There are reports that the Kamala campaign may swap out Walz over the Stolen Valor scandal.

Short version, I doubt it.

It took a public meltdown, a donor revolt, and an Obama and Pelosi intervention to force out Biden. And in a relatively conservative intervention, replaced him with his VP.

The revelations about Gov. Walz would have to be a whole lot more damaging than stolen valor. There are elected officials who did the same thing and got away with it. (Like Vietnam War hero Sen. Richard Blumenthal.) If it turned out that Walz was a serial killer, then he would withdraw to spend more time with his family. But barring something more serious coming out, the fake war hero and fake coach is it.

The question however raises a bigger issue.

Now that a party forced out its own presidential nominee in a game of electoral Moneyball, what’s to stop it from happening again?

Let’s say your party’s nominee isn’t a mildly stewed vegetable, but his poll numbers are poor. He got through the primaries, but his VP pick polls better? Why wouldn’t you ‘Biden’ him?

(To Biden or to be Bidened can become a verb for this sort of party palace coup.)

The larger lesson of politics from the last two decades is that when you start smashing up the place and rolling up the Overton Window, that becomes the new normal. Like it or not. Ousting your party’s nominee if you think he’s gonna lose is now the new normal. The question isn’t whether anyone else is getting ‘Bidened’, but who and when.