“Perfect little schoolmarms” is a revealing phrase. Remember, receiving a compliment from Liz Cheney is unacceptable but actually killing a bunch of Iraqis and enjoying it is no big deal.

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I understand the focus Democrats have on preserving the majority and I, too, have a utilitarian focus. A bad guy can still be a warm body that gets us to the majority. Yet, from my same consequentialist calculus I also see something else: An October Surprise with potential downstream effects.

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i don't live in Maine so who gives a shit what i think, but it's very troubling that the "he was a young guy who made dumb decisions" defense of Platner is explicitly what these same people condemned when used by defenders of Brett Kavanaugh and other Trumpists

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The left-wing objection to Dems was never about all the stuff they said, it’s just because Dems remind them of their moms

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Yes it’s bad to be a zero-qualification newcomer who was a Blackwater merc as recently as the year before COVID, but at least you’re not a mainstream Democrat who is old and a woman.

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