Rapid City Journal says Johnson unable to perform job

The Rapid City Journal says Tim Johnson cannot serve and therefore should not be re-elected.

…voters should not re-elect a candidate as thanks for a job well done, but because they are the best candidate to continue to get the job done.

Sadly, Sen. Tim Johnson is no longer that candidate.

His brain hemorrhage in December 2006 has left him unable to perform the job of a U.S. senator. His limited speech function does not permit him to be an effective communicator — an essential part of his job — and his lack of mobility affects his ability to meet with his Senate colleagues and his constituents.

That is a primary reason that his entire re-election campaign has been carefully manipulated so that South Dakotans would not see him face any tough questions, much less his opponent. He has not wanted to debate Dykstra, not because it may highlight what Dykstra may bring to the job, but what Johnson no longer can.

He and his handlers determined that they had enough cushion in the polls to snub the voters of South Dakota.

…voters are electing someone for the next six years, not for memories of the previous 22 years.

Vote for Joel Dykstra.