Janet Mills is the Governor of Maine. She has won twice for her office, both times by a lot. She will also be 78 years old next year. There is zero sign that she has mentally slowed at all, but she will be 84 at the end of the Senate term up in 2026 in Maine. Frankly, I do not care. Age is a predictor of whatever you want it to be. If this were a race for President, I’d have added concerns. This is not though.

All of the worst people, the very worst people, the most awful people, maybe very well the very worst people hate that Governor Mills is running. Bernie wants her to not run so we can “not waste millions on an unnecessary and divisive primary.” Is this for real? The guy who made Hillary Clinton run primaries for months after he had no mathematical way to winning the *elected delegates* for our 2016 Presidential nomination now is worried about primaries. He’s telling us about how his chosen candidate, Graham Platner, is a “great working class candidate for Senate,” You know who else he said that about? John Fetterman. How has that turned out? Platner has hired the same media consultants as Mamdani, Fetterman, Bernie, and even our local Bernie bro, Bob “Crooksy” Brooks. They’re raking in the bucks, and to be fair, their work quality is solid. They are really selling us a lot of garbage people though.

Janet Mills might be a wonderful candidate, regardless of what Platner’s push poll (just read his bio they read voters, it’s horseshit) said. As I said above, she’s won twice for Governor, the same voters who will be voting in 2026. She’s a pro-choice, pro-ACA, and has real achievements fighting climate change, in her actual career in government. Graham Platner is out there saying Governors like Mills have taken the Democratic Party off track. I couldn’t agree less. Meanwhile he’s backed by Bernie Sanders, who has been rejected twice by our primary voters for President (including in Maine’s 2020 primary), says he’s for “Medicare for All,” which can’t even get a vote in Congress because it has no way to be funded, and talks a lot about “oligarchy.” This guy has no real, specific plans to do anything, and just talks in platitudes with buzzwords he learned from Bernie. Even so, I think it’s at least fair to let the two battle it out in a primary and see who the better candidate is. For me though, I’m not for the guy that worked at Blackwater in 2018 but calls himself a revolutionary. Sorry, no thanks, give me the lady that actually knows what she’s doing, no matter how damn old she is.