today to a post last week by his guest blogger, “City Slicker.” “City Slicker” asked, “What do Rural Voters Want?”

Salt Lick offers a good answer and an insightful peek into rural Virginia thinking. He plays off an editorial by the Roanoke Times that also answered the “City Slicker” question. I guess Salt Lick is so jaded by the Times that he didn’t notice what I just did: they have already endorsed Tim Kaine (I know, big surprise). After saying both Kaine and Kilgore have staked out the same conservative turf, they conclude:

The expected Democratic and Republican nominees have both pledged to push rural economic development and support education and transportation. But Kilgore especially promises to spend money one minute and cut taxes the next.

Would he or Kaine be more likely to support and fund the entire package – improved roads and other infrastructure, a better-educated work force and development incentives- that rural Virginia needs to attract companies and prosper?

It falls to voters to determine who is more likely to come through, but here’s a clue: Nothing will happen without the money.

The inference is pretty clear. Their man Kaine will make “the entire package” happen with “the money.”

I don’t know that Kaine has said he will raise taxes and fund everything; he probably hasn’t and he probably won’t because he’s running a “wink and nod” campaign. He just winked at the Roanoke Times editorial board and they nodded.