The Clean Cut Kid had this comment about the end of the SDP/NVB quarrels:
Looks like the pettiness between Blanchard, Schaff, and Newquist is officially over (though I wouldn’t hold my breath). Keep in mind all three of these gentlemen teach or taught at institutions of higher education in South Dakota. I’m not sure what all the nonsense of the past few months says about their classrooms.
I posted this reply on Chad's blog.
I beg your pardon. “Pettiness” and “Nonsense”? We at SDP have taken the NVB seriously, and have persistently criticized their rhetoric. There is nothing petty about that, I would suppose. As for nonsense, the two blogs represent very different thoughts about how politics should be practiced. They believe in identifying the sources of corruption and excommunicating them. Their highest purpose, frequently stated, is to somehow make John Thune pay for his crimes.
We do not believe that politics is divided into the noble and the villainous. We disagree with such bloggers as Clean Cut Kid on many things, to be sure; but we do not assume that he is our moral inferior. I think the many repartees that constitute the argument between the SDP and the NVB were instructive, and I salute David Newquist and others for taking part (however persistently they wished to deny that they were doing so). I probably enjoyed the business a lot more than Newquist did, but who can tell?
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