Nothing's sticking, except euphoria

Republicans may have to wait until September to move against Dem Mo'.

It was America’s first glimpse of dad mad.

Trading his ebullient exuberance for a stone-faced scowl, Tim Walz addressed the pesky thorn in his side on Tuesday in front of a friendly union audience in Los Angeles.

“I am damn proud of my service to this country,” Walz said, exhibiting a timbre of indignation. “And I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record.”

The utterance alone stood as evidence of Walz in a slightly defensive posture. That he was responding to the stories detailing the misrepresentation of his military service illustrated, at least, a peripheral threat.

But the story out of the AFSME was Walz as a defender of labor, not a politician dodging specifics about how he’s framed his time in uniform.

The harsh fact that he repeatedly signaled he served in Afghanistan — in battle — when he did not, has shown little damage to him or Kamala Harris.

It is emblematic of this extended moment of euphoria around the Democratic ticket. Nothing that can go wrong will go wrong.

And it may very well be another three to four weeks until Republicans get a shot at popping the buoyant blue balloon.

Harris-Walz remain inoculated from questions and attacks about their inconsistencies, aversions and flaws. Even mouthpieces who drape themselves in emblems of democracy and a free press are telling media begging for an interview or press conference to stuff it.

My prediction last week that Harris had hit her first Wal(z) was at best, premature, and at worst a flat-out misread of the magnitude of their momentum and the larger gravitational pull to vanquish Donald Trump.

We’re now entering Day 25 of their campaign and they haven’t lost a day to Trump yet.

As much as I abhor having to type this sentence,