The Republicans must have been very, very good this year because they received an early Christmas present in the form of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The bumbling Democrat vice presidential candidate, much like his running mate, struggles to put together coherent sentences and is prone to lying, rambling, and spewing nonsense words. Not to mention the flailing arms and twitchy leg. And let's not even start on that cringey wife of his. 

One repeated message from Walz, 60, comes through loud and clear, though: He's super miffed that JD Vance, a self-made man, has achieved so much and is barely 40 years old. It is a loser of a talking point that Walz weirdly insists on hammering repeatedly at campaign events. In Tim Walz's world, escaping crushing poverty, enlisting in the U.S. Marines, going to Ohio State University and Yale University Law School, becoming a best-selling author and a venture capitalist, and getting elected to the United States Senate is nothing to brag about. Not to mention Vance's marriage, fatherhood, and conversion to Catholicism, qualities that resonate with the vast majority of Americans.

JD Vance is the very embodiment of the American Dream not only coming true, but coming true in quite a spectacular way. To Tim Walz, though, Vance's story is one that should be derided because, in his own words, he doesn't "even know what a venture capitalist does."

The wonderful Scott Jennings nailed it perfectly when he offered these pre-presidential debate thoughts on Tim Walz:

This guy is the only schoolteacher in America who brags that none of his students could get into an Ivy League school. He's had one consequential press interaction with our Dana Bash, who asked him about the fabrications in his own resume and his reaction was essentially "Me no understand words good." I mean he's a buffoon. He's on a free ride for running under Harris. He gets very little press. They don't let him talk to the press for a reason. 

I want one thing out of this debate. I want JD Vance to go out there and get under his skin. [Walz] has a legendary hot, short temper. A lot of governors do, but apparently he does. I want JD Vance to go out there and have him explain why he is denigrating JD Vance's story, small town America, ends up making something better out of his life, which is something we should want for every kid.

It's really weird, right, that Walz brags about being such a bad teacher that none of his students were accepted into an Ivy League college? As the kids would say, weird flex, bruh. Only in the twisted world of the modern Democrat Party is failure considered success and success considered failure. 

Walz continued to mock Vance's accomplishments at a campaign rally Tuesday:

Walz: "JD Vance is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does."pic.twitter.com/5tN89dkFrW

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 15, 2024

What exactly is going on here? As one political commentator noted, "Tampon Tim be like "vote for me. JD Vance is smart and I'm an idiot," and he's exactly right. Tim Walz is repeatedly laying out the case for why voters should support JD Vance. Who exactly is advising his campaign that this line of attack is a winning campaign strategy? It essentially tells Democrat voters that they shouldn't dream big, set their eyes on becoming a success, or work hard to overcome life's obstacles. In short, he's crushing their aspirations and asking them to vote for more misery.