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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There is something off about him.
That would be HILARIOUS!
Tim Walz is exactly what he seems crazy as Harris it’s why the party teamed them a repeat of Biden Harris an insurance policy.
Harris was Biden’s insurance
Walz is Harris’ insurance
WHAT A WORLD!!!!!
Commietimpon is a pathological liar. He is unfit for any public office.
He reminds me a bit of Nikita Khrushchev.
“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?”
He reminds me of one of those cocky, big-mouth, gym-coach type whom even teens recognized as the dumbest teacher in the school. If any politician is deserving of Trump’s “low IQ” put-down it’s Walz. The guy is like a 90 IQ. JD has like 50-60 points on him, so the VP debate should be a massacre.
If Donald Trump or JD Vance had lied half as blatantly, Kathleen Parker would have it made out to be the greatest lie since Satan talked to Eve in the Garden.
Republicans = lies
Democrats = misstatements
(Mean the same thing, misstatement sounds less menacing.
The Post published this!!? Yikes
Internals must be awful
Parker is from the Ana Navarro, Jennifer Rubin school of those they once tried to convince us were Republicans. She isn’t that worshipful of Tampax Tim.
It’s always worth the price of admission to read the comments on articles like this one.
The hordes of slavering hyenas come out of the woodwork to character assassinate the writer, never to give reasoned defense of the indefensible “nuances,” half-lies and outright lies of their ideological Kameraden.
Then it’s back to Breitbart or some other forum for Right-thinking individuals.
Oh, he’s what he seems to me... A Bonehead.
That’s what happens when you mix up your Viagra and your Rogaine.
Certainly explains his “bad grammar.”
Another one that gets elected and then thinks it’s ALL THEIRS and can do whatever they want
He’s an inhuman communist POS.
IOW...A democrat.
“He’s hardly the first to do this. And it’s not always detrimental to one’s career...”
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...
“They’re both drunks a liars.”
That makes little difference. We are not electing Harris/Walz. We are electing the deep state. Like Biden, Harris will be a deeply annoying figurehead.
And it’s not always detrimental to one’s career, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), has proved.
Only because there’s a D behind his name.
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