Walz’s Military Lies Aren’t Going Away

I have mixed feelings about the attention that is being paid to Tim Walz’s career in the Minnesota National Guard. I think Republicans should be going after Kamala Harris, not Tim Walz, and that the focus should be on failed policy, not personal foibles. The voters who may or may not ultimately vote for Donald Trump care very little, I suspect, about the candidates’ character and a great deal about whether they can afford groceries and gasoline.

That said, Walz’s repeated misrepresentation of his military career, and the abrupt way he ended it when his unit was slated to go to Iraq, are issues that evidently have legs. Earlier today, John Kolb, who I believe was the commanding officer of the National Guard battalion in which Walz served and Walz’s commanding officer, posted this on Facebook. It is absolutely brutal:

That Walz is a person of low character is not news to me. And I have gotten pretty cynical about how much voters care about the character of a politician. But if the military issues cause voters to ask questions about Walz, and especially if they prompt questions about his record, all the better.