Dire Straits for Tarrant

Dire Straits are one of my all time favourite rock bands. When I read Rich Tarrant's garbage ad in yesterday's BFP on page 4a, where he lambasts Sanders for being soft on child pornographers,
I thought of a few lines from one one of the Straits most popular singles, Private Investigations.

Digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts
In the line of work
Treachery and treason
Theres always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason
I still cant get used to it

I don't subscribe to cable tv, but found the same ads on Tarrant's two websites here, here and here.

Digging up the dirt
Theres always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason
I still cant get used to it

Well, Richard Tarrant seems to always have a convenient excuse for whining and fearmongering. Why are he and the GOP trying to terrorize the country? Why not a rational and calm review of the facts, rather than an endless series of dire warnings? Indeed, the pun in the title of this post intended. The guy's desperate.

Today, I see that Sanders has responded.

Digging up the dirt
I still cant get used to it

I was used to it when I lived in Texas. And I got a taste of it when I moved to Vershire in 2000 and saw the treatment our state representative, Marion Milne, got from the "Take Back Vermont" folks during her bid for re-election to the state house. And one of my friends who was deeply active in getting the civil union law passed has told me that it was a wretched campaign of uncivil behaviour. But I still can't get used to it in Vermont. I keep thinking we are a cut above the rest of America.

My hope is that Tarrant's just a flash in the pan in Vermont politics. To make that happen, I encourage my fellow Burlingtonians to register to vote if you have not already done so, and to vote early.