The Nation: A Conscience Challenge for Maine's Susan Collins

[Fyddlestyx]

Maine Senator Susan Collins is running for reelection as a moderate -- dare we say, "maverick" -- Republican who is willing to break with her party on matters of political honor. Her campaign proudly declares that: "Since joining the Senate, Susan Collins has developed a reputation for her ability to work across party lines to create consensus and find solutions to difficult problems."

Collins likes to position herself as an heir to the tradition of the late Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who stood up to red-baiting fellow Republican Senator Joe McCarthy and delivered her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech to the Senate in 1950. In that speech, Smith warned that "too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism," and told the leaders of her own party: "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear."

If Susan Collins wants to be like Margaret Chase Smith, she needs to make her own "Declaration of Conscience" -- and then she needs to act upon it.

More at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/373507/a_conscience_challenge_for_maine_s_susan_collins?rel=hpbox

[sandyd921]

1. What? Susan get a backbone, you say!

She'll do that all right......when hell freezes over!


:rofl:

[luckyleftyme2]

2. she has become a belt way babe

I fear she has followed the foot steps of so many who have forgotten from where she came or who they truly represent. Caught up in sound bytes and alliances with the inner circle that has got us into this mess.
A fresh face may help Maine and the country!
I'll vote for Tom Allen!