If you've been paying attention we've been doling out an entirely deserved rash of shit to Bruce Lisman and his phony nonpartisan group Campaign for Vermont. Also, if you've been paying attention you know that all that Lisman & Co. have to offer is the standard warmed-over Republican prescriptions of cutting social programs as a way to cut taxes on the rich.

 Still, the payoff to pushing a phony nonpartisan agenda is that if you keep it neutral-seeming and content-free you are going to get people to like you, at least if all they read is the headline. I guess that must be how they arrive at almost 3,000 “likes” for their latest Facebook posting.

There's just one thing, though. Some people actually do read what they're posting, and when that happens it doesn't always turn out so well for Messrs. Lisman and Pelham.

Here's a sampling of some of the comments left on their latest Facebook post:

I agree that we need a campaign to continue to strive for excellence but when I read this group's position papers on issues such as health care reform, I realize this is a Republican Trojan Horse– a nice idea but an intention that is really not about the issues I care about.

Or:

 Vermont graduates the highest % of high school students in the country. Too bad that over half of them can't afford to go to college.

Or:

  I ask how can we be a model for the nation when we rank 49th in funding for post secondary education?

Or:

 Call me skeptical, but I don't think the former chairman of global equity for JP Morgan Chase (Bruce Lisman, one of the three individuals who claim this effort to “reform”) has Vermont's best interests in mind