Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, told us that she did not support Donald Trump when he was her party’s candidate for president. She said he would have to earn her support. Apparently this happened the minute he was elected because, like nearly all of her Republican colleagues, she votes with Trump about 90 percent of the time and finds him a comfortable political ally because his policies on national security, immigration, taxation and gun control mirror hers.
I had given Herrera Beutler the benefit of the doubt until earlier this year when it became apparent that she is most definitely Trump’s gal in Southwest Washington. I hope that her prospective Democratic opponents in this year’s election do not follow her example and be two-faced political opportunists; most of us are sick of that and we want to see a different kind of leadership.
