WATCH: Cringe Moment I Felt Sorry for Tim Walz During VP Debate Against JD Vance
Men who want the right to go into women’s restrooms, push for tampons in boys’ bathrooms, and are thirsty to cut off children’s body parts, even without parental permission, don’t typically evoke sympathy from me. However, there was a moment I did feel sorry for Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) during his CBS vice presidential debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Tuesday.
Although I expected this to show itself to be the bloodsport politics always are, this one wasn’t particularly acrimonious. The candidates were certainly much more cordial than I’ve grown accustomed to, even as they disagreed. There were areas of agreement that each admitted to also. But I knew better than to get it twisted. These two are miles apart in terms of worldview and policies that would best serve the American people.
JD Vance came across as human, expressing sorrow, for example, that Walz’s son witnessed a classmate getting shot and appeared genuinely concerned about the people involved in the abortion issue, rather than relegating it to a political football—and I say that as a person who believes the lives of children are worth fighting for every day of the week. Yet I also believe—as pro-life Americans have put into action—that women in those situations and the lives impacted are of equal value and should be compassionately supported.
Walz is a radical leftist when it comes to abortion, transgender ideology, and parental rights. That’s why he has tampons in Minnesota bathrooms, pushed legislation allowing for minors to have body parts gone in the blink of an eye, invites children to come to Minnesota as some form of sanctuary location to get those types of services without parental consent, and supports legislation that would remove custody from parents who would not allow Johnny to become Jane or Shaniqua to become Shamar. His running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been the vice president for the last nearly four years doesn’t understand economics, has left our borders wide open, and never answers a question. He’s backing up her record, so U.S. voters can feel certain he would be a continuation of the disaster she and President Biden have created. He was a poor choice for vice president, but Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was too risky for her, as he is Jewish during a time her administration is taking heat from various factions for the war in Israel. She took the coward way out, risking losing a state she must win.
Even with all the no-nos surrounding Walz, I did feel sorry for him when he was asked to defend why he stated he was present at the Tiananmen Square protest in the spring of 1989, when he was not. This is yet another situation where he has been dishonest about his military service, garnering him intense criticism and accusations of abandonment and stolen valor. Moderator Margaret Brennan asked Walz to explain his untruth about Tiananmen Square, causing him to immediately drop his head to his podium even before the question had been fully asked—body language experts, where are you?— only to lift it and begin answering talking a whole lot of words that had nothing to do with the question.
His response included a rant that was about where he grew up, riding bikes, being a teacher, going to China, coming back home, working with young sports teams and taking them there, getting elected to Congress, embracing bipartisanship, being elected governor twice, something about former President Donald Trump—you know everything is his fault—and blah, blah, blah. Included in that mess was this: “Many times, I will talk a lot. I will get caught up in the rhetoric.” He could have saved us all some time by simply distilling that down to, “I lied. Yes, America, I lied about Tiananmen Square, just as I have lied about other aspects of my record, service, and my opponent.” Perhaps that would have been more noble than taking us around the world with information that is not helping and telling us what we already know: that he talks a lot and gets caught up in rhetoric. I mean, we were watching this debate; we already knew that! He, of course, wanted us to know that despite all the rhetoric lies, his commitment is what people care about. Many of us were sitting at home staring at him, just as Vance was doing standing there next to him.