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Republicans are struggling to paint Tim Walz as a villain (www.rollingstone.com)

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The GOP is scrambling to find a line of attack against Kamala Harris's VP pick — and it's not going well

Tim Walz has made his debut as Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Republicans are struggling to apply their standard villainization playbook to the Minnesota governor.

Walz has been making waves for weeks now as a good-natured, relatable politician with a particular aptitude for dressing down the Republican agenda in terms that any voter can understand — and the GOP hates it.

Republicans are scrambling to paint the governor-turned-VP candidate as a devilish Marxist hellbent on running the country into the ground — their usual stuff — while leveling a bunch of other really weird attacks. Here are some of their most pathetic attempts to turn voters against Walz.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Their entire strategy since the 80s at least was to basically shit on their adversaries and never offer any real policy or anything.

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[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

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

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