Socialist Leads U.S. Senate Race in Vt.

Associated Press ^ | 5/29/05

[Unam Sanctam]

What is my New England coming to?

[LibFreeOrDie]

Vermont was better off when the cows outnumbered the people.

[Paleo Conservative]

Socialist Communist Leads U.S. Senate Race in Vt.

[Brilliant]

What's the big deal? Vermont has had two socialist Senators for years.

[Paleo Conservative]

Vermont was better off when the cows outnumbered the people.

The average IQ was higher then too.

[Brilliant]

I say we start by nationalizing Ben & Jerry's.

[Paleo Conservative]

I say we start by nationalizing Ben & Jerry's.

Ben & Jerry's, proof that Mad Cow disease exists in the US.

[Enchante]

"What's the big deal? Vermont has had two socialist Senators for years"

Yup, and whiny Howie Dean recently confirmed that there are no significant differences between Sanders and lots of liberal Demagogues - Dean says they're all liberal Democrats, I say they're all socialists. The Democratic Party has lots of senators with voting records nearly identical to Sanders' record....

[putupjob]

The only thing from Vermont that isn't nutty is the maple syrup.

[Tarkin]

"a socialist in a chamber dominated by moderates and conservatives"

Right...

[Williams]

Believe it or not this is an opening to my favorite complaint. Republicans by and large have failed to stand up to the left, and they have allowed leftism to drift more and more into the accepted mainstream. Of course you can forget the democrats, they ARE the leftists. But republican politicians long ago stopped shaming the leftists into the fringe where they belong.

[mak5]

But Howard Dean said just last week that Sanders is not a Socialist, he's a liberal Democrat.

[Tarkin]

That's why the United States should sell Vermont to Canada :-).

[cgbg]

the right to send your child to college

This was also a theme of John Edwards presidential primary bid.

Lessee--if the gubmint pays for everyone to go to college how will that affect the effective demand for college? What will that do to the cost of colleges for those who pay their own way?

Effective demand exceeds supply--uh, I guess the price might go up a bit, eh.

Isn't socialism grand?

:-(

[mc6809e]

I say we start by nationalizing Ben & Jerry's.

Yep.

If you want people to realize just how stupid their ideas are, sometimes you have to put them into practice.

[winner3000]

Having the first socialist in the Senate will make it easier for socialism to be accepted in the US. This is the first step toward the Europeanization of the US. We must try to defeat him before that happens so that we could say that open socialists cannot win.

[Betaille]

"What is my New England coming to?"

While New England annoys me currently, I think that if the Left actually came to power and raised taxes, increased regulations and govt. spending, etc... New England would become one of the first regions to turn against them. They are higher income and less amendable to populism

[FairOpinion]

"Vermont was better off when the cows outnumbered the people."


And I am sure they are smarter, than the current Vermont voters too. How stupid do they have to be to elect a socialist, when socialism has been proven to be a failure all around the world.

[Doctor Raoul]

I love the part where Bernie takes off his shoe, pounds the podium with it and screams, "We will bury you."

[CGTRWK]

There is already a socialist caucus in the House with about 50 members. About one fourth of house Dems are members.