Paul LePage: A real Maine patriot

To the editor,
    I see that the mainstream media in this state, including all of Maine’s largest daily newspapers, are doing everything they can to make it appear as though the wealthy liberal candidates for the Republican nomination for governor are favored and “frontrunners,” and that they get all the ink while the people’s choice, Paul LePage, is ignored.
    Paul, general manager of Marden’s and mayor of Waterville, is a genuine conservative in every sense of the word — fiscally, socially, on his interpretation of original intent, gun rights, family values, state sovereignty v.v. the federal leviathan, etc. That has the Snowe/Collins/McKernan/Cohen/Rockefeller clique nervous as they can possibly be that a real patriot may wind up running Maine — finally pushing their liberal gravy train over the cliff where it belongs.
    How odd is it that not a single major daily has mentioned — inexplicably — Paul was the runaway winner of the GOP straw polls conducted recently at every Maine caucus location. Indeed, Paul had 2.5 times the votes as the hand-picked Collins-machine candidate, Steve Abbott, and nearly as many votes as all the other seven candidates combined.
    You’ll likely see more ads on TV, hear more ads on the radio, and see more ads in print for Poliquin, Abbott, Jacobsen, Otten, etc. … all very well-heeled types who would be very acceptable to the Maine GOP insiders that have turned our party into “Democrat Lite.” But you will most likely hear about Paul LePage via word of mouth, or by letters like this one in small, independent weekly newspapers. Paul LePage is not running his campaign on the “who can raise and spend the most money” paradigm, but on true principles. His runaway victory in the recent straw poll proves that his message is getting through — despite all the “rally-the-wagons” approaches the liberal Collins/Snowe Republicans can muster.
    You can check out Paul on the AroostookWatchmen.com radio archives, or visit his Web site at Lepage2010.com.
    This is going to be a great story to watch come the June primaries. It’s shaping up as the true Republicans (and the people’s) conservative candidate (Paul LePage,) against the Rockefeller Republicans (RINOs we also call them, i.e. “Republicans In Name Only”) and their slick/wealthy machine candidates that are lining up just to stop the LePage express. Keep an eye on this one folks!
Steve Martin
Amity