It was highly predictable, but once Kamala Harris announced that Minnesota governor Tim Walz (who?) was her choice for vice president, adoration and enthusiasm poured forth from all the usual quarters.
You may know that it was Walz, in one of his ubiquitous appearances on MSNBC, who called his now-GOP counterpart JD Vance “weird.”
But that might just be a little too rich for a lot of voters.
For example, the smartass Right on Twitter picked up on something interesting in Walz’s record as governor of Minnesota:
#TamponTim pic.twitter.com/eBPyEOSWPC
— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) August 6, 2024
What’s this about? Well, the Democrats would say it’s evidence of “misogyny” among Republicans. Walz was the governor who signed a state statute into law requiring that tampons be made available in all public school bathrooms in Minnesota.
That’s a dumb policy for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that if tampon availability is a needful thing then certainly school officials — rather than the governor or the state legislature — ought to be able to make it happen. A state law on this topic is classic idiotic virtue-signal and a pandering to Democrat identity groups.
But it’s not why the Tampon Tim nickname is sticking. This goes a little further:
“Not all students who menstruate are female” –
MN State Rep Sandra Feist.Sandra sponsored the bill which Tim Walz signed which requires tampons in boy’s bathrooms in schools.#TamponTim pic.twitter.com/Bou8GErwBG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 6, 2024
One can almost appreciate this as a state-issued comedic license, considering what high school boys would think of in the way of hilariously disruptive, if not destructive, uses for those tampons. Either way, Tampon Tim isn’t going to go away because it’s a terrific avatar for the unserious idiocy of Hard Left governance.
After all:
This is Tim Walz’s trusted advisor. He was key in getting Walz to install tampon dispensers in boy’s bathrooms in Minnesota schools. #tampontim pic.twitter.com/dJPUBGsov8
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) August 6, 2024
What’s not so funny about Walz’s record is what happened in May and June of 2020.
Walz did nothing as mobs of looters and rioters tore apart Minnesota’s largest city, offering only weak platitudes about St. George Floyd. It was four whole days before he deployed the National Guard to regain control; by that point, the damage was done and Minneapolis was a war zone.
It’s even worse than that.
Here is a bizarre clip from an interview with Gwen Walz stating that she left her windows open during the Minneapolis Riots so she could smell the burning tires.
Her daughter also coordinated with rioters to let them know that the National Guard would not be activated one night. pic.twitter.com/ityW100Z4y
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) August 6, 2024
Why would Harris pick this guy?
Chemistry and rapport, she says.
And maybe that has something to do with it. After all, Harris was raising money to bail Minneapolis rioters out of jail while this fiasco was unfolding. You wouldn’t think the Dems would want a reprise of the George Floyd mess, at least not while they’re in office, but apparently, you’d be wrong.
It seems like a really bad idea.
I have a different idea about this, and I’m pretty certain I’m right.
Consider this:
And there was a sense within Shapiro’s team that, unlike Walz, his interview with Harris did not go as well as it could have. There was “not a great feeling” coming out of it, according to a person in touch with his advisers.
After their meeting on Sunday, Shapiro called Harris’ team and made clear that he was “struggling with the decision to leave his current job as governor of Pennsylvania, in order to seek the vice presidency,” according to a person familiar with the selection process.
That’s POLITICO putting on as pretty a face as possible to what looks an awful lot like Josh Shapiro turning Harris down.
Just as Gretchen Whitmer and Roy Cooper explicitly and publicly turned Harris down.
There is no political universe in which you choose Tampon Tim Walz, who fiddled as Minneapolis burned, made Minnesota not just a sanctuary for illegal aliens but insane Munchausen-By-Proxy moms transing their kids in violation of red state laws, and changed the state flag to make it look like the Somali national flag, over Josh Shapiro who likely delivers Pennsylvania, which you cannot win without if you’re Harris. Such a universe doesn’t exist even if the assessments of Harris’ IQ as below average are accurate; Eric Holder is not an idiot and he was in charge of vetting candidates.b
There is, on the other hand, a political universe in which Shapiro sat with Harris on Sunday, and the “not a great feeling” is well-explained as Shapiro thinking that the last thing he would want is to play second fiddle to a woman whose team is afraid to put her in front of a press gaggle or even a long-form interview with a friendly journalist.
Which they’ve refused to do for two and a half weeks now since she became the nominee.
Let’s remember that there is no surer political death knell in American politics than serving as the VP nominee on a losing presidential ticket. You become worse than irrelevant; you become a joke.
And Josh Shapiro believes himself to be the future of American politics. His eye is not on the vice presidency but the White House and the helm of the Democrat Party unencumbered by the whims and dictates of one Barack Hussein Obama, who is the current gatekeeper to political power.
It’s far better for Shapiro to keep his powder dry or even to practice a bit of soft sabotage on this ticket so that the field might be open in 2028.
I think he turned Harris down not because they didn’t get along but because he thinks she’s a loser. I think that’s true of everybody else who would have made more sense than Tampon Tim Walz.
I think Kamala did the one thing women are told not to do. I think she settled.
And because she did, she’s stuck as the head of the Make America Burn Again ticket.
We’ll see if it works, but honestly?
It’s a pretty weird move.
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