[fight_truth_decay]

Congrats on LePage winning..we can see the Tea Party influenced the race! Nat media has not picked up on that however, as Maine was not under anyone's watch. Even though Clinton did make a trip here for Libby and big money is promised. But we see money did not make the winner of this outcome. Outside money now promised Le Page however.

I think Le Page best represented the visual image of a leader in Maine. Spoke to the voters not at them... Now we have to get by Libby Mitchell. I don't think the Independents will be strong as the Tea Party has endorsed Le Page. Just runts of the litter waiting to jump on board.

Again congrats. I am not upset over the loss as just wanted the best for Les. Bethel area did stand behind Les, that says something about Les.

But the voters decided--well the Repubs and Democrats did anyways as regostered Independents could only vote on the issues. Great that Le Page did well in The People's Republic of Portand..that was surprising.

:)

[truthfreedom]

Thanks.

Les was classy in his speech. People over at As Maine Goes are talking about including the other candidates as part of Team LePage. All of the Republican candidates had good ideas, areas of expertise that they could bring to the campaign. It was suggested that it would be a good idea to keep all of the Rs in the spotlight so that there when other races are run those candidates won’t have to work as hard to get known and liked.

I feel that LePage will be a good manager, who will make the right cuts. One of the problems i saw with many of the R candidates is that they had ideas, which seemed to cost money, which made me think that those candidates might be more interested in implementing their good, but potentially expensive, ideas instead of focusing on the main issue, which is shrinking government.

I can imagine LePage sitting at his desk, looking for places to make cuts. Tough work, work that is bound to upset some people. But I hope that he also has an ear for good new ideas. He can surround himself with the Rs and listen to their ideas and choose to implement those he likes. It was suggested that even Rosa (D) had valuable ideas to offer.

The race wasn’t particularly nasty and I don’t think that any of the candidates is particularly mad at LePage and I don’t think that LePage is mad at anybody, so we should be able to go forward united.

2010 looks like a bad year for Dems, go if LePage runs a good race, he’s got quite a good shot. I’m a little concerned about Cutler. I don’t know too much about him (what I’ve seen worries me), don’t know whether in Maine typically indie candidates lose, and Cutler is nothing to worry about, or what.