Fine, glad it came out now, instead of in October---


The memory of the average voter is the life-span of a GNAT.

Many of the same folks who claim any criticisms of Democrats are "depressing the vote."

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I am ANTI-CREEP.

Your "creep" is another person's husband. She's good with him, I'm willing to cut him some slack. YMMV.

"alrighty then"

Boys will be boys.

And they don't have Nazi tattoos so they are fine upstanding men.

yes indeed

And let them commit crimes there.

We are just women Skittles, what do we know?

Yeah, they are trying to work through this but that does not mean that she is OK with it.

And the therapist is not going to condone his behavior either.
He was having his sexual needs met outside the marriage against his wife's wishes
or knowledge.

behind "Trump did all this terrible stuff and they elected him" and "Let's stop caring if our candidates are shitheads."

This isn't Republicans attacking him, it's a Democratic Primary and we have options.

I don't like seeing the bar lowered to accommodate creeps, not at ALL.

As long as they don't hurt anyone I could care less what politicians do in their lives. Platner's wife is the only that should be concerned about this–and she's not

Why would you expect that he's not lying to you?

mentioning the rape apologist posts, or, if they do actually mention them, dismiss them with all kinds of excuses. We have rape survivors on this board. Exactly how do you thiink they are feeling these days, seeing his words so casually and flippantly dismissed?

While gross in that he was allegedly in a committed relationship, that's still an issue between him and his wife. The posts blaming women for rape, using retarded as a slur, the tattoo, those are far more significant in terms of how I look at him in terms of a potential public servant.

and many other examples of bigotry.

I thought this site was for Democrats

A democrat can do no wrong? Also, when did Platner even become a democrat? Considering he voted for Collins multiple times.

I realize you’re new but surely you’ve seen that slamming Democrats as weak, spineless, corporatists, blah blah goes on constantly here.

Democrats.

Very similar to how republicans treat Trump.

Some here even go as far as to suggest nothing he did before the campaign matters. Like he started living only when he started his run for Senate.
As for Trump, getting away with everything appears to be his very special talent. Regardless, as I would never vote for Trump, argument that because Trump gets away with everything, so should everyone else, doesn't hold water for me.

The only thing that should matter to any of us is how he will govern

What is his wife having therapy for?

I don't see how that means anything.

Same way massive red flags were ignored with Fetterman

Or is it all about optics to you?

And the Fetterman comment is just embarrassing

for being raped?

About the rape apologist posts.

And also it makes for stupid politics.
This is not how elections are won.

Thanks for bringing this up Niyad.

With her husband when he was marred with 3 kids and she was sick.

If that is true it's much worse.

Bad, but I'm more concerned with her being a Republican

NT

And I could care less. While he was having consensual sexual activities, the deficit was erased, the Dayton Accord was reached, the cost of living fell, wages rose, and all boats were raised.

Let's see how the folks in Maine feel about it next week.

Did it not? Al Gore, Hillary probably paid for Bill's behavior. As is it might have cost them the election. Even though they were not to blame.
I am afraid this guy is going to cost us.
Defending him might not be worth it.

Because of the Supreme Court and particularly Sandra Day Oconnor voting to stop the recount.

Hilary shot herself in the foot as per usual by: A. Her sense of entitlement to the presidency; B. Calling Trump supporters a basketful of deplorables. C. using a private server for official state business and D. On St. Patrick's Day 2007, lying at the NPC about being shot while deplaning in Kosovo.

It's up to the voters of Maine to decide what's acceptable behavior.

as the driven snow before they'll support them, no matter how disastrous the alternative will be. Republicans know this, and they consistently use Democrats' moral squeamishness to their advantage. It's not that we shouldn't care about Platner's failings as a man, it's that we urgently need to regain control of the Senate in order to effect change. Trump can do so much more damage over the next 31 months, we need to stop him. I'm tired of all this purity shit.

regaining the Senate if our candidate didn't have all these issues before he was even nominated.
But maybe it's just me.

I'm just tired of losing.

I won't list them all.

And I'm an atheist sometimes agnostic.

Platner isn’t perfect. He admits that and he claims he has changed. You can believe him or not. His wife says she does.

The question is whether the rest of us Dems believe a person can change. Those who may not believe have probably never experienced redemption nor sought it.

It looks to me like Platner has shown contrition and acknowledged his failings. Now it’s up to the voters of Maine to forgive him ... or not.

.. after proclaiming, paraphrased: why would anyone plead the fifth if they have nothing to hide?
These pleadings I believe were in civil cases.
He mostly if not always declined to testify in his criminal cases.
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