Kamala Harris's VP Choice: Did She Make Her First Major Campaign Mistake?

[susanlea]

2 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Vance beat an incumbent Democrat in an otherwise poor year for Republicans. He is a great attack dog.

40yo. The others are 59+ and losing their marbles. Vance is good, that's why the left is talking about "eyeliner". They have nothing.

[HappyExpat57]

51 minutes ago, mania said:

Who voted for Kamala Harris to be the Democrats Presidential nominee? Nobody that is who...SO who cares if this is her first mistake...She IS the mistake to the Democratic process....No Democrat voted her to be their Presidential Candidate

Do you get tired of being wrong? Maybe come on over the the Democrats side.

Almost ALL the delegates from all 50 states voted her as the nominee. Get your facts straight.

[susanlea]

3 minutes ago, Wrwest said:

Agreed, although I think the Republicans do have a strategy, clearly outlined in Project 2025.

https://gop.com/about-our-party/

[susanlea]

10 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

IMO Trump has nothing new to say, it's the same tired old rhetoric about stolen elections and MAGA, although there are no specifics about how that will be done.

 

The only new stuff is attacking Harris instead of Biden, and I bet he wishes Biden was still running.

 

If he is relying on Vance to do the heavy lifting, I think he is going to be disappointed. Vance barely won his Senate seat in A Republican state.

https://gop.com/about-our-party/

[transam]

5 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Vance beat an incumbent Democrat in an otherwise poor year for Republicans. He is a great attack dog.

Or just a dog..........😉

 

Which is what Trump needs, as Trumps attacks are not impressing anyone sensible...🤔

[Will B Good]

12 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Having 3 kids was normal for thousands of years. Kept humans alive. 

 

 

Get with the times.....humping couches is new wave......all the kids are doing it.

[susanlea]

Kamala is in the bunker. No media interviews for almost 3 weeks. The coward is scared. Not fit to serve, should quit.

[Yellowtail]

8 minutes ago, Wrwest said:

Agreed, although I think the Republicans do have a strategy, clearly outlined in Project 2025.

And let's hope it comes to fruition 

[bubblegum]

46 minutes ago, susanlea said:

The world does. Most Olympic talk was about the boxer and the Opening Ceremony. Maybe you don't watch any news.

Utter BS, its only on the channel that calls itself new but in the courtroom defends itself by saying ist just an OPINION channel.

[susanlea]

14 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

And let's hope it comes to fruition 

Thailand is far to the right of America.

[susanlea]

10 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Only reason I haven't put this troll on ignore is to keep getting the lies removed.

https://gop.com/about-our-party/

 

You guys asked for policies. Rarely see them discussed by the far left.

[spidermike007]

Not even close. Shapiro would have been a mistake. He is a potential presidential candidate down the road, but now would not have been the right time, as a practicing, orthodox Jew, who supports the Gaza war. 

 

From 2006 until 2016, Walz’s constituents in Minnesota’s first district re-elected him, often by a considerable majority every two years. When he ran for governor in 2018, he came away with 53.9 percent of Minnesota’s vote – the largest margin a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate won by in more than 30 years. In 2022, he was re-elected with 52 percent of the vote.

 

His re-elections are often tied to a respectable approval rating. A January 2024 approval rating poll, conducted by local Minnesota news outlet KAAL-TV, found that 55 percent of respondents thought Walz was doing a good job.

 

But voters across the nation seem less passionate about Vance as a vice president candidate. Polling from NPR, PBS and Marist College found that Vance has a 33 percent disapproval rating – a drop from 28 percent when he was first made Trump’s running mate.

 

FiveThirtyEight, which compiles polling from across the nation and creates an average, puts Vance at a 40.6 percent unfavorable rating.

 

 

[Lacessit]

23 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Vance beat an incumbent Democrat in an otherwise poor year for Republicans. He is a great attack dog.

"Otherwise poor year for Republicans". Now why is that, do you think?

 

If the best attack he can come up with is "childless cat ladies", thereby alienating every single woman voter with a cat, it  does  not sound great to me. Poor strategy.

[spidermike007]

He was an excellent choice. He will present his Republican counterpart, JD Vance, with a gratifyingly large problem.

That problem is authenticity, one of the major absurdist planks of Trump’s campaign, in which the scion of a New York real estate empire accuses his rivals of being “east-coast elites”. Walz, unlike almost every other high-profile Democrat going back decades – including Hillary Clinton’s affable and somewhat Walz-like 2016 running mate, Tim Kaine – is not a lawyer. He did not go to Harvard or Yale, a fact he is proving happy to weaponise. If Walz has the energy of a dad reminding his grown-up kids to stay hydrated, he is also, on the evidence of the first day of campaigning, still very much the high school coach running the cafeteria at lunchtime, using all the modes – sarcasm, booming aggression, sudden, sharp mockery – that traditionally keep feral adolescents in order.

 

Walz said to the crowd in Philadelphia: “Like all regular people in America’s heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community … COME ON!”

 

He was named the ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2017. He focused on issues such as veterans’ mental health, suicide and pain management. He also called for funding to research medical cannabis treatment for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain.

 

Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard before retiring from a field artillery battalion in 2005 as a command sergeant major, one of the military’s highest enlisted ranks.

[Keep Right]

This cackling woman has been making major mistakes all her life. Choosing Tim Walz as her left wing VP just adds to those mistakes. I added a nice photo of Tim Walz's mugshot for your enjoyment.

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, Keep Right said:

This cackling woman has been making major mistakes all her life. Choosing Tim Walz as her left wing VP just adds to those mistakes. I added a nice photo of Tim Walz's mugshot for your enjoyment.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to state what charges were laid, if any. And if any conviction resulted.

 

IIRC, Trump has 34 of them.

Edited August 8 by Lacessit

[HappyExpat57]

Just now, Lacessit said:

Perhaps you would be so kind as to state what charges were laid, if any.

He got a DUI/driving 96 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. It's nothing like effing a couch.

[Lacessit]

2 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

He got a DUI/driving 96 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. It's nothing like effing a couch.

I don't understand the couch reference, please enlighten me.

 

Crime of the century, obviously.

Edited August 8 by Lacessit

[Mazungu]

Walz served honorably for his country. Period. Before he retired from the National Guard in 2005 he was only aware that his battalion could be mobilized to serve in Iraq within the next two years. You Trumpsters are really fishing for a hidden bone spur. 

 

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/swift-boat-walz/

 

The timeline of Walz’s service and the deployment of his unit, the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, is relatively clear, through public records, news accounts and press releases at the time:

• April 2004: Walz returns to Minnesota with the 1/125th after a year long deployment as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Turkey and Europe. Walz was stationed at Vicenza, Italy, where the unit pulled guard duty on friendly military bases, which may have been back-fill duty for active duty units deployed to Afghanistan. He was promoted to command sergeant major of the battalion soon after returning.
• March 2005: Walz’s newly-formed campaign for a Congressional House seat releases a press release that indicates Walz is aware of a possible but unconfirmed deployment, though no official orders have been announced. “The National Guard Public Affairs Office announced a possible partial mobilization of roughly 2,000 troops from the Minnesota National Guard,” the press release said. “The announcement from the National Guard PAO specified that all or a portion of Walz’s battalion could be mobilized to serve in Iraq within the next two years… When asked about his possible deployment to Iraq Walz said, ‘As Command Sergeant Major I have a responsibility not only to ready my battalion for Iraq, but also to serve if called on. I am dedicated to serving my country to the best of my ability, whether that is in Washington DC or in Iraq.”

• May 2005: Walz officially retires from the Minnesota National Guard after 24 years of service, according to documents posted online that appear to be his NGB Form 22, a Report of Separation and Record of Service. Walz previously retired after 20 years of service but returned to service after Sept. 11, he wrote in a Winona Daily News opinion piece, re-enlisting for four years. However, his NGB Form 22 indicates his “terminal reserve/military service obligation” date was September 2007.
• July 2005: The 125th Field Artillery Regiment receives initial call-up orders and, that fall, deploys for training in Mississippi as part of the 34th Infantry Divisions’ 1st Brigade Combat Team.
• March 2006: The 125th deploys to Iraq, 10 months after Walz had separated from the unit. The unit will not return until September 2007.

[John Drake]

3 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

He served 27 years in the National Guard - that means that when he left he would have been 45 or so.

 

I somehow doubt that at that age he was likely to have been considered for deployment. 

 

However, I am sure that you have the links to back that all up...

 

People called up from the Guard who were in their mid 50s went to Iraq and Afghanistan. There was a shortage of troops. This became one of the scandals of the Bush era deployments. Guard units began to be mobilized in 2005. Everybody knew what was coming, even before that.

[sirineou]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I have to admit the "effing a couch" thing has been debunked, but I always spread that rumor as much as possible cuz I want to hear him HAVE to say "I did NOT eff that couch!"

You mean to say the guy could not even do a couch?? Didn't trump give him any pointers? 

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Another perspective:

The Right-Wing Attacks On Tim Walz Are Weird

Voters have repeatedly signaled that this is not a winning electoral strategy. By Nathalie Baptiste, Aug 7, 2024

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-walz-weird-attacks_n_66b3b3ebe4b0e4caf7f4fb63

• "The Republicans’ problem is now twofold. They seem to be unable to come up with attacks that can stick — especially to a politician who is white, Midwestern and moderate.

  Then there’s the fact that the Republican Party has abandoned any pretense of having a policy platform and has chosen to double down on its ever-growing list of white grievances. And while making deranged claims about Walz’s record may satisfy its base, the culture war-style attacks are becoming more inscrutable to the average voter with each passing day."

He's an old white guy. East meat for any good propagandist in these strange days.

[sirineou]

1 hour ago, Hanaguma said:

I would say that the cat ladies are the weird ones, not JD.

 

Not sure if I trust the couch stores, but  let's be honest - who among us never got 'creative' as a lad when we felt the urge to ... 

 

I got creative but never with an inanimate objects .though some of the bimboes I dated did come close. 

[John Drake]

From the people who know Walz best, his fellow Minnesotans.

 

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In early 2005, a warning order was issued to the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, which included the position he was serving in, to prepare to be mobilized for active duty for a deployment to Iraq.

On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty;

  https://www.wctrib.com/community/letters/the-truth-about-tim-walz

 

[transam]

36 minutes ago, Keep Right said:

This cackling woman has been making major mistakes all her life. Choosing Tim Walz as her left wing VP just adds to those mistakes. I added a nice photo of Tim Walz's mugshot for your enjoyment.

Seems you are one that likes making mistakes too.......😴

[transam]

6 minutes ago, John Drake said:

From the people who know Walz best, his fellow Minnesotans.

 

 

Are you having to go back that far to try and discredit the bloke.........🤔

You don't have to do that with your leader Trump, as you are well aware......🤣

[sirineou]

2 hours ago, mania said:

Who voted for Kamala Harris to be the Democrats Presidential nominee? 

Errr, The vast majority of the  4,700 delegates to the DNC?  

[sirineou]

8 minutes ago, John Drake said:

From the people who know Walz best, his fellow Minnesotans.

 

 

Do the math. How old is he?  How old was he in 2005 

[Lacessit]

Just now, transam said:

Are you having to go back that far to try and discredit the bloke.........🤔

You don't have to do that with your leader Trump, as you are well aware......🤣

Some people make mistakes when they are young, make up for it with decades of public service.

 

Others don't do anything remarkable in their lives, then don a halo when they should be old enough to know better.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Errr, The vast majority of the  4,700 delegates to the DNC?  

Not the people of the US then. She didn't win a single state when she entered the primaries.

 

Remind me if the US a democracy. Seems the US might gain a POTUS that had no primary success, and was elected by delegates and won the vote because she wasn't Trump.

Primaries are there to weed out candidates the people don't want, so it's no wonder the fix had to be in to get this awful woman elected.

Edited August 8 by thaibeachlovers