Governor Phil Scott is a p.o.s. r.i.n.o.
In my humble opinion.
And the Lefts favorite Republican
(This is why The Republican party in Vermont is [dead] to me.)
Vermont is perhaps the most liberal state in the nation, and much to the resident liberals apparant embarassment also one of the whitest. The State, which has next to no restrictions on firearm possession, is also still one of the most safest States in the country.
This of course can only mean that Vermont’s culture and its residents are irrededeemably RACIST! Black lives Matter was then given ‘carte blanche’ to ignore the rule of law and silence any opposition through raw intimidation.
When the Vermont legislature recently passed a bill to allow a women total unrestricted abortion right up to sucking out the baby’s brain while in the birth canal, any normal republican would have vetoed the bill and forced the legislature to override. But like Pontilus Pilate; Phil Scott washed his hands and signed it with enthusiasim.
Phil Scott despises Donald Trump. So I must assume that when I drive around central Vermont and see houses flying Trump and Gadston flags and signs saying “pray to end abortion” and “pre-born lives matter” that their governor despises them too.
I realize that the majority of voters in Vermont are liberal democrats who have for generations been living in Shangri-La and feel a deep need to virtue signal to atone for the sin of being blessed with a decent quality of life.
So if Vermont is so “progressive” how did (rino)Phil Scott defeat his rival so easily?
Well you had someone who was going to give [democrats] nearly everthing they wanted. The alternative was his fringe radical opponet who was ready to step on the gas a take Vermont to a place even liberals were not ready for.
For Conservative Republicans the choice was the frying pan or the fire.
From the liberal rag ‘the Atlantic’ They really kiss up to him.
The biggest mystery about Scott is why he remains a Republican when the party nationally has moved so far to the right and has bowed so deeply to the whims of a man he can’t stand. No elected Republican in the country—not Baker or Hogan, not any member of Congress—has gone further in repudiating Trump than Scott. He supported both impeachments of the former president, and on Election Day, rather than writing in the name of a GOP luminary, Scott voted for Biden.
He [Scott} voted for a house plant for President. Personal hatred won out over love of country.
I liken it to General Robert E. Lee commanding the Union Army of the Potomac against the South and his home State of Virginia. While at the same time wearing his grey uniform.
I’m glad I’m old.