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Tim Walz isn’t exactly what he seems
The Washington Post ^ | Aug 30, 2024 05:19 PM | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 08/30/2024 10:45:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has surely benefited from his portrayal as the country’s “football dad.” But he wouldn’t have passed the truth test in my father’s household, where lying was ranked as the highest punishable offense.

I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely. But he tends to gild his résumé for political gain. He’s hardly the first to do this. And it’s not always detrimental to one’s career, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), has proved. Blumenthal claimed to be a Vietnam veteran even though he sought and received at least five deferments to avoid serving in the war.

Walz, too, is a bit of a fibber.

Take his 1995 arrest for drunken and reckless driving. Walz, then a 31-year-old high school teacher, was clocked at 96 mph in a 55-mph zone in Nebraska. He was pulled over by a state trooper, who, upon smelling alcohol, asked Walz to take a field sobriety test, which he failed. Walz then submitted to a hospital for a blood test, which revealed his blood alcohol level to be 0.128, well above the state’s legal limit.

All this information is recorded in police records, yet during Walz’s 2006 congressional campaign, the press was told that he hadn’t been drinking, that he drove himself to the police station and that the reason he failed his field sobriety test was because of a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard artillery unit.

In 2018, when Walz was running for governor of Minnesota, he came clean and admitted to drinking and driving. Telling the truth eventually is better than never at all, I suppose — and Walz now refers to his incarceration that night as life-changing. Today, his...

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1 posted on 08/30/2024 10:45:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re both drunks a liars.


2 posted on 08/30/2024 10:47:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is also one getting lost in the shuffle about how he claimed he received an Outstanding citizen award by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, when the honor was from Jaycees, IIRC.


3 posted on 08/30/2024 10:48:37 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; lightman

....Tim Walz isn’t exactly what he seems.....

Right! He is happy to be an ELCA member!

https://www.elca.org


4 posted on 08/30/2024 10:48:41 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tiny Tim Tampon is definitely not a Command Sergeant Major as is printed on his so called “challenge” coin.


5 posted on 08/30/2024 10:49:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
His high-energy stage entrance is the phoniest I have seen. His actual self is probably the opposite of that.

I guess the campaign thinks it's working because now they have Kamalama-ding-dong's husband doing it.

6 posted on 08/30/2024 10:49:42 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He seems to be a lying pedo fag ...


7 posted on 08/30/2024 10:50:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tim Walz is a blowhard, lying, bully. He’s not fit to lead a pack of dogs.
Until he reconciles the 450 million dollars in fraud going on in MN right now, he should be in jail.
He has not addressed the citizens, who’s money it is, nor has he fired any of his co-conspirators in the Feeding our Future scandal.
He should never be considered a viable candidate for anything.


8 posted on 08/30/2024 10:51:16 AM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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9 posted on 08/30/2024 10:51:41 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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He looks like a male Democrat who has been sucking on the government tit his whole life.


10 posted on 08/30/2024 10:52:03 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Fake and the Snake


11 posted on 08/30/2024 10:55:16 AM PDT by posterchild
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When you’ve lost Kathleen Parker, you’ve lost as a Democrat. Or do I have her confused with Katty Kay?


12 posted on 08/30/2024 10:55:19 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!s)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The facade "Minnesota nice" actually hides the dark nature of evil people who are trying to deceive. I encourage everyone to stop what you are doing and watch the five seasons of Fargo starting with season 5.


13 posted on 08/30/2024 10:56:11 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely.

Since Walz evidently lies, why is it a problem for this WaPo writer to say so?
14 posted on 08/30/2024 10:56:51 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To paraphrase Vince Ellison; ‘Wlll you go to hell for Harris, Walz, and the Democrat party’? It appears that millions are quite willing to do so.


15 posted on 08/30/2024 10:57:44 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Honorary Serb
Remember, boys and girls, joyful and gay are synonyms.


16 posted on 08/30/2024 10:58:45 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DeplorablePaul

I’ve experienced “Minnesota nice” when it was real!

Those days are long gone!


17 posted on 08/30/2024 11:02:49 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s a bigger liar than Jon Lovitz. In fact, the Trump campaigh should try and get Lovitz to do a TV commercial.


18 posted on 08/30/2024 11:03:19 AM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely.

Since Walz evidently lies, why is it a problem for this WaPo writer to say so?

He did... Walz, too, is a bit of a fibber.

You're just not supposed to recognize, precisely, when the writer did so.

19 posted on 08/30/2024 11:03:32 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He seems like a complete turd, lying, bloviating, anti American, communist put into place in desperate measure in order to keep Kamala out of making a complete disaster out of herself.

There’s more?


20 posted on 08/30/2024 11:09:37 AM PDT by stanne
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