As I watched JD Vance in his whirlwind of television appearances this past weekend, I was struck by his disingenuous comments. He accused Tim Walz, his counterpart as VP on the Democratic ticket, of lying about his service in the National Guard. He didn’t dispute that Walz had served for 24 years, but, evidently, Walz said he carried a weapon of war when he actually had only been in Italy. Now Walz embellished his record which he acknowledged. To Vance, it evidently is an unforgivable lie. This from a man who is running as the VP to a man who lies on such a regular basis that it is almost unremarkable when he claims, as he did last week, that the crowd that heard him on January 6th before they stormed the Capitol was larger than the march on Washington where Dr. King gave his “I have a dream” speech. Then he claimed that the Harris campaign used AI to create the image of a crowd when she didn’t really have one.

These lies evidently don’t bother Vance more than do the constant claims that the election was stolen in 2020.

Vance is a talented guy who wrote a good book, went to Yale Law School, made a lot of money in Silicon Valley, and got elected to the US Senate, all before the age of 40. What is sad, however, is that such a talented and smart guy is prepared to allow himself to sound like an idiot defending Trump and his lies. Reminds me of the old saying I have mentioned before: When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.