Please reconsider your stand on giving Merrick Garland a fair hearing.

To suggest that the people need to vote in November before you can consider a Supreme Court justice is both short sighted and an affront to the constitution. To suggest that President Obama is not the legitimate president because he is in the third year of his term shows distain for the constitutional mandated four year term.  He has done his constitutional duty, it is time to do yours. You can’t be “Pro-constitution” only when it suites you.  Where does this end? Next time do you say you won’t consider a nominee after mid-terms?  This position is impossible to justify other than by considering political advantage.

Even if you don’t care about what is right, you know full well the chances of a Republican win in November is rapidly slipping away.   In the end, obstructing Merrick Garland now will likely have the net effect of ensuring a far more leftist justice is confirmed next year.  Is party loyalty worth that to you?

And just today you  suggested that your actions are justified because you are doing what the Democrats would do in your shoes.  You should have learned in kindergarten that that is not a legitimate way to justify your actions.  If you want to act like a Democrat, then be a Democrat; however, wouldn’t it be better to show the Democrats and the nation that you can rise above petty partisanship.

I have long supported you with my vote.  You must know that in the upstate you have strong opposition from the far right wing, yet I’ve been proud to support you.  I hate to see you acting like one of Ted Cruz’s acolytes.