https://x.com/GovernorShapiro/status/1812552849685119380

He has also diverged significantly from the Democratic party line on Israel and Palestinian “protesters.” He still says that he’s in favor of school choice, but after this legislative session, I don’t think that’s accurate. At a minimum, he hasn’t been on board with nearly as many of the looney left policies as Walz and Harris. Apparently, that passes for moderate these days.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the guy as a politician and would never vote for him, but it would have been far easier to cast him as a moderate than it will be with Walz, who comes off to me as arrogant jerk (if JD Vance can get off the couch? Really? And you’re going to criticize Trump for being crude?)

Pennsylvania really isn’t red at all. A large and often decisive chunk of the electorate are blue collar folks who are not particularly conservative (especially economically), are not Republicans, and usually vote for Democrats. I think Trump won PA in 2016 (by the skin of his teeth) because he did better with these voters than Republicans have historically. But to put things in perspective, these folks are also Fetterman’s base. Shapiro would have helped a lot with this group. He can come off as a decent, reasonable guy, and genuineness goes a long way.

Walz is a liability, for sure, as is Kamala’s record. With the press running interference for the Democrat’s ticket, however, it’s going to take a disciplined, on-message campaign to defeat them. In other words, Trump needs to NOT be the center of attention between now and November. I’m not sure that he is capable of that. I guess we’ll see.

https://notthebee.com/article/look-at-how-wapo-is-covering-the-most-radical-vp-pick-kamala-could-have-made

Just a former social studies teacher and football coach. Nothing radical about him. That is, until you scroll down the page.

Believe it or not, Walz used to be quite conservative.
… In Congress, Walz positioned himself as a rare moderate Democrat
… In the 2018 gubernatorial race, Walz defeated his Republican opponent by more than 10 percentage points.
By then, Walz had shifted to the left on several key issues, including on guns.
…
Turned left quicker than a NASCAR driver on the final turn!
More DEI leftism from Walz:
…
But yeah, WaPo, tell me more about how Tim Walz is just a high school football coach-turned-VP candidate!

The Babylon Bee is more succinct:
https://babylonbee.com/news/tim-walz-vows-to-make-america-as-great-as-minneapolis

https://alphanews.org/msnbc-data-guru-delivers-brutal-reality-check-to-dems-after-walz-pick/
“The Democrats’ hope is that he’s going to appeal to the blue-collar areas in these other three states, maybe he will, but when you look at what he’s done in Minnesota, you don’t quite see that,” Kornacki said.

And this could cause some problems for the Democrats, if the Somalian community is actually in play.
https://alphanews.org/somali-voter-explains-his-switch-to-trump-very-conservative-people/

After explaining the policies that initiated his switch from being a Democrat to running for office as a Republican, he says this:

“I know exactly why I’m supporting what I’m supporting right now, why I switched to the Republican Party for the values and the principles that they stand for. We have shared values and interests with the Republican Party. I don’t really care about the backlash,” Fiqy said.

“There’s of course, people who accuse the Republican party as … really racist or something, but it’s contrary to that claim and it’s very welcoming. Ever since I joined the party, it was very welcoming, very warm, and loving. I think that kind of rhetoric was used in a political way.”

Questioned answered by a link from Nonapod in the next post.
https://alphanews.org/fellow-veteran-speaks-out-on-walzs-misleading-statements-about-military-record/

The story is from September 2022.
And the veteran has been speaking out on the subject since 2016.
But the media has been ignoring or dismissing hime.

Obviously, it did not impact the elections against Walz since then, so why would it now?
On the other hand, sometimes it takes an elevated attention to things like this to get action, similar to how John Kerry’s attempts to portray himself as a gung-ho soldier eventually were shot down by the Swift-Boat Veterans, who gave him a pass until he ran for Commander-in-Chief.

On the gripping hand, the media immediately propagandized that story and coined “swiftboating” to mean “a FALSE attack” on Kerry’s record.

It’s hard to fight against the combined forces of the government AND the media, all speaking from the same playbook — and sometimes literally from the same script.

Does calling opponents radical or extremist really work? It worked against Goldwater and against McGovern, but we were a different country then. The swing voters don’t pay much attention to those attacks. Right now both parties accuse their opponents of dangerous radicalism, so maybe the non-political assume it’s all just part of the game.

When was the last time both major-party presidential tickets featured VP candidates from the Midwest at the same time?

Maybe 1944, Truman D-MO vs. Bricker R-OH, or 1924, Dawes R-IL vs. Bryan D-NE.

That quote is from the White Dude’s Call, as told in this post:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/08/06/gov_tim_walz_on_white_dudes_for_kamala_harris_call_one_persons_socialism_is_another_persons_neighborliness.html

It gives you a good idea of Walz’s positions from his own mouth.
Of course, he lies and gaslights as is usual with politicians, in the particular direction Democrats are going this season.

I don’t know exactly what he means by that phrase, but if you’ve studied socialist countries at all, they are the anti-thesis of “neighborliness.”
Unless you think ratting out your friends & family for wrong-think is neighborly.
Oh wait, that’s what the Democrats wanted us all to do during the Covid Crisis.

A meme for your collections:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/whenthewallfell-whoranwhere.jpg?w=680