Well, you can now read his full reddit comment history if you wanna know what he's about.

What if it DOES matter if they did it deliberately or accidentally, and it DOES matter how they respond when confronted about it? What if they're humans who make mistakes, and are able to own them like an adult?

Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good, that's the left wing cat herding part that earned us this fascist takeover in the first place. If you have someone better to vote for, by all means. But you can always convince yourself that the progressive candidate is secretly a right wing extremist. Always. That's right there with QAnon rational.

I grew up in Piscataquis county and knew plenty of guys like him

You know lots of people from Piscataquis county who call themselves communists and are really vocal about medicare for all?

The difference with Fetterman is that his background was as a rich nepo-baby who got his start in politics getting elected mayor and having major government functions flow through his family's charity.

My understanding of why fetterman got such a good rap, was because of his social media strategy being run by an especially talented progressive campaign staffer who (I wish I had the citation sorry) I believe has since denounced him as an elected official

For Platner there really is nothing that smells insincere about him to me. Definitely questionable judgment, but scheduling a tattoo coverup basically the instant it became a campaign issue is a plus in my book. But I'm not from Maine so I'm not going to push too hard for any candidate

So you would rather risk Janet Mills doing exactly nothing positive than risk Graham turning right? Have you listened to what he has to say vs what Sinnema had? It's definitely different. It's sad to me that people are so desperate to paint him with his past. How many of us haven't made pretty awful choices? If we want an Everyman progressive we're going to have to accept some skeletons imo. If Mills wins the primary LePage is going to sweep the general.

Yeah you've got the right idea there. I too never vote for the candidate that markets themselves as progressive ever since Sinema. I'm playing the 4D chess route, always voting for the fascist just in case they're secretly a closet progressive.

Agreed, but folks up here are seriously rallying around him right now. It doesn't seem as hopeless as it really should. Anybody that has met the man, and he is making a GIANT effort to meet anyone that cares, knows that his checkered past has no bearing on his desire for a better future. He is a shining example of human growth and what we should be defining Manliness by, ability to adapt, change and grow from a place of ignorance.