South Dakota Position Papers or South Dakota Public Propaganda Organization Online.
--------------------- Take your pick "Position Papers" or "Public Propaganda"...may be a mixture of both.

 
Comment: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE RECENT GOP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY
Janklow should dump a few dollars from his $800,000 political slush fund into analyzing what is actually the real problem with voters in the recent GOP primary.

Contrary to most guesses about the upset victory of Mike Rounds over Barnett and Kirby, the real reason was actually the fact that Republican voters have no sense of humor.

Barnett people assumed that GOP voters could laugh a little at his opponent's ludicrous proposals without generating mental hernias of some kind. He was wrong. There is no humor vein in Republican primary voters. The very thought of a Republican ever criticizing another Republican was such a shock to their systems, that their minds went into the "Mike Rounds default" mode. Mental fuses were burned out.

Kirby obviously thought GOP primary voters would find it funny (or maybe odd?) that he had a $500,000 house in Sioux Falls, but had a $4,000,000 house in Colorado. Apparently there are more than a few jobless Republican voters with no sense of humor about this at all.

Of course, my theory may be all wrong. After all, a lot of Republicans apparently think it is really funny when Janklow lies, exaggerates, distorts, slanders, etc. when he attacks mothers, teachers, School officials, boys asking embarrassing questions at Boy's State, Native Americans, convicts, etc...whatever is his enemy of the week. Really funny stuff there apparently. Big joke when he hauled out a machine gun or whatever at the Wagner Pork Plant???... there was more than one packing plant in SD before all the Janklow administrations I think.

Well, much research is needed on the GOP primary voters' lack of any sense of humor anyway. It is probably another area where SD ranks 50th after all these GOP administrations.
---------- Doug Wiken
posted by Douglas at 3:09 PM