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Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, faces incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in the nations most brutal election of the 2022 midterm cycle.
Both campaigns are emptying every clip of ammunition possible in the elections final weeks. The latest controversy revolves around a resurfaced video of Walker, speaking to soldiers during an unspecified date, oscillating between loving comments about his son Christian to calling him dumb as a brick and an X-Files alien.
Book-wise, hes extremely smart. Street-wise, hes dumb as a brick, Walker says in the video. Hes 19. I delivered him.
He had a long head. He looked like an alien. I told my wife, Your parents got some awful genes and stuff. [But] no matter how ugly your child is, you think hes pretty.
Though Walker talked about loving his son, Christian, at birth, he said he looked like an X-Files alien since little kids are ugly when theyre
born at first.
https://thecomeback.com/politics/herschel-walker-alien-baby.html
ColinC
(8,337 posts)mucifer
(23,575 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Herschel can't stop himself from making horrible headlines. If someone tapes his mouth shut, he might actually win.
Cha
(297,774 posts)Bloodsucking Vampire.
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)this is parental bullshit and has nothing to do with him being a Senator. Someone found an old video and put it out to embarrass him, not that he shouldn't be embarrassed for just being there.
Truth is, I blame the voters for putting up with this bullshit.
brush
(53,922 posts)what an unqualified a-hole Walker is so he loses some votes. It's what oppo research came up with to damage walker.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)brush
(53,922 posts)What's in the video is true, not lies. When it gets down to the wire politics is hardball, not tiddlywinks. I'm glad to see Dems not being polite, milquetoast pushovers for a change.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)how much research into water for the Southwest could have been done with the money thrown at this election.
Don't email me for more wasted money. Tell me about how you're going to at least trying to stop it.
brush
(53,922 posts)now as it's about winning the run-off election in Georgia which gives Dems much more leverage in the Senate than the barely-there, 50-50 majority with the Veep's tiebreaker vote. A 51-49 majority means Dems chair all the committees and the majority on the committees, there's no sharing that power as in a 50-50 split Senate. It also helps to minimize the power of the two contrarian senators who vote so often against Joe Biden's agenda. And I'm sure you know who I mean.
It almost sounds that you don't care whether we win or lose the run-off.
whathehell
(29,096 posts)Some might say publicly trashing your own son on the basis of his looks and intellect goes to character.
Initech
(100,107 posts)But the Christian right attracts these people in droves, which says more about them than anything.
ananda
(28,879 posts)Unhinged fascist monsters.....
obamanut2012
(26,154 posts)We need to quit saying these people aren't Christians, because they are.
Initech
(100,107 posts)Maybe instead of saying theyre not Christian, we tie the two together?
Freethinker65
(10,064 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)multigraincracker
(32,733 posts)Ya got ta speak his language.
Raine
(30,541 posts)issues he always seems to get out of discussing. 🤔 Instead the focus is on ridiculous statements like this that he made in the past.
Richard_GB
(53 posts)I would feel both insulted by and superior to Walker.