About Graham Platner

Am I concerned about Reddit posts he made 20 years ago?

No, I am not.

Am I concerned about his Totenkopf tattoo on his chest, which he got on a drunken bender with fellow marines when he was 23?

Yes, I am. 

I am not concerned about the tattoo itself, but rather his response, which should have been, "I was a 23 year old idiot, and I should fave addressed it sooner.

There are a number of people running for Senate on the Democratic nomination in Maine, but he is one of the two front-runners, the other one being the solidly centrist septuagenarian Janet Mills.

I still favor him, because I'm sick to death of the current generation of feckless, cowardly, and careerist Democratic Party leadership, and Mills was aggressively recruited by the hapless and hopeless Chuck Schumer. 

Needless to say, we can be sure that the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) will all the stops to defeat him, and that these efforts will not end with the primary, but the latest University of New Hampshire poll, which covered the time where the Reddit and tattoo stories came out, still shows him with 58%.

I think what is clear is that  the Democratic Party rank and file are sick to death of the current party leadership, and that the support of Schumer is a negative for Mills.

The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is worried about Plattner becoming another Fetterman, but Fetterman's politics never had the specific policy proposals that Plattner does, even before his stroke and subsequent transformation to Joe Lieberman of the 2020s.

I'm not a Maine voter, but if I were, I would support Plattner.

As an aside in the 2020 election Susan Collins beat Sarah Gideon by a solid 9 points, despite Gideon out-raising her ($75 million to $30 milliion) and outspending her ($63 million to $29½ million) in the race.  (Maine's population is about 1.4 million)

The Gideon campaign was still frantically fundraising on election day, because the consultants make bank off fund raising.

We do not need a repeat of that.