{"id":89573,"date":"2025-04-30T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89573"},"modified":"2025-04-30T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:57:23","slug":"89573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89573","title":{"rendered":"A Lion At The Bar, A Kitten On The Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For all the aggressive rhetoric that accompany his flouncing and jazz hands, Tim Walz is not exactly a self-assured man. <\/p>\n<p>He almost comletely avoided debating Scott Jensen in the 2022 Governor tilt &#8211; limiting it to one debate at a small TV station in Rochester.&nbsp; For good reason <\/p>\n<p>How good, we learned last summer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During the 2024 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Walz<\/a> was so anxious for his debate with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JDVance<\/a> that he couldn\u2019t sleep and aides had to remind him to eat. <br><br>The debate \u201cterrified him,\u201d Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write in their book \u201cFIGHT.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qfr1YVHX1H\">pic.twitter.com\/qfr1YVHX1H<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reaganreese_\/status\/1916541223688380505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It would explain his debate performance in Minnesota; he avoids them like they&#8217;re a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, there&#8217;s nothing Walz avoids more than a debate.&nbsp; Even deployment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could fling more pithiness.&nbsp; Indeed, this weekend on the air I most likely will. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll leave it to John Kriesel &#8211; former state representative, and veteran who lost two legs in Iraq &#8211; to do that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is a good thing that Walz retired before the Iraq deployment. War is much tougher than a debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L8Mju0n6iS\">https:\/\/t.co\/L8Mju0n6iS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Kriesel (@johnkriesel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnkriesel\/status\/1916703239405228100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s gonna make a presidential run kind of interesting.\u00a0 Presuming he gets anywhere near endorsement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the aggressive rhetoric that accompany his flouncing and jazz hands, Tim Walz is not exactly a self-assured man. He almost comletely avoided debating Scott Jensen in the 2022 Governor tilt &#8211; limiting it to one debate at a small TV station in Rochester.&nbsp; For good reason How good, we learned last summer It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-89573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89579,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89573\/revisions\/89579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}