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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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
I saw an attempt: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=66b48351b0c7a
Isn’t voat almost cheating?
“I hope Tim Walz sexually assaulted teenage boys so we can use it against him” would be such an eye opener if these people had the ability to think about what they were posting.
how long before the inevitable “national guard isn’t real army men!!!” talking point is flying around?
Damn, Walz made CSM?
You see, Republicans saying that exact thing would’ve been smart. It’s both true (as an acronym for his rank), but also dangerously close to “CSAM” that idiots would be up in arms about the guy being a predator.
Still would be an incredibly scummy thing to do to attack opponents, but that might have actually achieved something for those amoral fuckwits.
Republicans don’t know what the fuck CSAM is. “CSAM” is just the leftist euphemism treadmill for CP.
I never said the idiots had to be Republicans. “Both sides equally bad” centrists would do just fine for spreading misinformation.
Good point.
The original image is so much better. No need to add a dipshit, just the VP nominee with a baby pig.
I dunno, I liked the one with the sleepy Trumplet.
I don’t like the whole “down to earth politician I could get a beer with” thing, but I legitimately don’t think I can picture trump or vance looking happy with a farm animal, and I think that says something about them as peoplecin a way that’s different than just “down to earth”.
You should look like that if you’re at a fair and someone hands you a piglet. It’s just a funny, cute thing that’s supposed to make people happy.
Trump couldn’t pull off holding a book for fuck’s sake. And this guy, he’s just charming. He’s a big lovable oaf.
The “get a beer with” thing is about trust and being comfortable. Sounds like, “handing him a piglet” is your version of this. His reaction makes you trust and be comfortable with him as a decent human.
I vote, you now use the phrase, “I’d hand that guy a piglet.” And make it your own.
Makes a lot of sense when you put it like that. :)
I felt funny about it because I don’t generally need my politicians to be “down to earth” because exceptional people are often not and that’s fine, but I do need them to have that human joy of a baby animal, even if they’re not a pet owner or anything.
Definitely appreciate the insight that it’s related, but different qualities being desired. :). Definitely going to use that phrase now.
The closest was when Trump tried to pose for a photo op with a bald eagle and the eagle attacked him
I love it so much that this was real. The joke writes itself
Seeing this for the first time was the best part of my day.
If we were in a novel or a movie the critics would have called that symbolism too heavy-handed. Of course they also would have said it is too unrealistic to have millions of dimwits voting for a con man because they are all racist.
I think the range of clothing I can picture them in is suit or golf polo. They just exude the energy of rich boys who don’t want to do anything “beneath their station”.
I bet neither has ever made their own bed.
Vance probably has as he was in the military. Even a cushy press job has to make his own bed. But I’m sure he’s put that all behind him and now thinks of that as work for the servants.
Republicans: “LeEbRuHL!!!”
Waltz: “Thanks!”
Dude is so likable and squeaky clean seeming that it makes me worry his crawlspace is full of human remains or something
Testing
Honestly would still vote for him. Maybe we can give him the orange menace and his couch fucking enabler.
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.
What the fuck are you talking about
16hr old account, libertarian in the handle, chances of being a troll?
High
Vance did 4 years in the military right after high school and then got some kind of sweetheart deal from Ohio State. (He graduated a 4 year degree in 2 years, which just does not happen.) Then went to Yale law school. He took that degree and worked as a corporate lawyer and venture capitalist.
Walz did 23 years in the military and worked as a teacher.
One of them is cosplaying as a blue collar worker from the Midwest and one of them actually is a blue collar worker from the Midwest. Anyone voting for Vance based on that lie deserves what they get.
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.
This has been the contrast since the early 80s…
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
This is what actual moderates looked like.
I’m happy to have them, but we lose if we call what they’re doing “far left”.
We desperately need to bring the Overton Window back where it should be.
Oh, only the Wrong Wing calls them far left. Normal people know better. For one thing, they have a chance of being elected.
That’s what I’m saying. Right wing talking heads are priming people to start thinking “The far left doesn’t seem so bad.”
Normal people know better.
We’ll see. I suspect we’re going to get a full-court press against Walz, particularly after the DC media circuit was shilling so hard for Shapiro and didn’t get what they wanted.
He’s going to get the same tarring and feathering as the Sanders campaign did, back in 2020, after Chris Matthews nearly had a heart attack on air when Bernie won Nevada.
As far as I understand, far left is anti-capitalism (communism), and/or anti-authority (anarchism), and/or maybe more recently radical ecologists who are ready to destroy property.
To be clear neither Harris or Walz are “far left”…
Policies that were considered centrist compromise planks back in the 70s and 80s are now “Fringe Leftist Views” in the modern media, because so much of our information is owned and manufactured by right wing extremists.
Who love to scream that the liberal media isn’t right enough… the right is the absolute scum of the earth, they can shove their Fuck you I got mine attitude right up their ass
There is no far left in mainstream US politics. That is nothing more than republican fear mongering.
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.
tbf, jesus is a woke brown middle eastern refugee who hates bankers and thinks food, shelter, and water should be free. they would hate him
You mean modern Christianity?
Fair.
By far, the most perfect VP pick:
Jerry “eggs-bacon-and-toast” Gergich. Dude is wholesome as fuck.
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.
This doesn’t make sense to me. They need to villainize him for those low info voters on the fence of voting. Most Republicans are voting for Trump, not against Kamala.
Their problem is they want to energize their base to vote while not encouraging a wider turnout. That’s the point of attacks, not to change opinions. Unfortunately for them, their attacks end up energizing their opponents base because they’re so fucking stupid or actually pointing out things the opponents base wants.
“Kamala picks the vp endorsed by Sanders. This Democratic ticket is a horrible vehicle for progressive change that we must stop.” That’s the sort of attack that actually helps your opponent. If they let Kamala’s campaign paint them as both radical and not looking for real change, they’re cooked. And so far that’s what they’re doing.
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
This is true. If in doubt, just make shit up.
How about spending some of that energy coming up with popular solutions to some of our country’s problems instead?
Aren’t they your country problems? Should they try solving themselves?
You mean like protecting reproductive rights, eliminating non-competes, free breakfast and lunch in schools, free community college for low income, legalizing weed and giving people convicted of marijuana crimes to participate in the new industry, sick time requirements?
That’s just part of what he’d done in the past two years.
… because he’s not a villain
Just from what I heard of him now he really seems like a chill dude. I had no idea who he was before now.
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.
Glad they are unable to do so.
