6:03PM
No. She voted for conservative judges. She voted against Obamacare. She voted for a balanced budget amendment. She voted right one heck of a lot more often than conservatives give her credit for.
Windy City Commentary| 2.28.12 @ 6:19PM
She voted Obamacare out of committee back in 2009. If she didn't vote it out of committee, it would have died there. If you need Olympia Snowe to win the Senate, your party hasn't really won the Senate. No disaster here; she'd have to retire someday anyway.
JJ| 2.29.12 @ 1:00PM
Quin loves those RINOs. No sense bringing in facts.
C Bowen | 2.28.12 @ 6:43PM
Quin;
She was a radical, which you call a moderate. She voted for every war and every welfare proposal--you call her a moderate? She funded local school "hospitals" that handed out birth control to 11 years old, for goodness sake. Radical, not a moderate.
She voted--get this--to support invading Iraq because they violated UN resolutions. One worlder hippie radical, no?
Seriously, you are smart enough to know how the Senate game is rigged. I have too much respect for you, such as it is--even minus linking me to some crackpot who thinks Saddam was behind 9/11 and Saddam really had WMDs (LOL).
She either doesn't want to face the booing she will get at the Maine GOP Convention from the Paul and minority Santorum contingent--and yes, we work together up here, or she is doing one last job for the Man, and giving a chance for the D's to get the seat.
Quin--your Ruling Class handlers are pulling to hard. Try to save some face.
PCP Smoker| 2.28.12 @ 8:39PM
This hard-rock, economic conservative was SOOO fing loyal, she voted for Obama's trillion dollar stimulus. What's next, a tribute for Arlen Sphincter?Pull your head out of your ass.
JJ| 2.29.12 @ 1:01PM
Where's Charlie Crist when you need him?
WL| 2.28.12 @ 10:07PM
Hey HILLER!!!!!!!
If you take a look at the token votes she held the line on...you will find one golden thread of truth...
Those votes didn't matter...the Dems won them anyway, and on the Justice votes...I don't know that any of them were decided by one vote (Admittedly, I could be wrong on the Justice votes)...but as a whole...she stands strong when is has no real effect...guess who else does that...
Democrats.
WL| 2.28.12 @ 10:12PM
Here's a bet Quin...of course I don't blame you for not responding, since I am one of your fiercest critics..but...I bet...the Tea Party who are actually pretty strong there...can get us a Pat Toomey like candidate and actually win there...
I bet they would win. I know it takes alot of faith to be happy about undependable Republicans leaving and vacating and reliable R placeholding office...but these guys have damaged our party enough don't you think?
Isn't that why you are supporting Santorum? If not, then we should just all get on the bandwagon for Romney because ROVE and Coulter tell us that it is the easiest path to victory...
There you have it...HILLYER FOR ROMNEY!
NH Conservative| 2.28.12 @ 6:53PM
A Maine Republican liberal retires and what do we hear? "This is a disaster." I guess to some the only thing that matters is that they have an R next to his/her name regardless of what they believe or do.
Windy City Commentary| 2.28.12 @ 7:21PM
And her poor staff just found out today. Congratulations staff, now you can go work for another Democrat.
PL| 2.29.12 @ 12:29PM
I would hope that they leave Washington, D.C. and the Bangor home district office and...go straight to the unemployment lines.
It would serve them right.
Actually isn't this so often the case -- these congressional staffers who have been part of a congressman's or senator's career for so many years working all the while in Washington D.C., even they are no longer palatable back in the home district.
Drek| 2.28.12 @ 7:24PM
I'll have to give this one some thought.
Why did she select this time to retire. Republicans have a very good chance of gaining control of the Senate, which means she gets a chairmanship, yet she decides to leave and throw a seat to the Democrats.
How old is she?
Something is going on here, something more than meets the eye.
WL| 2.28.12 @ 10:04PM
You are right about this one needing some thought.... However, I wouldn't be so sure that the state will necessarily throw in a Democrat...I think the Repubs have a chance to keep it this year...
But who knows...the benefits of losing with a United front is far better than having Repubs who only hold the line when it doesn't matter...like Obamacare...but cave when it can make a difference...like the stimulus...
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.28.12 @ 7:53PM
Don't pity her. Her congressional pension will probably exceed 80% of her salary.
WL| 2.28.12 @ 10:15PM
Are you the one sending around those emails talking about how congress votes in their own pay increases???
You know...the ones that have the banjos playing in the background if you turn the speakers up high enough?
Come on Bill H.O.S. give us a big shout out for "Throw all the bums out" or a "Read the Bill" outburst!!!!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.29.12 @ 5:11AM
The emails we send have Kazoos playing in the background.
PCP Smoker| 2.28.12 @ 8:41PM
I'm soo glad this garbage is gone. In a short two years, we got rid of Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Charlie Christ, that creep from Utah, the one who got primaried, Mike Castle, and Arlen Sphincter. RINO hunting, ongoing. Keep reloading.
WL| 2.28.12 @ 10:17PM
I have been critical of your posts in recent weeks...but from your comments of late, I may have misjudged your angle. If so, I a sorry.
I am also glad that we are ridding ourselves of these MENACES.
Richard Baker| 2.28.12 @ 9:26PM
Good. Now Susan Collins next.
Eric W| 2.28.12 @ 11:51PM
Maine in 2010 elected a tea party gov. Maybe they can elect a conservative.
Personally,I wish Collins would retire if only to not have to hear her awful voice anymore.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.29.12 @ 5:07AM
Ditto. She sounds like cow in heat.
max_kain | 2.29.12 @ 12:38AM
She is nothing but a RINO and is screwing the GOP over big time. The GOP only has until March 5th to get someone ready to run and get the signatures needed in order to get them on the ballot. The dems already have folks ready. By doing this she is screwing us over like she's done every time she has gone against the GOP to vote with the dems
PL| 2.29.12 @ 12:19PM
Max Kain, what just five days to get the signatures? Is that the Maine requirement?
Sheesh... talk about no time to spare.
Why do I keep hearing of this over and over and over in my adult life. Democracy. A Republic? A nation "of the people by the people, for the people?"
Didn't that creep in Indiana, Sen. Evan Bayh do something similar? Announce retirement, stepping down so close to the filing deadline so as to make it all but impossible for anyone to jump through all the hoops to be on the ballot.
How does this permit a good man a chance to throw his hat into the ring and then for the good people of the state to have a fair choice in deciding?
This article should not be so much then about the life and merits of O. Snowe, it should be about the hijinks played on us by eltitists who think themselves our lords and masters. Elitists who want to, themselves, determine who next rules us.
My opinion: Russia votes soon. Our ways and their ways are oh so similar.
Or do I misinterpret a decision such as this just days before filing deadlines, probaby just a month or two before Maine primaries, and only 240 days prior to November 6th election day for this U.S. Senate seat.
spike59| 2.29.12 @ 6:16AM
Snowebody's going to miss her...except ObaMao