LETTER: Brown just intimidated by 'alpha-male Trump'?

Bob Brown, of Whitefish, is a former Montana Republican secretary of state and state Senate president. On Friday, Sept. 9, Bob Brown announced he will vote for Hillary Clinton rather than for Donald Trump.

My goal is to show conservative readers that Brown’s reasons to vote for Hillary are not valid.

Brown claims Trump’s actions are erratic, ego-driven, and reckless. Brown calls Trump a “foul-mouthed,” “big-talking,” “egomaniac con man” whose “only true loyalty is to himself.” Brown’s ad hominem attacks prove only that beta-male Brown is intimidated by alpha-male Trump.

Brown claims Trump’s “rhetoric” shows Trump is not a conservative. But Trump’s major policy speeches prove Trump is a solid conservative.

Brown claims Trump is unstable because “he has changed his party registration at least five times” and “was a registered Democrat as recently as 2009.” Well, Brown was a Republican until he decided to vote for Alinsky-trained Hillary in 2016. So who’s unstable?

Brown says Trump “boasts” he would strengthen the U.S. military. Trump does not “boast.” Trump just says he would strengthen the US military. That’s conservative.

Brown says Trump “signaled he might not keep our commitments to NATO.” No, Trump said he would make the other NATO countries pay their share of NATO’s costs. That’s conservative.

Brown claims Trump would be easy on Putin. Trump would represent America more firmly against Russia than any president since Reagan.

Brown says Trump “brags he knows more about ISIS than our generals.” No, Trump says he has better information from the generals on his foreign policy committee than he can get from Obama’s generals.

Brown says we can’t judge Trump’s business success because he won’t release his tax returns. Trump has announced that he will release his tax returns once a federal audit is completed.

Brown says, “Trump brags his success in business qualifies him to be a successful president.” It does. A president should be a good CEO. A good CEO chooses the best people to advise him. No president can know everything about everything. Apple’s CEO likely knows nothing about Apple software.

The job of a president is to manage America like a good CEO would manage a company. Hillary has zero CEO experience.

Brown implies Trump is not qualified because “his companies have declared bankruptcy at least four times.” Trump started over 500 companies. Because of Atlantic City problems, Trump put four companies in Chapter 11, not Chapter 13. Then Trump recovered these four companies and repaid the investors.

Brown says, “Trump brags that he … follows his own intuition, and makes decisions according to his consistently good judgment.”

Trump has excellent executive intuition by virtue of his vast business experience. Trump beat 16 other candidates while spending a fraction of the money they spent.

Brown says, “Trump loyalists argue that conservatives must support Trump to keep Clinton from making liberal appointments to the Supreme Court.” Brown thinks the Senate can nominate conservative Supreme Court judges.

History proves Brown wrong. Democrat presidents appoint liberal judges and Republican presidents appoint conservative judges. Already, Senate Republicans are having second thoughts about rejecting Obama’s replacement for Scalia.

Brown quotes George Schultz for support. We can always find another opinion to support our position. Brown’s quote suggests he is unsure of himself and needs external validation.

Brown compares Trump to fantasy characters in fiction novels. Trump did not “seize control” or “radically take over” or “hijack” the Republican Party.

Voters nominated Trump with more primary votes than any GOP candidate in history: Trump 13.4 million, Bush 11.9 million, Romney 10 million, and McCain 9.9 million votes.

Trump has brought the Republican Party back to its roots.

Edwin Berry is a resident of Bigfork.