Posted on 05/18/2005 3:32:11 AM PDT by billorites
IT IS BECOMING harder and harder to believe that Vermont was once ideologically similar to New Hampshire. In the land of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, a real-life socialist is the front-runner for U.S. Senate.
A poll by Burlington TV station WCAX found that U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, a registered independent and self-proclaimed socialist, would win 60 percent of the vote against either of the two Republicans considering the race, including the lieutenant governor. It is early, but Sanders support is so solid that Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has endorsed him rather than try to find a Democrat to challenge him.
Sanders is running for the seat being vacated by Sen. Jim Jeffords, the liberal-leaning independent who left the Republican party in 2001 after the Democrats offered him a committee chairmanship. If he wins, Sanders reportedly would be the only independent ever elected to the Senate.
Vermont is where Calvin Coolidge, one of Americas most conservative Presidents, was raised and where he got his values. It used to be a land of common-sense conservatism much like New Hampshire. Now it is run by liberal refugees from New York who have turned the state into a hippie haven. Both Sanders and Dean were born and raised in New York City.
Sending Sanders to the Senate would make Vermont look even kookier than Howard Dean did. And most Vermonters dont seem to have a problem with that.
May I suggest to the expatriot socialist NYers who now run Vermont(into the ground)that you should attempt annexation into Canada (our gay neighbor to the north). We will wave bye bye.
Another old movie with some good political lines is The Ghost Breakers with Bob Hope. The joke that equates Democrats with mindless zombies is as accurate today as it was then.
How far Hollywood has fallen
I wouldn't get all that 'gooey' over the Union Leader - it's fallen a long way since the days when the Loeb's controlled it. And Vermont's support for Sanders isn't all that far from Manchester's electing a 'rationally challenged'State representative (or Senator - I don't remember which) in the 90's. NH is probably the best of a very bad lot.
The "prestigious" colleges tend to attract students who think they're better than the actual residents and should tell them how to run their lives.
That's my opinion, and I'm not going to sully it with research!
Unless they find out that you are a Republican, a Christian, or that you (gasp!!!) voted for President Bush! The hatred for any of the preceding in Vermont is palpable.
How old is Bernie the Buzzard?? He has to be in his 60's. Unfortunately, Vermont keeps sending their nuts to the Senate and House. ARen't there any conservatives anywhere up there?
That makes perfect sense, and I never thought about things that way. If you live in an urban environment, you're most likely not self sufficient, and couldn't survive on your own, so of course you get very dependent on excellent and continually escalating services.
Give folks enough space, a means of defending and caring for themselves, and, by gosh, that's just what they'll want to do.
Thanks for the insights. It still doesn't explain nutty Vermont, though.
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