Bill Nemitz and Gerald Weinand - Maine Republicans' secret weapon!

I can't help but be amazed at how quickly the Maine Democratic Party has imploded. First, they lose the Maine House, Senate, and Governorship in a single election. Then they nominate a U.S. Senate candidate who is polling at 9%. Follow that up with the fact that they are backing "independent" candidates in Maine House and Senate races instead of running their own candidates. Simply stunning.

As for Turn Maine Blue, I remember chuckling at that title the first time I heard it because I thought that the author was clearly out of touch. Little did I know until today when I found out Gerald was the blogger just how right I was!

I'm not sure either of the cited 'pundants' (common speaking problem, not my spelling problem) is the equal of MoonBeem when it comes to pure bile towards the right. (Ex: the 'rabble on the right.')

Please bookmark this one the day afer the election. Maine House returns to the D's, the D's hold both Congressional Districts, Angus is elected Senator (and you all have already admitted that he won't align with the R's). The question will be if the State Senate goes to the D's. All of the Contitutinal Offices will go to the D's. LePage will be rendered a two year lame quack.

I placed a challenge to this on an earlier thread and only one accepted it, and only for the Michaud-Raye race. The reality is that the D's know that they won't win against Angus, so why waste financial resources on it. The R's also know it, but are less honest about it.

The problem that many have with Nemitz is that more often than not, he is right on with his opinion.

The problem that many have with Nemitz is that more often than not, he is right on with his opinion.

That's funny.

As to any reference to them backing independent candidates, both parties do it, I've seen forst hand where it was suggested that a Republican run as unenrolled in a highly "D" district as a better strategy to winning....

Yes, the (openly) Democratic candidates have imploded recently--but the bad news is, the closet Democratic candidates (you know, they're the ones who call themselves 'independents") did just about as well as LePage in 2010, and are doing well for Senate in 2012. Maine is still well poised to go Psychotic Blue in November under the banner of "We're moderate independents, and we'll vote for the Independent Candidate who is functionally just the same as the Democrats!" who are socialist reactionaries masquerading as 'the only ones who care for all you Little People out there".

...as long as they don't actually have to be around us, except for the photo ops, that is...

...as long as they don't actually have to be around us, except for the photo ops, that is...

And to pick up the rent money.

Sorry, Tom, but Mid-Coast Mainer's post provides evidence why Nemitz and Gerry are NOT the secret weapons of the Republican party. You see, the post just goes to show that only moonbats pay the slightest attention to them. Rational people just ignore them or look upon them as a curiosity, akin to a new monkey exhibit at a zoo somewhere.

No one is more successful at running his fingernails over the AMG chalkboard than Nemitz. It’s not accurate to suggest as Reaganite does, that “…only moonbats pay the slightest attention to them. Rational people just ignore them…”. Even though the attention he generates here is largely negative, it is attention nonetheless. If “rational” people simply ignore him, then he would be invisible here.

I think Nemitz would agree with Oscar Wilde:

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”

I tend to agree with Mid Coast Mainer on the national offices, though I think Raye will give Michaud a run for his money. The legislative races tend to be more localized based on name recognition and likeability and less so on idealogy. Though the Dems did not put up candidates in several races, in some cases there are strong independents who will caucus with the Dems. Certainly they will pour a lot of money statewide playing on the various remarks by Gov. LePage. I could definately see a scenario where the Dems. take the house and the senate splits evenly with Sen Woodbury being the swing vote siding with the Dems. I sincerely hope that is not the case. Still a lot of time left till November and ample opportunity for our Governor to speak his mind! Kind of too bad as I think behind the scenes Gov. LePage is doing a fine job.

Please bookmark this one the day afer the election.

Done!

Anyway, it's fun reading here the claims of the defenders, who tell us that Democrats are doing just fine by drawing 9% in the statewide election.

Tom, are those the ones with the "61%" stickers on their cars?

Tom, are those the ones with the "61%" stickers on their cars?

The stickers are upside down. The Democrat received NINETEEN percent of the vote.

At this rate for 2012, they won't even need to print up new stickers.

They can just white-out the "1", and just have bumber stickers that say: "9%"!

I couldn't resist--I googled "Dirigo blue", and discovered that it is now part of the Bangor Daily News website. Doesn't that just give you a reassuring feeling about the journalistic honesty and integrity about any reporting that comes from the Bangor Daily News?

Me neither.

Me, neither. Then again, nothing much new, either.

dupe

The Maine Democrat party logo for 2012.

If “rational” people simply ignore him, then he would be invisible here

He is invisible to me. I don't read his column. Nor do I watch Rachael Maddow nor read Huffington post.

Those who talk about him on AMG give him far, far too much online space.

Well done, when there is nothing else, resort to personal attacks on someone that you do not know. Perhaps a board that does not allow profanity should also punish personal attacks.

Mid-Coast Mainer: I don't believe that I specifically called you a moonbat. But if the shoe fits...

Mid Coast Mainer:
"The problem that many have with Nemitz is that more often than not, he is right on with his opinion."

No, the problem we have with Nemitz, and the Dirigo Maine/BDN fusion, and the rest of the newspapers in Maine, and the TV news, and the rest of the "Media", is that in claiming to be objective, neutral purveyors of information they are not telling the truth. They have for decades clearly chosen sides, and misrepresent anyone they perceive as opponents. The last presidential election revealed this nakedly, as well as venomous attacks on any conservative politician, or their blatant advocacy of gay rights, or their shilling for "Obamacare", or any number of other issues that could be (and have been, here on AMG) named.
Just one teeny example: can you imagine the Bangor Daily News hosting a conservative social/political website as they have the "Progressive" site Dirago Blue? And what would be the response of the rest of the alleged media if they were to do so? How long would such a partnership exist before the site would be taken down because of threats of boycotts and protests from the Tolerant Left?

For that matter, have you noticed the boycotts and protests, or any criticism from any media source, because the BDN has openly allied itself with a partisan political point of view? No.
Partly because frankly no one pays much attention any more to a hack leftist newspaper, but more so because conservatives have a far greater respect for freedom of speech than the Left ever will. we'll simply vote with our eyes and wallets and not patronize such a biased source of "news" any longer.

Regarding 9%, isn't there a state rule that requires a political party, in order to remain certified as such, to receive a certain percentage of the gubernatorial vote? I dimly recall the reelection of King Angus in 1998 when the Democrat candidate, whoever that was, did so poorly that the party was sweating bullets, until someone pulled a few strings.

Editor's Note: Gerald Weinand sent this reply to Tom C's original post:

I would like to correct some of the inaccuracies resulting from Tom C’s post about my blog, Dirigo Blue.

Turn Maine Blue was owned by a 20-something Mainer who moved to Alaska. At that time, in 2007, I was asked to act as editor, which I did for a couple of years. I had nothing to do with its creation or name, held no ownership stake, etc.

One day in July 2009, for reasons I have never been able to determine, the owner shut down Turn Maine Blue. I launched Dirigo Blue three days later, 20 July 2009.

I am the sole owner of it, and have no affiliation with the Bangor Daily News. Unlike Matt Gagnon, Amy Fried, and some others who blog for the BDN, my blog is simply listed with dozens of others on that newspapers blog roll and completely independent from it. My guess is the editors there would be happy to list As Maine Goes there as well – Scott needs only to ask them.

I have never claimed to be unbiased, and in fact have no problem with any print, online or cable media reporting with a bias – as long as that bias is obvious. Unlike most other nations, Americans have this idea that their news media should be exactingly objective – all this has done is lead to the he said/she said reporting that so many now lament. Most Britons, for example, know that the Guardian will report with a left bias, while the Times reports from the right.

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Cheers

GW

Since I am the one who first brought up the "BDN/DB" fusion, I will do something the media rarely does--admit I was wrong. I can be forgiven, I think, since the very first hit on Google brings up the Bangor Daily News masthead with Dirigo Blue seemingly part of the website.

As for Scott asking for AMG to be included in the list of blogs affiliated with BDN, why would he lower AMG to the BDN standard?

And, as for why Americans "expect the media to be objective", we are told constantly--by that very same media--that they are objective, and neutral, and middle of the road. I too have no problems with media having a point of view, since we all do; the issue is that they falsely claim to not have a bias, a veneer that has become worn through, judging by how viewership and readership has collapsed for the leftist media.

One day in July 2009, for reasons I have never been able to determine, the owner shut down Turn Maine Blue. I launched Dirigo Blue three days later, 20 July 2009.

Thanks for clearing that up, I do try to get my facts right. There were a bunch of "Turn Blah Blue" blogs running at the time, I thought it might have been a Think Progress or Media-Matters inspired thing.

Anyway, I'd appreciate hearing from Bill Nemitz if I've make any mistakes about him, I'd be happy to clear those up as well.

GW: and in fact have no problem with any print, online or cable media reporting with a bias – as long as that bias is obvious.

Does anyone else see a glaring fault with that statement?

I sure do, and it relates to the modern day prevalence for bastardizing simple English.

And the utter disregard for the once more-or-less respected 'profession' of 'journalism.'

As I see it, GW has captured the essence of the 'death by a thousand reports.'

One might extrapolate his position to "I have no problem with a state controlled economy, as long as the preference is obvious."

Also his claim of "inaccuracies" was pretty thin, I correctly described him as running the old site. As far as "changing the name" even the Democratic blogs refered to the change simply as: "Turn Maine Blue is now Dirigo Blue"

I must have missed when Gerald rushed to them to correct those "inaccuracies".

I guess in the rapidly-shrinking Democrat universe, Democrats are never inaccurate, only Republicans are.

Hey, how's that working for you, Democrats?

The only place a correction would be desired would be my statement "possibly" used to describe his motive for the new name, which, by itself, is not inaccurate, and those who love logic can review the posts and consider that he did not provide enough evidence to refute my suggested reason, per se.

I do appreciate the additional information provided by Gerald, and will incorporate it in future references to that site.

Anyway, if Mr. Nemitz, as well, feels that anything I might have said about him is "inaccurate" I would certainly be happy to listen to his explaination.

It's interesting how closely liberals follow AMG. I ignore all of their news sources completely. The only place I get my news is Fox News and Drudge Report.

I managed the first paragraph of Nemtz's column, and then I sent $25 to National Alliance on Mental Illness.

It's interesting how closely liberals follow AMG. I ignore all of their news sources completely. The only place I get my news is Fox News and Drudge Report.

If that is the case, then you have confused propaganda for news.