Republican in Maine says he has the guts to be a Senator because he beat his wife and then refused to confess. Sounds like a campaign slogan to me.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A conservative Portland, Maine Senate candidate claims that experience he acquired while spending a decade fighting domestic abuse charges informs his “pro-family” agenda. 

During a press conference on Tuesday, Erick Bennett, who is challenging incumbent Susan Collins, addressed his conviction for domestic violence against his now ex-wife. He fought the Class D assault conviction all the way to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled that “sufficient evidence does exist in the record to support his conviction.” 

Bennett claims he was “railroaded” by the justice system. “All that needs to be done is you have to repeat what you wrote down in the police report and that allows the victim to be viewed as a credible witness,” he said. “So basically, if someone writes something down, it doesn’t have to be true. All they have to do is repeat that on the stand. That’s grounds for anyone to be convicted of domestic violence.” 

He went on to claim that the time he spent in jail for his conviction speaks to “how much guts and integrity [he] has.” 

“The fact that I have been jailed repeatedly for not agreeing to admit to something I didn’t do should speak to the fact of how much guts and integrity I have,” he told the Bangor Daily News.

Okay this idiot does realize that just because he refused to admit to a crime does not prove he was not guilty of said crime doesn't he? I mean prisons are bulging at the seams with convicts who will swear on a stack of Bibles they were set up despite eyewitness reports and forensic evidence proving their guilt. 

On the other hand this guy might be the perfect GOP candidate. Not only does he support the war on women he is even willing to give them a beating with his own two hands.

Hell if the Republicans had their way this would simply be a case of a man treating his wife to a little discipline for stepping out of line, and that he had the right to treat his property any way he saw fit.

I certainly hope that Maine has better sense than to give this sick POS the time of day.