I didn’t make up that awesome nickname; some guy on a news forum did.

Veterans from his unit said Walz retired from the National Guard after learning his battalion would be deployed to Iraq—though he assured his troops he would join them.

As the senior enlisted man in the unit, you don’t leave your unit when they’re scheduled to deploy. As part of accepting the rank of Command Sergeant Major I believe there was a 2-year commitment to stay in the Guard. Which he forfeited. What did the Soldiers in the unit think when their Sergeant Major abandoned them?

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When he was trying to enter a [George W.] Bush campaign event:

Walz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.

They did not.

Instead Walz was told to behave himself and permitted to attend the speech, albeit under heavy scrutiny. His students were not: they were sent home. Shortly after this Walz retired from the Guard. Then he did something that until recently was highly unusual for a military man. He announced he was running for Congress—as a Democrat.

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Tim Walz’s further wisdom:

“We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place that those weapons are at.”

He didn’t carry them in any battle. In a time of war, he was in Italy. Another commenter gave me a chuckle:

“As if it matters. By next Monday the DNC whores will declare he led the assault on Normandy beach while playing bagpipes in a clown wig.”