https://nypost.com/2024/10/13/opinion/blundering-tim-walz-dragging-down-
harris-campaign-while-brilliant-jd-vance-helps-trump-surge/

As the latest polls Sunday showed Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and
neck with just 23 days to go until the presidential election, Democratic
spinmeisters are trying to calm the bedwetters, and Barack Obama has been
dispatched to scold black men for not being impressed by his prot�g�.

But as uncomfortably close as this election is, one thing is certain: Tim
Walz has to be the worst VP pick on record, in stark contrast to JD Vance.

If Harris loses, her self-indulgent decision to reject popular
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in favor of a running mate even dumber than
she is will go down in the Democrats� Hall of Fame as the worst own goal
of all time.

What the choice of running mate tells you about each candidate is
profound.

Trump�s choice of the brilliant Senator Vance tells you he is comfortable
in his own skin, secure about his own achievements and not threatened by a
younger, more articulate MAGA exemplar.

Vance pulled himself out of a chaotic Appalachian childhood plagued by
poverty, domestic violence and drug abuse to attend Yale Law School, find
success in business and a happy marriage.

Since he was unveiled as Trump�s surprise VP pick, against the advice of
most donors and advisers, he has hit the ground running and proven his
worth in dozens of interviews pushing back on media lies with grace and
deadly precision.

Vance�s �brilliance�
For instance, on Sunday, when ABC�s Martha Raddatz downplayed the violent
takeover of residential buildings in Aurora, Colo., by armed illegal
migrant gangs because �the incidents were limited to a handful of
apartment complexes,� Vance took her apart.

�Do you hear yourself?� he replied. �Only a handful of apartment complexes
were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the problem and
not Kamala Harris� open border?�

Trump looks upon his prot�g� with an avuncular pride, commenting to Fox
News after Vance�s commanding performance in the VP debate earlier this
month: �JD was fantastic � it just reconfirmed my choice. There was a
brilliance to what he did.�

On the other hand, there is Walz.

In a few short weeks, the Minnesota governor has amassed an impressive
array of media flubs and downright scandals, from his �stolen valor�
exaggeration of his reserve National Guard career and peculiar lies about
his Chinese Communist Party entanglements to his feeble boasts about being
a red-blooded hunting man.

That last little vanity blew up over the weekend during a fake pheasant
hunting photo op in his home state, when he didn�t know how to load his
shotgun.

In embarrassing scenes, Walz strode around long grass in a high-viz vest
for the cameras, calling for someone to bring him a �Diet Mountain Dew�
because he wanted to �pound it down.�

Then he became camera-shy as he desperately fumbled with his weapon,
sparking a torrent of criticism on social media in which he was likened to
Looney Tunes character Elmer Fudd.

It says a lot about Harris and her campaign that they think that creepy
Walz�s Midwestern dad shtick and fake �Aw, shucks� humility will help win
back the male vote that has deserted her.

�Chemistry�
Her deep-seated insecurity, evident in every media appearance, is behind
her fatal decision to choose Walz over Shapiro or eight other more
impressive candidates.

The fact that Shapiro was Jewish reportedly counted against him because of
the campaign�s desire to court pro-Hamas voters. But more important was
the �chemistry� between Harris and Walz.

He was abjectly subservient and there was no chance he would outshine her
with a superior intellect or mastery of the English language.

Harris also reportedly �loved� Walz�s far-left governing record in
Minnesota, where he ran the state�s finances and education results into
the ground, presided over a draconian COVID lockdown and an extreme
abortion and woke social agenda.

Now she has reaped what she sowed as Walz has become a decided handicap in
the campaign.

His media appearances are mainly exercises in self-harm, in which he tries
to explain away his missteps by declaring himself a �knucklehead.�

The Democratic Party handmaidens of the media are still valiantly trying
to portray him as an �everyman� and the epitome of plain-talking
conservative masculinity who proves that Harris is really a moderate. But
he is just as phony as she is.

The other day, in California, Walz announced that he and Harris planned to
abolish the Electoral College � which is no doubt true but caused great
consternation in the campaign, which does not want to scare off voters
with their real agenda.

He tried to clean up the mess Friday with an interview with ABC�s �Good
Morning America� anchor Michael Strahan, the former Giants defensive end
who was supposed to highlight �Coach Walz�s� football credibility.

But he was a flop even with the good-natured Strahan, who ended up nailing
Walz more deftly than any political reporter.

�You call yourself a knucklehead because you�ve made some statements that
just aren�t true,� Strahan said. �In a comment about �weapons of war that
I carried in war,� which you didn�t. You said you were in Hong Kong during
the Tiananmen Square massacre, when you weren�t. You kind of chalked it up
to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong. But your opponents say you lied
to make yourself look better. Do they have a point?�

Walz ended up a blathering wreck, delivering word salad worthy of his boss
when trying to walk back the Electoral College blunder: �We�re out there
making the case that the campaign�s position is clear, that that�s not
their position.�

Parody
In what is shaping up to be an estrogen-vs.-testosterone election, Harris
has a decidedly low-T team, unless you count Liz Cheney, and her campaign
is resorting to questionable ploys to woo male voters.

Last week saw the launch of a cringe-inducing new ad, �Men for Kamala,�
featuring six supposedly manly men declaring, �I�m a man� and �I�m sure as
s�t not afraid of � women.�

One claims to be so masculine that he eats �carburetors for breakfast.�

It seemed like a Babylon Bee parody. But it just showed how desperate
Harris has become as the wheels fall off the world�s most embarrassing
political �campaign.

Conversation

G W
2 days ago

Why does everyone think she passed over Josh Shapiro. It�s far more
likely he rejected her, which forced her to pick another bottom feeding
candidate, like herself, who also has no talent.

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