Monday, October 07, 2024

One Republican blogger has a disparaging view of this Sunday TV appearance. What do you think?

 It is a Fox interview by a very bright Fox commentator. Walz on the record:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/j0fP6m1vg3I

One thing Walz did not say is that his duty as governor is to sign or veto what the legislature passes and advances to his desk. He did that, is proud of it, he cannot rewrite details, and he noted that a cancelled part of a prior law that was in whole repealed was in no way changed because remaining existing Minnesota law requires physician standards that apply and made the repealed part in question redundant.

The repeal was more extensive than the interchange suggests. All inconsistent and confusing things on the books were duly repealed, not merely a single part of a single prior passed law. It was a total thought-out repealer bill to clean up any confusion which could have arisen about the new law and what it required and overrode .(Overriding by express repeal, not by implication.)

Those are details. The interview speaks for itself. 

Walz did not misstate a thing, owning up to prior mistatements on record.

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Compare: The incident, Vance first then Trump in his debate gaffe thing, where the pair threw into public discourse a known falsehood which led to Springfield, Ohio, having more trouble than prior to the Vance-Trump fashioning and spreading of their anti-immigrant lie. Ohio's Republican Governor had to take time from his job to do mop-up.

Without the lie, Springfield would have been in normal mode, free of death threats against town leaders, cautionary school closings, and Haitian Angst over hate threats. All the unneeded grief would have not happened if Vance had exercised minimal good judgment. He deliberately did not, choosing instead to be nasty and disruptive to gain headlines, attention and media comment. 

Children do that. Not adults. Not a Presidential ticket, except, it happened, Trump-Vance. Children know better. Vance's own offspring included. They likely feel shame. 

Vance doesn't.