Washington Post, July 2, 1978]
Over the years Nelson Rockefeller and his plutocratic colleagues used their financial influence to shove Stupid-Party policies down the throat of the GOP, making it essentially an echo of the Open Borders Democrats. Indeed, it was Rockefeller who spearheaded the sabotage of Barry Goldwater’s candidacy at the 1964 Republican Convention.
Maine has a year-round population of only 1.344 million. However, many of the plutocratic elite, such as the Bush Family, only live there part-time. Nevertheless, these elites continually insert post-American rubber stamps into Maine political office to do their bidding like William Cohen, a Republican who made his political mark in his first Congressional term by voting to impeach Richard Nixon during Watergate, and was subsequently rewarded with a Senate Seat, and later the position of Secretary of Defense for President Clinton. (Incidentally, Cohen also served as Best Man at John McCain’s wedding).