Though it might seem like being a moderate in today’s Republican Party would be difficult, Maine Sen. Susan Collins does it with ease. The secret? Nothing. Nothing at all.
The dean of the Republican women in Congress, Sen. Susan Collins has expressed concern over GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remarks on women, Latinos and the judge overseeing a civil case against Trump University.
There are six Republican women in the Senate. Being the dean of six people is slightly more substantial than being the dean of Trump University. But okay. She’s expressed concern. What does that look like?
I’ve said from the point that it became obvious that Donald Trump was going to be the Republican candidate that I’d always supported previous presidential nominees of my party but that in this case I was going to wait and see what happened and that is what I am continuing to do.
Hold on a second. Let’s get out a pencil. "I’ve said … I’d always … I was …” Un huh. Position unchanged. Or rather no position unchanged. She’s so concerned about what Trump said that she’s still in exactly the same position of Heisenbergian uncertainty that she occupied last week. And the week before that. And ...
A recent editorial in the Bangor Daily News called on Collins to stand up to Trump the way that Margaret Chase Smith stood up to Joe McCarthy. How is that going?
To me the proper analogy was what Margaret Chase Smith did in the [1964] election with Barry Goldwater. She wasn’t happy with Goldwater being the nominee of the party; she felt he was too hawkish and too conservative. She did vote for him but she did not campaign for him.
Susan Collins. Bravely for and against nothing. Nothing at all. Proud occupier of space.
Oh, and she’s still voting for Trump.