Graham Platner, the man with the Nazi tattoo who is the Democrats’ candidate for Susan Collins’ senate seat from Maine, is feeling his oats. Maine Gov. Janet Mills recently dropped out of the race for the Democrats’ senatorial nomination, leaving the field open for Platner, and he has an excellent chance to defeat the RINO Collins, who has managed to enrage both Republicans and Democrats by saying she is the former while acting like the latter. This has Herr Platner in such high spirits that he is throwing his weight around, attempting to play kingmaker as Senate Dems decide who will lead them in their next round of Trump-hatred and identity politics.
Fox News reported Monday that Platner said he had a "perfectly cordial conversation" with Senate Democrat top dog Chuck Schumer, but der Obergruppenführer is not inclined to support Sen. Grillmaster: Platner “says he still wouldn't support Sen. Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader going forward.”
Now, this takes a colossal amount of, if you’ll pardon the expression, chutzpah. Schumer has been in the Senate since Bill Clinton was still trying to convince the world that he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. He has been in the Senate throughout this entire century, and has been the Democrats’ leader there since he and his colleagues were all tearing up at the prospect of Barack Obama’s imminent departure from the White House.
And now Platner, who isn’t even a senator yet and may never be (if Mainers get sensible and the rest of the country has some good luck) is declining to fall in with his party comrades? Apparently Platner regards Schumer as too much a man of the old guard, ill-equipped to play the openly socialist, bare-knuckle, highly confrontational, calling-for-violence-in-the-streets brand of politics that his younger comrades clearly favor.
Platner clearly knows that the authoritarian wing of the Democrat Party is solidly behind him. He has the backing of diehard socialists such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Three Houses) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Cherokee Nation), so what does he need Schumer for, particularly since Platner has been stridently anti-Israel. (Schumer has, too, but still styles himself as a leader of American Jews, so that’s another issue.)
Platner recounted that his conversation with Schumer was nevertheless quite pleasant: "It was not awkward at all. He called to congratulate me on a good race, and nothing brings people together like agreeing that Susan Collins shouldn't be in the U.S. Senate. So we had a perfectly cordial conversation."
The Totenkopf fan added that he wasn’t worried about losing the support of the Democrat establishment: "At this point, it very much feels that the Democratic Party will support us in our continued endeavor. We're going to keep doing what we've done up here, because it's obviously what's working."
Obviously something is, but Platner is simply repeating the usual lies socialists tell about how their crushing tax burden and reduction of citizens to serfdom will benefit everyone. He claims that he is "trying to bring down costs for working Mainers. Trying to make sure that our communities don't get emptied out because housing has become unaffordable for young people. Trying to create a system in which we are not seeing our health care system utilized as a way of just screwing working people all for the benefit of a health care insurance CEO, I don't think that's radical at all. I think in fact that what most Mainers agree is what we have to be doing."
Sure. But if any Mainers know anything about socialism, they will know that Platner won’t do anything like that. In any case, Platner might not be a shoo-in. Even some elements of the leftist propaganda machine known as the mainstream media are finding this outlandish wannabe senator a bit tough to take. USA Today ran an opinion piece Saturday stating that “Platner, 41, is a deeply flawed candidate whose campaign should have faced far greater scrutiny from the outset.” Yeah, no kidding.
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USA Today noted the problem with Platner’s attempts to wave away the Nazi tattoo controversy by claiming that he didn’t know what it meant while wearing it on his chest for almost twenty years: “Serious concerns began with the revelation that he had long displayed a skull-and-crossbones tattoo that resembles the Totenkopf, a symbol widely associated with Nazi imagery, on his chest. Platner claims he did not understand its meaning for nearly two decades, though he has since covered it and apologized.”
Tacitly admitting that a Republican candidate with a Nazi tattoo would be as politically dead as Old Joe Biden, USA Today continued: “Having to explain prolonged possession of Nazi-associated symbolism would be politically damaging for any candidate. While some voters may be willing to accept Platner’s explanation and offer him the benefit of the doubt, such revelations alone should have prompted far more serious questions about his judgment and fitness for office.”
Yeah. And this guy wants to play kingmaker?
