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Erin appears to no longer be a fan of the Hildebrand Boys.  Sibby is noting these comments by Erin at Mount Blogmore:

Why does anyone care about 4 self important, unemployed, and bitter guys who have nothing better to do than travel to another state [Ohio] for a special election which is overshadowed by their narrow minded pathetic attempts at self promotion? Perhaps if they were employed and were actually contributing something positive to the communities they live in as opposed to juvenile publicity seeking activites where inject themselves as the story, someone might take them seriously.

I for one am sick of hearing about the shortcomings of Senator Thune. I think it’s time for the Hildebrand Boys to move on and grow up. I’m sure that will be somewhat difficult for these boys to do that, since their mentor/guru still hasn’t done so. These immature fraternity hi-jinx may be entertaining to some, but what have any of these boys done that has really made a positive difference?

Who can take anyone seriously whose biggest accomplishment for the day is typing a couple of sentences about how important they are because they’re in another state spreading more bitterness and hate. Time to move on boys, you’re looking more than a little ridiculous at this point. And really, nobody cares what you’re doing.

More:

I’d like to elaborate a little further on some of the behind the scenes blogging activities of the Hildebrand Boys. Blog Central is located at Steve Hildebrand’s office in the Crane building in Sioux Falls South Dakota. These boys may appear to be operating their own blogs, but all indications are that this is a tightly controlled system put together for the sole purpose of perpetuating a "Permanent Hateful, Vulgar, Profane, Manipulative, Predatory, Bitter and Extremely Secretive Campaign having nothing to do with any important issues. For anyone visiting these sites or posting comments, you should be cautioned that only hateful, ugly and bitter comments are welcome and only about Senator Thune.

Oh, if you happen to have some information that is related to some "friends" of Senator Thune that meets the criteria, but if you veer off of the subject(hate, vulgarity,bitterness) too much and get into issues that are important, but don’t focus on the hate and bitterness, the welcome mat will definitely be yanked out from under you. This is vital information for newcomers to the blogging world. Unless you want to fall victim to the Hildebrand Owned and Operated Bitterness Boys, I wouldn’t recommend providing your e-mail address or any other information required prior to posting on these sites.

This group’s slick set-up is an illusion. A group of young, ambitious, smart political types and a little humor thrown in to reel in those not attracted to the vile venom being spewed. If bitterness or humor aren’t for you, they offer their youth and charm with a certain amount of manipulation for good measure.

If the heat gets to be too much, they take the site down until it passes, put it back up as a new and improved version of bitterness and hate and start the cycle all over again. This entire process is the creation of this Darth Vader Wannabe himself, Steve Hildebrand who really needs to stop reading and believing his own publicity. He also needs to get a real job and stop sponging off of Tom Daschle, who seems to be embarassed by the Hildebrand Boys. If he isn’t he should be.

I find it interesting that these boys talk about the John Thune and his shortcomings, but if their many and obvious lapses in judgements are pointed out, there are accusations of homosexuality, which is also interesting coming from a group that would like us to think they are progressive thinkers. They have thrown these homosexual accusations out without regard to the feelings of someone who might actually be gay. This middle school mentality needs to be talked about outside of the political discourse. The results of their ugly and vicious actions don’t get addressed because we dismiss this as just part of the political process.

We have to stop not only participating in this bitterness and hate, it’s also important to recognize this group for what they are. Unemployed, bitter,narrow minded(not progressive thinkers),smarmy,disengenuous,spongers off of Tom Daschle that need to grow up and start contributing something positive to society.

Ouch.