{"id":53,"date":"2014-07-24T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coppercommando.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-07-24T08:02:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:02:47","slug":"john-walshs-plagiarized-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"John Walsh’s Plagiarized Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 <\/del><\/a>T<\/del>hesis<\/a><\/del>\u00a0[ed: a paper required for his Masters Thesis as defined by the original article<\/a><\/em>] \u00a0allowing 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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0— 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\u00a0in 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<\/em>) 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.<\/p>\n

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[ed: Well that was fast. \u00a0Pogie is already rushing to John Walsh’s\u00a0defense<\/a>, the\u00a0post goes as far as calling John Walsh a “principled man<\/span>“. \u00a0A teacher and academic rushing to defend a plagiarist because he’s in the same political party? \u00a0Either Pogie is a paid political hack<\/a> or bad at looking up words in the dictionary<\/a>. \u00a0In either case we worry for his students.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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