Susan Collins Accuses Sara Gideon Of 'Defaming My Reputation And Attacking My Integrity'

[packman]

Source: Crooks and Liars

Susan Collins generally keeps an even keel. But she’s had it with Sara Gideon.

“She will say or do anything to try to win,” Collins said when asked of her opponent during a wide-ranging 30-minute interview in her Capitol quarters last week. “This race is built on a foundation of falsehoods. And trying to convince the people of Maine that somehow I am no longer the same person.”

Collins wasn’t done as she accused Gideon of “defaming my reputation and attacking my integrity” in their increasingly nasty race. For good measure, the Maine Republican added that Gideon’s campaign was being run as an arm of Chuck Schumer’s Washington operation, scolded Gideon, the statehouse speaker, for not reconvening the legislature amid the pandemic and challenged Gideon’s handling of a sexual misconduct scandal.

Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2020/10/susan-collins-accuses-sara-gideon-defaming

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This (like she had any integrity) from a senator that helped Mitch and Trump pack the courts with rabid conservatives

[BlueStater]

1. What integrity?

🙄

[bullimiami]

4. and her reputation is 'thats concerning'.

[Mr.Bill]

17. You can't defame or attack

something that doesn't exist.

[Cha]

19. Hey.. that was my question! lol

[COL Mustard]

40. Call a Whore a Whore

And find out she doesn't like it.

Apologies in advance to actual sex workers...I know it's a whole different thing.

[Hulk]

51. She has NONE!

She has been a “phony rubber stamp” her whole political career. She has really come to light as she hides in the shadow of this narcissistic pig she has enabled for the past four years.

She has no integrity worth mentioning. Good riddance...I hope.

[BigDemVoter]

52. EXACTLY what I was just about to write!

She has NONE!

[DURHAM D]

2. Good. nt

[lagomorph777]

3. Integrity?

That's cute, Susie.

[LakeArenal]

5. Only with an old Victorian like Collins

uses words like scolded and concerned.

[Doreen]

6. No susan, you have done a wonderful job of doing that to yourself.

[The Magistrate]

7. An Honest Description Of Herself Must have Reached Collins' Ears, Sir

[Skittles]

8. LOLOL

GO FUCK YOURSELF SUSAN

[spooky3]

11. I have to laugh at the difference between your post and Magistrate's.

Both are equally effective!!!!!

[Statistical]

9. You need integrity before it can be attacked.

[rurallib]

10. Same shit that Joni Ernst is spouting in Iowa

Looks like the Republican Senate Committee can only afford one script?

Bet if you go around the country Senators in Colorado and North Carolina and Arizona and Montana and Georgia and Texas and so on are singing from the same hymnal.

Let us hear a chorus of "They Treat Me So Bad!"

[COL Mustard]

41. Nobody's Donating, It Seems

[smb]

53. Would YOU Donate To A Party...

...headed by a dementia-addled drugged-up roid-raging lunatic whose poll numbers are in free fall and who might not even be alive this time next week?

[IronLionZion]

56. I hope that douchebag screws his party down the ticket all the way to dogcatcher nt

[NurseJackie]

12. This is very concerning.

[Walleye]

24. Almost troubling. 😎

[mahina]

13. Public figure, and truth is a perfect defense.

[appleannie1]

14. Miss say one thing and do another doesn't have a rant to stand on.

[tanyev]

15. Oh my! Somebody get her some smelling salts and a fainting couch!

[marybourg]

16. Falsehoods? Falsehoods?

Is that like the 25,000+ lies the leader of your party has been certified as spewing in the last 3 1/2 years? Or are falsehoods something different? Or is it just IOKIYAR?

[Ritabert]

18. The integrity ship has sailed

Gideon's just pointing it out.

[Raster]

20. susan collins said "integrity"...

...“defaming my reputation and attacking my integrity”

Obviously, DENIAL is not just a river in Egypt.

[smb]

55. Republicans Live In States Of Delusion And Denial -- Too Bad For Them Those States Have No EV nt

[Raster]

73. Tragic, that.

[hlthe2b]

21. Boy does she have the "entitlement" thing going on now, doesn't she?

[roamer65]

22. Am I concerned?

NO.

[lonely bird]

23. Well, at least she can spell "integrity"

Possessing it? That is something else.

[beachbumbob]

25. Sounds like a good endorsement of Gideon buy Collins

As Collins is pointing out she has no integrity and Gideon is correct to point it out

[Bev54]

26. Is she trying to out whine Lindsey? n/t

[liberaltrucker]

28. I believe that's physically imposible

[COL Mustard]

42. Linseed. Please spell his name correctly. Linseed!

[MontanaMama]

27. Bless her heart...

[H2O Man]

29. Recommended.

In a very real sense, I do not think Collins has changed. She's always been a horrible human being.

[lastlib]

30. Extra pearls and cleanup on aisle 2!

Susie is shatting herself, needs more to clutch!

No, Susie, she is attacking your LACK of integrity, and only telling the TRUTH. Your reputation is sitting on Satan's mantle beside your soul.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Rich indeed. Whining like Trump is such a winning strategy. /nt

[flibbitygiblets]

32. *You* are the one who gave yourself a "black-eye", Susan!

See what I did there?

[onetexan]

33. spot on. She didn't have any integrity left from what i remember. And forget about her good name.

She threw that out when she voted to not convict the Con, and for everything else she said she was "concerned" about.

[IronLionZion]

34. Be concerned, Susan. Write a letter about it but always keep voting with Trump anyway.

[hibbing]

35. Damn, I needed a good laugh, thanks Susan!! n/t

[George II]

36. Did Gideon say her reputation was good and she HAD integrity? Otherwise she was probably right.

[riversedge]

37. @SenCollins had no integrity to lose

[cstanleytech]

38. Gotta have a good rep to defame first.

[Mr. Ected]

39. Susan, it's called getting your ass handed to you by your Congressional opponent

It's something that you really need to work yourself into a lather over, but since you're not capable of discerning right from wrong that is an exercise in futility.

toodle loo.

[Rebl2]

43. She lost

all integrity when she voted for anything that trump wanted, especially his last Supreme Court pick.

[Karma13612]

44. Nope Susan, you did this yourself.

You don’t have a leg to stand on now.

And how are you feeling about Barrett’s confirmation?
Are you going to shock us or not?
Kavanaugh was the breaking point for many of us.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

[llmart]

45. As they say in the south,

"Bless her little pea-pickin' heart."

[relayerbob]

46. Integrity?????

I'm very concerned about this latest turn of events

[samsingh]

47. i'm concerned that people feel Susan Collins is a traitor and should be

thrown out of office and into jail. I'm concerned we've had to wait so long.

[Gore1FL]

48. Golly. I'm concerned. nt

[Mickju]

49. Collins has zero self awareness.

She is all the things Gideon says she is.

[marble falls]

50. I am concerned that Collins may not adjust well to retirement. But not that concerned, really.

[Iliyah]

54. Concerned Collins did that all by herself . . .

[ProfessorGAC]

57. Don't Worry, Suze

I'm sure Gideon has learned her lesson.

[Traildogbob]

61. That's funny!

[ProfessorGAC]

65. Thanks

It was the first thing that popped into my head.
Collins is so predictable. So was my first thought!

[kimbutgar]

58. I'm sure she's done that all that on her own

Considering she walked in lockstep with MF45 and stabbed us in the back with her vote on Kavanaugh. No Susan you did it all yourself by betraying the people of Maine.

You’re just pissed Susan exposed you for the lackey and liar you are!

[NNadir]

59. I'm concerned that she hasn't learned her lesson about criticizing true statements. Her...

...reputation speaks for herself; a President openly committed treasonous and criminal acts and she willingly participated in a Kangeroo court that refused even to hear witnesses.

This is not a person who is free to discuss integrity, and there is nothing defamatory in stating facts.

[canetoad]

60. Tautology, Susan

To defame literally means 'to damage the good reputation of...'

[Tarc]

62. "And trying to convince the people of Maine..."

TRY?

Gideon has been consistently ahead of Collins for months, anywhere from 3 to 12% up.

The boomer's days are numbered.

[Tommymac]

63. Susan is actually a bit of a Karen if I must say so myself. nt

[nattyice]

64. Bye Susan!

[Dem2theMax]

66. Someone needs to introduce Susan Collins to Susan Collins.

[Drum]

67. Um yeah

[dlk]

68. If you can't stand the heat...

[Sherman A1]

69. As the wiseman once told me

Most Wounds are Self Inflicted.....

You defamed your own reputation and integrity, Susan. No one needed to do it for or to you.

[Progressive Jones]

70. I'm very concerned. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

71. She might have to express "deep concern" I can't stop laughing! Such a GOP tool.

[tclambert]

72. Attacking Susan Collins' integrity would require an electron tunneling microscope.

It's a small target is what I'm saying.