The Democrats just keep on giving to Donald Trump: the endless show trials that only boosted his poll numbers every time. They stuck with Joe Biden even after the debate exposed his cognitive decline in the most brutal fashion. Then they replaced Joe with an unelected nominee so unpopular she never won a single primary vote in eight years.
Now, cacklin’ Kamala Harris has chosen her running mate. Hoo, boy.
She passed over the Republicans’ deepest fear, Josh Shapiro, the popular, centrist governor of battleground state of Pennsylvania. Rejecting the Jewish Shapiro only deepens suspicions that Harris and the DNC are pandering to the anti-Semitic far-left. Instead, she selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
And the establishment media are desperately spinning.
He was the unassuming governor of Minnesota whose straight-talking, folksy charm earned him the nickname “Midwestern dad”.
Did it, though?
The Times writers clearly know little about Minnesota. It was the epicentre of the anti-Vietnam protests. It’s the only state Ronald Reagan couldn’t win in an otherwise clean sweep of the Electoral College. Even when Richard Nixon had swept the board in 1972, Minnesota was a near-run thing.
As for Walz, his record is to the far-left of even the Democrats.
Walz’s long list of policy ‘achievements’ and political stances that have already gifted Republicans with the attack slogans ‘Tampon Tim’ and ‘Make America Burn Again’.
The “Tampon Tim” moniker came after Walz signed a law requiring Minnesota schools to supply tampons in boys’ toilets. His embrace of the trans agenda goes even further: he backed laws to strip custody of children from parents who resisted gender reassignment surgery for their kids. He declared Minnesota a “trans-refugee state”.
He also passed laws permitting abortion right up ’til the moment of birth.
He’s on the record supporting the ‘defund the police’ movement which emerged following George Floyd’s death in May 2020 in Minnesota’s biggest city Minneapolis, during which he waited three days before calling in the national guard to stop riots that caused massive damage and destruction.
His wife Gwen Walz even recalled savouring the moments in solidarity with the rioters. “I could smell the burning tires … I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,” she later told a journalist when looking back on the incident.
As for the hot-button issue of the election, illegal immigration, Walz’s record is even worse than failed “Border Czar” Kamala.
Walz signed laws as governor that provided free health care, drivers licences and university education for undocumented immigrants. He tried to lift income tax as governor and supported policies to phase out fossil fuels.
What spin does the Times have left in its increasingly thin grab bag? Hmm, how does his military service match up to his opposite, JD Vance, who served with the Marines in Iraq?
Walz, 60, grew up in small-town Nebraska. When he turned 17 he enlisted in the Army National Guard, and during his 24 years in service he worked mostly in disaster response, never seeing combat. After 9/11 he was deployed to Europe to support Operation Enduring Freedom.
Which is an unconvincing way of glossing over that Walz quit the National Guard as soon as his unit was scheduled to go to Iraq in 2005. His rushed replacement doesn’t mince words.
“I needed to hit the ground running and take care of the troops – and tell them we were going to war,” said [Thomas Behrends] of the 500 soldiers under his command. “For a guy in that position to quit is cowardice” [...]
“When your country calls, you are supposed to run into battle – not the other way,” the retired command sergeant major told The Post Tuesday. “He ran away. It’s sad.
“He had the opportunity to serve his country, and said ‘screw you’ to the United States. That’s not who I would pick to run for vice-president.”
Picking Walz also blunts the Democrats’ attacks on Trump as a ‘convicted felon’.
In 1995, Walz was caught doing 96mph in a 55mph zone. He sped up when he saw the police car. He had a blood-alcohol level of 0.128. He tried to claim that he was deaf, not drunk.
Far from a youthful peccadillo, Walz was a 31-year-old, married, high school teacher at the time.
The Dems sure can pick ’em.
