Think it’s too early for us to consider the 2012 election season underway? Not so, sez self-described “Republican Newspaper” the Caledonian Record. The same paper that warned us of the creeping Greenpeace hordes among us has, on March 11 of 2011, decided to make it’s first endorsement for election day 2012. From today’s editorial entitled “Salmon vs Sanders – Courageous, Shrewd, or Both?” (ooo… tough choice, almost as tough as “George W. Bush – Great president, or the greatest president?”):
We thoroughly approve Tom Salmon’s candidacy to replace Bernie Sanders. It has been painful for the past 12 years to know Vermont interests have had no representation in Sanders, first in the House, now in the Senate. Electing him and re-electing him has been a harmful exercise in political naiveté for Vermont. Replacing him with Tom Salmon will be an announcement that Vermont is back on the national scene.
(Note: Publisher Smith doesn’t approve of a Salmon candidacy, he simply “approves” it… guess it’s a go, then!)
This is truly teh awesome. It’s early March of the year before the election, and the Broken Record isn’t wasting any time, endorsing a candidate who hasn’t even announced a decision to run! I’m sure the meetings of the endorsement board were riveting exercises in critical thinking and cool, intellectual journalistic professionalism.
But in all seriousness, the Broke-Rec should be applauded for its efficiency and prophetic foresight. No doubt in coming weeks we can see more time-saving endorsements, such as:
- Thomas Lauzon, Governor 2012
- Sarah Palin, President 2012
- Sarah Palin, President 2016
- Bristol Palin, President 2020
- Ronald Reagan’s cloned brain, housed in a nuclear-powered bionic exoskeleton, President 2024
I guess the only real Vermonters are at the Record?
NEK, an extremely conservative pocket, perhaps the most in VT regularly votes in rightwingers who don’t do shite for them or the area. It is the most poverty stricken area of the state. It’s always been this way. Voters do not seem to correlate this. Much of my family is from the area & I have ties.
The ideology of the left seems to be a sticking point & I can understand many have strong beliefs. They do not seem to have figured out that those promising ideological purity do nothing else & it also has not stopped any changes from taking place.
The Caledonian Record is the newspaper of choice for all people like our man Salmon that need to be authentic self-utilizing power along the lines of excellence*.
They publish a tasty low cholesterol edition too.
Tom Salmon, part time Vermont Auditor of Accounts and full super-hero of the mind.
A friend who moved to St. J about four years ago says she picks up the CR from time to time, just to revel in the absurdity and get her blood up.
She routinely outstrips my stories of crazy from the Messenger.
“Vermont interests have had no representation in Sanders”
This newspaper announces that they and the Republican Party do not represent Vermonters, actual people. The Republicans only represent ‘interests’, and those supercede the interests of actual people.
Senator Sanders has been representing actual Vermonters, real people, actual living and breathing human beings. Vermont has been a visible player in national politics BECAUSE our DC three represent actual humans. But the GOP sees Vermonters as obstacles to their ‘interests’. The GOP sees Sanders refusal to trample on actual Vermonters as a terrible problem.
Human beings have no place in a Republican society.
…they’ll no doubt endorse the candidacy of a ‘reformed and rehabilitated’ Jared Loughner.