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Lose the ‘R’ Or Take the ‘L’? - Kevin D. Williamson - The Dispatch 5%
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7/10/2026, 6:45:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Ad Hominem, Biased Writer Voice, and Politically Left Leaning Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 8.8% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 75 faulty-reasoning hits from 442 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 20.2% and a BS Rank of 5% (13,190 of 13,766 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.80% of the article peer group.
Lose the ‘R’ Or Take the ‘L’?
Sen.
Susan Collins is a genuine moderate in a party of genuine maniacs.
Sen.
Susan Collins speaks to media on May 5, 2026, in Bridgton, Maine.
(Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)
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Sen.
Susan Collins of Maine has a reputation for bipartisanship that may actually understate the case: As the Lugar Center runs the numbers , she is the single most bipartisan member of the Senate, meaning the one most likely to cosponsor legislation with members of the opposing party.
Bipartisan in this sense is not necessarily a synonym for moderate or centrist—note that Sen.
John Cornyn of Texas ranks high on the bipartisanship index, too—but Sen.
Collins is hardly a right-wing ideologue or a conservative hardliner: She is typically ranked as the most moderate Republican in the Senate and the most ideologically centrist senator overall .
Kevin D.
Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia.
Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers.
He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
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