The issue of Republican values has been a recurring theme for several years now, not only on the national stage but here at home in South Dakota.
Of late, it has become an intense topic on the Right side of the South Dakota blogosphere, with several posts from Sibby Online, SD Wingnuts, some from the South Dakota War College, and the South Dakota GOP Republican Tide.
I think it’s understandable for a political party to be a bit stand-offish or distance itself from members who represent more of the opposition’s values than the values of their own party, or who work actively against members of their own party while going out of their way to help the opposing party.
Ironically, however, it seems that sometimes money can overcome even an obvious divergence of philosophy. This should not be.
It is equally disappointing when the party apparatus fails to support their own candidates who uphold party values, just because those candidates may not be as polished as they would like…
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