Please don't worry- this will not be the last time I write about my governor, Tim Walz, assuming that the news that Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate pan out. And all indications are that this is a done deal.

As Ed wrote, Tim Walz is a ridiculous choice for Harris, proving once again that her political instincts are about as bad as humanly possible. I was expecting Josh Shapiro, fully aware that the antisemitic wing of the Democrat Party would howl in rage. Picking him would have been a smart Sister Soulja moment and help Harris in the must-win state of Pennsylvania. 

The choice was so glaringly obvious that, of course, she would avoid doing it, I suppose, because her political instincts were honed in San Francisco, where Walz would be seen as one of the few "good" people from flyover territory. 

Walz has two virtues that probably stood out for Harris: first, he looks like a farmer, and second he has a populist flavor on first look. To a San Francisco liberal, he seems the ideal choice to get some votes in flyover country. 

He isn't. Walz is a radical, every bit as liberal as Kamala Harris, and he isn't really good at hiding it. He has a thin skin, and his populist rhetoric is deployed to justify socialism, and he even admits it. 

There is a lot of videotape of Walz out there saying and doing outrageous things, and I suspect that the biggest vulnerability will be his utter failure during the George Floyd riots. He refused to call out the National Guard, and reportedly ordered the Minneapolis Third Precinct to be abandoned--leading to its occupation and eventual destruction. 

This will be a very effective line of attack for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is that as Tim Walz allowed Minneapolis to burn--and it came out later that it was Walz more than our Mayor Jacob Frey, who begged for help as Walz blamed him--Kamala Harris was raising money to bail out the very rioters that Walz allowed to trash MY city. 

Walz had a reason for allowing this to happen: he approved of the riots. 

No, I am not kidding. Early on, as the riots were seen as a ray of hope in a systemically racist society according to Walz. He said as much. 

Walz literally called the destruction of our city "exciting." 

Walz didn't call out the National Guard in Minneapolis because he thought they were dangerous rubes, despite having been a National Guard member himself. He obviously hated his comrades in arms, because they weren't his comrades in politics. 

Walz is a radical on the border, and ensured that illegal aliens could get as many government services as citizens--including drivers' licenses even if they couldn't provide any identification to back up their claims to live here.  

Tim Walz would gladly replace Americans with illegals. pic.twitter.com/QNQnO9eQ0u

— Eric Cook (@Greentownmayor) August 6, 2024

Walz was also among the most radical governors on COVID policy, creating a snitch line encouraging neighbors to report each other for LEAVING THEIR HOUSES. He was a huge fan of totalitarianism and embraced it enthusiastically. 

Stalin would be proud. Walz will be sold as a "prairie populist," but to those of us who live in Minnesota--especially outside the Twin Cities--he is thought of as a communist stooge. 

Walz is an urban liberal who sells himself as a working man. He has contempt for you and me. That will come out over the campaign both in his occasional outbursts of anger--he is notoriously thin-skinned--and through campaign ads that will rip him apart.

My wife joked--she works for the Minnesota State Senate--that at least for a while the legislature will be "unburdened by what has been," although she hopes it will be a temporary situation. 

His Lieutenant Governor, after all, is a radical trans activist.