2022 Georgia Senate Race

[tek]

comment on fark.com:

Christian is going to get a nice fruit basket from Dr. Oz -- knocked his story about experimenting on and murdering puppies off the top of the Senate Republican Candidate Nightmare News Cycle.

[pipistrelle]

Golly, and Christian seemed like such a nice young man.

Given what an arse he is, I'm surprised he blew a gasket. I would have said account hacked.

[Volkonski]

[p0rtia]

I was stunned to hear Christian's true voice, after viewing more than enough (maybe three) of his obnoxious shit on Twitter.

[raison de arizona]

Christian speaks out, as long as it stays up (get it while it's hot!)

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[Luke]

Thanks RDA, got those. https://twdown.net/ is a good site for Twitter video, you just pop the tweet's link in and it gives a few options on video quality, just right click and save link.

This is just SO SAD for Addison and the GOP.

Opinion As Herschel Walker’s son erupts, the GOP has only itself to blame
By Greg Sargent Columnist October 4, 2022 at 12:15 p.m. EDT

If Herschel Walker loses the Senate race in Georgia — which now looks more likely than it did 24 hours ago, given the extraordinary new revelations rocking his campaign — it will make it much harder for Republicans to win the majority. So let’s put a marker down now: Leading Republicans cannot be permitted to bury their own role in making Walker the nominee. Unsurprisingly, their active involvement in securing Walker the nomination is deeply entangled with ongoing GOP kowtowing to Donald Trump — and with continued GOP footsie-playing with the pathologies of Trumpism. Republicans are already scrambling to point fingers, but to paraphrase a great old song about regret and loss, this is their own damn fault.

Walker’s campaign is facing “stunning developments” and is “in crisis,” news media accounts say, after the Daily Beast reported that the anti-choice Walker paid for an unnamed former girlfriend’s abortion back in 2009. Walker has strongly denied the allegation, blaming Democrats and the Fake News media. But the Daily Beast reports having seen the woman’s receipt for the abortion as well as a personal check from Walker reimbursing her for it, and said it confirmed the story with one of her confidantes at the time. To top it all off, in a remarkable eruption of anger and pain, Walker’s son Christian tweeted a torrent of criticism of his father. He then posted a video of himself tearing into his father, accusing him of betraying “family values” with affairs and multiple marriages.

The Republican response is threefold: Some are publicly insisting this is all a big nothingburger, and others are blaming Democrats, while still others privately move to pin the blame of a potential Georgia loss on Christian Walker in ugly and vicious terms. And so, if Republicans are going to anonymously blame this young man in advance, let’s note that a meltdown of this colossal scale by Herschel Walker’s campaign was utterly predictable. Let’s take stock of what was known about Walker long before he won the nomination. Way back in July 2021, the Associated Press reported that Walker’s ex-wife had secured a protective order against him and that relatives had informed her that he’d told them he planned to kill her. Walker denied to police that he’d made the threats, per the AP, but one relative testified to this under oath, and a judge saw “good cause” to grant the protective order. What’s more, as the AP delicately put it, Walker “alarmed business associates with unpredictable behavior.”

Even one of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) own top lieutenants knew this was serious trouble, tweeting out the AP story and dubbing it “about as comprehensive a takedown as I’ve ever read.” Anyone who knows how politics works could see this as a clear warning against nominating Walker. But then McConnell ultimately ended up endorsing Walker in the primary anyway. McConnell’s calculation here is instructive. As Politico reported at the time, McConnell and GOP leaders initially saw Walker’s past as a serious liability but then decided they were impressed by Walker’s fundraising and his television performances. At the time, McConnell also confidently predicted the midterms would be a referendum on President Biden. And McConnell declared that Walker could unite GOP voters, given that Trump had endorsed Walker as someone with long personal connections to him. In other words, Republicans saw Walker as a good vessel for a midterm election that would be all about Democrats, not them: Walker could raise money, had high name recognition and could keep Trump voters in the fold. Who cared if his past suggested he probably has no business being anywhere near the Senate, by Republicans’ own previous lights?

Things have changed since then. The death of Roe v. Wade, the easing of inflation and gas prices, and revelations about Trump’s insurrectionism and legal peril have meant these contests aren’t exclusively referendums on Biden and Democratic rule. Now, amid that shifting political environment, Republicans themselves admit that weak candidates like Walker could be putting their Senate hopes in jeopardy. But if this is so, the cynicism that drove the accommodation with Walker is at least partly to blame. It’s sometimes said that McConnell is one of the few Republican leaders truly trying to move the party away from Trump. But that’s an overly credulous reading: In reality, McConnell has at key moments sought to harness Trump’s pathologies in highly destructive ways. For instance, McConnell refused for weeks in 2020 to recognize Biden’s win in a failed effort to keep Trump voters energized for the Georgia runoffs, helping fuel the lies that inspired the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The continued backing of Walker is the latest example of McConnell’s effort to coopt Trumpism. One of Trump’s innovations has been to persuade Republican politicians that no scandal is too damaging to survive, provided they deny at all costs, never apologize, give no quarter whatsoever to accusers and bull-headedly plow through, blaming the whole thing on the Fake News all throughout. In Walker, however, Republicans have been handed a test of this proposition that looks like a whole lot more than they bargained for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... an-walker/

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Republicans respect infidelity. Republicans respect getting your GF an abortio . And Republicans Respect lying about it. Just checkit.

NEWS: Sources inside @HerschelWalker #GASEN campaign confirm to @dcexaminer: The Georgia Republican had "record-breaking" fundraising day after @thedailybeast story broke: Walker raised $182K, inclu $50K during his @seanhannity interview on @FoxNews

Grab 'em by the...wallet.

[raison de arizona]

Voldemort speaks out:

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tfg:

[AndyinPA]

[raison de arizona]

Under the merciless rules of the Woke Left, abandoning your families, holding a gun to your ex-wife's head, and paying for abortions would disqualify an American from running on a pro-life ticket. What other GOP traditions does the cancel culture crowd want to stamp out?

[raison de arizona]

Check it out! The evangelicals are turning against Walker!

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Just kidding!

Pro-lifers praying with Herschel this morning to put the armor of God on him to shield him from his own son’s truth bombs.

[raison de arizona]

So many good Walker jokes on the bird site today!

[SuzieC]

The fact that so many top Rs are rushing to Walker's defense tells me that they are very, very worried. Control of the Senate comes down to Georgia again. And again the Rs, led by Trump who is responsible for this awful candidate, self-own.

[Uninformed]

[Gupwalla]

Dearest Rick Scott:

Walker was not winning this campaign before. He peaked in the polls in April, he lost the advantage in June, and he was down about 4 points (in the average) prior to this bit of October news. Statistically, he’s always had a shot. It ain’t over till Election Day. But Walker has not been in the lead or even gaining momentum for a whole quarter now.

Also too, it is nominally the job of the NRSC to vet candidates for contested Senate races. Maybe you should have a long chat with the chair of said committee on why he/she failed to discover that top-tier 2022 recruits had histories of killing puppies and paying for sub rosa abortions. It would probably be fair criticism for you to tell the aforementioned chair that he/she has betrayed their party and should never again be entrusted with such a strategically important post.

Also three, shame on you for abandoning your constituents and denying them needed aid during a national emergency. I’m happy to have some of my federal tax dollars go to help Floridians in a time of dire need. I would hope they would be just as caring if a tornado were to rip through my neighborhood some day (god forbid).

[Kendra]

Wonder how many touchdowns Watters has scored?

[RTH10260]

Is that the new requirement for a (-R) senate seat

[Dr. Ken]

[sad-cafe]

Wonder how many touchdowns Watters has scored?

well

it's a good thing he is not running to be a part of a football team then isn't it homewrecker

[Kendra]

Waiting for Herschel Walker to hire OJ’s investigator to search for the man who really paid for that abortion.

[Foggy]

Working for the Walker campaign must be really exciting!

[Kendra]

Diamond & Silk weight in on the Herschel controversy: “Forget what you done heard. That is distraction. When Trump was running, remember .. he said he was gonna grab em by this. And we was like, I’m so happy he was grabbing somebody by the P, and not by the D.”

Newt Gingrich on Herschel Walker: "You know, he's been through a long, tough period. He suffered a lot of concussions coming out of football."

[Volkonski]

[raison de arizona]

Walker supercut.

Imagine being so Christian that you opt to vote for a man who reportedly committed violence against his family, fathered multiple children with different women, paid for an abortion and was absent as a father - rather than vote for a reverend who studied and taught Christianity!

https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1577689630077583362

Dana Loesch: I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid “some skank” for an abortion, “I want control of the Senate”.

“This is the fight of his life …we rebuke the devil.”

At the Herschel Walker prayer luncheon, prayer was made for Herschel and his wife against the “attacks” from “the enemy” and for Herschel to rise above “the sludge” from the “media circling this property.”

This was at First Baptist Church Atlanta after news broke claiming Walker paid for an abortion.

Wear a condom, damn.

Heard a lot about Walker on talk radio this morning. Basically, all the rwnj talking heads were saying that Walker can still easily take this, and he needs to lean into being a sinner that is forgiven, while Warnock is still out there sinning.