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The Second Amendment Issue

I have added two links in my Campaign Links section. One is a letter of endorsement for Larry Diedrich by the South Dakota Shooting Sports Association. The other is a candidate rating of South Dakota House and Senate seats in regard to those best suited to protect the Second amendment.

Here is an excerpt from an email I received from David F. Conway, SD Shooting Sports Assoc.-Legislative Affairs and NRA-ILA State EVC:

In the 2000 and 2002 elections, gun owners played an integral role in securing the course of history for the Second Amendment. We cannot relax now. We need to continue electing those who understand, appreciate, and respect our firearms heritage. Politicians who will make a vigorous effort towards enhancing and protecting our constitutional rights. Our candidate ratings will assist your decisions on election day.

The Larry Diedrich and Stephanie Herseth race will need everyone's attention. SDSSA is the NRA State Affiliate and we generally agree with all NRA positions. But in this race, we take a different stance. Herseth has not been given an "A" rating from SDSSA. She has no history of supporting firearms ownership. She is a candidate, and as such, will say what is necessary to be elected. Diedrich, on the other hand, is endorsed with an "A+" rating.

Click on the image to view a mailing I received from the NRA asking us to vote for Larry Diedrich
Please help spread the word. There are those who will misrepresent this issue.

Randell Beck’s openness

Randell Beck ran an Op-ed on the front-page of today’s Argus Leader regarding the opening of Republican Bill Janklow's pardons. Here is the ending:

Are we happy now?

No.

Was this necessary?

I believe so. If the process had been open from the beginning, those who pulled strings for a pardon wouldn't have gotten one; those who simpy deserved a second chance - Varenhorst, the Marohls, many others - could have moved on.

There is a price for open government. And there is a price for secrecy. It comes down to which we choose to pay.

Now it’s Beck’s turn to be open and disclose the misleading attacks made by Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle regarding the John Thune ad in 2002. Looks like Jason has proved the Argus Leader is participating in the cover up. Should the Argus Leader be allowed to pardon Democrats when they do wrong?

What a Day

Yesterday was a busy day. First the Mitchell Daily Republic ran my Op-ed disclosing the truth about a Daschle ad. Now I am hearing false accusations that John Thune is paying for Sibby Online. I am not some far-left liberal who lives off other people’s money through big government. I work and can afford the $80.55 to run the site.

Approximately 1,000 Daily Kos liberals have visited Sibby Online since yesterday afternoon. I provided them with a South Dakota welcome. We should welcome these people to SD, but they should be honest about who they are and what they represent. But that is not their intent as evidenced by this comment made by one on the Daily Kos web site:

I just watched the debate too. I'm flying out with a crowd from DC. I grew up as a Republican in Massachusetts, and I've also lived in Maine. So what kind of suggestions do you have for me. I'm very clean cut, of course. The last thing I'd want to do is hurt Herseth. I'll keep my mouth shut on gay marriage--I hope I don't have to answer questions on that anyway, because I wasn't clear on her position, and I pray that the PATRIOT act doesn't come up. Anyway, I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

I have a suggestion...just be yourself.

Speaking about those who misrepresent who they are...lets not forget about another far-left liberal who has now endorsed Stephanie Herseth…Tony Dean. If you read my Tony Dean index, you will find that he is anti-property rights and is not looked upon kindly by the west river ranchers. His anti-ag positions should lead one to conclude that Herseth is no farmers’ daughter. You would be a fool to bet the farm on her.

Great Job Jason

Jason Van Beek has a post that shows the deception and cover up by the Argus Leader regarding a false accusation by Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle surrounding Johnson's Taliban gaffe. They have been whining that Johnson was compared to terroists by a John Thune ad in the 2002 Senate race. Great job of digging deep and disclosing the truth Jason! Matt Drudge would be honored.

Daily Kos found Sibby

The liberal web site Daily Kos has a post that links to this post. Note I added a special welcome just for them. The link is in the comments section, the second one about being attacked. What whiners.

Update: Now Kos thinks we are scared. So I updated my post.

Another UPDATE: I got this from the Daily Kos comment section regarding South Dakota Republicans. I think Tim Johnson may have learned his Taliban speech from these guys:

squeal.

Make them squeal like scolded children. Oh the moral outrage! I've had it. Make them squeal, make them outraged, make them cry uncle. Do something "too wrong" to them so that they squeal with moral outrage until they go horse. Reach out and touch them too hard. Touch them and make them worse so all can see their true colors. Let them squeal in pain when they see their political incompetence exposed for all to see.

Then kick da bums out. It's about time.

Then another piles on:

To see them laid waste before you, and to hear the lamentations of their interns. I love the smell of Republican blood on Election night.

Oh Stephanie...your supporters from out of state are so...I need some help here with the description.

More comments from Daily Kos:

I'm working for the DCCC out there in SD, and my buddy and I were outside logging in cars when two Republicans drove up to take the pictures you're seeing on the website now.

Today, we were coordinating the fleet and found a ton of "Daschle doesn't speak for me" bumper stickers on our cars.

It is important to remember the following things:

The voters here don't care if people come in from out of state. After the Johnson-Thune race, they're used to it.

It is hypocritical of the Republicans to criticize Stephanie for being helped (indirectly due to McCain/Feingold--we aren't allowed to talk to the Herseth campaign) by evil out-of staters, as the Republicans are bringing in even more people than we are. Of course our people are better, so I think they're just jealous.

The republicans in SD are getting desperate; when Tim Johnson made an ill-advised statement referring to the "Taliban wing of the Republican party" that compared him to Saddam Hussein last year, there were protests calling on STEPHANIE to apologize.

--In short, it will be close, but we'll win.

A response to that comment carries a warning:

Perhaps you and your friends may not mind "if people come in from out of state" to promote Stephanie Herseth, but I've been speaking to an increased number of voters in rural areas as of late and something like that could negatively influence voters if the out-of-state DCCC campaigners do not present themselves properly. There will obviously be loosely defined guidelines which they must adhere to, but the bus-riders must keep in mind that they are campaigning in a state which leans heavily towards the Republican party regardless of which political party our Senators may affiliate themselves.

OK...now one of them comment about my web site:

That blog is NASTY. My browser cache feels dirty and needs a shower as a result of having gone there.

P.S. The SD GOP webpage is priceless, too. Everything on there is negative! How emblematic.

They wonder why I don't have comments? And negative...I already know liberals are hypocrites. Nasty doesn't come close to the "screw them" response from Kos regarding the four Americans who were murdered, torched and hung from a bridge in Iraq. He may view me as attacking him, but he said it. This is the kind of characters who are coming to South Dakota and work on Herseth's campaign!

Daschle ads mislead readers

That’s the title to my Op-ed that the Mitchell Daily Republic published today. You can find links that back this up at this post. After we vote Daschle out of office, maybe he can give Michael Moore a hand at making fictitious documentaries.

Another no apology

Today's Mitchell Daily Republic editorial is also saying no to Johnson's attempt to apologize:

Sen. Tim Johnson said something he shouldn’t have, and after a day’s reflection, he apologized.

Sort of.

It wasn’t the old-fashioned or traditional apology, which expresses regret without qualification. Instead, the senator said, “If any Republicans were offended, I apologize.”

Close, but no cigar.

King of anti-American hate

Michael Moore is making a living at attacking America. He has been quoted as saying the Bush administration allowed bin Laden’s family to fly out the country after 911:

MM – You remember after September 11 for three days nobody could fly. The planes were down. Nobody could go up in the sky. Except the Administration allowed a private Saudi jet to go to five American cities and pick up 20 members of the bin Laden family and get them out of the country. And the FBI was very upset that they didn’t get to interrogate them. And they told the Administration, “Don’t let them leave the country” because in a murder investigation you want to talk to the siblings and the relatives of the murderer.

WorldNetDaily is reporting that the god of the 9-11 commission attack Bush cabal…Richard Clarke was the one who allowed this:

Former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke says he is solely responsible for allowing members of Osama bin Laden's family to flee the United States immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"I take responsibility for it. I don't think it was a mistake, and I'd do it again," Clarke told The Hill newspaper yesterday.

The Hill said a political controversy has been brewing over who approved the six controversial flights that carried 140 Saudi citizens.

At the time the members of the Saudi elite were allowed to leave, the Bush administration was preparing to detain Muslims in the U.S. as material witnesses to the attacks.

Democrat leaders, including Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, had been pressing members of the 9-11 Commission to find out, "Who authorized the flight[s] and why?"

A Democrat who attended a May 6 closed-door meeting of the panel quoted a panel member, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., as saying: "We don’t know who authorized it. We've asked that question 50 times."

Most of the 26 passengers aboard a Sept. 20, 2001, fight were relatives of Osama bin Laden, whom intelligence officials blamed for the attacks almost immediately after they happened, The Hill said.

Clarke told the paper responsibility for the Saudis' departure "didn't get any higher than me."

We can now add fiction to the film that won the highest honors at Cannes, France. No wonder many are calling it far-left propaganda using hatred as an attack against America:

It's plain to see what the president is up against when you reflect on the whoop-de-do at Cannes. Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore the other day won the prestigious film festival's top prize for a "documentary" oozing hatred of George W. Bush. The audience went wild with rapture.

More far-left hate speech

WorldNetDaily is reporting that Talon News have uncovered more hate speech from the left:

self-described liberal talk-show host known for his disdain of the Bush administration called for the death penalty for the president and Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld for "war crimes," according to an audiotape.

Mike Webb, who has a late-night show on KIRO radio in Seattle, denied a report last week by Talon News, but the Internet site said today it has a tape that proves the host make the statements on the air.

The prison abuse in Iraq "is a war crime, committed by the president of the United States," Webb declared on his show. "And do you know what the punishment for that is? Death!"

Webb, who often mentions on the air his homosexuality, compared the president with death row convicts in Texas, Talon News said.

"So, I say if this man has committed a war crime, and they can prove it, let's let George Bush get the final justice that he has meted out as governor of Texas, laughing at people who have been sent to the death chamber, let him face the death penalty for the war crime he has committed," Webb contended.

Webb insisted administering the death penalty to the president is "constitutional," Talon News said, and included other administration leaders who "should get the death penalty," including Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, because they are all "war criminals."

Oh those nasty Democrats

DVT found a Washington Times report from 2003 covering the hate speech that the liberals simply pass off as “voice of dissent”. But when the liberal positions and voting records are exposed and conservatives voice their dissent, the Democrats whine about negative attacks. Case in point is the Johnson Taliban gaffe.

Basically Johnson said he was sorry for those who were offended, but it was all John Thune’s fault for comparing him to terrorists in a 2002 ad. As DVT has repeatedly pointed out… the ad did not compare Johnson to Saddam. The ad was about Johnson’s voting record on the missile defense issue. The ad only contained pictures of Saddam.

Greg Belfrage reported today that he saw a portion of the ad repeated last night. It said we should question Johnson’s judgement…and it specifically stated that his votes should not cause us to question his patriotism. His whining is on fabricated points. Today his judgement is still being questioned, but no one says he is unpatriotic.

DVT also reported on today’s Al Gore hate speech. Bill O’Reilly called it a personal attack on President Bush. Hannity and Colmes also debated the content and tone of the speech. Joe Scarborough also covered the negative attack, and he then included the Johnson Taliban gaffe as further evidence that the Democrats are going over the top and it could backfire.

Why is it that the Democrats use negative attacks as swords, and then Republicans are blamed for being negative by simply talking about the issues? It is because the media allows it. Thankfully the Argus Leader had enough sense to realize they had to hold Johnson accountable. (I sent an email to Randell Beck stated that, but he deleted it without opening it) The next question is whether the media will continue to hound Johnson like they did Trent Lott. Will they also allow a fair and honest discussion on the issues instead of allowing the Democrats to use the “negative card” to shield themselves from their true positions.