I have listened to the Democrats demonizing members of the tea party as crazies and nuts more and more as Election Day approaches. Why are they trying so hard to discredit those who oppose the liberal Obama movement?

I believe it is because liberals believe they are right and others are wrong, and they will not give an inch. They cannot understand the thinking of people who want a smaller government, less government control and lower taxes.

The liberal Democrats are ruining this country and it’s time to bring a halt to their out-of-control spending.

If this country becomes bankrupt, the liberals will have done what they planned all along and it will be easy for them to take over completely and make this a socialist country.

Just look what the Democrats have done to Maine. This once proud, independent state is now one of the poorest states in the nation and more than 70 percent of its citizens are receiving government assistance. A socialist state.

Residents need to vote the Democrats out and bring Maine back to its former glory, one that has been lost by the Democrats’ control of the past 40 years.

It’s simple: Democrats spend and raise taxes; Republicans lower taxes and create jobs.

If people want the state to support them and control their lives, vote Democrat.

If people want a job, lower taxes and the government out of their lives, vote Republican.

Mary Jane Newell, Oxford