More on the Dakota Pony Congress rally
From Tony Mangan at Today’s KCCR:
The Pierre area farmer and rancher who organized Saturday’s Conservative Rally says the event achieved its goal — getting people involved.
Jim Sheehan, who recently moved back to Pierre after graduating from college in Illinois, says he was pleased that more than 100 people turned out for the four-hour event held at the Capital Lake Visitors Center. Sheehan says the event was designed to get people talking about issues and to get them involved.
Among the issues discussed included rights of gun owners, health care, taxes and the direction of the country. Sheehan, who says he may run for public office some day, says the forum gave people, who have similar concerns, a chance to gather and talk about what needs to happen next.
You’d have thought they were burned in effigy (or at the stake) as much as some of the looneyleftblogs were whining about this rally.
But note what the organizer had to say about it – “the event was designed to get people talking about issues and to get them involved.” No wonder they were complaining. Conservatives getting involved and called to action.
They’re terrified that conservative voters see their offerings – socialized medicine, porkulous, cap and tax, and the like – for what they really are. Big government solutions that take money out of their pockets at the same time they reduce our rights, and they chip away at our liberties.
Best of all, they’re terrified that conservatives are experiencing a resurgence the likes that have not been seen since Ronald Reagan. And they’re right.
I’ve said on several occasions that we had to go through Jimmy Carter before we would elect Ronald Reagan. We had to have the worst of the worst before we’d find our way out of the wilderness.
Well, under the current administration, the wilderness is looking pretty thick.
But we can hear the calls in the distance. And we’re starting to cut a path.
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Comments
I’d be more worried if I were in the GOP, seeing Chris Nelson slide away from the moderate centrism he’ll need to win against SHS.
If Heidelputz isn’t worried, then why is he attacking a grandmother who survived the nazi takeover of her country?
Tough guy, isn’t he?
All Nelson needs to do is point to SHS’s voting record. Isn’t heidelberger a German name?
I was at the meeting and other than walking through all the goose poop to get there, it was great!
Just wondering – Being held in Pierre I did not notice Sen. Gray, Rep Olson or Rep Rounds listed as speakers. Were they in attendance?
Hey Heidelberger…what’s more “alarming”: swooning, fainting Obama cultist crowds, ranting racist spiritual advisers, wacko czars running the White House…or this bunch in Pierre?
For me, that’s an easy one.
Always fun to paint the opposition as trembling and terrified, despite a complete lack of evidence to that point.
But I will confess to some alarm that we might see votes swayed by people with no concrete plan for governing beyond old, thoughtless slogans and Kitty Werthmann exhortations to buy guns and re-enact the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis.