You can tell when someone really nails a politician by the way no one tries to defend them. Most consultants will tell you that you shouldn’t let an attack go unanswered, but those are generally false attacks. When someone really rhetorically punches a candidate in the nose, the guilty slink away and hope the issue fades. If that candidate is attacked unfairly, the airwaves are flooded with friends and colleagues, provided by the campaign, to defend them. That no such defense of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been forthcoming on his stolen valor allegations.
Think about it, have you seen any of the soldiers who served with or under Walz, who I affectionately call “Fraudie Murphy,” during his time in the National Guard, especially the end of his career when he abandoned his troops and took a demotion to avoid deploying to Iraq, come to his defense? I have not.
I have seen plenty of people who served with him supporting the allegations – he must not have been a very popular leader – but nothing in the other direction. That’s not a coincidence.
If the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign could refute what someone like John Kolb, “a former battalion commander of Tim Walz’s National Guard unit,” they would. They can’t have someone out there, someone with authority, saying things like, “I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership.”
I’ve known lots of people in the military, I’ve never heard anyone speak about another soldier like that.
Moreover, Kolb concluded his post on Walz this devastating way. “By all accounts and on the record, he was a competent Chief of Firing Battery/Gunnery Sergeant and First Sergeant. I cannot say the same of his service sitting, frocked, in the CSM chair. He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9. (Emphasis added) It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path.”
Brutal, especially at the end.
Have you seen anyone rolled out by the campaign to deny or refute any of it?
They tried attacking JD Vance for calling out the stolen valor and falsely claimed rank of Command Sergeant Major, but they ended with a bunch of idiots claiming he either never served himself, or never deployed in combat, both of which were lies. Pro-Tip: If your campaign is going to try to accuse the other side of what you’ve done, make sure they’ve actually done it, otherwise you look like a moron.
What you haven’t seen is anyone defending Walz who actually served with Walz. The usual suspects have – political talking heads and “cable news contributors,” not only didn’t serve with him, but likely never thought of him before he was named as the VP nominee. Not that that matter to the Democrats defending him, they’re only following orders, something leftist are used to.
And it’s just as weak to hear tools and unprincipled irrelevant “token Republicans” like Adam Kinzinger or Michael Steele belch out DNC talking points about how Walz didn’t lie. It’s something else entirely to hear the men and women who served under him do it.
That hasn’t happened…yet.
Don’t think Democrats aren’t hunting for someone, anyone, who did time in the National Guard with Walz to come out and defend him. That they haven’t found anyone yet is an indication of one of two things: They’ve only found people who are really shy, or they can’t find anyone willing to do it.
The military people I know would chew through metal bars and crawl over broken glass to defend anyone they served with who was falsely accused of J-walking, let alone stolen valor or abandoning their troops. Shy or not, honor and brotherhood demands it.
Over the course of 24 years, you’re telling me there’s no one willing to defend Walz from any of it? No one who served to speak of his character?
Can’t say I’m surprised. The character of anyone who’d let their state’s largest city burn, strip parents of their rights if they won’t obey the gender mafia on mutilating their child’s body, or force teenage girls to shower with teenage boys who simply declare themselves to be girls is not likely to have many fan among those who serve in the military. And that’s to say nothing about what men and women of honor would think of a commanding officer who’d lie about their rank and imply the hell out of a deployment to a warzone that did not happen for political gain.
You can see why people aren’t coming forward.
But money talks, and the Harris/Walz campaign has a lot of money, as well as a lot of very rich people looking to buy influence with it. Someone will likely be in a position to come forward, eventually, and say whatever it is Democrats need them to say. That they would have had to have been hunted down and found rather than come forward on their own will tell you all you’ll need to know, whatever money that may end up in their bank accounts aside.
If Tim Walz were anything close to the soldier, to the man, he and Kamala Harris have built him up to be he would have had a battalion of men and women lining up to defend his honor the second anyone questioned it. That there isn’t speaks volumes about what kind of a man he really is, and what kind of people they both are.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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