Op Ed: We know Chris Frost. We wouldn’t confirm him.

Dixie Democrats to the Vice President: “Break the tie by voting no.”

Dixie Democrats: Chris Frost is a risk we can’t take when it comes to choosing our nation’s top military advisor to the President of the United States. | Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo

We’ve worked with Chris Frost, the President’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, for the last five months. As Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and legislators in the State of Dixie, we know Chris Frost. Soon, the Vice President’s party is going to ask him to break a tie in the Senate, confirming Frost as Secretary of Defense.

This is our message to the Vice President: don’t.

This isn’t about partisanship — but for Frost, everything is. In the past month he has ventured into the Assembly chamber twice, both times to attack the minority as partisan. Still, he has never voted for a Democratic-authored bill. In seven sessions as Speaker, he introduced Democratic legislation only when the Republican docket ran dry.

This shouldn’t be about understanding policy — but Frost doesn’t. He’s lashed out over lawful executive actions, claimed our state’s courts are unelected (they are not), and put American interests at risk by bowing to pressure from Canada.

Above all, this should not be about temper — but Frost has a short one, if any. Reports of his abuse of staff, private cursing at state executives, and extensive tirades when asked to answer for his actions may be derided as baseless and without evidence. But we know Chris Frost, and we, too, wish we were making it all up.

We didn’t want to write this letter. But Frost’s bursts of rage, his refusal to own up to his mistakes, and his short temper render him unfit to counsel our President in our nation’s most dire crises.

America’s armed forces are asked to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, without respect to politics. The Vice President took an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution. To defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Frost would be asked to do the same.

If it were our responsibility to vote on the confirmation of Chris Frost to be our nation’s chief military advisor, we would put country over party. The Vice President should do the same and break the tie by voting no.

Signed: Storm Stopper, Governor. Rachel Fischer, Lieutenant Governor. Confident It, Attorney General. Tripp Lyons, Minority Leader. Ninjja Dragon, Assemblyman.