Veep Harris clearly had chosen Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro to be her running mate. Proof of this was the big rally in Philadelphia. At the last moment she ditches Shapiro and goes with Democrat Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, a left wing loon who bailed on his National Guard battalion when it was sent to Iraq. Pennsylvania is going to be the key battle ground state in November. Minnesota last went GOP in a presidential election when I was fifteen in 1972. From an electoral standpoint the decision makes no sense. I assume it was done because Shapiro is a Jew who supports Israel. The Jew haters are not a core constituency of the Democrat party. They are feeling their oats and we will hear more from them next week, inside and outside the Democrat convention. Veep nominees rarely help, but they can hurt. In surrendering to the Jew haters in her party, I think Harris has hurt herself.
Is Kamala stubbornly misreading her audience or is she being led to do so and by whom?
Well, the press is supposed to update their information. The question is how they blew it for years.
Is Kamala stubbornly misreading her audience or is she being led to do so and by whom?
Path of least resistance. Like most insecure people she is conflict averse and does not want to have a fight with her left wing.
I actually can kind of buy the premise that Shapiro saw what he was getting into and backed out at the last minute. He has future aspirations and has no desire to be a sacrificial lamb, whether for the left wing of the party or in the election. It was lose-lose for him. I could see him deciding to keep his powder dry for 2028 and beyond.
If this is not the case, I will gladly take correction.
Shapiro had an interview with Harris on Sunday that apparently did not go well. My guess is that he picked up on the fact that she wasn’t going to choose him after all. He probably dodged a bullet for his personal career.
Our Masters hard at work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9I0QhV08w
Some think politics concerning Israel and Islam guided her choice – others see Walz ‘ apparently very serious China connections
From what I have read, Walz is a radical pro-abort. Abortion up until the moment of birth. Seems as though Harris has picked a perfect running mate. Planned Parenthood have their claws dug in so deep with the current Democratic Party mob that I wouldn’t be surprised if their only party platform will be unreserved baby mutilation on-demand.
Ezabelle, I believe you are exactly right. Their stump speech has two points, and only two: “Freedom” means the unrestricted license to kill babies in the womb or at birth, and Orange Man Gonna Steal Our Democracy™️.” It’s really all they have, but they can still “win” if the GOP doesn’t get smart about election monitoring.
I’m puzzled at how the military personnel system works and how the Guard and Reserves differ from the Armed Services proper. Anyone born prior to 11 September 1965 would have been too old to enlist w/o regard to his condition otherwise. Over the succeeding years, they raised the ultimate age at which you might enlist or return to service, first to 39 and then to 41. I understand that does not apply to Walz as he’d been in the Guard for 24 years when he reached the age of 41. Still…
It’s my understanding that in the service, you have to make promotion within a certain time frame (generally four years) or you’re compelled to depart. Can someone explain how Walz could have been promoted in 2005 (a promotion later revoked when he elected to retire) when he was demonstrably physically unfit. Have a gander at pictures of him at the time of his campaign for Congress in 2006. I’ll wager you his BMI was over 40 and he looked quite decrepit compared to yours truly that year. (Right now, he looks as old as Bernie Sanders and he’s 23 years younger).
I think his service record is a distraction. Lying partisan Democrats make all sorts of false and misleading about the service records of Republican politicians, but Trump’s Selective Service history between 1964 and 1972 (while aboveboard) does require some explanation, and when you’re explaining you’re losing. The public in 1992 elected an actual draft dodger over a combat veteran, so this is just not an issue to which the electorate is sensitive. (Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the only actual draft dodgers who have been notable in presidential politics in the last 60 years).
The National Guard often has fairly old non coms and officers, at least more so than the regular army. As a Command Sergent Major he likely would not have seen combat, as his main tasks would have been supervising the non coms in the battalion and acting as an advisor and resource to the battalion commander.
It will be interesting to see how the Jewish vote breaks in November. I suspect it will still be majority Dem.
Tim Walz’s job is to not be a jew, and he will do that. Beyond that, he contributes nothing.
Everyone in Minnesota outside of the Twin Cities hates Walz. If anyone was unsure about him, that ended in 2020 when he showed his crony authoritarian ways, and reacted to the George Floyd riots like a whiny child. Some are spinning him as someone who will get a lock on Wisconsin, but I don’t see him as appealing to anyone except voters in Madison who would have went blue anyway.
One thing that I find interesting is how the media is locking into Stolen Valor controversy and that controversy only. I think this is because they can argue things out on technicalities since Walz did serve many years and was there long enough to retire. (Not that that changes the reality that he left his men in the lurch when they got sent to Iraq without him, or that he has repeatedly claimed to be a Command Master Sergeant even though that promotion was conditional on his deployment.) You hear very little about other scandals, like the fact that he ordered tampons to be placed in the mens rooms of all public buildings, or how he wanted to limit church services to 10 or less people even when literally every other type of business had no limitations on how many people could be there. (He only backed down when the bishops finally said that they were going to defy the order.)
Online I notice that ActBlue is very obviously targeting certain comment sections. Most places you will see a mix of comments from people on the right and the left (though more on the right), and they will talk about a variety of issues. Pro-left comments will usually be of the vein that Kamala and Walz aren’t exceptional picks, but that Trump is so horrible that “vote blue no matter who” is still in effect. On the ActBlue comment sections every single comment will be pro-democrat, and the comments will all be openly praising Kamala and Walz, though usually without getting into any specifics (ex. “I never heard of Tim Walz before this pick, but I’ve read about him and he’s a heck of a guy!”)