Dan Rather on Sen. Susan Collins: She Missed ‘Her Moment to Be a Hero’

After Sen. Susan Collins lengthy Senate floor speech announcing that she was a ‘yes’ on the Brett Kavanaugh nomination vote on Friday, veteran newsman Dan Rather took to Facebook to slam the Republican senator for missing her moment to be a hero.

“So Collins misses her moment to be a hero, and the old bulls win again. Trump, McConnell, Grassley, Hatch, Graham—the whole lot of them– win. Again. They are laughing, congratulating one another, and at least metaphorically are popping Champagne,” Rather wrote.

He continued on: “For most women and many men it’s a bitter, devastating loss. Which makes it all the sweeter for the old bulls, and for the forces of power, privilege and money everywhere. A sense that the nation’s climate of justice has taken another turn toward dark clouds rises. The age-old question for the country of whether we prioritize power, privilege and money over justice takes on renewed importance.”

He then added that looking past “the clouds of the present” and considering “the long river of history” this may actually be a breakthrough for women.

“To paraphrase the daughter who recently said in another context, ‘women have never had a better moment to be heard in politics, to make a difference.’ That is, if they—and those of us men who support them—seize the moment (if they don’t miss the moment as Senator Collins has.)” he further wrote. “What that requires is that women and the men who love them and hate what has happen[ed ] adopt an attitude of  ‘we can be beaten but never defeated.’ Adopt it, cling to it and live it as a credo.”

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