MN 2022 Gov Race Megathread

[Fuzzy Bear]

I think the world of Mike Lindell.  He's a good and decent man.  I would hope he would not run for Governor.  He would be the most unfairly attacked candidate in history if he ran.

Tim Walz is an incompetent who refused to protect the citizens of Minneapolis from mobs when their local officials would not.  Unfortunately, I cannot see Mike Lindell defeating Walz at the polls.

[Fuzzy Bear]

As I have said, I think the World of Mike Lindell.  Because I do, i hope he does not run for Governor; he will be smeared beyond measure and not for a good cause. 

That being said, Tim Walz is an utter disgrace.  He was the Governor of a state that was beset with violence in its largest cities in 2020 and did nothing to stop the violence.  What was needed was a demonstrative show of force in the form of the National Guard quelling the FIRST rioting.  What happened was that RIOTING destroyed significant parts of Minneapolis, and affected other Minnesota cities as well.

At a time when law-abiding criminal rioters were hamstrung by the COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Minnesota authorities, Walz did nothing meaningful to stop rioting that, amongst other things, was throwing COVID-19 protocols to the wind.  Schools were closed and ordinary people had to practice "social distancing", while the looters and rioters did what they did and Walz did nothing to affirmatively protect the property rights of Minnesotans.  This, despite the fact that the police involved in George Floyd's arrest were promptly charged and the reaction to the incident was consensus outrage.  Walz allowed the violence and acted as if the national response to the whole thing was akin to Mississippi in 1964.  And he did so for one reason; he was afraid to do the right thing and protect the rights of the law-abiding for fear of the reaction of his Leftist base.

There's a lot of blather of "Which side of history will you be on?" today.  Okay, but which side of history will a Governor that refused to defend the rights and safety of law-abiding citizens be on.  That's Tim Walz.  In the longer arc of history, the BLM and Antifa rioters will rightly seen be history as opportunistic criminals and Leftist enemies of the Freedoms of ordinary people.  These are the people Tim Walz sided with, by his actions, if not his rhetoric.  When you fail to defend the property and safety of law abiding citizens of your state, you have failed in your PRIMARY duty.  What, then, is your MORAL claim to leadership?