Unfortunately, in our media dominated world, individuals running for public offices, often look great, are very photogenic, speak extremely well and know how to tell the audience what they want to hear. Often their winning form trumps the weak “substance” of their positions. They are good at masking answers and spinning the facts. Their talents further mask a frequent lack of experience to truly handle the problems and opportunities associated with the positions they seek.
Individuals are elected to manage complex circumstances, millions of dollars of revenues, a host of problems, difficult economic situations, and often thousands of employees. We need problem solvers. We need expert communicators. We need people who can “sell” their justifiable programs with honesty and clear facts. We need smart “LEADER/MANAGERS.”
After working with Paul LePage at Forster Manufacturing many years ago, I believe he is the exact “Leader/Manager” that Maine needs.
Spencer Thompson
New Sharon
He may be a leader/manager but will he be leading and managing the State of Maine
into the rhetoric of the Maine Republican Platform as adopted several month ago?
Folks, the Republican platform is down-right scary. Read it for yourselves:
http://www.mainegop.com/PlatformMission.aspx
As a moderate and an independent, I won’t be “lead” down that path.
moderate and independant?…………………….what kind of voter is this? A person who stands for a issue some of the time ,but maybe not, but then again , possibly ,depending how I feel today, kinda???? Sorry , Moderate and Independent Citizen, just venting…hard day at work………your opinion baffles me, but you state your opinion well.. I read the repub. platform,….it’s not perfect, but .what is? What the dems want to do? We ,as a state are fighting for our lives here, budget wise. LePage will do what needs to be done.We have pain coming………it’s the price for too much spending……..we will come thru this a better state I think.
Amen hozhed. Well said.
Well said hozhed.
I have to ask as well, Moderate and Independent Citizen, are you in love with the Dems platform of universal health care, more government involvement, welfare, etc. It’s not perfect and neither is the Repubs, but Dems have taken Maine to a $1 billion dollar deficit, a failing health system, the worse welfare state in the US (as reported last week by the Bangor Daily News and AP) and a failing state pension just to name a few off the top of my head. Perfect or not, it’s time for a change……the same Change Obama promised everyone 2 years ago. “Change we can believe in!” What a joke. Obama has no track record. Paul has been elected 3 times in a primarily democratic area. Why don’t you talk to your conservatives over there and then let’s talk.
Ditto here for hozhed! It’s time to pay up for all the Democrat spending. As hozhed said, it’s going to hurt but it is needed. I wholeheartedly agree with Spencer. As I stated before Paul LePage is politically incorrect and that’s one of the things I like about him. A former Forster employee myself.
Moderate means I don’t find favor in the extremes of either party and Independent means I research the people and the history behind successful or failed policies. I won’t buy into to the anger mongering. And why the economic reality of present? Because the previous administration in Washington never added the cost of 2 wars into the national budget- it was “emergency spending” voted upon by the then Republican congress. When the cost of 2 wars finally was added to the national budget the debt went through the proverbial roof. That was, again, the result of the failed policies of the Bush administration and failed republican congress. And now the highly volatile rhetoric of the Republican base. Like I said- down right scary and reactive. “Come let us reason, together……”
Why did I know somebody would say it’s all Bush’s fault???? Come on MIC…………Blaming him for all our troubles is getting old and tired. After reading your last comment, I can tell you’re not independant or a “moderate”. You are just another liberal. Anyone with such a bad case of Bush derangment sydrome (BDS), cant be independant . LePage WILL be your next governor……………..sorry.We have a mess to clean up, a big one, right here in our great state of Maine, and it wasnt created by Bush, or LePage, or the man on the moon. It was created by the dems in the statehouse,”reasoning” together amongst themselves, over the last 30 years. Time to drain the swamp. Go LePage!!
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it must be a duck. Moderate you sound a whole lot like any other left leaning independent that is in love with Democratic policy. So let us just call a spade a spade and change your title to Democratic citizen. While you are conducting your research would you please look at the debt incurred by this country since the year 2006. The democrats have been in control of the purse strings since that time. Shame on President Bush for he did not veto any spending packages such as the new prescription drug coverage in Medicaid. The premise that the Bush era tax cuts costs us too much money is wrong in that one assumes it is the governments money in the first place. It is not the government’s money it is the person who sacrificed a portion of their life to earn that paychecks money. It is time everyone of us gets serious about the amount of spending the government is doing and the debt we are incurring as a reult of it. Failure to recover from this debt will be the end of this Republic. Ten percent unemployment is not going pull us out of the hole.
Moderate, the geniuses of the Local Labeling Committee (motto: “Let’s demonize anyone with an IQ over 90”) have – through your one divulgence – totally figured you out. Since you don’t adhere to their dogma, or any dogma, you’re obviously a librul. With their unbelievable powers of perception, they can probably even tell us what you ate for breakfast this morning.
They possess such agile minds that that they have reduced your facts and reason to mere inconveniences. For example, if you point out just how badly the Bush administration and the Republican congress screwed things up, you must obviously suffer from a psychological disorder (you know, sort of like when you call out someone for making racist remarks, and they retort by accusing you of “playing the race card”).
Of course, there’s no similar “Obama derangement syndrome,” since none of the calm, reasoned dissent we’ve heard from their ranks was irrational, paranoid, or foaming-at-the-mouth insane. No, their complaints about the Obama administration are all grounded in a solid lack of misunderstanding of political terminology, a near to total non-ignorance of history, and a state of mind that would not in any way be improved by the administration of anti-psychotic medications.
Goo chew on this then get back to me.
•In January 2007 before the Democrats took over Congress, unemployment was 4.6 percent; now it’s 9.6 percent.
•In January 2007 there were 7.1 million unemployed people in America; now there are 14.9 million.
•In January 2007 the median home price was $210,600; today it’s $179,300.
•In January 2007 the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 12,500; today it’s at 10,840.
•In January 2007 the gross federal debt was $9 trillion; today it’s $13.5 trillion.
•The poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3 percent; now it’s 14.3 percent
•In the final budget created by a GOP-controlled Congress, the deficit was $160 billion; now it’s $1.6 trillion
I am sure it is all still Bush and the Republicans fault.
I genuinely trust Spencer’s judgement on Lepage. Spencer is a savvy business manager, very savvy. How could anyone vote for a Democrat for governeor given the mess they have created for the last 35 years.
Curtis, thats a lot of numbers for a liberal to chew on. Especially since most of them threw their calculators away whem Obama got elected ’cause numbers dont count anymore.It’s the new way to do math,…just ignore it and it will go away, problem solved!