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#1 Jul 02 2014 at 6:38 AM Rating: Good
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With elections looming, ME Gov. Paul Lepage has made his big move to secure a successful re-election.

A local award-winning reporter, yesterday, released the first chapter of his new book, As Maine Went, the story of Maine under Gov. Paul LePage.

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It’s a mix of scary, bizarre and hilarious, with LePage’s staff trying, in profound discomfort, to reel him back to reality while he keeps meeting with [the state’s local “Sovereign Citizen” movement], buys into various of their conspiracy theories, has a sheriff look into some of their demands and finally has his legal staff draft an opinion on the group’s theory that the Democratic leaders of the state legislature should be arrested and executed.


Admittedly the big guv has met with this 'Sovereign Citizen' group on multiple occasions, he claims he only listened, he never said 'execute' or 'hang' when discussing Senate Pres. Justin Alfond and House Speaker Mark Eves.

He also first denied the meetings, then reneged on that when the proof showed up in the proverbial pudding in the form of a recording of a local radio talk show that preceded one of these meetings. Nothing untoward there however, Lepage has forgotten a lot of things he's done or said in these four short years.

Maddow got a hold of the gossip.

The office is all atwitter this morning. Some are convinced this is Lepage's death knell. I'm not so sure it won't boost him in the polls, temporarily anyways. I don't like the timing of the book release. It's too much publicity.

Also my local new paper went pay-to-read today. Smiley: mad
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#2 Jul 02 2014 at 7:06 AM Rating: Decent
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He's going to win, because: Maine. A Mainers response to making a making a terrible mistake and receiving rational criticism is always to feel threatened and to double down on the mistake. No one us going to tell them what to do ahyuh.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2014 9:07am by Smasharoo
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#3 Jul 02 2014 at 7:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
when the proof showed up in the proverbial pudding


Seems like a messy place to keep it.
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#4 Jul 02 2014 at 7:29 AM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Elinda wrote:
when the proof showed up in the proverbial pudding


Seems like a messy place to keep it.

Messy but tasty....

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#5 Jul 02 2014 at 7:35 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:
Nothing untoward there however, Lepage has forgotten a lot of things he's done or said in these four short years.
Sounds like pretty standard politicking. The more about him that's brought up, the more I think he's part of a reality show or some weird Brewster's Millions scenario.
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#6 Jul 02 2014 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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But to give a more topical comment: I knew LePage is crazy, but meeting with a terrorist organization "several times" is pretty alarming.

I wonder, sometimes, what the odds are on a second civil war breaking out. We seem to have completely given up on statesmanship and compromise and retreated into rhetoric and ideology, on all sides.

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#7 Jul 02 2014 at 7:41 AM Rating: Good
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Nothing untoward there however, Lepage has forgotten a lot of things he's done or said in these four short years.
Sounds like pretty standard politicking. The more about him that's brought up, the more I think he's part of a reality show or some weird Brewster's Millions scenario.

After his reign, I totally see him hooking up with Jesse 'the Bod', to recreate the reality show, Conspiracy Theory, with a New England twist.
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I wonder, sometimes, what the odds are on a second civil war breaking out.
I don't think we have the energy or the cohesiveness. Worst case scenario a state or two manages to secede, realizes just what a bad idea that was and puts a stop to anything more aggressive.
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I wonder, sometimes, what the odds are on a second civil war breaking out.
I don't think we have the energy or the cohesiveness. Worst case scenario a state or two manages to secede, realizes just what a bad idea that was and puts a stop to anything more aggressive.

I don't think we have the balls.
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I think it'll happen eventually. Keep toeing the line and backing off until someone trips over it and has to play it off.
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#11 Jul 02 2014 at 9:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, give it another 50 years or so. We're all mighty tired of having to deal with people who think differently than us. The two parties are going to juice the system until it collapses and then divvy up the pieces. We'll all go our separate way more or less peacefully eventually, breaking into smaller countries like many of the great empires of the past. Then we just get to sit back and watch to see who runs their country into the ground furthest before Canada conquers us all.

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I wonder, sometimes, what the odds are on a second civil war breaking out.


Zero, because while it was probably pretty clear the union had an advantage back then, it's wildly asymmetrical now and any actual attempt at waging war would be met with immediate destruction. If you meant that, perhaps, the control of some of the real machinery of war would be part of the break away movement, it won't. I could explain why, but it would take a fairly long time and a good understanding of they psychology of the structure of the US armed forces. Suffice to say, that since the civil war, and at a rapidly accelerating pace over the last 6 decades, particularly, the US military has consolidated both hierarchical power and social control of troops and linked it to the federal government. It's deep, effective, and well thought out. There is a better chance of a foreign power invading than anything resembling a "real" civil war, but orders of magnitude, with that being "getting hit by a comet" unlikely to start with.
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#14 Jul 02 2014 at 2:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm not talking about a winnable war. I'm not crazy, or not very.

I suppose on the flip side of the coin, the secessionists and separatists and isolationists and survivalists are too fragmented to form much of a cohesive threat, even if they were geographically related, which they are not.

It could be amusing to watch them trying to agree on a secession platform, though. "Herding cats" doesn't even begin it.
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#15 Jul 02 2014 at 3:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:
He's going to win, because: Maine. A Mainers response to making a making a terrible mistake and receiving rational criticism is always to feel threatened and to double down on the mistake. No one us going to tell them what to do ahyuh.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2014 9:07am by Smasharoo

So gbaji's from Maine?
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Smasharoo wrote:
He's going to win, because: Maine. A Mainers response to making a making a terrible mistake and receiving rational criticism is always to feel threatened and to double down on the mistake. No one us going to tell them what to do ahyuh.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2014 9:07am by Smasharoo

So gbaji's from Maine?


Nah. We've got gov Moonbeam over here on the Left Coast.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2014 2:16pm by gbaji
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#17 Jul 03 2014 at 5:49 AM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:

Nah. We've got gov Moonbeam over here on the Left Coast.

Clooney for Gov?

I'd discourage it. Politics would turn him into an ugly gray-haired bureaucrat.
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I'd vote for Clooney if he got the Jason Momao as Aquaman rumors settled.
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Nah. We've got gov Moonbeam over here on the Left Coast.

Regan's legacy, winning California for the Democratic presidential candidate forever. Thanks, gipper!
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His fellow movie stars excepted. Although I grant you, Arnie wasn't much of a Republican. Or much of a governor, depending on your point of view.
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His fellow movie stars excepted. Although I grant you, Arnie wasn't much of a Republican.

No, no, for PRESIDENT. The bluest states still elect Republican governors because people are idiots .
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Oh, duh, misread that.

California has a surprising number of conservatives, real ones as well as neo-cons. As long as we can still swing the electoral votes I don't worry about it too much.

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California has a surprising number of conservatives, real ones as well as neo-cons. As long as we can still swing the electoral votes I don't worry about it too much.


West coast liberals are very different than east coast liberals. More granola eating environmentalism and less big government and unions. Conservative views don't conflict as much (and in some cases, not at all). It's arguable that if it were not for party politics pushing people to one "side" or the other, California would be seen as a conservative state. A good percentage of our "liberals" are actually more libertarian than democrat.

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gbaji wrote:
A good percentage of our "liberals" are actually more libertarian than democrat.
Pretty much, though I'd argue you see more libertarian-esque Republicans as well. That whole government thing seems to just get less popular the further west you go.
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West coast liberals are very different than east coast liberals. More granola eating environmentalism and less big government and unions. Conservative views don't conflict as much (and in some cases, not at all). It's arguable that if it were not for party politics pushing people to one "side" or the other, California would be seen as a conservative state. A good percentage of our "liberals" are actually more libertarian than democrat.

You don't drive north of Redlands much, do you?
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West coast liberals are very different than east coast liberals. More granola eating environmentalism and less big government and unions. Conservative views don't conflict as much (and in some cases, not at all). It's arguable that if it were not for party politics pushing people to one "side" or the other, California would be seen as a conservative state. A good percentage of our "liberals" are actually more libertarian than democrat.

You don't drive north of Redlands much, do you?


Redlands? Really? Not "San Bernadino", or "Los Angeles" (which is the same approximate latitude). I had to actually look up where the hell Redlands is located.

Um... But to answer your question: WTF? You apparently are unaware that there's this huge stretch of land in between LA and San Fransisco, right? And a fairly large amount of land north of SF as well. And... a whole bunch of land inland (that whole central valley thing where all the produce comes from). Most of that land area is either conservative (meaning actual Republican conservative) or Libertarian/Liberal. Only in those two large metropolitan areas can you even find the more traditional form of liberal that folks like you would be familiar with and even that is mixed with a fair amount of the more libertarian type.

Politics on the west coast is very different than on the east (or hell, anywhere east of the Rockies really). I don't think you realize how many liberals out here really don't care about unions, or universal health care, or joining in your usual liberal games. There's a reason why the occupy movement got about zero traction in California. They follow along with and vote Democrat nationally because they're really given only a choice between GOP and Dem. That's why it only takes a charismatic likeable Republican to win executive offices (like Reagan). There just isn't the same quantity of frenzied opposition and hard core partisanship here that you see elsewhere.

There's just enough vocal folks to create a sufficient illusion of this. Scratch under the surface and you find a lot of "meh", that could go either way most of the time.
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