ME-SEN: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using 'indefensible' antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

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6. It's already enough. I have every confidence that his hardcore supporters will defer to Bernie's previous endorsement...

and try to make us believe that "if it doesn't bother Bernie, then it shouldn't bother us" (or something).

Or, I can easily see this also being dismissed by describing it as a "youthful indiscretion" or a "youthful lapse in judgement" --- but that wouldn't be true either. A rough estimate of his age at the time would put him at about 35 years old when he was posting this crap as "P-Hustle".

While that is younger than I am, that is certainly not an age that qualifies for "youthful indiscretion" forgiveness and sweeping-under-the-rug. He was old enough to know better.

Things like this (in spite of politically expedient apologies... now that he's been caught and called-out) reveal much about someone's character and demeanor and temperament.

And with all these "revelations," it's clear to me that he's damaged beyond repair. His candidacy is a disaster and it's divisive. If this continues it will only serve to create further distrust and weaken the Democrats... thus resulting in ANOTHER term for the insufferable Susan Collins.

You are correct, RandySF. This is well beyond "enough" and based on what we know now, our anger and disappointment cannot be rationally dismissed as being little more than "blind-Bernie-hate" being projected onto a Bernie-endorsed candidate.

He needs to withdraw and find himself a podcast to host or a youtube channel.