But am far more worried with whether my mom can afford her groceries on social security

100%! And thank you Senator Sanders! 💯🔵🔵🔵🔵👏👏👏👏

A little bit of evil for a much greater good.

Show me a politician who hasn't had some inappropriate relations and I'll show you a person who hasn't been exposed yet. So let's not go too far with our "morality rankings".

The issue is hypocrisy. If Platner had a pattern of preaching his personal virtues day in and day out, and criticizing others based on his moral superiority (as so many Republicans do), it would be a completely different thing.

Without the hypocrisy factor, what we have is an organized attack campagn, and that is undoubted coming from hostile foreign actors like AIPAC, Putin and the like, Republicans, or corporatist factions within the Dem Party. Of all of those, I would consider only Republican attacks as fair game. The rest is ratf-ing one way or another.

I think we are good on Carter and Obama and a few others

pouring millions of dollars into key races to defeat progressive candidates, they are actively silencing the diverse, working-class voices that the party relies on to win. We need to Reject AIPAC to protect the integrity of our elections."

and republicans love that asshat.

These sexual impropriety attacks during a campaign have to originate from within the Democratic party to be useful, it would be laughably hypocritical if Republicans were to do it themselves.

that is the # 1 thing needed to be a Republican for decades and decades.......

Governor Owens - (R), of Colorado, Spawned NOT ONE, BUT TWO illegitimate children, out of wedlock with TWO SEPARATE WOMEN, while he was in office in 2000-2008. His wife finally divorced him when he did it a second time....... His wife, a Republican, I guess was okay with the first one???? Along with the Republican Voters, all looking the other way......?????

And that was nothing compared to Trump's actions during all of HIS marriages......with all his "Pussy Footing" around on all his wives......

posed for a photo in blackface while in college. Initially they tried to go with "he did a stupid thing years ago and he's sorry" - but that wasn't good enough - people in the party were still demanding his resignation - so in order to survive, he had to essentially destroy all his credibility by claiming the picture actually wasn't of him - that somehow a picture of a different man in blackface was put on his yearbook page - a laughable lie was more acceptable than the truth. This hyper-focus on personal peccadillos is killing us - and as a result, this often leads to bland, establishment approved candidates who "did all the right things and sucked up to all the right people" and who excite no one.

If Platner's good enough for Bernie, he's good enough for me!

yet again trying to put its thumb on the scale for Republicans.

If not, I don't see how this would derail his candidacy

I agree the sexting isn't enough to derail any other politicians. but Platner posted awful comments about women and rape 10-15 years ago that is reported in the NYTimes among other places. About women making too big a deal about rape, it's not that bad, they shouldn't drink alcohol while having sex/being raped, they use rape accusation to get even with men. He's a misogynist (like Bernie) and being a misogynist is given a free pass in this country right now.

mention it, excuse it a dozen different ways.

His attitude toward women is nothing short of creepy.

and disappointing.

And it is very disturbing to me that people are OK with that.

Kind of shows where we women stand with some in our own party, doesn't it?

Interesting to hear Bernie called a misogynist. Never heard that exactly. What is it based on?

Fetterman ran as Bernie's "firebrand progressive." No one knows what Fetterman really is since he misrepresented himself.

There is press out there of AOC apologizing to Lamb for the error in judgment.

Conor Lamb is out there now reminding everyone that the centrist, Conor Lamb, was the better choice.

often breaking from party lines to represent a broader constituency in Pennsylvania, which includes both liberal and conservative views. His willingness to work with Republicans and support bipartisan initiatives has contributed to his popularity among voters from different political backgrounds.

If you voted or supported Lamb because he was a centrist, you should be happy with Fetterman.

like the 'party of (no) family values' has something to say. They support a pedophile Convicted Felon. Phuck conservatives and Republicans. Platner wasn't phucking little girls like the pedophile-in-chief.

Boys will be boys

He stood by him over the SS tattoo. He stood by him after the Reddit posts blaming women for getting raped.

I'm more angry at Maine Democrats that Team Normal couldn't come up with an alternative to him than someone who was in their 70s.

Ban billionaires buying elections

Rebuild our failing healthcare system

Support Small Business – Break Up the Monopolies

Stop the mass deportation machine; pass real immigration reform

Defend our air, our water, our land and our climate

Decisive action on the housing crisis

Defend Medicare and Medicaid

Protect Social Security – before it goes bankrupt

End Billionaire Welfare, Pass a Cost-of-Living Tax Cut

Uphold tribal sovereignty and self-determination

Defend democracy and the Constitution

Strengthen our working waterfront

Support unions, and bring good union jobs to Maine

Defend and support public schools

Keep government out of our private lives; defend the right to choose

Protect Maine’s economy: raise the federal minimum wage

Equality for ALL

The War in Gaza

End the failed War on Drugs

Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon; rebuild American shipbuilding

No more pointless wars

Address the childcare crisis

Support Americans with disabilities

Pay servicemen a fair wage; no more servicemen on food stamps

Defend the VA and support our veterans

Defend the Post Office and establish postal banking

Pass term limits – and hold politicians to their term limits pledges

This matter is primarily between them, and possibly the unidentified recipient of those texts. Was the sexual texts welcome, or unwanted harassment?

Republicans will no doubt scream HYPOCRISY, even though their (and Collins') continued support of Trump is a much greater hypocrisy. If they want to do battle on the field of morality, they occupy the lower ground.

We must stand by our Senate nominee. The higher morality of saving our Constitutional democracy and better serving the American people demands it.

After the candidate announces abuse of marriage vows becomes a possible character issue and character issues are political issues.

My point is that we have no choice but to support Platner at this point, and we still win on the battlefield of morality.

Marital infidelity (which includes Kennedy and Clinton) is a far less egregious character flaw than Nixon's Watergate, Reagan's deals with Iran, GW's lies for war in Iraq, and Trump’s unprecedented mendacity and corruption.

STFU! We're winning! Boys will be boys.

I'm not outraged over his "morality", as much as the treatment of women by him and the party. They get thrown under the bus.

He has a LONG history of being a horndog. There will be a lot of pressure on women and his wife to not talk. So we really don't know what other shoes may drop. He has dragged his poor wife through global humiliation, despite what she says to protect his candidacy. He treats women like crap.

Shame on him, and a shame we don't have a less flawed Democratic nominee.

We need that Senate seat.

And we have to be better than this.

Will ve far greater than the pressure to stay silent.

We have a much greater and more intrusive rw media machine in this country than anything the left would even dream of. Every federal branch of government is run by Republicans, and a majority of state branches are as well. And most of the ownership of media companies are trump allies.

They need to keep the senate. Unless theres still worse things to be revealed about platner, I expect dribbles of info on this to keep flowing out right up to election day to try and keep it alive and save collins.

We discard too many highly qualified candidates because we take the moral high ground while our opponents wallow in the filth. That doesn't mean that we should wallow in the filth with them, but sometimes it may be necessary to play the game by their rules.

if it had come out in primary that would be different & you'd try to boost someone else. But now he's the candidate and we get him or Collins. If Maine dems can get him in, we need to support them and pray he's not a Fetterman.

...his life in politics is over !!

Does he still carry them?

Glad I am not a Maine voter.

It’s about time.

Rule two: Insist everything's about policy and ignore character flaws.

Rule one applies when policy goals are the same and only strategy is different but the target must be demonized as corrupt and immoral. Rule two for one's supporters.

can't handle that he fooled them.

You nailed it -- rewrite the rules for your supporters.

Now we're seeing that spending $210 million on yourself in a governor race in California isn't really corrupt after all -- so much for the "grassroots" priority that Hillary was attacked about.

No one knows what Fetterman is because he was dishonest. Rewriting reality is not your strong suit.

due to the big beautiful fuck the middle class bill and big cuts to Medicare..

Vote Democrat! Vote Platner!

We have already seen a trove of offensive posts he has made online. If this much has come out already, what else is there? If Collins has dirt, it wouldn't make sense to release it yet. She most likely has people talking to his schoolmates, former coworkers, exes, anyone who ever knew him. Based on what we already know, do you think there is nothing else to find? If someone comes forward with more serious allegations, what credibility does Platner have to refute them? Only 37% of Maine voters are Democrats. Susan Collins has won 5 times. Platner has to convince non Democrats and people who have voted for Collins or not voted at all to vote for him. He was only up by 7% in polling before this came out and before Collins has gone after him. He is not yet the nominee. The Senate balance and Justices Thomas and Alito's Supreme Court seats could depend on this race. The popular governor was already pushed out of the race for this guy. It seems like at least thinking about nominating another candidate would be wise.

I will support ALL Democrats even if they are not perfect. The days of looking at crap like this is over. I'm much more worried about AIPAC Dems.

special interests. The "oligarchs" and billionaires dislike his policies because he campaigns on raising taxes on the superrich, enacting a "billionaire minimum tax", and breaking up corporate monopolies. His economic agenda threatens the financial advantages currently enjoyed by corporate elites.

The powerful are attacking him with everything they can make up.

He presents himself as a working class "oyster farmer" who was "never close to money and power." But then the NY Times reported that he is the grandson of a prominent Connecticut architect and the son of a Dartmouth-educated lawyer, from whom Platner still receives significant financial support, and who paid for Platner's wife's fertility treatments in Norway. As for being an oyster farmer, we find out that his only customer appears to be his mother's restaurant business. This from a guy who says, "“I’m a working-class guy that lives a working-class life." And we learn that he attended some very elite prep schools. From the NY Times article (gift link below):

Unfortunately, voters seem to favor charisma, even negative charisma, over experience. They also seem to, in this divided society, favor candidates who espouse policies that, for good or bad, stray from the mainstream.

I want a form of national healthcare, almost everyone I know wants a form of national healthcare, but we can't snap our fingers and get there. I wish we could. I wish we could learn to find and then support candidates willing to accept that sometimes change is incremental and who are willing to work tirelessly to get there.

It carries one Latin word that roughly translates out to "I'm in charge"