Republicans are struggling to paint Tim Walz as a villain

LOL if "he gives away tampons" is the only thing you can find to criticize about your opponent, then you're in pretty deep fucking shit

Well yeah. I mean look at this man. Free breakfast AND lunch. Sounds like the devil's work to me. You have to be a good Christian like Sarah Huckabee and remove child labor laws.

I mean, who hugs kids like this anyway?

I love the contrast this is painting between the far-left and far-right. On the one hand, you got fascists carrying tiki torches and chanting "jews will not replace us," and on the other you got people saying "let's make sure no children are starving." And talking heads on Fox are super pissed about the latter.

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Watched a video of him explaining how to fix a headlight connector and immediately know he is my man. Dude didn't need to explain to the world how to do it. He wanted to help us, in his own little way.

I don't think they'll struggle to attack him, it's just a question of whether it will stick and how much it will matter since he's only the VP pick. In some ways it's useful because it distracted them from Harris.

The attacks seem pretty obvious: he's a pedophile, he eats babies, Minneapolis burned under his watch, he retired from the national guard to avoid combat, he supported LGBTQ groups in high schools, he lived in China, he facilitated sending children to China, say China a lot, say Marxist a lot, say communist a lot, highlight Bernie and Hillary's support of him, etc.

Remember, they only need to villainize him to people that already think he's a villain, so nothing needs to be true or especially devastating. It's like the Fox cut-down that people responded to by being like "the reasons Fox says he's bad are all the reasons I like him!"

It's like, well, yes. Fox isn't trying to convince you. They're trying to make sure republican voters don't stay home.

Edit: oh, and tampons, I forgot they were attacking him about tampons.

Next up: Is Santa Claus a devil worshipping pedophile communist?

Believability is the nemesis of the GOP this cycle.

Walz is a villain? Not believable

Vance fucked a couch? Believable

Trump took illegal funds from Egypt? So believable

Republicans: "LeEbRuHL!!!!"

Waltz: "Thanks!"

If Jesus were her running mate they'd find some way to double down on 'Democrats bad' by making a new hyper Christianity that's even more theocratic and fascist.

By far, the most perfect VP pick:

Jerry “eggs-bacon-and-toast” Gergich. Dude is wholesome as fuck.

Also Republicans: screaming themselves hoarse about an Algerian woman boxer.

The weird get weirder and I'm loving this VP pick. What a 180 from just a few weeks ago, when a lot of us thought the Democrats were just going to march into a very likely loss with Biden as the nominee...most people now laugh when JD is the topic and a couch reference is made and the Republicans are proving themselves to a bunch of creepy weirdos on the daily.

it's hard to paint someone as a villain when you're literally supporting donald trump.

NPR broke the news about the Walz endorsement this morning by interviewing a bunch of Republicans from his original House district.

Everyone in the DC news circuit was furiously insisting that Shapiro had to be the guy and Harris didn't listen. So now expect this guy to get absolutely dragged in the press for the next three months.

Dude is so likable and squeaky clean seeming that it makes me worry his crawlspace is full of human remains or something

... because he's not a villain

Some info about the stolen valor comments:

Left national guard after two decades to run off public office

Eustice says he remembers Walz struggling with the timing of wanting to serve as a lawmaker but also avoiding asking for a deferment so he could do so.

"He had a window of time. He had to decide. And in his deciding, we were not on notice to be deployed. There were rumors. There were lots of rumors, and we didn't know where we were going until it was later that, early summer, I believe,” Eustice told ABC News.

Also, he did carry weapons of war and “in war”, unless someone wants to correct this.

Walz deployed with the Minnesota National Guard to Italy on Aug. 3, 2003, to support Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the Minnesota Guard. The battalion supported security missions at various locations in Europe and Turkey, according to the Guard, and Walz was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, until returning to Minnesota in 2004. He did not deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.

On operation enduring freedom, part of war on terror

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom

So, in fact he did carry weapons in war. Why are people saying he didn’t?

Maybe don't make your whole political strategy about tearing people down and try to actually run candidates who are better in some measurable way

He's borderline the ideal version of what a family man looks like even in their own version of reality. He's a white independently successful retired military, churchgoing, family man. Good luck with that one, couch fuckers.

I find that hard to believe. If they can’t find something true they’ll just make up something horrific and make him a villain out of that

How about spending some of that energy coming up with popular solutions to some of our country's problems instead?

Excellent thumbnail. It looks like he's laughing at the Republicans.

Glad they are unable to do so.

I saw an attempt: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=66b48351b0c7a

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Well I mean as a foreigner the way I see him and is presented is a Vans 2.

Someone from the Midwest that is the real American, had a low class working life and now will fight for the Americans that feel neglected.

With Vans I get it. With the dems not so much since they never target the white working class.