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   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2024-09-16, useapen  wrote:   
   > 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 go-to beverage is   
   > Diet Mountain Dew. But Walz’s prevarications didn’t stop there.   
   >   
   > Now, admittedly, there’s lying and then there’s LYING. When Walz said he   
   > and his wife wouldn’t have their two children if not for in vitro   
   > fertilization, he was pointing to his Republican opponent, Sen. JD Vance,   
   > whom Walz accused of wanting to eliminate IVF as a fertility option. But   
   > the Walzes did not, in fact, use IVF, according to his wife, Gwen Walz,   
   > who clarified the record in a statement. The couple went another less-   
   > expensive, less-invasive route — intrauterine insemination — which is also   
   > less ethically challenging because, unlike with IVF, no embryos are   
   > created outside the womb.   
   >   
   > This might seem a small deviation from the truth if Walz hadn’t been using   
   > the anecdote to attack Vance on a false premise. Both Vance and former   
   > president Donald Trump are on record as supporting IVF.   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, it is doubtful that Walz concerns himself much with the ethics   
   > of “women’s reproductive health,” including abortion, since he signed a   
   > bill last year that would no longer require doctors to preserve the life   
   > of infants who survive abortion. Whereas Minnesota law used to require   
   > medical personnel to “preserve the life and health of the born alive   
   > infant,” the Walz-approved law says only that doctors “care for the infant   
   > who is born alive.”   
   >   
   > So “care” can mean “let die,” if one’s conscience permits.   
   >   
   > Such deceptive language is the stuff of nightmares and leads to the gulag.   
   > Walz’s administration cloaks reality with words that neither offend nor   
   > inform. Then he employs soothing love language to justify turning   
   > Minnesota into a sanctuary state for children seeking transgender   
   > treatments. Everybody is welcome in Minnesota, he says, but he also   
   > believes that children, in some cases, should be allowed access to   
   > surgical and chemical procedures without the consent of their parents.   
   >   
   > And you thought Republicans were dangerous.   
   >   
   > It’s almost certain that Walz won’t be giving any “big solo interviews”   
   > because, according to Politico, he “might not have a full command of where   
   > Harris is on every issue.” This is certainly understandable, as Harris has   
   > changed her positions on several issues since Democrats made her the   
   > emergency presidential nominee five weeks ago.   
   >   
   > Harris seems to prefer that she and Walz grant only joint interviews,   
   > which, as Politico said, “tend to be softer and focus more on the   
   > relationships between the two candidates.” No tough questions, in other   
   > words. Morning show softballs may give comfort to the ill-prepared, but   
   > they deny viewers the content they need to be better-informed voters.   
   > Nothing about the pair’s first (taped) interview Thursday night, with   
   > CNN’s Dana Bash, satisfied that imperative. Although Harris handled the   
   > interview relatively well, Walz seemed to be a mixed-up mess.   
   >   
   > He answered none of the four questions he was asked, including whether he   
   > had misspoken when he said he had carried a gun “in war” when he never was   
   > deployed to a combat zone. A simple “yes” might have sufficed, but instead   
   > he sputtered evasive nonsense and, to be rhetorically accurate,   
   > gobbledygook.   
   >   
   > Walz’s Midwestern charm and “tonic masculinity,” to quote a Post   
   > colleague, might work for state politics and political rallies, but voters   
   > don’t need their tires changed — or a new gutter. They need to feel   
   > confident that Walz can capably step into the presidency if need be.   
   >   
   > There’s no reason to believe Harris picked Walz because of his avuncular   
   > antics or his image as a great father, the latter of which should be   
   > assumed as normal, not celebrated as something rare.   
   >   
   > As Harris’s repackaging team tweaked her record to make her seem like a   
   > moderate, she studiously selected as her running mate the country’s most   
   > liberal governor — a man who just happens to fudge reality, exaggerate his   
   > accomplishments and invent half-truths to burnish his résumé.   
   >   
   > And to think, the Democratic Party’s big pitch in Chicago was character.   
   >   
   > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/30/tim-walz-half-truths-   
   > record/   
      
   Walz is yet another chamaeleon like Kamala Harris.   
   He's a professional politician who follows the polls closely and adapts his   
   core platform   
   accordingly.   
      
      
      
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