I see Dems are trying to talk Billie into running. Did they forget about why he lost?

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I see Democrats are back on Facebook trying to encourage Billie Sutton to give it another go for Governor after the 2018 race:

But over the past 4 years, they seem to have selective amnesia as to why Sutton lost.

Part of it was leftover from a fairly divisive primary election for Republicans, which I don’t know will happen again.

And there was the other part.. where once you started looking at his record, Sutton just wasn’t anything that people proclaimed him to be:

Increased taxes, fairly wiggly on the life issue, and way too comfortable with the policies of Bernie Sanders.

I don’t know if a re-run of the race is going to go as well as some Democrats think it will be.

17 thoughts on “I see Dems are trying to talk Billie into running. Did they forget about why he lost?”

  1. South Dakota chose Noem over Sutton. That was a big mistake. Sutton is an honest man who actually cares about the people of this state. Noem doesn’t care about anyone but herself.

    2. Sutton cares about Socialism and not America. He would have been a crappy governor, and I wish him no success in another run.

      Just because you wear a cowboy hat doesn’t mean you have a lick of horse sense.

  3. More South Dakotans voters for weed than for Noem.
    I regret voting for Never Home Noem- Sutton is a good man with South Dakota values. Remember when Lindsay Noem said he was too Washington for us? She was talking about herself. Noem used South Dakotans, she used us to catapult herself into the national scene. We were left in the dust long ago.
    Noem. No thanks.

    1. She’s running for president in 2024. She wants to be governor for two more years so she has a job in the meantime. She will absolutely be focused elsewhere during those two years, just as she has for the last two years.

      1. Exactly. Our tax dollars are just income for her as she builds her base and keeps her name in the spotlight. We need better leadership. Someone who actually gives a damn about us South Dakotans. I will gladly not vote for her. I regret ever voting for Never Home Noem.

    2. So do Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have South Dakota values in your opinion? Anybody who supports Sanders does not have South Dakota values or even American values, Comrade Randall.

  4. She’s vulnerable. If you bootlickers don’t see that, well, it’s because you’re bootlickers.

    1. Bootlickers?
      How old are you?
      She’ll win by 10+ points.
      Spend all the money you want on that race and continue to lose the legislative races and constitutional offices and remain irrelevant. Pushing a pro-income tax Bernie supporter will keep you in the woods. The Weiland family continues to control the Dems and they keep losing

  5. I think the Democrats should run whoever they think is their best candidate. And, when that person gets less than 35%, they will begin to do some soul-searching on whether they want to remain affiliated with the national party.

    1. Troy you’re delusional if you think Billie will do worse than last time. He may not win, but there’s no chance in hell he’d get less than 40%.

    1. Give it a year…..then we will revisit if there’s an issue with the democratic socialist party.

    2. The state democrat party is broken. Facts are stubborn thigs. Nationally the republican are recalibrating after losing a presidential election. The state democrat party has been in the woods for a decade.

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