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In his column of May 2-3, “The political moment that ended Mills’ Senate campaign,” I think Robert Glover missed the main point. I believe Gov. Janet Mills’ failure and that of the current Democratic Party apparatus is the failure to declare a specific list of policies that will meet the needs of the American people at home and let us rejoin enlightened nations in our trade, aid, and diplomacy, including our common defense.
Graham Platner has described his policy objectives online, in scores of packed town halls and nationally broadcast interviews. I believe those pledges moved people into his column from day one, two months before Mills made up her mind to run.
Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had saddled the party with the assumption that only a 1992 Clinton-style run to the right can work. George Bush had high ratings in 1992. President Donald Trump’s and his party’s are low.
Senate Democrats have added what I consider the grievous guilt of having helped subsidize Israel’s deadly military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon with at least $16 billion in direct military aid since the Hamas attack. Did anyone else think of those billions of our tax dollars when paying taxes just weeks ago?
Many Mainers were once at risk or paid a price. Over 58,000 people our age were killed “to help save Vietnam from Vietnamese” as Tom Paxton sang. I worked for USAID just before Secretary of State Colin Powell misled the world about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction.”
Platner is opposed to “pointless wars.” He knows what that means.
John Fitzgerald
Sedgwick
