To the editor:

Liz Cheney champions the idea that it is the duty of leaders to simply tell the truth. Politicians are not bound by this simple guideline. Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott espouse the notion that it is the responsibility of the base to do the right thing regarding masks and vaccines. They have the right to believe whatever they desire, and these wannabes will defend that standing.

Did not the Never-Trump “foldalition” have the duty to publicly verify that Barack Obama is in fact an American citizen.

Do they not have the duty to call out the Big Liar?

Do they not have 20/20 vision of Jan. 6 in 2021?

Did not the Bush 2 campaign have the duty to point out that the Swift Boat veterans questioning the merit of John Kerry’s service awards was unfounded?

I see a pattern and the bullet point magazine is fully loaded and aimed at scatter.

With the “young vaccinated” running free-range whose duty is it to explain to them that they have likely never seen a family member, classmate, neighbor, or their own lucky self in clanking, discrimination-cultivating braces brought on by polio because in 1905 the Supreme Court ruled that mandating vaccinations by local officials is still legal.

I hope we do not see the Supreme Court finding a need to revisit Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

Don E. Brennaman,

Lawrence