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For a reality check, Vermont is a DEEP blue state, and we are darned fortunate to have two Republicans, albeit RINOs in our top statewide offices. Let’s please realize that if they were NOT RINOs, they would not have been elected. John Rodgers even left the democrat party out of disgust with their agenda. Part of their broad, bi-partisan appeal is from taking stances like their avowed disdain for our current President. It’s not really affecting their political bottom line when it comes to their emphasis on addressing our out-of-control spending and high cost of living. I am perfectly ok with their anti-Trump grandstanding, if it is a requisite for their maintaining office, and let the chips fall where they may in the Federal govt. The American people were given the gift of the Presidency, both houses of Congress and a majority on the Supreme Court leaning conservative. Let’s not be too picky about the small stuff. As far as Trump prevailing back in November, America did not dodge a bullet, we dodged an asteroid, and that scenario is not in any way despoiled by any commentary by Vermont’s Lt. Governor.
Perfect analysis!
Some of us have been saying and warning you guys…..
One question, we asked over and over, is he going to build the Republican party????
They knew exactly what they are doing.
Now that you guys have been so severely burned, perhaps we can finally change the party into something effective. They want us divided, the VTGOP has been ineffective on purpose for decades.
Get you dark Maga hat on, wear it proudly.
Are you just saying different things to different people and saying different things…..
Narcissists, sociopath/psychopaths…this is how they operate.
Oh, btw, those crowds? the unions told their members to attend……know this directly from people in the unions
Yep, the Union I was in (IAFF LOCAL 1619) always told us to go to all these events. I never went to anything or donated to anyone!
It seemed to me like somebody wanted to destroy the party.
You are directly over the target.
This is how the uniparty wins.
Uniparty had a huge victory.
It was the same thing with a couple other pseudo Republicans that ran in the past primaries for governor. When asked by the press if they backed Trump they refused to discuss the topic stating that Vermont was their primary concern. That was code for not a Trump fan. The major reason I backed out of support for the Vermont Republican Party. It used to be they supported the so-called “eleventh commandment” but not when it came to Trump.
So, having a different opinion means you can’t be a Republican? Tow the Party Line or else?
When your opinion and actions mirror agenda 21, United Nations, a Marxist agenda, yes. You should be removed from office for treason truthfully.
Republican John Rodgers, is showing his showing his real colors a DemocRAT, and you suckers voted for this clown, ………. but then again you should have known as he was supported by anti Trump Scott, VT GOP is a joke, spineless fools in charge !!
Wake up people, the will destroy our state, what’s left of it.
When Phil Scott decides he’s had enough, would we prefer the RINO Gov. Rodgers or hard core leftists who actually really do hate conservatives? We just ended the demoprog supermajority’s reign of terror. Do we want it back with Gov. Krowinski, Gov. Baruth or Gov. Charity Clark? Yikes!
Actually we do Rich. The it’s been working for decades now is the left gets to do what they want and have a perfect scape goat why things aren’t the way they should be, Republican governor in place. The Republicans have the perfect scape goat by the dems having majority, can’t get things passed.
When all along they both get to do what the uniparty wants, while blaming each other.
It’s like the PAC money, remember the outrage from the public. It was always the minority screaming what dumb corrupt idea it was and then suddenly when they had the majority, no protest, no change.
This is how we are played by the political system like a cheap fiddle. We fall for it every time.
This is how they gaslight, project, instill fear, ramp up hatred and keep people divided and hating. Been working perfectly in Vermont for 40 years+
You are absolutely correct Mr Henry. Did we not learn anything
from the Biden disasters, 1 or 2 per day for four years? These ultra leftists would be a carbon copy of the thinking these bums had in the 4 years of Joey B. Do we need to hit bottom before we realize just how far down the old dumper we are? These clowns on the ultra left are all the same, use the same scripted messages, vote the same, the same tactics to get where and what they want. As much as I dislike the leadership at the top in VT, we are just one election away from that swamp taking over. Some day, I believe there will be a lot of pieces to pick up. Maybe we should just let it happen and start planning for the recovery.
Paul Dame? You guys have learned nothing…sorry.
Congrats on being in the Press Pool……
AMAZING!!!!!!!
Dear Lt. Governor John Rogers,
You did a thorough job of making a complete fool of yourself.
Disappointing to put very mildly.
John could certainly have been more moderate in his criticism of Trump instead of throwing red meat to the crowd, but the fact is that most people who haven’t left Vermont in disgust do not support Trump and most of his programs. Without attacking Trump personally, it is clearly fair to criticize some of his policies—tariffs, a willingness to abandon Ukraine, the lack of discrimination in exercising the powers of DOGE, and the use of government agencies to wreak revenge on the President’s opponents, for example. That may not have drawn all the cheers, but I think it would have been a better way to present a Vermont Republican position. In the end though, I agree with Rich Lachapelle: when the choice is between a moderate Republican (whom some choose to call RINOs) and a radical progressive (whom some call Democrats), I’ll take the RINO any day.
Certainly both Trump and Rodgers could be a little more polished and sophisticated in their general demeanor when criticizing others, but when it comes to hiring a roofer, plumber or heart surgeon, I would side with their skills, technical qualifications and work ethic and be less concerned with their personality.
I can’t see how it makes any difference, a RINO is not a republican. Amazing how everyone has forgotten the covid era and what the state did to the people with all their unconstitutional lock downs, orders and closures. Not to mention pushing a pharmaceutical elixir which wasn’t a tested vaccine and basically mandated everyone to get injected, even children. With everything we know now, that harm was worse than the virus.
As for the republican party, they are mostly RINOs and never Trumpers. Who in that gang could hold a candle to what Trump has done and is doing for America’s forgotten worker bees, the people who get things done but have had their money confiscated by the progressive carpetbaggers. Those progressives that moved here and took over the government. Mr. Koch here was one of those members of the R party who seemingly couldn’t do anything to stop them.
You can call them RINOs and make yourselves feel better, but here’s the truth, the are old time democrats. John Rogers made his first campaign for governor speech. He had to connect with his old party since anointing himself a republican. That anti-Trump pathetic speech was just him showing the loonies that he’s still one of them. And Vermont is still a failed state like all the other blue states that are circling the drain. Freedom and Unity are just words from another time and Vermont Strong is an empty phrase. While America moves up with Trumps leadership, Vermont sinks further into another failed progressive experiment.
Re: “…it is clearly fair to criticize some of his policies—tariffs, a willingness to abandon Ukraine, the lack of discrimination in exercising the powers of DOGE, and the use of government agencies to wreak revenge on the President’s opponents, for example.”
It’s fair to criticize anyone, Mr. Koch. But your remarks are classic logical fallacies… based on ‘either-or’ arguments with only two distinct choices, when more (many more, in fact) exist.
What is it about tariffs you don’t like? Be specific.
What do you mean – ‘abandon’ Ukraine?
What do you mean by ‘the lack of discrimination in exercising the powers of DOGE”? Are you saying DOGE is acting indiscriminately? Explain your logic.
Who is using ‘… government agencies to wreak revenge on the President’s opponents’? Which President? On President Trump’s opponents or on President Biden’s opponents?
Can you get John Rodgers to answer the above questions too?
You guys always put forth the usual talking points. But you never explain the basis for your logic.
The pandering platitude that upset the VTGOP brothern is the fact John took out his big paint brush and painted all Congressional Republicans as cowardly and lacking courage. He also held up Liz Cheney as a GOP idol to worship. The mindless gaff heard around the entire State. Where is Liz now? Hiding in Daddy’s bunker?
I am not affiliated to either party – they are one in the same in my opinion. I will say one Congressional member I do like is Thomas Massie. He is the only one that didn’t take the free trip to Israel and doesn’t carry the water for Oval office or AIPAC. If only there were more uncompromised representatives of the People, not bank balances and stock options, we might actually have leaders with courage, ethics and morals.
Flash!! Rogers and Scott are not republicans. They can not, and will not impede the democrats and so it really does not matter they call themselves republican, they are in reality…DEMOCRATS. I will be the first to criticize Trump…if he ever does something that I disagree with. I feel very good knowing my country has excellent leadership. I feel very sad knowing my state has NO leadership and does not look like it ever will. Eventually, I may be forced to leave
No worries Mr. Rogers I will be self deporting to NH. One less conservative to worry about. Yall better grab a life preserver cause this ship is going down.
Next stop, Hollywood! Acting as a RINO, he read that script just like Bernie, Welch and Balint wrote it.
I suppose according to some is that we are better off with middle of the roaders like
King Philip the Scott 1st Eunuch King of Castrati and John “I’m a Republican now” Rodgers. There is no middle when dealing with Progressive American Marxists. Both these guys will go to the middle but will always sell us out when they are threatened with a loss to their political power. “A leopard can’t change its spots, and a skunk can’t change its smell. D.B. Wilmer
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right, and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.” – AYN RAND
Please be sure to save the video tape of this John Rodgers’ speech for future reference.
In time Trump’s policies will start working for all of us and Rino Rogers will look like an idiot..as will all the protesters dealing out all their hatred. We are in the virgin stages of making America great again.. but it’s gonna take time. That’s why Trump is going all in now which may be frightening for the left and for the stock market but if he pussy foots around four years won’t be near enough time to fix the mess the Dems have gotten us into.
The problem with Scott and Rodgers is the belief that Vermont is so liberal that we can’t talk about keeping boys out of the girls locker room and the men out of the women’s prisons. The only way Republicans are going to win is to talk about the 80/20 issues and be on the side of the 80.
Albert Molher, equated determining the effects of tariffs is like determining where marbles will land when placed on a table. Trump has always been in favor of tariffs so give him credit for practicing what he has preached.
Rodgers needs to shut his pie hole and wait things out. How foolish to speak negatively about Trump. It hasn’t even been 100 days.
I met John Rodgers at a Republican barbecue during his campaign . My opinion of him has not changed and in-fact has continued going left on my own personal ‘like’ meter, (number 1, being total disdain).
I wrote in Gregory Thayer and do not regret my vote one bit.