It's no secret that I don't think much of Graham Platner, the man whom Maine Democrats have nominated to challenge Republican Susan Collins for the U.S. Senate seat in November.
I don't like the Nazi tattoo nor his lies about it.
I don't like his physically abusive behavior toward women.
Nor I do like the fact that he encouraged a woman to commit suicide.
Platner, using the handle P-hustle, reacted to a post on Reddit concerning students preventing a girl from committing suicide by writing, "Someone clearly isn't trying hard enough."
Platner used the same P-hustle handle to praise Hamas.
Now, I have no doubt Platner's supporters would say this was 14 years ago.
Well, it was only 7 years ago that Platner used the P-hustle handle to say that a U.S. soldier who was shot multiple times by the Taliban "didn't deserve to live."
At what point is Graham Platner, whether he hides behind P-hustle or not, responsible for his own behavior?
When a person chooses to make it known that he wished a girl would take her own life or that a brave U.S. soldier doesn't deserve to live or praises a terrorist organization like Hamas, he is telling you that he is a bad person.
It is no different than when President Trump told the world he was glad that Robert Mueller had died. When Trump said that (among far too many other things) he is telling us that he is a bad person.
I don't believe we ought to entrust bad people to positions of public responsibility.
Because when we entrust bad people to positions of public responsibility bad things happen.
It is bad enough that the American people have twice elected a bad person to the White House.
I can only hope the people of Maine don't make matters worse by electing a bad person to the Senate.
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