[Palmetto Patriot]

An account of how the GOP took over the Governorship, Senate, and House in Maine. Quite an accomplishment after a long slide into dependency by the people of that state.

[snowrip]

I am a fifth-generation Downeast Maine native.

For the most part, folks where I grew up were ALWAYS conservative, and voted so. In the last twenty years, however, Maine has been literally overrun with refugees from CT, MA, NY, et al, who flee to Maine to escape the steadily-degrading conditions that the socialists (elected by said refugees) in those states have created. Once comfortably settled into their new state, they realize how backwards us poor natives are, and immediately take it upon themselves to recreate the progressive cesspool they so recently fled.

Add to this mix two groups: the elderly voters, who still see the democrat party as the party of JFK, and the wishy-washiness of the “independent” voters. The resulting train wreck creates the conditions that have destroyed Maine’s economic base for years: enormous tax burdens, low employment, spiraling deficits, business-hostile overregulation, and an exploding class of apathetic welfare recipients and illegal aliens.

My wife and I have been ready at the lifeboats for the past year, getting our ducks in a row to abandon ship for a move to income tax-free New hampshire. The recent election has put those plans on hold, while we wait and see just how much the newly-minted conservative governor and legislature can accomplish.

[IronJack]

Maybe that means hope that the US Senate can finally quit itself of Snowe and Collins — the Lenin Sisters.

[gorgeman]

Sure.....Get back to me when they do something about Snowe & Collins.