I realize you probably haven’t given Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and former running mate of Kamala Harris, much thought since the election. Hell, most people didn’t give him much thought during the election either. He’s crazy. More than that, he’s incoherent, which is a side-effect of literal crazy. His recent appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show demonstrated not only this, but just how awful the judgment of Kamala Harris was to have picked him in the first place. Bullet-dodged, America.
To understand how the nominee of a major political party could pick a running mate whose communications skills consist of vomiting up a Jumble, you have to remember the circumstances around choosing him. Then-President Joe Biden had just soiled himself in the presidential debate – losing his train of thought over and over again. Then he was on the business end of one of the most devastating lines ever delivered in politics when Donald Trump said, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence and I don’t think he does either.”
Kamala found herself handed the nomination shortly after that and had to pick someone to be VP. To almost everyone, the choice was obvious: Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania. He’s smart, articulate and had just won a resounding victory in the biggest swing state in the election…but…
The problem for Harris was Shapiro is Jewish, and the Democratic Party’s radical base is “unfriendly” to Jews on a good day, and this was anything but a good day. College campuses erupted with Democrats physically angry that Israel was defending itself in the war Hamas terrorists had launched against them. The tolerant left started calling for the completion of Hitler’s dream of wiping out the Jews under the banner of “anti-fascist, with no sense of irony or self-awareness.
Afraid of losing that Muslim vote in Dearborn, Michigan, Kamala ended up losing there anyway, and the rest of the state by passing on a competent choice and going with…Tim Walz.
Had you ever heard of Tim Walz before he was picked? Probably not, unless you live in Minnesota. He’d become known only a week or so before his choosing because he called Trump and JD Vance “weird.”
