The Inauguration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Secretary of State Steve Simon and State Auditor Julie Blaha at the Fitzgerald Theater, on Jan. 7, 2019, in St. Paul, Minn. (Photo by Eric Miller/Workingpress Photo Agency)
Many an eyebrow was raised when President Bill Clinton claimed that Joe Biden had “voluntarily” relinquished power. Then came Nancy Pelosi, who pretended that the president she shoved off a bridge never existed at all, notes Amber Duke in e.
Tall Tales
Once Joe Biden had been shelved, the big event of the DNC was the official introduction of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz:
(Walz) has been accused of stolen valor, lying about his wife’s fertility treatments, having his campaign give false statements about his DUI arrest and stretching the truth on his record of reopening schools during the pandemic, among other tall tales.
Big Pharma, the Hero
Remember the Covid crisis? During that crisis, less than four years ago, just about every major Democratic official insisted you absolutely had to take a vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna, or else you would lose your job? Tim Walz said you needed an updated vaccination card, or you had to get tested once a week, or you could no longer work for the state government.
Walz’s Idea of Fighting Crime: Abject Failure
Tim Walz is the perfect amalgamation of coach Norman Dale from Hoosiers, Red Green, and almost any character played by Wilford Brimley, observes Jim Geraghty at NRO. Since Walz is running as VEEP and not as an actor auditioning for a supporting role, it’s vital that voters know who Walz really is.
In 2020, Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey telephoned Governor Tim Waltz, telling him how serious the situation was in their state. Here’s Walz responding to the George Floyd 2020 riots:
Last night I got a call from a friend and a dedicated public servant. Senator [Patricia] Torres Ray called, in her district and it was on fire. And there weren’t any police there. There weren’t any firefighters. There was no social control, and her constituents were locked in their house, wondering what they were going to do. That is an abject failure that cannot happen. We must restore that order.
George Floyd protests started Tuesday, 26 May 2020. Minnesota Mayo Frey claims the “urgency was clear.” Nonetheless, Walz hesitated to activate the National Guard.
Moving on from the riots, why did Walz sneer, “We don’t need a Yale-educated philosophy major backed by billionaire venture capitalists to tell us who we are.” As though it’s shameful that a poor small-town kid rose above his circumstances to go to Yale?
At the convention, Walz peevishly proclaimed, “I grew up in the small town of Butte, Neb., population 400. I had 24 kids in my high-school class, and none of ’em went to Yale.”
Lest you think Democrats have something against Yale, hold on there. Walz doesn’t’ sneer or belittle this incomplete roster of Yale grads:
William Clinton, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar to name three. Also Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown, Hillary Clinton, Delaware senator Chris Coons, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, former Democratic nominee John Kerry, national-security adviser Jake Sullivan, or Treasury secretary Janet Yellen.
Democrats sneering at Yale University is like flowers sneering at the soil, suggests Jim Geraghty in NRO. “It’s where they start to grow.”
Walz belittled JD Vance’s having a philosophy major. Walz’s bachelor’s degree is in Social Science Education. Really? Really.
Democrats, warns Jim Geraghty, really want to believe that Tim Walz is the folksy persona of a gruff, blunt truth-teller. The reality is otherwise:
… he’s something of a BS artist.
Tim Walz had an easier time running for governor of Minnesota than as a rep. Walz “was the second-most absent member of the House of Representatives in 2017 and 2018, missing nearly a third of all votes.”
Walz’s Democrat Leanings
While a member of the US House, Walz
- Earned an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association
- voted to build the Keystone Pipeline,
- voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over Fast and Furious.
Running on the Left
As governor, Walz ran as far left as he could on education, abortion, immigration, law enforcement, the First Amendment and free speech, and on spending. Governor Walz oversaw some of the worst scandals in waste, fraud, and abuse in the entire country, continues Mr. Geraghty.
As the Washington Post’s James Hohmann observes, “In 2022, while cruising to a second term as governor, he lost his former district — which stretches along the Iowa border from South Dakota to Wisconsin — by 8 points.” Hohmann contends that Harris needs the more centrist Walz who represented that district, not the more progressive governor who won by running up his vote tally in the Twin Cities.
NBC’s Steve Kornacki crunched the numbers and concluded, “In his ’22 campaign, Walz didn’t restore that old balance. His coalition, instead, looked just like what has become the standard post-Obama coalition for Democrats. He rolled up massive margins in metro areas and took a beating practically everywhere else.”
Homegrown Agitators
According to Walz, 80 percent of those arrested during the George Floyd riots were from outside the state. The truth was the opposite, reports NRO. Most were homegrown:
St. Paul police logs show two-thirds of those arrested for looting and property destruction connected to the protests are from Minnesota. And the Minneapolis logs show 93 of the 109 people arrested in the city between Thursday night and Saturday morning reside (in state).
The DNC convention was a cotton candy fling: sugary sweet and devoid of real substance.
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