It has been said that presidential candidates like to pick vice presidential running mates who will not overshadow them, and such is frequently done by picking running mates who are dumber than them. Yes, I know: I have used that opening line before, and yes, I used it in reference to Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, and his pardon of Tou Lue Vang, a previously convicted child rapist, to try to save him from being deported to Laos. Mr Vang had serially raped a Hmong girl between her ages of ten and twelve years, something he admitted to detectives:
When a detective interviewed Mr. Vang, he acknowledged having had sexual contact with the girl and called it a “minor thing,” according to a criminal complaint. Mr. Vang blamed cultural norms in Thailand, according to the complaint.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wasn’t going to put up with that s(tuff), revoked Mr Vang’s legal status, and he was quickly shipped back to Laos.
You would think that even a vice presidential candidate selected because he was dumber than Kamala Harris Emhoff would figure, at that point, OK, he’s gone, there’s nothing more we can do about it. Remember: Mr Vang was a convicted child rapist!
But no, the distinguished Mr Walz doubled-down:
If you think this person should have been gone, why didn’t you [federal authorities] take them for the last [20] years? You had every right to do that, and that might have been the right thing to do — I’m not saying that — but they did not. And then all of a sudden, they’re saying, ‘Well, we’re going to deport you because of this crime.’ I think that’s fundamentally unfair.
Except, of course, the federal government did try to deport Mr Vang in 2006, but the Laotian government was restricting the number of people they would accept, so he got lucky and was able to stick around. That much was printed in The New York Times, as linked above, and Mr Walz should have known that.
The Secretary of State, Rubio, has the authority to deport people who aren’t citizens — they made that choice. I guess the question I would ask is: Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?
Did deporting Mr Vang make our people safer? Well, sorry, Governor, but that isn’t the standard. Mr Walz would tell us that Mr Vang has had no subsequent run-ins with the law, but how many people would accept the notion that an adult male who serially raped a 10-year-old never did so again, rather than he just never got caught again? We can’t know,, of course, but I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of Americans would agree that he should be kicked out.
“Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?” Are Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith bin Ellison working on a pardon for Derek Chauvin, who, on his worst day, knelt on the neck of the methamphetamine-and-fentanyl-addled, previously convicted felon George Floyd?
There’s a point at which Trump Derangement Syndrome leads to just plain stupidity, and Governor Walz had more than reached that point, but passed well beyond it.
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