Didja hear? Omigod. Minnesota’s Tim Walz, everyone’s favorite Failed Vice Presidential Candidate and sympathizer with the Chinese Communist Party, is not running for reelection — he no longer seeks to serve as one of the top three worst governors ever.
In his whiny announcement, Governor Walz verged on apoplexy. “Those bumbling Somali fraudsters screwed everything up! The optics have gone to @#$%&!; citizen journalist, my [insert alternative grawlix here]! And Trump is mean!” Look, if you don’t believe me, I’ll fax you the transcript.
OK. I may be paraphrasing.
But I’m close. Associated Press reports his bitter comments on why the jig is up. Walz is waltzing out of the campaign because he can’t give it “my all” because of the “extraordinarily difficult year for our state” because of the latest revelations of how crappily and dishonestly he functioned as governor.
Walz said: “Donald Trump and his allies — in Washington, in St. Paul, and online — want to make our state a colder, meaner place.” These baddies “want to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors . . . want to take away much of what makes Minnesota the best place in America to raise a family.”
All very elusively allusive. What could Senor Real Man possibly be talking about? Why would any Minnesotan — say, an honest taxpayer — want to attack another Minnesotan — say, someone living high off the hog on the taxpayer dime, effectively taking money from the mouths of babes? Or a dishonest politician cooperating with and benefiting from just such massive taxpayer-funded fraud?
Don’t run, Walz. Don’t run. Stay right where you are.
So that prosecutors can find you.
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One reply on “Walz Won’t Run Cuz Trump Mean”
On the one hand, so long as Walz was running for re-election as governor, opponents of the Democrats could make him in 2026 what Joe Biden was in 2024 — the appalling, absurd face of the Democratic Party, against whom they ran, even in those races in which he were not actually a candidate.
On the other hand, Walz’s abandonment of his campaign makes still less plausible the insistences of the Democrats and of those journalists who eat toads for them that their opponents have wildly exaggerated the problem of fraud in receipt of government benefits in Minnesota — and by natural inference through-out the nation. Walz would have deployed appropriate resources — and even inappropriate resources — to clear his name if he thought that he had a chance.
So, with or without him, the Democrats have taken a tremendous hit, which they might mostly have avoided had he not ever sought a third term.
But, again, the great propensity of the Republican Party is to wiff the ball, even if it is travelling straight and slow through the middle of the strike zone. I’m seeing lots of commentary from pundits and lots of graphic macros; I’m hearing the Attorney General talk. But I’m not hearing or reading about subpoenae or about arrests. The Biden Administration surely sat on evidence for four years, but investigations began literally years.