“How in the world did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist, when we were making the case of a country attorney and a high school teacher?”
—-Failed Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio. Jeez, somebody tell him…
Thus does the Gov. of Minnesota and the most embarrassing major party Vice-Presidential nominee in recent history (yes, even worse than Kamala and Joe Biden) demonstrate the fealty to group identification and bias over substance, ability, and merit as the basis for success in our society.
Will somebody try to explain to Walz, who might look in the mirror if he wants to understand “how in the world” the Democratic ticket lost, that in the United Sates of America it is what people do, say, accomplish and believe that matters, not whether their occupations and labels are the “right” ones. Do include in the probably hopeless attempt that being a “country lawyer” ( Is that what Kamala Harris is?) and a high school teacher suggest no likely acumen at leading a nation. I do give Walz some credit for picking “billionaire” as his label for Trump rather than “convicted felon” or “adjudicated rapist,” the labels that his party worked so hard to slap on Trump using a politicized, unethically manipulated justice system, or the ever-popular “reality TV star.” (The appropriate description was “former President of the United States.”)
“I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might have been the least wealthy person to ever run for Vice President,” Walz told MPR News. You did? Then you’re an idiot.
Ethics Alarms 
Tim Walz was not put on the ticket because he was particularly smart or had some particularly good ideas. He was put on the ticket because he gave the appearance of being a “plaid dad” and would hopefully encourage there to be more “white dudes for Harris” and more otherwise conservative fathers of daughters who would vote for Harris because it was voting for their daughters like in the commercial they ran about how what happens in the voting booth stays in the voting booth. I have concluded that there really weren’t that many white men who were flippable. Harris already had all the college educated liberals in her pocket. She already had all the white men she was going to get.
The white men who were not on her side were not going to get on her side because she had a fake everyman as her VP. Most of us haven’t forgotten that Tim Walz stood back and allowed the cities in his state to be attacked by rioters. Most of us also saw right through his fake act and laughed when he couldn’t even load the gun he was supposed to use as a prop in that hunting spot. That was the same kind of failure as Michael Dukakis trying to ride in a tank in 1988. The fact that he was a non wealthy High School teacher who had a special needs son to tearfully simper “that’s my dad.” didn’t win him a thing. This country was interested in stopping inflation and getting people back some of their purchasing power. This election was not about electing a first to be first or electing the right kind of people. I really think his failure was just an indication of how we are headed towards a backlash for the last 5 years of wokeness.
He was also chosen because Kamala Harris has terrible judgment and was afraid to pick Shapiro because he would alienate the crucial Democrat Jew-Hating section of the base. I felt the momentum of the campaign shift during the VP debate: I said then that Walz’s terrible performance was a tipping point, and I believe I was right. No, people don’t vote for ticket’s based on the VPs, but Walz’s cretinism had significance far beyond him personally. If you don’t count poor Admiral Stockdale {CORRECTED}, and I don’t, Walz really may have been the worst VP nominee ever. And Harris really thinks she can be nominated again in 2028? Delusional.
You mean Admiral Stockdale? Either way I agree. Harris is also selfish and didn’t want to share power with Shapiro, who was looking to do more than go to funerals. Yes, Vance swallowed Walz whole and spit out his shoes in that debate.
Ah, I should have double checked my memory—thanks, I’ll fix that.
Democrats ran the worst Presidential tandem in my lifetime, maybe the worst of all time. It’s hard to really know which of the pair was worse…Harris or Walz. The fact that either of them is making noise about running in 2028 has me thinking…
Please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please…make it so!!!
I firmly believe Kamala Harris made absolutely no decisions whatsoever at any point in her campaign. She was simply a puppet for the cabal that’s been running the country since Biden was inaugurated. I was going to say, “took over,” but Joe never took control of anything. Once Ron Klain was run off, I don’t know who was running things. Maybe Obama, but likely some cadre of know-it-alls in the executive office building.
See here.
https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/1866550795325632529
The last time this sort of thing happened, was when Ronald Reagan was re-elected in 1984!
That’s interesting. Must be a lot of boats needing rising in Beverly Hills.
Well, that got me to looking, thanks.
The last Republican to carry California was Bush the elder in 1988. On the other hand, Dukakis did carry Iowa and West Virginia that year.
In 1980, Reagan carried not only California but New York and Massachusetts, I believe the last Republican to carry the latter two (also in 1984 of course). Reagan also carried all of the South except Georgia, whereas Carter had swept the South in 1976.
It does remind us that voting patterns swing back and forth, even as we watch them. Prior to FDR, New England was generally solidly Republican. For that matter, how many Democrats from California have been elected recently versus Republicans?
Can the Republicans keep gaining with the working class? Can the Democrats regain some of the Hispanic vote? Stay tuned. Keep your popcorn ready.
Whoever in the cabal landed upon picking The Knucklehead as Harris’s running mate has to have some sort of award for stupidest campaign advisor decision named after them, maybe at the Harvard School of Government or someplace.
I suspect they chose Walz because Harris was worried about being upstaged by Shapiro, more so than alienating the hard-left, antisemites in the Democrat Party. Shapiro is sharp, popular, has charisma and a fairly successful governorship.
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Possibly, John. But Harris worrying about anything? That’s a stretch.
That gets my vote.
If true, it’s strangely ironic that VP Harris would shun Shapiro due to his abilities, when apparently Donald Trump did exactly the opposite with JD Vance.
Trump has the cult of personality, but Vance is the better speaker, the deeper thinker, and the quicker wit…and his decisive debate with Tim Walz clearly made a difference in the electoral outcome.
This may reveal to us that President Trump is not quite the narcissist we think he is, and that VP Harris is more narcissistic than we suspected.
The appropriate answer is, “because you were a crooked cop and a creepy old dumb guy.”