Behavior does not conform to beliefs
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Editor,
Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. Take for example two items in last week’s Valley Journal. One was an article entitled “Commissioner teaches how to smell a rat,” the other was a Letter to the Editor from an officer of the Pachyderm Club suggesting hypocrisy does not apply to his own views. In the dictionary it is defined as the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. Seems to fit.
I know the valued 2nd Amendment does not have any information concerning when or how a Supreme Court vacancy should be filled. I have never heard the media claim what has been labeled the Biden Rule — by Mr. McConnell first, I believe — exists. I have never heard you or him say the Republicans recognized its value then and followed it. No, it was never a rule, does not exist, you only employ it to fog the issue. If however, you have different direct information that the web shows about how what is going on now copies historical events, I am willing to listen and research. And leave out the kitchen sick and reference to the 2nd amendment.
Here is the hypocrisy. You don’t want a Democratic (or maybe a RINO) president to appoint a Supreme Court judge who does not see the world as you do. You do want a moral Republican president to appoint one. Your issue goes counter to how the American system works. So does your beloved senator’s refusal to follow the Constitution on this issue. Do not ask him to corrupt our process for individual beliefs, fight for those at the ballot box, not by abusing power.
Additionally, you saying you stand for Montana values as if others do not is hogwash. We both stand for Montana values and without political corruption and abuse, they will win out. And, they, Montana values, are a many splendored thing.
Rich Bell
Polson
