Taking back the Senate: an article for anyone who wants to WIN the SENATE in November, and cover it in BLUE!.

The race starts by winning MAINE.

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If the State of Maine were to assume human form, Maine would be a lovely water nymph, with long flowing hair as white-blonde as corn-silk, with flowers falling from her locks.

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Her songs would be joyful, for she would be, after all, walking in tranquility.

Maine has a slogan: "The way life should be." I believe that is perfectly apt for what is tranquility, if not Maine?

For those who have never been, it is an enchanting palace of a state, a palace where ocean light houses rise out of tidewater, as if directly propelled upward by the sea. In this place, sea foam waves slosh gently and lovingly against her rocky coastline, a coastline well known and beloved by New Englanders, including me.

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Maine, however, has one thing she wants to change about herself -- not so unusual -- who doesn't have SOMETHING in them they wish they could toss out to sea?

For Maine, it is their senator, a shape-shifting, concerned lady by the name of Susan Collins, who hasn't held a town hall in years and promised not to run for more than a term or two. That was decades ago.

Susan Collins is worse than Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley. At least THEY do not mince words when it comes to showing the American people who they are. Susan Collins is far worse for she wears the mask of moderation, a mask which has begun to slip odiously -- and slip -- and slip...

This week, the MODERATE Democratic candidate, who also happens to be the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, announced she was out—right before the primary, too. It sent shock waves reverberating through the sea-kissed state. Mills, after all, had originally been favored to win.

Whispers had been abounding for months. Some said Mills did not want it enough. Her campaign schedule was light. Yet others said she'd entered the race too late -- at a time when the country was crying out to the great skies for change.

And cry out, Mainers do as well. Many of them yearn for the good old days when they had a senator who cared about them, who marched in lock step with them. who knew who they were merely by looking at them -- for they were and are, Mainers, and Mainers are a proud people, and I should know.

I have never lived in Maine, yet I retain a deep connection to the state. Some of my earliest memories are of vacations there with family. It was in Maine that I, as a rather precocious little girl, discovered Tops. Remember those delightful tops that we'd spin -- and spin-- and spin?

My brother and I had a particular fondness for a red-and-yellow top we named Apple Jack. Yes, children live in their own little magic wonderlands, and we were no different.

That is why I am determined to win Maine's Senate seat and oust Collins once and for all. She is not FROM the swamp, she IS the swamp. In a nutshell, Collins always professes to be concerned about Trump, but what she is concerned about, in this writer's opinion, Donald Trump being mad at her.

Graham Platner is the presumptive nominee. I will get behind him. Indeed, I already have. I want to WIN. I want Democrats united in this. And united we shall be.

The main reason Collins has not been ousted yet is that we have not yet had a candidate who can get down in the gutter. And I am sorry to say we NEED that, yes, we do. These are strange, dark times, and we need fighters. Platner is that fighter.

The GOP will sling mud. Much mud. They will be aided by the media who will both sides everything, including solemn roundtables where pundits from both sides engage in agonizingly absurd political rhetoric. So we must be ready and strong.

Some might say -- too soon! The midterms are so far away! No, they're not.

These next few months will go at breakneck speed. Trust me, I know. We've been here before, you know. But this time we are playing for keeps and for a serious prize -- the United States Senate.

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If we can win the Senate AND the House -- the Trump regime is over. Activists, hear my cries! Put on your passion hats, get ready for the race to begin, because all roads to the Senate go through the state of Maine-- a state where Mainers wear the sea as their second skin.

In this place, wildflowers grow among Maine's timberlands, and quaint little town after quaint little town quaint welcome tourists, and where the population is the oldest in the USA. Maine is unique, and Maine is more than a state; it is a lifestyle. And Susan Collins has hurt and is hurting that lifestyle because she is, to quote, many a Mainer "from away."

Being: from ‘away' is a Maine thing. And though Collins may be PHYSICALLY FROM Maine, emotionally her mind really is in DC, cutting her teeth on Republican bills on whom she almost always votes yes, cozying up to MAGA Republicans, while offering the occasional platitude of seeming “concern."

I'm sick of it -- so sick of it. Mainers are sick of it. You should be sick of it.

So let us, metaphorically join hands and PROMISE -- to do everything we can to win the Senate, to oust Collins, and to bring 'the way life should be' back to Maine as finally -- finally -- we say adieu to Miss Concerned Collins and take back the Senate.

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