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What assurance would Thune have that SD RINOs wouldn't vote for Daschole to have the minority leader continue to 'represent' them rather than replace him with a junior senator of questionable political acumen in 2004 particularly since they've already proved how anxious they have been to sell out their party in 2002 on a fool's gamble?

Sounds like Thune had better suck it up and make the most of whatever Senatorial opportunity may be at hand rather than demonstrate that he is as soft in the head as SD RINOs are in general.

I'm not saying Thune and the Republicans should do nothing. I'm saying they need to do it in the right way.

What we need here is some strategery. Everybody though Bush should have went into Afghanistan on Sept. 12, 2001 with guns blazing. He didn't. He was patient, he gathered evidence, he took time to find the right way to go in, he gave the Taliban more than enough opportunities to give up. When they didn't, he could say to the world "Hey we tried our best to resolve this peacefully, now we have no choice but to take them down."

That's the kind of thinking we need in South Dakota. Investigate this quietly and thouroughly, leaving no stone unturned. Find so much evidence that there's NO WAY anyone, not even the people on the Reservation, can doubt that Johnson and the Democratic Party cheated. Show the Indians how they were used, show them the Democrats don't really give a s**t about them, and show the Rinos who voted for Johnson what kind of man they really supported. Show them that Thune was cheated big time, but that he was gracious in defeat.

If they can do that, I think Thune and the Republicans will clean Daschle's clock in 2004, even on the Rez.