The Weird Couple

Well, Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has her

running mate picked out, not long after becoming the presumptive

nominee of her party on the heels of President Biden stepping down 

from being a candidate for a second term. Your faithful Peasant 

doesn't know if Harris picked her second or if the party bigwigs did, 

but the Dems' ticket is set --- the Vice Presidential nominee is

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Who is Tim Walz? Simply the most radically left-wing candidate 

ever to run for Vice President on a major party ticket. How so?

Here's a sampling from his record as Minnesota's governor thus far:

1) Walz has worked hard at transforming Minnesota into a model of

what he would like to see the country become: he signed into law a 

bill establishing abortion as "a fundamental right" in the state. 

2) He also endeavored to refashion Minnesota into a "trans refuge" 

for transsexuals, complete with rights to use the women's rest rooms 

and locker rooms, and to "gender-affirming care".  Another 

"fundamental right" in his book, I suppose. 

3) The guv also thinks that illegal immigrants should have drivers' 

licenses; toward that end Walz has supported and continues to 

support this dubious idea.

4) And who can forget the slow-as-molasses response by Walz to the 

2020 riots following the death of George Floyd while he was in police 

custody? Gov. Walz at last sent Minnesota National Guard troops to 

the City of Minneapolis, only after the riots began and fires were

started by the rioters, including burning down a police precinct

building (!), not to mention the endless looting of stores after  

many millions of dollars worth of damages were incurred. I don't 

know how many injuries and deaths were caused, but the carnage

made Minneapolis look like a war zone; in a real sense, it was.

There are more, many more, examples of Gov. Walz' extremist 

governance of Minnesota, to be sure. But here are but four which are 

enough to illustrate that Walz and Vice President Harris are two of

a kind, the kind that the United States can absolutely do without.

Furthermore, this political gruesome twosome are a stark example 

of just how radicalized the Democrats and their party have become 

in recent years. There was a time when such extreme candidates

would much more likely be heading up a radical third party ticket

(the various socialist parties that have come and gone are examples).

Now, they have taken over one of the two major political parties in

the country and have shoved the moderates and what few conser-

vatives there were aside. Outgoing President Joe Biden may be 

a far lefty in his own right, but he looks like a Reaganite next to 

these two! And these two horrors call Republican nominee, our

former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate Sen. J.D. 

Vance "weird"?

In the meantime, more than a few Democrats have openly complained 

that they have been denied a chance to state their preferences for 

a candidate to replace the not-quite-so-healthy seeming President Joe

Biden as their presidential nominee, that the party big shots and 

big money donors made the choice for everyone making the upcoming

Democrat convention in Chicago a mere formality. The Republican 

Party chided the Democrats for this power move and have begun to

make political hay over it. Let's hope that it will be instrumental in 

spelling victory for the GOP in November! In the meantime, the Dems 

made this maneuver to keep whatever hopes they have of retaining

the White House alive, what with Biden's health and his governance

making a shambles of the national economy and the country's standing

among our friends and enemies abroad. It is a curious hybrid of a 

power move and a desperation move, and my money is on the whole

shebang collapsing, taking down the Dems' hopes with it. 

The Democrats have also been trying to manufacture a feeling of 

excitement and exuberance in the ranks of their party and in the 

Democrat constituencies over the prospect of electing the first

woman (and a black woman to boot) president. However, Vice

President Harris has never been a favorite among Democrats 

in Washington, among party operatives, nor among the Democrat

voters; presidential preference and opinion polls have shown 

shockingly low favorable ratings for Harris. And let's not forget,

when she ran for president in the Democrats' primaries and 

caucuses she didn't last long beyond the Iowa caucuses

which are at the start of the two major parties' journey to their

nominating conventions. Kammie has never been the favorite 

flavor of her party, it seems.

And the Democrats are not the favorite flavor of the nation either.

This will be made manifest on November 5.

MEM