The Lies (Vermont) Republicans Tell Us

For the most part, I like to think of Vermont as usually out of the foolish fray of partisan politics. Sure, we see some of the same stupidity you see everywhere else, but most of the Vermonters I know don't play the straight-ticket-voting games so much of the rest of the country does.

So it's with particular and very sad disappointment this mid-term election season when I've seen the Republican crap of everywhere else invade our politics.

Example: Republicans using Jim Jeffords to endorse Martha Rainville when Jeffords does NOT endorse Rainville. And Martha just throws up her hands at this and indicates it's not her fault.

But that's the thing with Martha Rainville's campaign. For someone who bills herself as "the nonpartisan candidate", her campaign has been Republican through-and-through, from the "It's not my fault" plagiarism, to the Jeffords endorsement that never happened, to claiming to have her own health care plan when she does not, to insisting she made sure that every national guardsman had body armor when they didn't.

Now, I don't dislike Martha Rainville. I do think she's better than average. But feeling she's better than average, I expected a better campaign than she delivered. And she can't just use the excuse that the national Republicans made her do this when she's claiming to run as "not beholden to national GOP interests."

Rich Tarrant, however, is infuriating, disappointing, and outright creepy. His commercials early on gave us a feel for the Rich who lied his way to being both rich and important. Now they tell us that his great experience with health care will give us the best health plan.

Earth to Republicans: Tarrant developed a medical billing program. This is NOT health care.

And it goes downhill from there with Rich, so I'll stop here.