Have both parties learned their lesson about why it’s important to respect the office of the president, even if you disagree with the person who holds it?
We would hope so. First it was Paul LePage, the Republican gubernatorial nominee who tried to fire up a group of fishermen by promising that if elected he would tell President Obama to “go to hell.”
He was getting a good pounding for the remark until a debate in Bangor Monday night, when he turned the tables on his chief rival, Democrat Libby Mitchell, by revealing an undated photo of the longtime legislator holding a framed document with a sticker showing former President George W. Bush’s face with the words “International Terrorist.”
The context of the Mitchell picture is much less clear than the LePage comment, but it opens her up to a charge of hypocrisy.
What’s the lesson? Like it or not, we only have one president at a time and the office, if not the incumbent, deserves respect. All partisans should take note.
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