The Patriot Post® · Tim Walz Loses CNN

We understand the concept of impeachment insurance, but how low can the Democrats go?

First it was Barack Obama’s selection of backslapping Joe Biden, which all but guaranteed that a Republican-led Congress wouldn’t try to remove Obama from office, even for the malfeasance of, for example, lying to the American people to secure ObamaCare’s passage or siccing the IRS and the FBI and the ATF on his political opponents.

Then Biden himself followed the Obama playbook, tapping the dimwitted and unlikable Kamala Harris for his vice president to ensure that House Republicans wouldn’t do to him what his party had twice done to Donald Trump, even for the high crime of selling us out to the Communist Chinese.

Which brings us to Kamala Harris, who needed to dig deep to find a vice-presidential nominee who would make her seem decent, capable, trustworthy, and unimpeachable by comparison. Remarkably, she appears to have done so with the selection of Minnesota’s current “knucklehead” governor, the deployment-dodging, valor-thieving, serial prevaricating Tim Walz.

Walz’s ineptitude was on full display a week ago when Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, cleaned his clock in their VP debate. Walz lost the debate on one issue after another, on both style and substance. And it wasn’t even close. But that performance only scratched the surface of his unfitness for office.

To understand the management style that Walz would position one heartbeat away from the presidency, we need only look at his performance as Minnesota’s chief executive.

Walz has set an awful example on immigration, which, next to the economy, is the leading issue on voters’ minds. And Minnesota is, after all, a border state. As The Wall Street Journal reports, “Walz signed into law initiatives allowing immigrants in the country illegally to apply for driver’s licenses, qualify for free tuition at state universities and enroll in the state’s free healthcare program for low-income residents.” So, he clearly believes in open borders, and he clearly believes that American taxpayers should foot the bill for the social welfare of illegal immigrants.

Indeed, Walz has sneeringly said of Trump’s efforts to build a border wall, “I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30-foot-ladder factory.”

Walz, as governor, has made Minnesota a treasure trove for fraud, waste, and abuse — including his stewardship of the “Feeding Our Future” fraud, which Minnesota-based Power Line’s Scott Johnson says represents “the single biggest COVID fraud uncovered in the United States to date.” Johnson adds, “When it comes to COVID fraud, we’re number one. All together, 70 defendants have been charged. As of today, 26 or so have pleaded guilty.”

No less than CNN has noticed Walz’s failures on this front. Its headline reads, “As fraud scandals erupt in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, accountability is in short supply.”

Of course, being a Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry. As CNN continues: “One state audit found that bonus checks intended for frontline workers during the pandemic were handed out to undeserving recipients. Another criticized a Minnesota state agency for failing to ensure there were no conflicts of interest in taxpayer-funded mental health and addiction programs. A third detailed lax oversight of a program to feed needy kids which federal prosecutors say resulted in the nation’s largest Covid-era fraud scheme.”

Beyond Walz’s incompetence as a governor is his penchant for lying. Whether the issue is his military rank, his non-combat military service, his 1995 DUI arrest, his politicization of in vitro fertilization, or his having been in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre, Walz has a Mittyesque (or is that Bidenesque?) penchant for falsehood. When Fox News’s Shannon Bream asked Walz point-blank about these, er, misstatements on Sunday and whether the American people might not trust him as commander-in-chief, he said, “Yeah, well, I think they heard me. They heard me the other night speaking passionately about gun violence and, and misspeaking, and I’ve got to be honest with you, Shannon, I don’t think people care whether I used IUI or IVF — we talked about this. What they understand is Donald Trump would resist those things.” Even though Trump wouldn’t resist “those things,” like IVF, for which he’s repeatedly expressed support.

Closer to home, Power Line’s Johnson has remained slack-jawed by Harris’s choice of Walz, especially when swing-state Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, would’ve been a far more competent and far less embarrassing pick. Alas, Shapiro’s Jewishness was a bridge too far for the pro-Hamas base of the Democrat Party. Said Johnson: “It was inconceivable to me that Kamala Harris would select Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate because of his record in office. His record as governor ranges from the horrible to the despicable.”

From the horrible to the despicable. That pretty much sums up Tim Walz. No wonder Kamala Harris chose him.