Wow! Even out there in Massachusetts, one of the most left leaning States in the nation, that says something. An interesting piece from the Boston Globe:

At the core of islanders’ misgivings is the shaky local economy. Although the Vineyard is sometimes depicted as a playground for the rich and famous, the numbers tell another side of the story.

Empty storefronts dot main streets in Vineyard Haven, Edgartown, and elsewhere. According to the island’s Chamber of Commerce, at least one member of nearly every Vineyard household is dependent on summer business, which softened during the recession and still has not recovered.

“Discretionary spending dipped so far down that it devastated retail and dining in particular,’’ said Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard chamber.

Lifelong resident John Alley, a county commissioner and postmaster at legendary Alley’s General Store in West Tisbury, knows many island residents out of work.

“They’ll take anything that they can get their hands on,’’ he said the other day as he sorted mail. “That’s tempered a lot of the enthusiasm.’’

And how many years in a row now have we heard Obama promising to focus on jobs? And now, we have to wait on him to finish his vacation. Go figure.

For other longtime residents, the Republican mantra during the past year about government debt and waste has struck a chord. Lifelong Edgartown resident Paul Jackson, 76, reuses everything on his 2-acre farm. He takes scallop shells from local fishermen and puts them around plants so that rain washes leftover nutrients into the soil. When the nutrients are gone, Jackson puts the shells on his driveway, where they are crushed into a fine white powder.

“That’s the trouble about all of these politicians – they don’t know anything about what it is to do things. They never got their hands dirty,’’ Jackson said, sitting on a patch of grass overlooking long rows of carrot and squash plants. “There’s too much waste and too much wrong direction they’re going in.’’

You can’t argue with that. The professional politicians (of both parties) are completely worthless parasites.

Mary Jo Goodrich, a 21-year resident and real estate broker who voted for Obama in 2008, said he will not get her support next year.

We’re hearing countless stories of Obama ’08 supporters that will not vote for him again. Only a fool or an ideologue would vote for him. Those that are smart enough to look at the record and judge him by his actions will not vote for him, and it’s good to see a number of folks out on the Vineyard looking at his actions instead of listening to his rhetoric.