An issue much more likely to resonate with the electorate is that Allen didn’t do enough to win Navy shipbuilding contracts for Bath Iron Works, because he no longer sits on the House Armed Services Committee. Collins has repeatedly accused her opponent of allowing his fellow representatives to gut the budget for a new class of destroyers called the DDG-1000. Allen has said BIW would have plenty of work constructing an older style of ship called the DDG-51, although even the most math-challenged among us can see the DDG-1000 must be way better than the DDG-51 or it wouldn’t have a higher number. In any case, the Navy has now decided it wants to build both kinds of ships, thereby giving it the strongest possible protection from whoever wins the Senate race.
Allen and Collins have other crucial differences, although whenever I try to think about them, I get really, really sleepy. I think there’s something about whether we should get out of Iraq in a big hurry (Allen) or a small hurry (Collins). They also may disagree over whether there should be an open hunting season on oil company executives (him) or whether there should be a bag limit of two per day (her). He’s going to his party’s national convention (photo op with Obama is worth five points in the polls). She’s not going to her party’s national convention (photo op with Cheney is worth ... well, you know). He has extensive proposals dealing with all the policy-wonk aspects of Internet access, energy, health care, and education. She has a paper shredder. He has good hair. She has a paper shredder.
I’m sure that has nothing to do with the apparent absence of her sex life.
If you spot naked pols, e-mail me photos at aldiamon@herniahill.net.
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