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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
Kamala Harris’s disastrous and cowardly choice of Tim Walz as her running mate over Josh Shapiro – who was the logical pick and was shamefully passed over because he is Jewish – is simply more of the same with her. He’s a choice made from fear. She feared somebody who would be competition. She feared somebody who would be smarter, which really limited her choices. So she chose this guy, who no doubt told her exactly what she wanted to hear. This is her modus operandi. She’s afraid. She operates from fear, and now she has exactly the kind of sergeant major she wants by her side – one who will be sure to enable her worst instincts all the way to defeat.
You just know that Walz being in the Army checked a box for her – DEI hacks love checking boxes – and she didn’t look any deeper than that. No one around her did either. None of her flunkies ever served. None of them understand. They just thought that they could flash some pictures of Walz in his uniform strutting about, and that would be enough to nail down the votes of all the rubes with DD 214s. But what you don’t know can hurt you. And what she doesn’t know is that Tim Walz is going to alienate vets, except for the pinko blue falcons like the loathsome Vindmans and those Twitter goofs who insist you shouldn’t have an AR15 because they are experts, having once qualified “marksman” on an M4.
You can Google “blue falcon” if you want. Just don’t do it with kids around or on your employer’s computer.
Civilians aren’t going to understand this. It’s a veteran thing. Civvies will look at pictures of him in his BDUs or ACUs and think he looks STRAC. But vets know what they see when they look at this guy and it’s not good.
Am I questioning Tim Walz and his service? Yeah, because he has some questions to answer. He was in for 24 years. That seems impressive to civilians. It’s certainly not a bad thing. But you take one look at the guy through a veteran’s eyes, and you learn a little about his record (don’t worry, much more is coming out!), and he’s exactly the kind of guy vets despise. We all remember guys like him from our time in uniform. And like with John Kerry, his own compatriots are already blowing the whistle on him. You know, when your own peers serve you up, that’s an indicator.
He was a senior noncommissioned officer—a high-ranking sergeant who was frocked as a command sergeant major. You need to understand what a command sergeant major is. A command sergeant major is the man. He’s big. He’s the commander’s right hand, the one guy who can shut the door and tell the colonel to stop doing stupid things. I know because I had one, and I was successful because I listened to him. He was great. I know a lot of great sergeants.
And I know some duds. Guys who get DUIs, like Walz did – I know that in my Guard units that, a DUI would ensure he never got E6, much less E9. And then there are the striving CSMs who get in front of the troops and start yelling about how “We are the most powerful, lethal force on earth!” and also that “Diversity is our greatest strength! Trans awareness is a combat multiplier!” These schmucks repeat the lies and nonsense of careerist generals instead of telling their bosses that the troops need to be training to fight instead of marching for pride. There is nothing worse than a go-along sergeant major. If he’s not an occasional pain in a commander’s butt, he’s not doing his job. But that’s not what Kamala wants. She wants a yes-man.
But a good CSM is anything but. There are two kinds of sergeants major. One tells the commander, “Colonel, I’ll take care of this and you go do your job,” and then he goes and takes care of it. And there’s another kind who says, “Colonel, I’ll take care of this and you go do your job,” and then he goes and hangs out at the coffee bar with his cronies, gossiping and scheming for advancement. Walz has the second vibe. You can feel it. You can see it when you watch video of him as a civilian pol regurgitating commie bullSchiff about how socialism is just being a good neighbor and flip-flopping from NRA hero to gun-grabbing zero. Like his brat boss, he will be whatever he needs to be to get what he wants.
He wasn’t in a war, though he claimed to be – in a Kamala HQ tweet no less. When talking about breaking his oath to support and defend the Constitution, this turd said “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war.” What war was that? Was he helping win the Tet Offensive with his fellow Democrat Da Nang Dick Blumenthal?
He wasn’t an actual command sergeant major either, only holding the rank temporarily contingent on passing the Sergeant Majors Academy course. But he didn’t do that. He quit. He took a coveted slot in a career-crowning military school away from somebody else. That’s not good. And then his unit got activated to go to Iraq and he decided he had to run for Congress and retired. That rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
His one deployment was to Italy to provide security on American bases. I certainly don’t hold that against him. You go where you’re told to go. If you think I was thrilled to go to Kosovo, you are incorrect. But that’s where my unit was going and that’s where I went. I had already been to Desert Storm and I already had my patch on my right shoulder. I ran a heavily armed car wash in the Gulf, so don’t confuse me with Audie Murphy; I’m not even Peter Murphy.
But being the unit’s senior NCO and not joining his battalion when it was alerted to be sent into combat will not get him a pass from the heroes of the global war on terrorism. They are free to question his service if they want to. They earned that right.
He’s just not going to play well with vets. When an officer vet looks at socialist Tim Walz, what they see is every NCO who ever screwed them over by not doing his job and by not supporting them. NCOs are going to resent him; they know his kind. And then there are the junior enlisted soldiers – in the Army, the privates and the specialists. The command sergeant major is supposed to take care of them. He’s not supposed to coddle them. He’s not supposed to pat them on the head, but he is supposed to be their voice and their advocate within the command. The command sergeant majors who don’t do that, who instead insinuate themselves in with the officer corps and refuse to stand up for the troops, are rightly despised. And the troops know those characters when they see them.
Kamala Harris picked Walz, in part, because he will kiss her fourth point of contact, and partly because he had been in the military. She thought that would instantly draw vets to the party that holds them in contempt. Not quite. There’s more to his story, and more will come out.
The facts are going to hit them hard, and the regime media will hit back in service of their candidate. Look for a giant backlash about how dare we “question his service.” They will say we are swiftboating him, which is not quite accurate because at least John Kerry went to Vietnam.
Regardless, we vets will do and say whatever the hell we want. We vets earned that right. We defended everyone’s right to speak freely, and we’re going to say whatever we damn well please. No one gets to give us orders anymore. Now that we’re out of uniform, our chain of command is God and then us, the end, and the regime media, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz aren’t in it.
We vets won’t be fooled by Walz like Kamala was. She made a huge mistake. And it’s time to counterattack and take advantage of it.
Well written. It will mean a lot to those with honor and integrity. Those without those qualities won’t understand.
So sad, and so true, I’m also ticked off at those who come down on Vance because he was “only” a combat correspondent.
In 1970, I was a combat infantryman in Vietnam. I was lightly wounded and spent three weeks in the hospital before returning to my unit. A couple of months later, at the height of the monsoon, I slipped on a ledge in the highlands and badly sprained an ankle. While going to physical therapy for treatment I would stop and sit on the porch outside the 31st Public Information Detachment before continuing on to the Medical Company for treatment.
One day, a lieutenant came out, saw me sitting there with my crutches, and asked if I was an infantryman and did I have any newspaper experience. I told him I was and that yes, I’d been editor of my high school paper, spent summers as a intern with the Reno Evening Gazette, and taken a summer photojournalism seminar at the U. of Nevada in Reno before going into the army.
He asked for my name and unit and two days later I was reassigned to serve as a combat photographer and correspondent. I mention this because I wound up seeing more action doing that than I had as a “grunt” in a line unit. They would put me on a chopper and send me out to join a unit in contact to get pictures and a story.
I did that for all but the last couple of weeks of my tour.
I wound up bouncing between infantry and journalism jobs for the next several years before going to Officer Candidate School and getting into tanks and mechanized cavalry. Again I flip-flopped between armor jobs and public affairs, exceling at everything. My commanders thought highly enough of me to send me to fully funded grad school to get an MA in history so I could teach military history to West Point cadets.
By the time I finished that tour, I had been promoted early to major, was supposed to go to the Command & General Staff College, and then go and do great things. Problem was, I’d been in the service for 22 years and my body was starting to give me problems from the beating it took over the years. Since I’d completed my doctorate while at the academy, I opted to retire. It was a good move as less than 15 years later I’d become 100% disabled and could no longer work. \\
Bottom line: one doesn’t need to be a Ranger, or Green Beret, or Navy SEAL to see some serious combat. Guys like me and J. D. Vance paid our dues–which is more than you can say about Tim Walz and others of his ilk who would criticize J. D.
No more Draftsofgers in the OvalOffice we had enough of Clinton and his Eight Years of Treason
Great piece. And I haven’t heard ANY of his fellow Enlisted soldiers coming to his defense. And that alone speaks volumes.
And sadly, there are a lot of similar stolen valor bozos running for office, doing book interviews or cranking out podcasts etc., with their patch and challenge coin collections neatly arranged behind them on book shelves, portraying themselves as the next Gen. Jack Keane or Jocko Willink.
There’s a similar “Zero” as I call him, here in Ohio, who after his failed run for Congress, has a YouTube page filled with hardcore Leftist and anti-Conservative hit-piece videos… Super-anti Trump stuff… as he proudly dons his Navy Leather Flight Jacket portraying himself as Maverick’s second coming.
And what makes it even worse, he shares the same last name as my family. Go to YouTube and type in “Ken Harbaugh”… tons of Navy geedunk behind him in his podcasts, but strangely, no resume supporting his “heroic” Navy career being a P-3 Orion “bus-driver” and not the Super Hornet jet jock he feigns to be.
He pissed-off the wrong Harbaugh… and as former Enlisted Naval Aircrewman myself, who knows all the Nav Air triggers to push, I like to send him into conniption fits, as most seasoned Enlisted dudes have always done to the Zeros who betray their commissions.
So, an ace Navy combat pilot with zero cats and traps on his record? Figures.
Well Said Brother Airborne!!! REMEMBER OUR SACRED OATH!!! STAND TO!! Am Viet Nam Era Noncombat 82nd Airborne.
“Look for a giant backlash about how dare we “question his service.”
It wasn’t anyone but him that did that when he embellished his own service. He must think it wasn’t enough. No question, he served honorably up until he chickened out of going to Iraq. And when I say honorably, in his case it means he didn’t do anything to earn a BCD. He should have just stood on his record as it was. He would have been respected. But he chose to shit on his own service. And no one else is to blame for that.
Good column.
Thats6 what Leftists do, Barky picked Sundowner, Sundowner picked Harris, Harris picks Walz.
Stalin axed thousands whomight have taken him out
CtTrying says:
CAGOP Senate candidate “baseball hero” Steve Garvey also ditched his Army unit training at Fort Jackson in 1970 after lying that he had a “migraine headache “ condition. In truth, it was his fiancé Cyndy at MSU who suffered from migraines.
He lied while others died. Walz & Garvey cut from same cowardly cloth.
No credible source how about trying Jr. High School level of locating a believable source?
Bashing a veteran to justify voting for a draft dodger…that makes zero sense. What a complete waste of time, energy, and electrons in writing/publishing this article.
First, you tear down a veteran to prop up a draft dodger. Then, you scrub comments that don’t adhere to your agenda.
#propaganda