Posted on 01/16/2023 12:33:51 PM PST by SoConPubbie
I wish I could bring myself to care about the big GOP fight in the House of Representatives over the speakership. I know it's important, but I don't really take the Washington party to be serious about the issues that move me the most. I think it's probably the case that more Washington Republicans are serious than I realize, but in general, I vote Republican not because I expect them to do much, but because they do less harm than Democrats do.
Sometimes, though, you'll hear about a senior Republican politician who is a jaw-dropping sellout to the enemies of conservatives. Nate Hochman's powerful piece in National Review about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ought to drive a stake right through the heart of any national political career she hoped to have. It shows that she has a tendency to shoot conservative culture warriors in the back, and responds vindictively when she's called on it. I wrote back in 2021 about how she threw female athletes and conservatives under the bus to defend Big Trans. She's still doing that kind of thing, according to Hochman's reporting. Excerpts:
Last month, South Dakota State University (SDSU) sparked fierce criticism from conservatives after allowing a “kid-friendly” drag show to be hosted on campus. Among those critics was Norman Woods, director of the state-based social-conservative advocacy group Family Heritage Alliance (FHA), who penned an open letter to Governor Kristi Noem urging her to take action: “Innocent children should not be exposed to drag shows. Full stop,” Woods wrote. “Considering you have the power to hold the South Dakota Board of Regents accountable and fire at will, I am greatly disappointed you and your administration have taken no action to rectify this situation or to ensure that drag shows for children never happen again on South Dakota soil.”
Noem has just responded — by denying responsibility, threatening to sever ties with FHA, and implicitly calling for Woods to be fired.
“I’d encourage the Family Heritage Alliance to evaluate the purpose of your organization,” she wrote in a letter to the group’s board of directors yesterday. “Is it to promote family values — or is it to attack the most conservative governor in the country? I believe it is the former. . . . I suggest you find an executive director who agrees.”
The controversial event, which took place on state property and was organized by the college’s Gender & Sexualities Alliance student group, encouraged attendees to “show [their] support for the drag queens by bringing $1 or $5 bills to tip,” according to a now-deleted post on the SDSU website. (“This show will be kid-friendly, so bring the whole family,” the promotional ad concluded.) The controversy led to swift condemnations from conservatives, including some in the state legislature who argued that the drag show’s content could be illegal under South Dakota’s prohibition on “show[s] or other presentation[s]” deemed “harmful to minors.” Woods’s letter echoed those criticisms and requested that Noem “work with the Attorney General’s office” to apply that section of South Dakota law, “push legislation that protects South Dakota minors from future drag shows,” and speak “to the South Dakota Board of Regents and the President of the South Dakota State University about this drag event to ensure our taxpayer-funded buildings are not used to harm our children in the future.”
If we cannot count on GOP elected officials to oppose drag shows for children at publicly-funded venues, what's the point of electing those officials?
“.. I don’t really take the Washington party to be serious about the issues that move me the most. I think it’s...”
I don’t think the stakes have ever been higher than they are in Washington right now. The Republicans are starting off right to correct the democrat socialists agenda. Except for the power of the purse, they don’t have much power but they will do their best. Don’t put them down now. They need our support. All America needs to come together and put their shoulders to the wheel!!!
The affair with Lewemdowski. Her inexplicable embracement of the fagoid agenda. Her vindictive shrew approach to opposition.
Keep this ho in the Dakotas where she belongs.
Isn’t she in favor of sex-change operations?
She’s the Nikki Haley of ND
McCain’s dead.
Her demand reeks of a thin skinned authoritarian. In defense of transgenderism, no less. Word is she’s “transitioning” the SD government as well.
Maybe she’s being blackmailed over a carpet munching mis-adventure from her youth...
Lotta of barbed wire in her state to be ‘riding the fence’ on so many items
She’s an absolute non starter for higher office
Talked a good game about protecting women then absolutely caved to the NCAA.
All hat no cattle….
She is delusional if she thinks her career has any higher elected office in it.
I am as opposed as anyone to tranny, homo, or any other perverted influences in our schools.
However, we have to be careful here: the problem with our educational system is not who controls it (Marxists and perverts). The problem is who does not control it (parents).
The solution is not to purge the school boards and university administrations of bad influences. The solution is to take a long hard look in the mirror as parents, and ask ourselves whether delegating the education of our children to the State is working.
I say it’s a huge failure and we need to find another way.
Raising children is hard when both parents have to work. I get that. I was lucky enough to work out of my home for a stretch of my career - but I remember well the sense of relief when the children were off to school.
My son is a teacher and hates it when I say this: school is part education, part day care.
It is almost impossible for working parents to resist an educational system that takes your children off your hands for most of the day - especially when that is what is expected, and what everyone else is doing.
But we are basically delegating child-rearing to others - and is it working? Obviously not.
Perhaps delegating child rearing to others would not be a bad solution if we did it right. But we are not doing it right. We delegate to people we don’t know, have not vetted, and can’t trust.
If Kristi Noem is a conservative, she will help parents regain control of their children’s education - the conservative solution is not for governors to go in with a heavy hand and tell schools what they can and can’t teach.
Again, I’m as anti-pervert as any parent, but the responsibility of educating our children has been handed off to unionized teachers and bureaucrats - and parent are complicit in this arrangement. Parents need to take the initiative, and conservative politicians need to support those efforts.
The single most damaging government policy is public school tax - and the single most powerful remedy is and always will be: tuition vouchers. Parents need to be able to take their school tax and spend it on a school of their choice.
Only that will break the public school monopoly and restore competition and accountability to public schools and state-funded universities.
I wish I had the ‘faith’ you do in the GOPe cabal, but I don’t.
All show and no go, as in previous years’ sessions.
I’ll throw some salt over my left shoulder...
She is confused. And as a result, she is politically a zombie. Dead, but still moving.
The question is, is she...?
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