U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is putting former assistant high school football coach and current Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz in his kennel after he told reporters Wednesday night at a fundraiser that he saw himself as the “anti-Tommy Tuberville” and that he hoped to prove “football coaches are not the dumbest people.”
Tuberville, a two-time SEC Coach of the Year honoree, spent 14 years coaching in the SEC including a decade at Auburn University where led the team to an undefeated season in 2004, secured a conference championship, produced first-round NFL Draft picks, and cemented his legacy as one of the top college football coaches of all time. Walz did a stint as an assistant high school football coach in Minnesota.
Tuberville laughed off Walz’s coaching credentials and skewered the Minnesota governor on his record where it currently matters most. “He doesn’t need to worry about speaking on behalf of Coaches,” Tuberville (R-Auburn) said.
Speaking of an embarrassment to the Coaching profession…@Tim_Walz DESERTED his military unit when he found out they were deploying to Iraq.
Walz had the Police ABANDON precincts while his cities burned in 2020.
And Walz had tampon dispensers installed in BOYS' bathrooms.… https://t.co/sk5jeFNFuE
— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) August 15, 2024
Tuberville fired off an an op-ed on Thursday, saying that no amount of media gaslighting can cover up Walz’s record as a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. He castigated Walz as a politician whose actions, despite an ‘aw shucks’ demeanor, reveal a deep commitment to an agenda even further left than Bernie Sanders.
“Whether it’s his military service or his tenure as a ‘head coach,’ there are a lot of questions when it comes to Tim Walz’s record. I suspect more about the governor will be revealed in the coming days,” he wrote. “However, there is one thing Americans should know for certain: Walz is a radical leftist posing as a Midwestern moderate. Don’t be fooled. Whether it’s his soft-on-crime policies or his reckless Covid measures, it’s not hard to see why Bernie Sanders endorsed him for vice president.”
He criticized Walz for abandoning Minneapolis during the George Floyd riots and his use of emergency powers during the pandemic that infringed on personal freedoms and left Minnesota’s economy devastated.
“Maybe Governor Walz let the anarchy unfold because his wife liked the smell of the burning city — as she explained in a local interview. Maybe Walz simply has a history of giving up when the going gets tough, as he did when he abandoned his National Guard battalion right before it deployed to Iraq. Or maybe he ignored Minnesotans’ cries for protection from the angry mobs because of his radical vision for the state and, ultimately, America,” Tuberville wrote.
