Shot in the Dark

Feeling Seen Yet?

Tim Walz is not the savviest politician who ever kissed a baby or shook a hand.

But yesterday’s “knucklehead” admission may be the dumbest own goal he’s ever made:

Admitting that one is a marketing charade is a bold move, Cotton.  Let’s see how it works. 

Ed Morrissey notes:

In that sense, perhaps this is Walz’ attempt at sincerity — by acknowledging what seemed pretty apparent all along. What’s mystifying is why Walz would admit publicly that Harris was pursuing a race-based calculation in her running mate rather than, y’know, finding the best person for the job. And not just in the one-heartbeat-from-the-presidency sense either, but also in the ability to campaign and to compete against J. D. Vance.

Like candidate, like running-mate, I guess.

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8 responses to “Feeling Seen Yet?”

  1. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    “What’s mystifying is why Walz would admit publicly that Harris was pursuing a race-based calculation in her running mate rather than, y’know, finding the best person for the job.”

    I don’t think it’s mystifying at all. In the last decade, it is very apparent to me that to the left, identity is far more important a consideration for any political or even semi-political position, than competency.

  2. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    How else would you expect a candidate who was herself a race-based calculation to act?

  3. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    Why just yesterday, I was thinking while watching football and fixing my truck…

    “Hell,” I thought to myself, “now that Walz has given me the permission structure, why can’t I rip off the Minnesota taxpayer for several hundred million?”

  4. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    I would be willing to start smaller, maybe only scamming a million or two, but all the good scamming gigs have already been taken by immigrants from East Africa.

    Okay, true, I was never going to pretend to do daycare, they’re welcome to that one. But I could have pretended to feed kids. I could have pretended to provide mental health treatment. Or the latest Alpha News story, I could have pretended to transport children around town.

    I guess this is one drawback to downsizing government, there are fewer programs willing to throw money down the rathole where I can glom onto it. Damn that Trump!

  5. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    John,

    Consider what you are going to do with your ill-begotten gains before you determine the scale.

    You also have to explore your ethics.

    1) Are you going to send your millions back to the family in the old country? A very ethical endeavor. The more you send, the more ethical.

    2) Are you going to buy a mansion where your friends and girl friends can party? What could be more ethical than that?

    3) Are you going to buy rolex’s and Mercedes? Before you pick a number think of all the people that will employ. To be truly good, one must employ many people.

    4) Are you going to bribe DFL office holders? A good in itself.

    5) Are you going to donate all of your wealth to an NGO? What honorable person would not do that? Especially if you are the only principle in the organization with names picked at random for the board.

    When one takes these factors into account, scale is not something to consider.

    After all there are $18 Billion reasons plus an additional (legislatively) yet to be determined amount to work into the equation, so think big.

    PS. and don’t worry about your gender, race or ethnicity there are always PLENTY of available helpers with the appropriate credentials. If you have problems hooking up with them, I am sure your local DFL representatives can help.

  6. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Any “code talking” that this worthless idiot did, was negated by abandoning his men just before a deployment to a combat zone.

  7. ArthurRadley Avatar
    ArthurRadley

    You all laugh at Walz and Karmela, but they won in Minnesota, Walz is still your Governor and his creepy, batshit crazy wife is still your First Lady.

    If he runs for Governor again, he will win. If he does not run, you will receive someone as bad, or worse (Hakim X). Minneapolis will have its first Somalian mayor within one or two cycles. That’s mayor will fundamentally change the city for the worse, forever.

    Chicago is a world class city that is on the brink of bankruptcy. The taxes are already so high, raising them is off the table, so the incompetent buffoon of a mayor is on the road trying to race shame the Governor into bailing him out.
    The violence is off the charts. The schools are shit.

    And for all that, Chicago will not crumble. That’s because the big businesses have learned how to play the Chicago game. They pay off the right people, and go about business as usual; they’re not going anywhere.

    Minneapolis is famous for Prince. Prince is dead. Paisley Park isn’t in Minneapolis anyway.

    Minneapolis is also famous for fomenting black violence from coast to coast. That violence hasn’t slowed to this day.

    In other words, Minneapolis isn’t known for anything good. And there isn’t anything keeping businesses there; so they’re leaving.

    Minneapolis isn’t the “Mini Apple”…it’s Shitcago.

  8. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    Sadly Arthur is spot on.

    Perhaps those of us who live in “cows and rocks” country should build a wall.

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