Which Herschel Walker is moving to GA to run for Senate against Raphael Warnock?

[pnwmom]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/herschel-walker-senate-republicans/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0HQGnZD0OfpPX7w6knu6nvABfMBkRNV-4p20wS8McwsHR-ry-_7iMuZSQ

Walker has myriad potential problems as a Senate nominee, including:

He hasn't lived in the state for a very long time. Moving back to the state to run for office opens Walker up to charges of carpetbagging -- and he has no ready answer for that.

He's been accused of threatening behavior. Walker has been open about his diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder and the struggles it has caused him, including writing a book about his experiences. But a recent AP report that went through Walker's business and divorce records reveal troubling -- and previously unreported -- behavior. "The documents detail accusations that Walker repeatedly threatened his ex-wife, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with unpredictable behavior." (Walker didn't respond to the AP's request for comment on the report.)

He's never been a candidate before. A Senate race is a very tough place to make a maiden campaign. And that goes double when you are talking about what will likely be one of the most closely watched and expensive Senate races in the country. Walker will now be under a very bright light from the second he made clear his candidacy -- and if past is prologue, he could struggle at times under such close scrutiny.


From the AP story:

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-sports-nfl-college-football-coronavirus-pandemic-5e2875eec11e93f9a3bf1fc859137ff8

His account details years of struggles and an eventual diagnosis in 2001. Walker describes himself dealing with as many as a dozen personalities — or “alters” — that he had constructed as a defense against bullying he suffered as a stuttering, overweight child.


In an AP interview at the time, Walker emphasized his purpose was to help others with similar disorders. “People say, ‘Herschel is just trying to write something to make money,’” he said. “I say, ‘Guys, why would I write something like this to make money?’”

The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes dissociative identity disorder as “alternating between multiple identities,” leaving a person with “gaps in memory of everyday events.” It notes men with the disorder “exhibit more violent behavior rather than amnesia.”

In his book, Walker acknowledges violent urges. He writes that he played Russian roulette and recounts sitting at his kitchen table in 1991 pointing a gun, loaded with a single bullet, at his head. “I wasn’t suicidal,” Walker explained, but “just looked at mortality as the ultimate challenge.”

[Beachnutt]

1. Run please, he'll lose big with the black vote and the white voters

won't vote for him either because most rethugs in Georgia are racist kkk folks

[keithbvadu2]

2. He is a stooge, encouraged by the GOP to siphon off votes.

He is a stooge, encouraged by the GOP to siphon off votes.

[pnwmom]

3. I doubt that many Black people would choose him over Raphael Warnock.

And he'll probably repel some white Republicans.

[Bucky]

4. I hope this doesn't blow it for Herschel

I don't think I've ever wanted the Republicans to nominate a guy so badly.

[SYFROYH]

5. Only a non-Georgian would consider Walker vulnerable to carpetbagging claims

Herschel has been in the hearts and minds of Georgians over the age group of 50 of every political persuasion since 1980.

Sure, he left GA in the mid 1980s but in a way he never left.

His glory days are their Glory days.

Still, I think he’ll lose bigley.