John Walsh is a liar, a cheater, and unethical; I suppose this qualifies him to be a politician. Yet somehow I wish we as Montanans held our elected officials to a higher standard, beyond that of a stereotypical ‘politician’. It was found that John Walsh plagiarized his Masters Thesis [ed: a paper required for his Masters Thesis as defined by the original article]  allowing him to move up the ranks of the military and society. When initially confronted his reply was a half-hearted platitude asserting his lack of knowledge regarding the subject. The most significant irony of this entire drama is HIS PAPER WAS ON DEMOCRACY AS A LONG TERM NATIONAL STRATEGY. Yes, John Walsh’s entire Senate qualifications and career position are predicated on a poorly plagiarized paper.

We at the Copper Commando want to better the Republican party, but more so, we want to better politics as a whole. Name calling, pandering, cornering politicians into extremist positions — these things don’t solve politics. But we can’t even reach a point where we debate well reasoned arguments until the people we champion people who adhere to basic ethics. Prior to this realization I wasn’t that worried about the upcoming Senate election. Walsh or Daines, they both seemed to have Montana’s values at heart. I hold this sentiment no longer. I now compare Steve Daines, a person who has successfully built a company and created jobs in Montana through his hard work, to a second rate politician who can’t even write a Masters thesis without cheating. I have my disagreements with the party and elected officials, but that is the beauty of living in a federal constitutional republic — the power (ed: supposedly) resides in the people and they get to choose who they vote for. I choose to not support John Walsh because he has proven himself to be a liar and a cheat whose ethics are highly questionable at best. I only hope the fervent left comes to this same conclusion.

 

[ed: Well that was fast.  Pogie is already rushing to John Walsh’s defense, the post goes as far as calling John Walsh a “principled man“.  A teacher and academic rushing to defend a plagiarist because he’s in the same political party?  Either Pogie is a paid political hack or bad at looking up words in the dictionary.  In either case we worry for his students.]