Republicans war over ‘asinine’ attack on Lewiston candidate

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

LEWISTON, Maine — A former communications director on the re-election campaign for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins denounced a Maine GOP-sponsored blog that has provided fodder for attacks against Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin.

Lance Dutson, who was once the chief executive officer for the right-leaning Maine Heritage Policy Center, called a recent post questioning whether Chin is a Christian “one of the lowest and stupidest things ever done in Maine politics.”

Using information from the GOP’s blog page, state Rep. Larry Lockman, R-Amherst, attacked Chin on Facebook, writing that Chin was an “anti-Christian bigot. Chin hates America, hates Americans, and hates Christians, and he wants to allow noncitizens to vote.”

Chin, a Democrat and an Episcopal lay preacher who frequently offers sermons at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lewiston, has drawn criticism from the Maine GOP as he hopes to unseat Lewiston’s incumbent Mayor Robert Macdonald, a Republican.

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The GOP is swirling down the toilet.

[Rozlee]

1. They're hanging themselves with their own tongues.

I say let extreme right wingers be extreme right wingers. Sooner or later, they'll chase everyone from the sandbox and look around someday and find they're the only ones playing in it. Everyone else moved on and grew up.

[barbtries]

2. an amazingly deep toilet,

considering how long they've been swirling. i really underestimated the stupidity of the american people as well as the guile of the republicans: i thought the party would be history after gw. they had lower to go than that!

[modrepub]

3. Not surprised

The reason, IMO, that these comments don't really make a difference is because they only reflect what a significant portion of our population actually think.