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Pure Vermont

by: kestrel9000

Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 17:13:58 PM EDT


I was in Virginia for that "Real Virginia" thing, and I have a pretty good sense for what it was about.

#8. Posted by Hunter Melville on May 18, 2010
Pure Vermont, what a great slogan! Good luck, Brian. You're right, Vermonters need more freedom, and we need you in the Governor's Office.

Free-dohm?
That is a WORSHIP word. You will not SPEAK it.

It's worh mentioning that Mr. Pure Vermont is having money raised for him by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

RICHMOND -- Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base.

It is also worth noting that Brian Dubie's campaign manager, Corry Bliss, last worked in Virginia for nutter Thelma Drake.

With those things in mind, I was in Virginia during the battle to keep the Virginia State Constitution from being defaced by hate and bigotry, and I recall one thing I heard over and over from the haters:

"We don't want Vermont values in Virginia."
So, I did the proper thing. I left, and came back to Vermont.
And I don't want Virginia values in Vermont.
You?

What do you suppose Brian Dubie might mean by, "Pure Vermont?"

I have a funny feeling, based on his associations, that I know.

And I don't think I like it.

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"Pure Vermont" huh? (4.00 / 2)
Why does that have a faintly unclean sound when uttered in this context?

Round Em Up and Deport Em (4.00 / 2)
Yep... sounds like it's time to get ready for the big round up of all those pesky Flatlanders living here with their strange ideas.... and show them the border.
Don't care where they go as long as they leave Vermont to us "Pure Vermonters".

What nonsense.... and what a divisive term.

Just what we need... a heightened sense of "them" and "us".... meh !


Vermont values vs. slave state values (3.50 / 2)
It's equality versus kiss-up kick-down.

There's an active marketing campaign to substitute traditional American values with kiss-up kick-down values.

We can't count on people remembering why we chose freedom in the 18th and 19th century. We will have to market freedom today. Just hiding here in Vermont won't do it either. The slave staters have already sucked us into their plans for empire and endless war.

We can govern ourselves better than they govern us!


Take Back Vermont? (4.00 / 2)
A kinder, gentler version of the "Take Back Vermont" campaign against civil unions and Act 60 of 10 years ago.

The rhetoric may be gentler (4.00 / 1)
But the sentiments behind it are equally abhorrent.

Beware the Everyday Brutality of the Averted Gaze

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