From Montana Headlines:Amusingly, McDonald showed up at the interview wearing a giant white cowboy hat.
Aptly, Erik Iverson pointed out to the assembled crowd that McDonald is a trial lawyer from southern California. Iverson, on the other hand, is a 5th generation Montanan who grew up on a ranch in the Sweetgrass Hills.
"If my grandmother were to catch me wearing a hat indoors anywhere -- let alone in a television studio," Iverson noted, "she would have bent me over her knee, even to this day."   Does that means these are outdoor photographs? They sure don't look like it.
At the end of the day, I really don't care either way. I even think both Erik Iverson and Dennis McDonald are good guys who occasionally do stupid things because of partisan pressures (when I do stupid things, it's generally for the simple reason that I'm occasionally stupid).
But this gotcha game is ridiculous.
Frankly, it doesn't matter if our cowboy-playing politicians wear hats indoors. From what I can tell, voters in this state seem to like that look. Jon Tester, a real farmer, rarely wears cowboy hats from what I've seen. Brian Schweitzer, a real rancher, rarely does either.
I'm not sure I've ever seen Pat Williams wear a hat, much less indoors. But I know that if I saw him wearing a trucker hat in church, I'd still adore him and his record.
Whatever.
And in the interest of balance -- the Dems have taken some stupid and unfair swings, like when they beat up Iverson's colleague for protecting the privacy of a constituent. |
