Posted on 10/25/2010 12:17:33 AM PDT by pissant
Kristi Noem, a Republican candidate for next month's elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, spent last weekend doing what she loves doing best - leading a party of hunters.
Kristi is running in the state of South Dakota, a vast expanse of bleak, undulating prairie that is so thinly populated it has only one Congressional seat. Around here, the start of the pheasant-shooting season is a pretty big deal.
For Kristi, however, pheasants are second-best.
'I know that she really wanted to spend some time going after elk,' says Josh Shields, her campaign manager.
'But that would have taken up a lot more time, and I'm like, "Hey, Kristi, we've got a campaign to run". Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.'
Since Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, shot to prominence as vice-presidential nominee on the Republican ticket that lost to Barack Obama in 2008, rugged frontierswomen with bracing conservative views have been in political vogue.
Palin calls them 'mama grizzlies' and several now look set for national office. Although Levi Johnston, the former boyfriend of Palin's daughter Bristol, claims Palin's own grizzly credentials - her vaunted skill as a huntress of moose - are bogus, there isn't much doubt Kristi Noem, 38, is the real thing. A slim, striking, highly articulate mother of three with unusually bright green eyes, around her home she's known to be a crackshot.
'We love her,' says Vic Kone, the proprietor of Kone's Corner Country Store, two miles from Kristi's ranch near the hamlet of Castlewood.
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Yeah, let’s count on Levi, deadbeat dad to teach us about Sarah’s credentials.
Oh dear, I believe you’re right...ewwww.
Why, whatever do you mean? /s
The more Brits I met, the less interested I was in their opinions about America. One of their favorite observations is that Americans know nothing about the UK or anywhere else, but they are perfectly comfortable thinking they know everything they need to know about America just by watching “The Beeb.”
You’ve got blood sausage, we’ve got baseball, lots of guns, deep-friend Twinkies, cheerleaders and occassional sunny days, I saw “We win!”
Hell, even our pale ales, Bitters and IPAs blow most of theirs away.
I forgot dentistry, it always pisses ‘em off when you mention dentistry. Can you tell I’m in a crappy mood tonight?
You can apply their flair for dentistry across all health care. My best friend’s granny went to her grave waiting for a new hip. For the last 12 years of her life she gimped around in pain. The NHS must have been the inspiration for Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks.
Good. And I hope it makes it into some of the Democratic blogs. I imagine some of the SoDak Dems will see it, and will likely be offended at the whole take on it, and see the Libs for what they are.
And then hopefully mention it to their neighbors as they try to beat the weather to bring in the harvest. Along with the rude comments regarding South Dakota that will no doubt accompany such blogs.
There was a record of minutes of some gov’t meeting in London about healthcare - a couple years old now I suppose. Some county guy was lamenting the fact that in some outlying counties, it was almost a YEAR wait for a Hearing TEST! And he bemoaned how they should all be up to the standard of London, where it was only a wait of a few weeks. (For a hearing TEST mind you!).
I sure hope this Nov. 2nd will be the beginning of the roll back of Obamacare. (And other things.)
I keep reading these horror stories about their healthcare system. Meanwhile in America, people look at the goal not of quality care, not of personal control of healthcare choices, but at the phantom of “Free” Healthcare, and don’t seem to see that rather large cliff-edge they’re walking us off...
Perez Hilton already does that sort of thing without the opportunity such a photo implies.
I didn’t think the photo implied anything except she drinks lattes. But now that you mention it, Obama’s been known to engage in a bit of hombre chinslurping too.
*Good going*.
Leave it to a Euro to say she is proud of her prowess with a rifle, kneeling in a truck full of birds.
If she bagged all that fowl with a “rifle”, then she is indeed a crack shot.
But I suspect she used a shotgun as most people do for fowl. Leave it to a Euroweenie to get confused about such things.
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