The Democrat Party of late has found a convenient excuse for losing – senility.

The leftists did it with Biden and they’re now doing it with Janet Mills.

But in reality it’s not old age that killed Biden and Maine’s two-term governor.

It’s their policies.

Age is just a cheap distraction from open borders, crime, high taxes and and at least in Maine outright financial, billion-dollar government fraud.

For years now, The Maine Wire has been relentlessly highlighting Janet’s illegal Chinese weed farms, Medicaid Somali fraud, outrageous electric prices and bad roads, to name just a few.

So it’s not like Mills should be surprised at the result – a failed U.S. Senate primary campaign.

If she had been smart enough Mills could have easily taken charge eight years ago when she was first sworn in and actually governed like an adult instead of vacuously, continually claiming “I’m looking out for you, Maine” while her state went to hell.

Her legacy-media friends – think Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News – actually did the governor no favors by denying her chronic failures.

It was really no surprise when the Press Herald’s Steve Collins wrote his “courageous and compassionate” friend Janet’s political obituary by playing the age card.

If it weren’t for being able to exploit her old age, the state’s leading political communist would have had nothing to hang his sorry hat on.

“When Mills decided to challenge Sen. Susan Collins in the longtime incumbent’s reelection bid this year, I worried the governor was simply too old for the task – not just the campaign but the six years that would follow if she won,” Collins wrote last week. “I wasn’t alone.”

So with that conspiracy of silence her own party, according to Collins, sandbagged its alternative to upstart “oyster farmer” Graham Platner.

Collins made absolutely no mention in his column of her dismal failure as the state’s chief executive officer. “Courage and compassion” was enough for his shallow satiation.

If Democrats were talking behind Janet’s back about how old she was, it distracted them from talking openly and honestly about what really matters – leadership or, in the governor’s case, lack thereof

The national party made the same mistake by pulling exactly the same Monday-morning stunt, declaring once it was too late to do anything about it that of course they all had known Biden had been too old to run for a second term.

Funny how they never mentioned how the real problem with Biden was his policies.

The best and latest evidence perhaps of Janet’s political tin ear is not even necessarily that she was just a terrible governor and chose to take no evasive action to improve her administration – it was her dreadly-incompetent management style, clearly evident in the way she campaigned for a job promotion.

Arguably the illumination of her flaws became most stark when she naively and arrogantly figured that accusing Platner of suggesting women get raped by choice would make a good campaign ad to light her job prospects on fire.

The claim smouldered dead of its own weight for failing to fit a narrative because for all his alleged misogynism and racism Platner has a political magic that is God-given. It’s called DNA. Some have it, some don’t. He has it.

Platner may be – and has been – accused of the worst traits a political figure can possess.

Yet for all his apparent flaws, the key demographic – older women – absolutely adore their bearded, Nazi-tattooed boy wonder.

Janet figured she had women in her pocket – again just another awkward misstep by an entitled lifetime politician with no clue as to how people really think and feel.

One governs as one campaigns and vice versa.

If you have no clue about governing, you are totally in the dark about how to persuade voters you’re better than a racist misogynist.

“You are still our hero,” Diana and Adam Lee of Cumberland wrote to their friend Janet Mills in a Press Herald op-ed Saturday, “with a track record that may never be matched.”

Truer words were never spoken.