B Priddy of N/A, ME Susan Collins has a strong and proven track record regarding her bi-partisan leadership on oversight and investigations.

I quite honestly cannot even believe that anyone would say otherwise or challenge her on this issue!report abuse

Carl Lindemann of Portland, ME Ms. Burita has a lot of nerve complaining about smear tactics after the actions carried out most recently by the Collins Campaign's Director of Internet Strategy. Worse, Collins may well owe her job to a smear from her first campaign for the Senate that resulted in a libel suit. That matter was settled out of court when then Sen. Collins was going to have to testify under oath about how she set it in motion personally - despite making statements to the press denying any involvement.

Check the story of the smear that Collins personally launched here:
http://www.brightberrypress.com/CollinsIntro.htm

Is Collins using smear tactics in the current campaign working with Far Right activists connected to the Heritage Foundation? Check "All the Senator's Men?" an investigative study:
http://www.truedialog.org/news.htmlreport abuse

jm of Augusta, ME Jonathan:

You hit the nail right on the head when it comes to Collins' record of votes. When the chips were down, and Collins's vote was needed to support Bush, she supported the party line. Sometimes when her vote wasn't crucial, she was allowed to vote with the opposition so she could claim to be "moderate" or "independent."

Her votes to enable the continuing war in Iraq, to stick Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court, to grant immunity to the telecoms for their part in Bush's warrantless surveillance program (thus ensuring that we will not learn the truth about Bush's crimes in court), and her backing of both Gonzalez and Mukasey for Attorney General show Collins' true colors. The idea that she would seriously try to hold Halliburton or Custer Battles accountably for waste and fraud in Iraq is laughable.report abuse

Jonathan Albrecht of Dixfield, ME cpanner,

You can't camoflage Collins' many failures of leadership by wrapping her in Snowe's mantle. Snowe has voted, spoken, and lead in opposition to the worst excesses of the Bush Administration. Collins has done nothing of the kind. Compare their voting records. Snowe's is conservative but not tailored to the administration. Collins is the representative from NFIB with a string of years of 100% pro-Bush voting records.
Snow'e is a profound political thinker with independent views. Collin's is Maine's answer to Senator Scott of Pennsylvania who if his party needed his vote, he gave it. If they didn't, he'd vote the popular will consulting the polls on a daily basis.report abuse