Maine gov. candidate: I'd tell Obama to go to hell

[Liberal_in_LA]

Maine gov. candidate: I'd tell Obama to go to hell
By DAVID SHARP, Associated Press Writer
ed. Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage told a group of fishermen at a GOP forum that he won't be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell."

LePage, a favorite of tea partiers, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he regretted the words he chose Sunday in the small coastal town of Brooksville but that he wasn't backing down in his criticism of the administration for what he describes as free-spending, antibusiness policies.

A Democratic Party official said it showed LePage is hotheaded and ill-suited to govern.

LePage was responding to a question when he made the remark about Obama, which was captured by a Democratic Party aide who was videotaping the event.

"As your governor, you're going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying 'Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell,'" LePage said to applause.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/29/politics/p074138D30.DTL#ixzz10x6ZKcS9

[sonomak]

1. Mayor Paul LePage couldn't find enough ways to spend stimulus money:

http://www.dirigoblue.com/diary/1941/paul-lepage-opposes-federal-money-except-when-he-didnt

[sharp_stick]

2. Only until the first disaster hit the State

and he'd show up hat in hand to beg for those Federal dollars just like the rest of these teabagging hypocrites.

I really hate these assholes.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Two independents...

...one of them Green, will see to it that he wins, though. People want a politics-without-politicians at any price.

[emulatorloo]

4. Hypocritical Ignoramus. n/t