Serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis. © James Conner.
Word for weaselly word from a major Montana candidate’s campaign website:
Energy security: finding a responsible balance. Montana is uniquely positioned to be a world leader in energy development with all of our energy resources: wind, solar, natural gas, oil, geothermal energy, coal mining and biofuels. [This candidate] supports responsible policy that balances all of our energy resources, with an eye toward the future. In Congress he will support a strategy that will protect Montana jobs in both traditional and renewable energy development.
In politics, this is known as “all of the above.” It’s a chameleon plank that turns the color the voter wants to see. What are the candidate’s priorities? Why, they’re the voter’s priorities.