"These are weird people" - Gov Tim Walz just now on Alex Wagner

[dflprincess]

Catch the whole interview on the rerun if you missed it now.

I'd really hate to lose him as our governor.

[Ocelot II]

1. He was great! I'd hate to lose him too.

Realistically I think it will be Shapiro or Kelly - Minnesota isn't a swing state and Walz doesn't have national name recognition (though he seems to be getting some).

[dchill]

6. Being from PA, I REALLY don't want to lose Shapiro.

My personal choice is Pete Buttigieg. Way smart and QUICK on the draw. And he's nobody's governor!

[edisdead]

9. Pete doesn't help get or even solidify a state.

He has never win statewide office nor had to meet the demands of those positions. While he has had a cabinet position, that’s where he fits best. A cabinet post.

[dchill]

13. Some are saying that picking a governor doesn't usually change...

...a particular state's outcome. And I think we NEED all our seated Senators and Governors.

[democratsruletheday]

18. Couldn't agree more...

I STRONGLY feel he isn't qualified. Like the guy and his smart as a whip but as VP? Hard pass.

[Prairie Gates]

2. This is an underused strategy against MAGA: it is fundamentally fucking weird

I know liberals are supposed to "protect weirdness," so calling something weird is supposed to be verboten, but it's about time somebody from our side just got on camera and acknowledged that this MAGA shit is weird and these people, the real hardcores, are fucking weird. Who wants to have a beer with a weirdo red hat? Seriously!

[ecstatic]

3. that's how we got rid of palin. Petty ridicule works!

Never underestimate it!

[dchill]

10. Yeah, but she helped greatly by pretty much ridiculing herself...

...from her porch!

[Ocelot II]

11. Trump and Vance are both deeply, deeply weird.

They are awful people, of course; but they are awful in a uniquely weird way. Trump wears orange makeup and does something strange with his urine-colored hair. He lusts after his daughter and talks about sharks and electric boats and thinks stealth airplanes are actually invisible. Vance apparently wears eyeliner (guyliner?), and a scraggly beard to hide his chubby cheeks, and rants about how cat ladies are destroying America. In the old days Republicans were awful but in a buttoned-down, conventional way, but these guys are straight out of a Fellini movie.

[Prairie Gates]

16. "...straight out of a Fellini movie..."

[msongs]

4. sparkling personality. what else does he bring nt

[Frasier Balzov]

5. Maturity? Hm maybe for a cabinet post.

[edisdead]

12. He was military experience and he was a US Rep and a Governor.

Additionally a HS teacher and football coach.

MN has been the picture of liberal success under his leadership with a dem house and senate.

[msongs]

14. is his gov seat safe if he leaves it?

[Ocelot II]

17. Yes. His Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan, is of course a Democrat,

and she's also Ojibwe, and is very active working with Native communities. She's very capable, and if Walz gets the job we will still be in good hands.

[dflprincess]

19. So we would have, not only Minnesota's first woman governor but our first indigenous governor as well

Long overdue on both counts.

[dflprincess]

20. And, as he pointed out tonigh, he grew up in a rural part of the state

only 24 kids in his high school class.

[Renew Deal]

7. I heard him this morning on MSNBC and thought he was good.

Have to find this interview.

[edisdead]

8. I absolutely love that dude.

Met him at a fund raiser before his first term and man I was a big fan. And when I showed up I wasn’t expecting much.

Great background too!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. I know how you feel, princess.

Tim is wonderful.

When I met him over 19 years ago, he was a tad shy and not so confident as an orator on a wider scale. Before the Election in 2006, Tim had matured as a candidate and campaigner.

Whether he gets the call, he will not be disappointed if he is not picked. He has several jobs to do as it is.

[moonscape]

21. Thanks! Just watched

and fell in love with him! Have never seen him interviewed before.

What an authentic, joyous, smart guy. Don’t blame you for not wanting to lose him.

Damn we have a stellar deep bench. They got goose eggs.