Pat Powers and Todd Epp are up in arms about the following bigoted, Catholic-bashing, hateful comment from the Mitchell Daily Republic:
"Though Rounds is Roman Catholic, you don’t have to be of that faith to appreciate the special challenges that booster seats present. They take up a full passenger slot in any vehicle where they are used, and as a result, families with, say, four children and two adults are forced to buy a six-passenger vehicle, at minimum."
Oh, wait a sec, that was neither bigoted, Catholic-bashing, nor hateful was it? No, it was cute. It was fun.
Powers, who casts shame on the dirty bastards at the Mitchell Daily Republic and Epp who describes the comment as "stupid and insensitive at best, hateful at worst" need to lay off the Political Correctness KOOL-AID® and lighten the hell up.
These two knuckleheads compound their error by reading into the Mitchell paper's comment the notion that the Mitchell folk believe Rounds vetoed the booster seat bill in part because of his faith. Or, that that would be wrong. As Rounds' explained in his veto message:
"Parents with large families and neighbors dropping children off at school come immediately to mind. I will not force South Dakota citizens to weigh their passengers before deciding whether to transport them to the movies."
Why did they come immediatly to Rounds' mind? Because Rounds has some experience with large families - he comes from one. A large Catholic family at that. (Gasp!! I typed "Catholic"! I'M DOOMED!!) However, while Rounds' experience which influenced his veto decision may touch on the fact of his faith or circumstances that are the consequence of his family's faith, I don't think the Mitchell paper is implying that Rounds vetoed the bill at the direction of the Pope.
Honestly, these two must have IQ's smaller than their hat sizes.Neither has been known for their deep-thinking abilities, but the problem is evidently worse than we knew. It's bi-partisan stupidity of the first order.
Fellas, lighten the hell up and get a clue.
