GOP: Don’t Trust Non-SD Conservatives… Unless They Like Mike Rounds

M. Michael Rounds supporters need you to see daylight between the outside interest groups who endorse their guy and the outside groups that want someone else to run for South Dakota's open Senate seat in 2014. When the Club for Growth or the Senate Conservatives Fund say that Rounds isn't sufficiently conservative to deserve the GOP nomination, those conservative groups are pooh-poohed as outsiders with interests disjoint from South Dakota's. But when Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas (which is not a county in South Dakota) and his National (not South Dakota) Republican Senatorial Committee says Rounds deserves your "great confidence and faith," the Rounds spin machine goes all hail holy hosanna, no one can beat Rounds!

Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas? The National Republican Senatorial Committee? Sounds like an outside group to me... and I quote:

"...make no mistake. These outside groups are as canny and political as any political party structure ever could be, except they have a more narrow issue based focus, which is get their guy elected. Empahsis [sic] on their."

—Pat Powers, "From whence sprang forth all these outside groups promoting their point of view?" Dakota War College, 2013.05.31

Now if we're serious about looking at the machinations and endorsements of outsiders as signs that a candidate is wedded to someone's agenda other than South Dakota's, we need to acknowledge that the only other declared candidate for our open Senate seat, Democrat Rick Weiland, has purportedly not won the favor of Moran's Democratic leadership counterparts in Washington. By the logic of Team Rounds, that means Weiland is more in tune with South Dakota interests than Rounds.

Maybe someone should ask Rounds about that when he gets back from Israel.