I just want to make one thing clear about the Maine Senate race

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49. Well I was being polite... Platner should've been ran out of town, so to speak, the moment the tattoo story broke.

I'm just saying, Republicans get away with the kind of shit Platner has going on. They do it and they get elected.

I think some folks on "our side" have decided that we can make excuses for it and bury our heads in the sand just like Republicans tend to do and still get our candidates elected even if they are THAT BAD because they have some kind of "working class" appeal.

Of course its a moral failure on our part to support or excuse rapists and Nazis. Platner should never be spoken of or heard from again. but by "higher standards", I was speaking to the notion that the GOP can get away with these sorts of scandals and Democrats can't. No one should be able to of course. Being a decent human being should be the starting benchmark for everything.