Thanks, Hugh

I'd like to echo DVT's words of thanks to Hugh Hewitt for his tremendous piece in today's Daily Standard, the online version of the Weekly Standard. I especially like the following excerpt from Hewitt's piece:

The influence of blogging on politics is nowhere more obvious than in South Dakota. Tom Daschle has long sold himself as a moderate to South Dakota voters, and has done so with the assistance of a very friendly local press. But now the locals get the news via a stream of serious reporters trawling the national press and internet sites for the real news on the hyper-partisan Daschle. The result is that, for the first time in Daschle's political life, he will have to run on his record, not on what he presents as his record.

Well put.

UPDATE: John Thune was a guest on Hugh Hewitt's national radio show today, and a source tells me the Dakota Alliance was a topic of conversation.