Scott Johnson writes for the Washington Free Beacon about Tim Walz’s failure as a national electoral candidate.
A week before Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate, I facetiously urged her to “Take My Governor — Please.” Walz has compiled an uber-woke record as Minnesota governor. When he was elected to a second term in November 2022, the DFL won majorities in both houses of the Minnesota legislature. With the DFL in control, the legislature spent an $18 billion surplus on infrastructure, “education,” and entitlements.We have become the land of 10,000 entitlements. The legislature raised taxes and adopted the law that earned Walz the moniker of Tampon Tim. They enacted an extreme pro-abortion and “trans refuge” law. The details were so embarrassing that Walz chose to lie about them once Harris heard my plea and chose Walz as her vice presidential running mate.
Harris’s loss to former president Donald Trump in Tuesday’s election returns Walz to sender. Back home in Minnesota, the local press now contemplates the prospect of Walz as a 2028 presidential candidate. Much like the New York Times on the national scene, Minnesota’s local press is out of touch with reality in a way that would warrant the commitment of your average working stiff.
The Times, by the way, found Walz to be “folksy” and “factually sloppy.” Some translation is required. In the glare of the national spotlight, Walz was exposed as a compulsive liar with almost shocking speed.
Minnesota’s dominant newspaper—the Star Tribune—is managed by a publisher, Steve Grove, who actually served as an official during the first term of the Walz administration. You’d think the paper might have been embarrassed by Walz’s exposure as a liar, but it kept up the cheerleading through Election Day, referring to him as “America’s Sweetheart.”
“People are obsessed with Walz and his ‘big dad energy,'” the paper wrote in August. It turns out, not so much.
