As expected once Harris named Tim Walz as her VP the attacks and the sleazy would commence and it has….

That idiot war hawk in the Senate Tom Cotton accuses Walz of some sort of collaboration with China….

Within hours of Tim Walz being declared winner of the Democratic “veepstakes”, Republican accusations that he is pro-China came thick and fast.

“Communist China is very happy,” Donald Trump’s former ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, said on Twitter/X. “No one is more pro-China than Marxist Walz.”

Tom Cotton, a Republican senator, said Mr Walz owed an explanation “about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China”.

MAGA War Room, an influential X account supporting Donald Trump, unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an “adversarial relationship”.

But what does the record show? Republicans may want to weaponise Mr Walz’s links to China, but it’s pretty slim pickings.

Mr Walz’s personal relationship with China does indeed extend back decades.

It began in 1989 when, fresh out of college, Mr Walz began a Harvard University volunteer programme teaching American history and English at the Foshan No 1 High School in southern China.

He later set up a business with his wife Gwen organising annual summer educational trips to China. The venture lasted more than a decade and by his own estimation, Mr Walz returned to the country around 30 times.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgewpzyd91o

Well that one will fall flat and die a silent death…..but there is more….

The tag of “Tampon Tom”…..I have heard this mention several times….even on this blog….

Tim Walz continues to make headlines, as the public learns more about him, and as the GOP goes on the attack. But one law the Minnesota governor signed last year is drawing special attention, as well as generating a new derogatory nickname.

• The law: The bill included a mandate to provide free menstrual products to students in fourth grade all the way up through 12th. CBS News calls it an effort meant to address “period poverty,” when students can’t afford necessary pads and tampons. NPR notes Minnesota is one of nearly 30 states that has such a law in place.
• GOP attack: “Tampon Tim put tampons in boys’ bathrooms,” Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign rep, said in a statement to CBS. She made a similar claim Tuesday on Fox News, noting, “As a woman, there’s no greater threat to our health than leaders … who support putting tampons in men’s bathrooms in public schools.”
• More: Other right-wingers also came out swinging. “She actually chose Tampon Tim,” Stephen Miller, an ex-adviser to former President Trump, wrote on X after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Walz as her running mate. Chaya Raichik, who runs the far-right Libs of TikTok social media account, posted a picture of a box of tampons with Walz’s face superimposed on it and the words “Tampon Tim” written across the front of the package.
• Fact check: The Star Tribune‘s editorial board lauds the “compassionate” law and calls the attacks against it “ill informed,” pointing out there’s no mandate to put menstrual products in boys bathrooms—the law’s language simply allows for the products to be placed where those who need them can access them, like unisex bathrooms or the nurse’s office. “This has unfortunately been used to stoke ongoing culture wars over transgender individuals,” the authors note.
• Misfire? Some say the GOP’s campaign against Walz won’t work. “Friends, this attack will backfire,” writes Nancy Kaffer in an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press (this columnist agrees).
• Big-name pushback: NPR notes that “many on the left see ‘Tampon Tim’ as a compliment, including the Minnesota congresswoman who was the chief sponsor of the bill in the state House. “This law exemplifies what we can accomplish when we listen to students to address their needs,” wrote Rep. Sandra Feist, using the #TamponTim hashtag. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in as well, noting, “How nice of the Trump camp to help publicize Gov. Tim Walz’s compassionate and common-sense policy.”

Is this the best the GOP can do?

Maybe a sure sign these dullards are running scared.

Any thoughts?

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