Walzing With Kamala With Tim Walz, Harris placates party anti-Semites – and doubles down on radicalism. by Lloyd Billingsley
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Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate, a choice that left many pundits puzzled. For the real deal on Walz, consider Powerline’s John Hinderaker, a Minnesotan quite familiar with Kamala’s VP choice:
“I think it was a process of elimination,” writes Hinderaker, “Mark Kelly seemed like a strong candidate, until it came out that he invested in a spy satellite company with the Chinese.” Harris wanted Josh Shapiro, “but at the eleventh hour, helped by an essay Shapiro wrote when he was in college, the anti-Semites blocked him.” That left Tim Walz, “a small-minded, mean-spirited man,” who will fit well with the Harris ticket.
“He ran a basement campaign for re-election in 2022,” Hinderaker recalls, “refusing to show up for debates with Republican Scott Jensen after the first one went badly. So Jensen was left debating an empty chair.” Walz was also “largely responsible for the George Floyd riots that devastated Minneapolis and other cities, because he dithered for days rather than calling out the National Guard. By his own admission, he held off out of sympathy for the rioters’ cause. We are still living with the consequences.”
On Walz’s watch, Hinderaker notes, “Minnesota became a high-crime state for the first time ever.” Before Harris picked Walz, Powerline’s Scott Johnson, also a Minnesotan, wrote a Free Beacon piece headlined “Take My Governor – Please.”
After Biden’s debate with Trump, Walz was one of those contending that demented Joe was still “fit for office.” As Johnson explains, “Walz knew he was lying. Walz knew we knew he was lying. He casts the pale shadow of a man incapable of embarrassment and presents as an example of life imitating art, in this case the advertising art that created Joe Isuzu.”
During the pandemic, Walz “exercised dictatorial powers” from March 25, 2020 to July 1, 2021. On Walz’s watch, “the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) oversaw the payout of some $250 million to reimburse mythical meals served around the state. The nature and scale of the fraud are staggering.”
As Johnson recalls, following the death of George Floyd, “Walz fiddled while Minnesota’s Third Precinct police station burned,” failing to call out the National Guard in swift fashion. Still, Harris’ running mate shows another side.
Since reelection in 2022, Walz has “established Minnesota as a mecca for abortion and a home for “trans refuge.” Minnesota “prohibits enforcing of out-of-state subpoenas, arrest warrants and extradition requests” and “bars complying with court orders elsewhere to remove children from their parents’ custody for getting gender affirming care.” These issues invite comparisons with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Powerline’s Steven Hayward (Age of Reagan, The Real Jimmy Carter), a Californian, was ready for the call.
“I suspect Walz would come out worse than Newsom,” writes Hayward, noting that the selection “indicates a couple significant things about Harris.” The choice of Walz did not leak out until Tuesday, so “Harris didn’t make up her mind until yesterday. She’s indecisive.” The Walz pick “suggests the progressive anti-Semitic left successfully intimidated Harris out of picking Josh Shapiro. So she’s weak, too.”
As Hayward contends, Shapiro “could have helped Harris nail down the all-important state of Pennsylvania, and represented for Harris a ‘Sister Souljah’ moment of repudiation to the progressive left that the newly ‘centrist’ Harris badly needs.” Shapiro and Mark Kelly would have added “the veneer of ideological diversity” to the ticket, but “instead she has doubled down on progressivism.” From a Republican perspective, the only pick worse than Walz would have been Pete Buttigieg, so Hayward wonders if Harris could be “Walzing to defeat.”
For a summary of Harris’ issues, see “The Keys to Kamala” – which reveals Harris’ touting of her supposed support for working people. Like Joe Biden, Harris is a supporter of the most anti-worker legislation in recent memory, California’s Assembly Bill Five, a virtual declaration against the independence of workers. It’s also worth recalling that Harris owes her start in politics to poontronage from Democrat queenmaker Willie Brown, who set up his main squeeze in lucrative sinecures.
In 2010, Harris was so lightly regarded that the Democrat-friendly Sacramento Bee endorsed her Republican opponent Steve Cooley for attorney general. Cooley was far ahead on election night but three weeks of ballot harvesting put Harris over the line by less than one percent. To adopt a recent phrase of Donald Trump, maybe Kamala Harris is the one who is “not supposed to be here.”
Harris’s choice of Tim Walz, meanwhile, should not distract from husband Doug Emhoff. Back in the 1992 Democrat primaries, California governor Jerry Brown accused Arkansas governor Bill Clinton of “funneling money to his wife’s law firm for state business.” Despite Imhoff’s past dalliance, the interns are probably safe, but would a President Harris use her office to funnel money to her husband’s legal cronies, representing clients not exactly friendly to the United States? That is hardly the only possibility.
During the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton touted wife Hillary, telling voters: “you get two for the price of one.” In 2020, it was the “Biden-Harris administration.” Maybe this campaign portends the “Harris-Emhoff administration” and all that would entail. As Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.
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