The recent commentary by Paul Mero, Senator Curt Bramble, and David Irvine, demonstrates the politics of personal destruction. Every sleazy technique to shut someone up seemed to be used, personal smears, the “church” card, the “God” card, the “race” card, half-truths, Orwellian doublespeak, and innuendo. Not bad for an 800 word essay.
Rather than attack policy positions, they attacked the person and attempted to destroy a life-time of honorable work. Washington and Chicago style politics shouldn’t come to Utah with what the National Review has called, “The Smear Campaign against Ronald Mortensen.”
Mortensen is a veteran, spent 20 years in the U.