An aide to Senator Tim Johnson says her boss will not retract a weekend remark that compared a segment of the Republican Party to the Taliban. Senator Tim Johnson’s comments were made at a Sioux Falls get-out-the-vote rally form Democratic House candidate Stephanie Herseth.
I don’t remember any segment of my party cutting off hands, banning music, kite-flying, or playing chess.
Republican House candidate Larry Diedrich asked for an apology. He says his supporters are young people, retired people, farmers, business people, working people, not terrorists.
I wish Mr. Diedrich didn’t dignify the remark with a response.
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Johnson aide Julianne Fisher says people should remember that two years ago, outside groups compared Johnson to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, attacking the senator’s religious faith and patriotism.
Well, the dead Indians on the Reservation vote did put him back in the Senate.
Herseth, meanwhile, says she doesn’t think Johnson used the best choice of words.
Being stupid, Johnson is known for consistently making a poor choice of words. |