Staggering hypocrisy and pretense pervade Democrat arguments for and against Graham Platner. The lowlife candidate from Maine finally quit the Senate race on Wednesday night.State and national Democratic parties turned against their man when a former girlfriend accused him of sexual assault. There is some countervailing evidence to support his denials, but the hideous behavior alleged would be on brand for him.Either way, the idea that the latest scandal suddenly made an otherwise strong candidate unacceptable would be laughable if it were not such a contemptible fraud. The party had, with only formulaic expressions of concern, previously embraced Platner despite knowing of his thrill-seeking communism and Nazism, his sexting with women not his wife, his aggressive vulgarity in social media posts, and other behavior barely mentionable.
Platner was obviously “unfit for duty” a month ago, but it didn’t matter to Democrats when he looked like beating incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). What turned them against him, exactly as it turned them against President Joe Biden in 2024, was simply that new polls showed he’d lose in the general election. Like me, party chiefs had watched as Maine residents were quietly removing Platner signs from their front yards in recent weeks, and they knew it spelled doom.Democrats pushed the ejector button under a candidate who’d been chosen with 72% in June’s primary, not out of high principle but out of low expediency; he’d become useless as a tool to wrest a seat from the GOP and retake the Senate. Democrat moral horror was circumstantial — pure power politics, as always.
