Senate Republicans praised Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, for delivering an impassioned speech on the Senate floor in which she excoriated Democrats for trying to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of serial sexual assault without evidence, and her remarks hearkened back to a time when another GOP senator from Maine took a stand against McCarthyism in the 1950s.
Immediately after she said she would deliver a much-needed vote for Kavanaugh, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., greeted her on the floor and said she had delivered the most inspiring set of remarks he’d ever heard. He also said it reminded him of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, the Maine Republican who was among the first to challenge Joseph McCarthy’s Communist smear tactics.
