I Too, Vote for Vanessa!!!

From MSNBC

HAVERHILL, N.H. - A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids."

Republican Carol Elliott said students just voted for the Democratic ticket, which included Dartmouth junior Vanessa Sievers. Sievers won by nearly 600 votes out of 42,000 cast after targeting voters at Dartmouth and Plymouth State University through a $42 ad on the Web site Facebook.

"It was the brainwashed college kids that made the difference," Elliott, 66, told the Valley News of Lebanon. She said she had little faith that Sievers will fulfill her duties adequately. "You've got a teenybopper for a treasurer," said Elliott, who has held the position for six years. "I'm concerned for the citizens of Grafton County."

Ms. Elliott:

I do not live in Grafton County, NH; I confess I've never even visited your fair state, though I would love to this time of the year--I'm told the fall foliage is beautiful.

But, for the record, Ms. Sievers is now a twenty-something, not a "teenybopper."

And you--as a Republican who would have been overjoyed if those same Dartmouth students had voted for Gov. Palin to be a heart-beat away from the Presidency--you want to 1) call those students "brainwashed" and 2) question Ms. Siever's qualifications???

The wine pressed from those grapes would be sour indeed.

After a fall campaign that spent untold millions on races large and small, I think Ms. Siever's fiscally conservative purchase of a small FaceBook ad that reached her core constituency is a move to be emulated, not ridiculed.

And, oh yes--on the point that these "brainwashed" college students don't own property in Grafton County? Well, that's true. But if your attitude is indicative of that of your neighbors, can you really blame these newly-well-educated young folks from putting down roots elsewhere?