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Iām a democrat. Stop with the hollow excuses. Resign. Go away. Yourāe an embarrassment to all who serve honorably.
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Jeez, if they take away his Masterās degree, heāll still be more educated than Jan Brewer. No reason to resign. Move on about your business. If hookers and diapers wonāt keep someone from winning re-election, why should this be insurmountable?
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Yeah, itās not like he drove his car into a river with a young lady who was not his wife, swam away, and reported the āaccidentā the next day. Besides, plagiarism didnāt force Joe Biden to resign from the Senate.
But, Senator Walsh should have corrected his thesis sooner.
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I would say someone who earned a CIB and Bronze Star served honorably. If he knew he was reporting someone elseās work as his own, he should have reported it on his own and much sooner.
Walsh could have done himself a favor
by self-reporting the allegations to the War College and asking for a review of his work. If he had reported himself, said that any non-attributed work was inadvertent and asked for a chance to make revisions, heād have more credibility than he does by getting found out and then throwing up a list of seemingly implausible excuses.
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Iām intrigued by the possibilities:
āWe, who examine war, including, mostly, how to wage it, and minorly how to get away with the ->ābad thingsā <- necessarily associated with it, such as yr murders, genocide, yr rapes, yr destroying kids, yr crippling & maiming & general permanent devastation of civilian populations, yr destruction of public works & private property yr negligent disregard for the rights of others, & excessive & selfish use of gasoline, oil, food, air, water etc, hereby declare ourselves satisfied you willfully &/or negligently with reckless disregard missed a whole bunch of third party attributions & quote marks, therefore youāre subject to our qualified approbation & disdain (āBah, mecch & ptui for that thing you did/didnātdoā) & in our view no longer entitled to be automatically regarded as a warrior of wars, or indeed wear your hair that way.ā
Also, a question for the rest of youse: Do you suppose itās possible there are active Republicants in high mucky-muck positions in the War College just itching to pull the self-righteousness trigger on Sortasenator Recruithair here?
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Pathetic. Even for you.
The Bronze Star is a peculiar award. Most are awarded for meritorious service, colloquially referred to as an āI was thereā medal, It can also be awarded with Combat āVā device (for valor) for a specific act of heroism in combat.
I am a Montanan and a Democrat. This is terribly disappointing and Senator Walshās response is tepid and unsatisfactory. Walsh was not my first pick to replace Senator Baucus but when the Governor appointed him, he got my support. I think in light of this very fundamental breach of academic ethics, Walsh should go. I hate saying that, because I think Congressman Steve Daines is an evil, horrible person that I donāt want to represent me or the state that I love. Shame on Walsh for not owning up to this before asking to be appointed to replace Baucus and a lesser rap on the knuckles to Governor Bullock and his staff for not having this vetted.
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This is disappointing but itās done. Is there an alternative or are Dems stuck with him? If he is going to be the standard bearer then tough through it. He was 9 points behind in the polls so his chances were marginal anyway.
Run with the NYT as a liberal rag out to get a real soldier. He was a soldier but the system wanted him to be a scholar and it just wasnāt in him. Have him tell the War College to take away his degree and confess openly to poor judgement. Cris-cross the state on an apology tour.
Plagiarism is something only Dems would care about so have them hold their noses and vote for him while complaining loudly that heās too damn conservative for their tastes but what can you do?
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Itās all true.
The āmasterās thesisā was all of 14 pages long, under 6000 words. Wow, what a Herculean undertaking! It makes his degree seem like something one would get for sending in cereal boxtops.
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Just when you think heās reached bottom, he finds another shovel.
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Before being appointed to the seat by moderate-liberal Democratic Governor Steve Bullock, Walsh had already been exposed and officially reprimanded by the Army for having strong armed his subordinates in the Montana National Guard into joining a private Guard lobbying group. Politically, he was a horrible choice from the get-go. In effect, Bullock, with the DNP behind him, handed a Senate seat to the ultra-conservative (and nonbeliever in evolution) Daines.
Plagiarism is wrong, but then who reads a masterās thesis? Not his adviser at least.
He and Randy Paul should start a club, the Senate Plagiarizers Club of America (SPCA). Sadly for Americaās plagiarizers, it looks like it would be down to one member by the end of the year.
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Walsh needs to resign and let Schweitzer step in.
Stealing from one person is plagiarism. Stealing from several people is called research.