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by Paul Dame
After polls closed and primary results began to trickle in, VTGOP Chairman had the following response:
“Tonight’s primary makes it abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is no place for moderates any more. The Democratic primary rewarded the most extreme and far-left candidates in several races, passing over sensible moderates. In the Republican primaries, especially in the Lt. Governor’s race showed that there is room in our party for sensible moderates who feel like the Democrats have gone too far and become too extreme.
The most surprising result to me personally is that a literal Socialist, Tanya Vyhovsky, appears to won in the Chittenden Central senate district, with a small but measurable lead over longtime news anchor Stewart Ledbetter who ran a policy-focused campaign to address the cost of living and housing. Vyhovsky’s primary focus during the primary has been suing Governor Phil Scott. Democrats are electing adversaries, not allies for Governor Scott.
The Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Vyhovsky as well as Venezuelan dictator Maduro, but AOC was too moderate for their consideration. I don’t think Vermonters realize yet just how far left the Democrats were pushed in tonight’s primary election, and how strongly those leaders have rejected any new voices from middle.
Meanwhile Republicans welcomed former Democrat John Rogers with the intent to give a serious challenge to David Zuckerman who won his primary easily despite incredibly unnerving revelations of his workplace conduct which were exposed by fellow Democrats.
Likewise independent-minded problem-solving Democrats like Caleb Elder and Louis Myers were rejected in their respective senate races for their more progressive counterparts.
This means as Vermonters are looking for common sense, centrist candidates in the general election – they are going to find them running as Republican, because the Democrat sent all of these pragmatic moderates home tonight.”
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a moderate republican is just another word for soft human waist//// remember, vermont is a leader////
Wait, I’m a fairly moderate Republican AND I DO have a fairly soft waist!
You should not be surprised at all that Ledbetter lost.
Clearly you have no idea about the field in which you do battle nor players, nor their plan, nor the internal issues within your own party.
Perhaps I’m wrong, this election will show if Get Real has any traction.
It’s ok to not get the results hoped for, it’s another thing to do the same thing for 30 years and expect different results.
Republicans need to figure out what Dem/Progs are offering that they aren’t, even
getting elected against the betterment of their constituents. Learn from that and offer hope rather than fear. VTGOP is so traumatized by the past couple of decades that the messages tend to be reactionary and defensive rather than full of hope and optimism. Progressive Republicanism isn’t like the Progs at all, except for the promise it offers and the hope it can garner.
People see that the world, the government, society are messed up, but we need to offer them a way forward. The promise of the VTGOP has NOT been communicated effectively enough, obviously, or the turnouts would show it.
The VT Dem play book is pretty rigid and non-flexible, which is their Achillies heal for sure. They are about retaining power and money, also a serious weakness.
We have to start in small bands, playing the same song and dance, build from there.
So many, including Gov Scott think that getting someone in a high office of leadership, like Rodgers will change the tide. It’s not going to, look in Vermont Digger, what they did to people with different ideas, what they have done to people who stopped goose stepping, Rodgers is a perfect example, they ran him out of office. Cynthis Browning (sp?) was also run out of the party for making fiscal sense.
This again is their weakness; they can take no criticism, and the response is immediate cancellation. Tyrants get compliance, Romans did it with their military and citizens by broad casting those who stepped outside the fold by a free journey out of this world by crucifixion, a very tortuous and evil way to kill someone. Crucifixion makes the people torture themselves until death, they have to push up in order to breath, in order to push up they have to go against the spikes in their feet and hands. Killing every tenth soldier (decimate) got compliance in the military.
If nobody knows about the waste, fraud and corruption, why change?
If nobody knows there is a better way, why change?
Truly they VTDEMS, are terrified of people thinking for themselves, terrified of a free press or commentary board, terrified of neighbors getting along, terrified of competing against another method or ideas……because they know they are wrong and can’t win in the open.
And this is how they could tear themselves down, we wouldn’t have to do a thing but watch and feel pity for some and enjoy seeing justice served for others.
It’s the same reason the EU threatens Musk for allowing an interview with Trump to be aired openly and freely, that is typical Vermont press play…they are helpless against any truth.
They care not for their people; they care about power and money.
Vermont, if you’re not in the ” Progressive Tent ” you don’t stand a chance, what surprises me with almost 500k registered voters in the state, we have less than 100k that vote, and as you see 90% of them are progressives…………
Want a change in the state, get off your ” dead Az,” and vote, vote to change the failing direction of the state………………… pretty pathetic !!
I’ve said it a million times: the first step to getting political balance is for the other half of the population to show up, and for Republicans to bother to run rather than succumb to defeatism.
Timothy, we need victories, surely! Being cannon fodder is not good for the soul, unwise and fiscally unsound. We are trying to build a winning statewide team when we don’t even have enough players to fill the roster. On top of that the coach and star pitcher are, shall we say less than inspiring for a Republican all-star team.
We don’t know how to win. We haven’t tasted victory, for some in a lifetime.
If we as a group supported, worked with, played with candidates and areas where victory is more than a pipe dream, we’d get some traction. We’d be making teams, bands that play well together and build out, going to the next best chance of winning a game.
Would Vermont be wise to start up a baseball team this year, with Vermonters who have little experience, skill and coaching to enter the world series? Of course not, it would be ludicrous.
The same could be said for the VTGOP, to expect or think you are going to change things that quickly by normal means is insane and short sighted at best. Perhaps by divine intervention, but even then, we’d have to massively change our hearts…
There is a way out of this mess. People can clearly see we are in a hot mess. Vermont holds the key to a national transformation, our puzzle is difficult, but once solved will yield amazing results. It’s worth the time, money and effort.
Just like I said… Most Republicans are actually Democrats, but No Democrats are ever Republicans. Which is why the moderates keep voting for Democrats right Scott and Klar and Dame? The Get REAL campaign has no conservative backing, it will not hold because the moderates are Democrats.
“No Country for Old Moderates.” Get Cormac McCarthy to GHOSTwrite…
Can Republicans do anything about it? That is the question.
I was going to respond to your comment and then, why should I, but I will anyway. I tried to analyze the primary. I stated that Greg Thayer was not going to win because we live in a blue state, and he was viewed as too extreme. I voted for Rogers because he is a moderate and I am a conservative but, unless we make headway, we have nothing. Greg Thayer lost to a former democrat in a republican primary. Just what I predicted. I’m now hoping that republicans and moderate democrats will gather to knock out David Zuckerman who is no friend of republicans and is a danger to our state. I hope people will join me in electing Rogers and sending Zuckerman back to his so-called farm. This is how we can begin to make change.
moderate//// avoiding extremes, temperate, average, mediocre, limited in scope or effect, not expensive/// webster dictionary//// looks like a moderate has some problems with their problem solving ability/// i am waiting for a vermont hero that can get the job done//// not looking very good////
“pragmatic moderates” – Fix or reverse absolutely no previous destruction, and invest efforts in other subject areas of destruction that will later be used by the “other team” to further copious amounts of infinite future destruction. Very reasonable and level headed. Also known as the ratcheting effect.
The most pragmatic thing they could do would be to stop previous doings. Stopping/removing/reversing is the easiest possible thing to do because it is removing efforts, and takes no work (power to the people). “Pragmatic moderates” are just a slightly diluted version of the same exact thing we have now, and have no interest in fixing anything.
Crank em out boys, we don’t need no fundamentals – continue to fund the mentals!
If you are relating to John Rogers as a moderate, the evidence says he’s not. He stood against his party on numerous issues like excessive taxes, gun control, farming issues and more. He saw the light and realized that his party had left him. In normal times, awhile back in time he would have been called a conservative democrat.
What is the republican party in Vermont these days? The leaders vote for democrats, they do nothing to grow the party. They support Phil Scott who does nothing to support republicans so much so that he can’t muster a veto win unless a few democrats vote with him. Keep losing, that’s what the party wants because they keep the same leadership. They have nothing to sell the voters who are controlled by the media wing of the democratic party.
Apathy and ignorance have infested Vermont as well as an influx of liberal voters who have moved here and brought their liberalism with them. They escaped from the policies of their former state that influenced their move to come here. Once here, they continue to vote for the issues that drove them out of their former state. You can’t fix, run away from or legislate stupid. The only way to deal with it is to elect people who can start the ball rolling toward real change. Hard lining and stubbornness to vote for candidates that can’t win is the result of losing any chance at change. And this is the continuation of the republican party. I, as a Vermont conservative can understand why real republicans have stopped voting. We have no one in any state position and there’s nothing to vote for except more of the uniparty.
In other words, the Vermont GOP got no game, no guts, no glory, no cojones. How many cycles have come and gone with no organized, diliberate mounted offensive, no neighborhood canvassing, no phone banks, no media blitzing, no meme cannons fired, no blanketing social media exposing the fraud or failures – nothing, nada, zilch.
It would appear as though the Vermont GOP is rather comfortable and complicit. The governor is as weak as any “top donor”, installed bureaucrat, judge, or corporate/business sponsor. The media is obvioulsy compromised – yet, they just whistle past the grave yard.
Stick a fork in it, Vermont is finished. I’d say rest in peace, but that is not how hybrid bolshevik coups work out – per real historical events – many die and suffer endlessly and needlessly because it’s all planned and played out in advance.
“Common sense, centrist candidates” do not want to be identified with MAGA extremists. Blaming Vermonters who vote in the Democrats primary for not supporting candidates more acceptable to conservative Republicans is just sad.
Extremists are what you have right here in the progressive super majority legislature. A legislature that taxes everything that moves and stands still, regulates everything and charges fees. They want to have your children cut themselves up and take cancer causing drugs in a useless effort to change their sex. They are all connected to lobbyists and believe they can affect the weather. They sought to make it legal successfully for women to abort a fully formed baby at 9 months and added it to our constitution. They are attempting to disarm people of their constitutional rights to self-defense and more. This is the extreme party. There are no moderates in your party. Using the old bait and switch semantics, you call Make America Great Again extreme. Liberals have weird logic and no common sense and are very extreme in everything they do.
i will double the size of my garden next summer//// got to wonder what these stores do with all that high price meat and vegetables they can not sell//// if you think these political hacks are going to fix anything your dreaming////