Newly-minted Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris caved to the far-left base of the Democrat Party on Tuesday when she bypassed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, the odds-on favorite to be her running mate, to choose Minnesota’s progressive, pro-socialist Governor Tim Walz.
While many were surprised that the vice president would commit such an enormous unforced error, pro-Hamas Democrats, including Squad members Ilhan Omar and Jamaal Bowman were over the moon with the choice of Walz.
So too was the Democrat Socialists of America, which hailed Harris’ choice as proof that the group and its left-wing allies were “a force that cannot be ignored.”
If there was any question that a Kamala Harris presidency would do the bidding of the rabid lunatics in the Democrat base, the decision to bypass the guy who could have handed her Pennsylvania because he happens to be Jewish removed all doubt.
The media quickly framed the rabidly pro-abortion, pro-BLM riots, pro-trans your kids, anti-Israel Minnesota governor as a “moderate” who would help Kamala win over voters in the Midwest.
Yeah, probably not.
Tim Walz won’t appeal to moderates or independents. He will, however, solidify Kamala’s support among Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFLs), those self-righteous ladies who called the police on the neighbors who violated COVID lockdowns and changed their social media profile pictures to a black square during the George Floyd riots in 2020.
As columnist Rich Lowry pointed out on X, Walz is an MSNBC anchor’s idea of the kind of “folksy politician” that would appeal to middle Americans.
Then again, for the folks with an “In this House We Believe…” lawn sign in front of their homes, any leftwing Democrat would have been a winning choice.
Passing up the chance to win Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes to appease the Jew-haters in Minnesota and Michigan seems like a strategically stupid thing to do. But this is Kamala Harris we’re talking about. The woman isn’t known for her political instincts.
Republicans, who spent the weekend sweating bullets over the prospect of Josh Shapiro as Kamala’s running mate, breathed a sigh of relief when Team Kamala announced that she chose Walz.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared the new Democrat ticket the “most left-wing” in history. He, and many other Republicans including Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, were quick to point out that Walz allowed Minneapolis to burn during the George Floyd riots while Kamala Harris helped raise money to bail out the rioters.
Some social media users began posting a mugshot of Walz’s drunk driving arrest in 1995. The then 31-year-old Walz was driving 40 miles over the speed limit when he was pulled over and allegedly claimed to be partially deaf to get out of the ticket.
After a few weeks of listening to Kamala’s cackle on the campaign trail, how much do you want to bet that Walz will wish he really was deaf?
It’s possible that Kamala’s deep insecurity also played a part in her decision to toss Shapiro aside in favor of the gray-haired white guy who talks like a character from the movie “Fargo.”
Several of the hagiographic articles about Governor Shapiro, including one in the New York Times over the weekend, highlighted his close relationship with former President Barack Obama and the fact that he has been described as the Jewish Obama, or “Baruch Obama” if you will.
Shapiro has also been praised for having the same smooth rhetorical skills as the former president.
Kamala Harris is no Barack Obama. She’s incapable of speaking extemporaneously. The woman couldn’t find her way to a point if her life depended on it. Her nonsensical, meandering word salads are the stuff of legend.
Is it possible that Kamala was afraid she might get overshadowed by the more articulate, charismatic Shapiro?
When Joe Biden was still the presumptive nominee, Democrats and the media floated the popular Pennsylvania governor as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, which couldn’t have pleased Biden’s vice president who no doubt convinced herself that she would be his heir apparent after his second term.
The only thing worse than the prospect of being passed over in 2028 for “Baruch Obama” is putting that guy on the ticket with you so he can suck all the oxygen out of the room.
You can’t blame Kamala for not wanting to take a back seat to her Veep.
It is a bit hilarious that Shapiro bent over backward to disavow his Jewishness for nothing. It sucks when you sell your soul to pro-Hamas rioters for a shot at the White House only to lose to a guy who allowed BLM rioters to torch Minneapolis.
One user on X posted a 4-year-old interview with Walz’s wife Gwen in which she said that she opened the windows at the governor’s mansion so she could smell the burning from the BLM riots.
More than 1,500 buildings were burned in the Minnesota riots amounting to half a billion dollars in damages. But Gwen Walz opened the windows so she could smell the destruction.
Oh, yeah. These people deeply care about Middle America, don’t they?
Walz’s far-left record will give the Republicans a lot of fodder to portray the Democrats as too radical for Americans. So while Kamala may have gained the support of far-left socialists, Jew-hating leftists, and anti-Israel Muslim voters in Michigan, she’s made it even harder to win over moderates and Independents.
Ironically, Walz was one of the Democrat Governors who met with President Biden after the disastrous CNN debate. Following the meeting, Walz told reporters that Biden was “fit for office.”
Will any reporter ask Governor Walz about that?
Probably not.
Walz is the Democrat vice presidential candidate, after all. He will receive only glowing, hagiographic profiles from reporters who describe him as a “moderate.”
As is the case every four years, Republicans aren’t just running against the Democrats; they’re also running against the American corporate media. This is doubly true in 2024 when the Democrat Party and its media handmaids will stop at nothing to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
It’s going to be up to the Republicans to do the heavy lifting and expose Harris and Walz as the most radical left presidential ticket in history.
