This didn't take long. It's almost as if Republicans knew what was coming.

Democrats wanted to have The Weirdo Debate. Tim Walz even got it kick-started. And it looks as though Team Trump has been champing at the bit to get it really fired up. Their new ad calls the Minnesota governor that mandated tampon distribution in boys' bathrooms the "Chief Weirdo" (via Twitchy):

Tim Walz is a weird radical liberal.

What could be weirder than signing a bill requiring schools to stock tampons in boys' bathrooms?

Or weirder than signing legislation allowing minors to receive sex change operations? pic.twitter.com/2kqTQ9CzfT

— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) August 6, 2024

That's gonna sting. It might not seem weird in the Academia-drenched Twin Cities to stock tampons in boys' rooms, but it certainly seems like an odd thing to do for most other places in America. But the effort to make Minnesota into a sanctuary state for pediatric sex-change therapies looks a lot more than just "weird" -- it looks dangerous. That's especially true as the WPATH policies get more and more exposed as political and studies emerge that show no medical basis for pediatric transitioning. 

This went out within minutes of the official announcement this morning. What other items have Team Trump and RNC researchers put together in anticipation of a Walz selection? We'll probably see a number of such ads over the next few days, or possibly during the Democrat convention, which will likely turn into a progressive show of triumphalism over the moderates in the party. 

The RNC sent out a lengthy list of potential ad fodder this morning via e-mail, with a healthy emphasis on the "weird" debate. Care to guess which of these will end up as 30-second spots running after Labor Day?

• Walz is extremely "woke."
  • Walz said that it's "insane" people would be upset with Target for partnering with a satanic designer to promote trans products for children.
  • Walz has publicly acknowledged his "white privilege" as governor and said that "the office of governor had better be used to not just talk about the problem but to solve the problem" of racial equity.
  • Walz sympathized with the vandals who tore down a statue of Columbus at the Capitol, and  refused to resurrect it.
• Walz is a climate radical who wants to phase out fossil fuels.
  • Walz forced Minnesota to adopt stricter emissions standards for cars, trucks, and SUVs - aligning itself with California -despite objections from auto dealers.
• Under Walz's leadership, Minnesota's quality of education has steadily dropped.
  • Walz takes his marching orders from teachers union bosses like Randi Weingarten, and was a member of a teachers union himself.
• Walz attacked rural Minnesota as "mostly rocks and cows."

Click through for the supporting receipts. They also have plenty on Walz when it comes to less-weird and politically potent topics, such as immigration, taxes, crime, and more. We'll see plenty of ads aiming at those issues, too.One has to wonder how much of this the Protection Racket Media will cover -- and how much they will cover up. And how much of this will the media and Big Tech try to suppress as disinformation?

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They're also resurrecting a 1995 DUI in Nebraska, which came up in the 2022 gubernatarial campaign. This may or may not make it into an ad, but it's going to come up in more than just an occasional e-mail. As my friend Anthony Gockowski reported for Alpha News at the time, Walz is lucky to be alive, and not to have killed anyone else. And of course, he later lied about it:

The issue emerged during Walz’s successful 2006 campaign for Congress in Minnesota’s First District. In one of the few available articles on the incident, Walz’s campaign manager told the Rochester Post Bulletin he was “not drunk” and “attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness,” an issue Walz said was caused by his time in the National Guard that has since been “surgically corrected.”

“He couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him,” Walz’s campaign manager said at the time, noting his deafness caused “balance issues.” Neither the trooper’s report nor the court transcript reference the governor’s hearing issues.

The results of the blood test were later suppressed, seemingly as a result of the trooper’s failure to realize Walz was deaf, according to the Post Bulletin article. This means the results wouldn’t have been used as evidence against Walz had the case gone to trial, but they were still referenced during a March 13, 1996 hearing on the plea agreement.

During that hearing, former Dawes County Attorney Rex Nowlan said that Walz had a blood alcohol concentration of .128 at the time of the incident.

“Mr. Walz was driving south of town on 385 in Dawes County at a high rate of speed. Actually, he was driving away from the police officer. I think that he eventually hit a speed of over 80, as I recall. When he was stopped, he was given a blood test which did show a .128 blood alcohol,” Nowlan said, according to a court transcript.

In this case, the cover-up is worse than the crime. Walz flat-out lied about this incident to shake off the political damage it could cause. Don't forget that Democrats had just made a national issue six years earlier out of a DUI committed by George W. Bush years before his political career began, which Bush admitted to committing when it came out. Walz chose to lie, and while it didn't cost him in 2006 or 2022, Walz wasn't facing the same level of scrutiny that he'll get at this level of competition. 

Walz is more than just Chief Weirdo. He's radical and he's dishonest to boot. And this is just the first day of his campaign.