Noem and Rounds on Stimulus: Someone's Off Message

The state Dems find the following contrast amusing. So do I.

GOP candidate for U.S. House Rep. Kristi Noem tells KXLG Radio the stimulus package is a failure: "We’ve lost over 8,000 jobs…It absolutely has not done what they said it would do.."

Why should I undermine her campaign-slogan argument... when I can let good Republican Governor M. Michael Rounds do it for me?

Each one of those [stimulus] projects creates job opportunities, so there are people that are working in South Dakota that would not have had a job if it wouldn't have been for that stimulus package [Gov. M. Michael Rounds, quoted by Shawn Neistadt, "Report Shows 7000 SD Jobs Saved, Created," KELOLand.com, 2010.04.19].

Rep. Noem, Gov. Rounds, GOP Message Management on line 1....