What would George, Thomas, Teddy and Abe say?

Just to show how South Dakota is going south, an ad for a Republican Congressional candidate, Kristi Noem, slams her opponent, Matt Varilek, for holding radical ideas, yet also being a Washington insider.  Well, make up your mind – either he’s radical or he’s not.  Comically, it criticises him for attending Cambridge University, a higher education establishment regularly assessed as the best – and never out of the top five – over the last eleven years (he was there in 2001), while she majored in being a hick down on the farm.  Heck, she’s probably in hock to her hick of a husband, deferring to him on all matters.  While he is internationally respected around the globe, her knowledge of the world doesn’t seem to extend beyond the borders of The Mount Rushmore State.  This is called South Dakota Common Sense.  More like nonsense.  It’s equivalent to Virginia, prior to 2008, being proud of never voting for a Democratic candidate for president since 1964, which is the same as saying they are proud of never voting for a party since that party passed the Civil Rights Act (well, I suppose Virginia did home the capital of the Confederacy).