Correspondence with the Maine GOP this past week. Starts with my note to the executive director.















Dear Michelle:







Since the installation of the current congress, our senators have 



consistently supported the democrat program.







Does the Maine Republican Party have a position on this duplicitous 



conduct, and, does the party intend to offer financial and moral support 



to the re-election of Senator Snowe in 2012?















Tom,















[from the Maine Chair]







Tom, thanks for your note. I am absolutely convinced that our Senators are



voting in the manner that they believe represents the viewpoint of Maine



citizens. As Republicans we have had no success in electing conservative



candidates to public office. Thus Maine House 95 democrats- 55



republicans----Maine Senate 20 democrats-15 republicans. My charge as the



new state party chairman is to re-build the party and elect more



republicans-------- once we are able to do that I feel that our Senators



will realize that Maine is not the welfare state, that 30+ years of one



party control (Democrats) has created .Once we can prove this to them, I 'm



sure their opinions on several issues will be different.   thanks again for



your e-mail  Charlie Webster



ps, the Maine Republican Party as I understand it has never been in a



financial position to donate money to either Senator











Dear Charles:







Thank you for the reply to my message of last week.







If we are to believe that the people of Maine are overwhelmingly in



favor of the President's policies, and that fact would obligate our



senators' predilection to vote against the Republican position [Snowe: 



65.5% vote against  and Collins: 57.6% against] [ref- Washington



Post/votes database], why do these folks run as, and continue to be,



ostensibly, Republicans with the whole hearted support of the party?







I am mystified.  







It can not be a comfortable position to be the chairman of the state



party that contains two of the most anti-republican and pro-democratic



representatives in Washington.  Of course, one should be grateful to



have the tepid support for the national program that we receive from



the ladies as an Allen/Andrews/Pingree et al would be a solid 100%.







However, I fear that I am beating a dead horse, so this will be the end



of the commenting on the ineptitude of our senators. Ineptitude?  Even



a novice politician would have recognized the immense power our



senators possessed as applied to the stimulus bill, and the total



failure to apply same.  They could have written the entire



bill!  But, no, a pledge from the democrats to reduce an 800



billion boondoggle to 700 billion that was later ratcheted up to 900



billion is trumpeted as success for moderation.  Shameful.  And what



does Maine get out of all this spending, not to mention the 8500



earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, also supported by our



senators??  As far as I can tell, a couple of bridges, some lighthouses



to be painted, and unfunded mandates that after two years will add to



our already perilous local financial picture.







Did they get an invite to the Obamar super bowl party?







You are correct in your assessment of the political scene in Maine, and



your efforts to change the minds of the electorate regarding the never



ending free lunch provided by the democrats in Augusta.  I wish you



success in your endeavors, but it will be difficult to preach



conservatism to the masses who must view The Republican Party positions



through the prism of our senators, at the very least, as dhimmi lite,



if not fully seated at the feet of The One.







All the best,







Thomas A. O'Reilly



South Portland