Byline: Biddeford, Maine

I spoke to a man last night who had just returned from the Maine State Republican Convention. He said that someone introduced a totally new platform for consideration that went straight down the list of core conservative values. About half-way through the reading of it someone made a motion to kill it, even before it had been fully reviewed. A vote was called and the motion received a handful of yeas. When the call was made for all who oppose, there was a roar from the crowd that overwhelmed the place. The new platform was overwhelmingly approved, much to the consternation of Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. This man said it was as though the tea-partiers had just taken back the Republican Party, at least in Maine.