RIGHT SPEAK: With Graham Platner, Democrats Discover Their New Political Motto: Vote For The Nazi; Graham Platner’s Victory Proves The Left Never Had A Problem With Trump’s Moral Deficiencies

With Graham Platner, Democrats Discover Their New Political Motto: Vote For The Nazi:

Democrats will support someone — anyone — who will help them defeat Republicans.

As more and more revelations come to the fore about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who just won the Democrat primary this week, many Democrats seem to have adopted a simple mantra regarding his campaign: Vote for the Nazi: It’s important.

The saying echoes a slogan from campaigns past — one that supporters of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Platner’s opponent in the general election, would do well to employ against Platner. The slogan demonstrates how Democrats will embrace a candidate — any candidate — so long as that person opposes President Trump.

(In-)Famous Bumper Sticker

Nearly two score years ago, a peculiar campaign in that most peculiar of political states, Louisiana, produced a slogan for the ages. In 1991, incumbent Gov. Buddy Roemer ran for reelection, months after switching his party registration from Democrat to Republican. The party switch, coupled with actions Roemer took in office, angered constituents so much that he finished third in the state’s all-party primary. Instead, the top two vote-getters in the primary advanced to the general election runoff: former Democrat Gov. Edwin Edwards, who was widely viewed as corrupt, and David Duke, the founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who ran as a Republican.

Faced with a choice between a corrupt politician (one who eventually was convicted on corruption charges in 2000) and a Klansman associated with neo-Nazis, Roemer supporter Kirby Newburger came up with a catchy bumper sticker that signified Edwards as the proverbial lesser of two evils: “VOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT’S IMPORTANT.”

The bumper sticker, coupled with general disgust at the thought of Louisiana electing an avowed Klansman as governor, meant Edwards ran away with the runoff, winning over 61 percent of the vote to Duke’s 39 percent.

Roles Reversed

Three and a half decades later, and now Democrats are the ones with the statewide candidate with ties to white supremacist beliefs. Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest for years; while he claims he did not know the symbol’s origins, people who knew him before his political career have contradicted this assertion, saying Platner “would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.”

Yet consider just some of the recent quotes by Democrats and their allies attempting to rationalize their continued support for a candidate with Nazi ink and a documented history of abusive behavior toward women: --->READ MORE HERE

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Graham Platner’s Victory Proves The Left Never Had A Problem With Trump’s Moral Deficiencies:

Since he came down the escalator 11 years ago, Donald Trump’s personal conduct made him uniquely unfit for office and Americans had a moral obligation to oppose him, so said Democrats. Character mattered in politics, they told us.

But on Tuesday, nearly 150,000 Mainers sent a different message. Democrats handed Graham Platner a landslide primary victory, a decisive win for the man who had a Nazi tattoo. And to be clear, Platner wasn’t the only candidate on the ballot. Incumbent Gov. Janet Mills and former Democrat Senate nominee in 2024 David Costello were on the ballot as well. And yet it was a landslide victory for Platner.

Platner spent 18 years bearing a Nazi tattoo and only had it removed when it became ever so slightly (emphasis on slightly) politically inconvenient. He also said women worried about rape should not “get blacked out, f*cked up around people” they aren’t “comfortable” with. He also allegedly said that if someone ever broke into his home, he would “rape them … [but] not in a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

The Nazi tattoo alone would have been career suicide if it belonged to a Republican candidate, let alone all the additional scandals surrounding Platner. And yet the same people and party that spent years insisting that Trump’s personal behavior (which really isn’t comparable to a literal Nazi) made him uniquely disqualified from holding office just elected Platner to be their nominee.

If character were truly the defining issue as we’ve been told for a decade, why didn’t the standard apply here?

The answer is obvious if you just look at some of the very same Democrats who spent years lecturing Americans abut decency standards.

In 2017, Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested it was “absurd” that Trump had not offered his resignation over the Access Hollywood tape. The message was that certain conduct disqualifies someone from holding office. Yet Sanders has been one of Platner’s most outspoken supporters, saying, “There are no saints in the United States Senate.”