The Democrats’ apparent choice to replace Maine Republican Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate has built a rap sheet of dazzling disqualifiers.
It wasn’t enough that Graham Platner’s impersonation of a blue-collar oysterman has been exposed. Turns out he attended the Hotchkiss School, an elite prep school in Connecticut and is grandson of Warren Platner, the celebrated modernist architect. He’s equally unconvincing in explaining away his easily identifiable Nazi tattoo.
But the crowning detail is his bizarre persona was a creepy penchant for texting sexually explicit messages with multiple… Read More in Real Clear Politics