Paul LePage at Bay

By Taylor Lewis

Outspoken Maine governor Paul LePage is considering resigning from his governorship. Pressure is mounting on him to step down after he left a hilarious and expletive-filled voicemail for a Democratic state lawmaker. Believing the lawmaker, state rep Drew Gattine, called him a racist, LePage let the backbencher have it: “I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocks*cker.”

How beautiful, and almost poetic.

This isn’t the first time LePage has deployed his colorful vocabulary. Back in January, the governor caught heat for accusing “guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie,” and “Shifty” of peddling heroin in his state. He once told residents the state legislature was “corrupt,” and refused to sign their budget by line-item vetoing over 200 hunks of pork, nearly causing a government shutdown. He spit in the face of the race-hustlers in the NAACP by refusing to attend a Martin Luther King, Jr., Day breakfast and telling them to “kiss my butt.” He even called out Democrat State Senate Majority Leader Troy Jackson for having a “black heart” and always trying “to give it to the people without providing Vaseline.” .......It’s far better to stick with the truth. Brown-nosing dedicated ideologues is a Sisyphean task with no reward..........Leaving his governorship at this point isn’t just a dumb move -- it’s a career-ender. Liberals collect scalps to provide an example to others. If you don’t kowtow to their intense form of politicking, they launch brutal p.r. campaigns to shut you down. By the time you surrender, you’ve become persona non grata. Kaput. Finito... More