Daines stands up for Montana values
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Editor,
Mr. Craig McClure, the Lake County Democrat Central Committee Chairman, wrote a letter in last week’s newspaper that criticized Senator Daines for his opposition to holding hearings and votes on Obama’s antigun anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court nominee Justice Merrick Garland. As Vice President of the Polson Pachyderm Club, I obviously see the matter from a different perspective. First, both parties historically have refused to hold hearings on the opposing parties presidential nominees to the Supreme Court in an election year. The media has reported this as the “Biden Rule” and aired it countless times. And, yes, this is the same Joe Biden who is presently our Democrat Vice President. Is Mr. McClure and his fellow Democrats the definition of a hypocrite?
Senator Daines should be commended for having the backbone to take a position supporting Montana values to which the Second Amendment is crucial. I suspect most of the so-called Republican Senators are actually RINO (Republican In Name Only). For example, Senator Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, invited Garland to have breakfast with him this week. Senator Jeff Flake (appropriate name) another Judiciary Committee member will also meet with Garland as well as Senators Ayotte, Murkowski, and Portman.
Mr. McClure claims that the Flathead Beacon poll showing 38 percent oppose the Garland Senate hearing and 62 percent supporting it proves that Senator Daines is not doing his job. If the survey is an accurate measure of Montana values then we would have mostly Democrats in the Montana House and Senate and we would have oppressive California, Chicago and New York-style gun laws in Montana.
I commend Senator Daines for being a Republican Senator with the moral strength and willpower to stand up for Montana values instead of being a RINO and closet Democrat sympathizer.
Norm Johnson
Polson
