Mary Kiffmeyer is our former secretary of state, a current member of our state legislature, and a member in good standing of the moonbat wing of the Republican party. The local daily recently published a column of editorial opinion by her. All I could think of was what a dope she is until, finally, by writing a letter to the editor, I was able to exorcise the curse of having her rattling about in my otherwise chaste mind.
30 July 2010
To the editor:
I’ve read Mary Kiffmeyer’s July 28 Counterpoint and have come to the conclusion that all the huffing and puffing is a deliberate rhetorical strategy intended to disguise the fact that she has nothing sensible to say.
She argues, for example, that “there is every reason to suspect that people who steal identities in other aspects of their lives would also do so at the polls.” But identity thieves do not act out of mere perversity, exercising their powers at every turn in order to revel in deceit. No, it is a way of getting another person’s money, and, since people are not paid to vote, there is no reason to do it at the polls.
At least Kiffmeyer is occasionally entertaining--like when arguing that “academic studies” show that “about 85 per cent of felons are Democrats.” For fun, I researched on the Internet the criminal pasts of a few of the voting felons she names in her article. Her summaries of their offenses are sometimes incomplete, as in the case of Dustin James Norring, who, in addition to the priors Kiffmeyer mentions, was in 2004 cited in Washington County for operating an ATV in a road ditch.
Sounds like a Republican to me.--Eric Jorgenson
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