Walker in Georgia

[BigDoggyDog]

MAGA posiition: "I oppose abortion in all cases, unless it's to save the political life of the father"

Please try to not rip directly from twitter. It's okay if you aren't clever, own it. But don't pass others humor off as your own.



The Walker thing does raise an interesting question though. If you are a hypothetical single issue, pro-life voter in Georgia, who do you support? It certainly isn't Warnock. Walker's alleged hypocrisy might be a bridge too far for you, but I would think you would feel more comfortable with him in Washington than the alternative if you are deciding not to stay home.

It's the same reason Democrats will pull the lever for a deadbeat vegetable to go to the Senate in Pennsylvania rather than the clearly more competent Oz. We all view elected representatives as tools to manifest our preferred policy, not as role models. Which is the way it should be.

Of course if we acknowledged this fact, we would contain our political disagreements to policy discussions and not petty back and forth character assassination's.

"Your guy is a badder guy than my guy!" Childish. But carry on.

 

[Bowlmania]

Not going to make the prediction- I'll leave that to you. I think it's probably too early to count chickens, and while I feel good about the election in general and this race in particular, there is still the matter of voter suppression and other issues to reckon with. But I like your moxie...

I can't see anybody but hyper-partisan hacks voting for Walker. How can any clear-thinking person vote for someone so reckless, irresponsible, violent and ignorant?

 

[SqueakyClean]

I can't see anybody but hyper-partisan hacks voting for Walker. How can any clear-thinking person vote for someone so reckless, irresponsible, violent and ignorant?

I think you are underestimating the power of Georgia Football. Something to bear in mind is that probably about 10% of the people that will push a button on election day have not watched the news in 6 months, don't really follow politics, and will vote for the guy simply because they remember his name from the jersey he used to wear.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Give me a break the so called moral outrage all the lefties on here claim to have would be a mute point in he was a democrat. Guys like bowlmania would not blink an eye if Walker was a democrat they would be dead silent and they know it. They are just mad the gop has not folded and thrown Walker under the bus like they used to do 10 years ago. As I have said if liberals really cared about this kind of stuff they would never have let BIll Clinton off the hook for his dozens of affairs and possible rape but they did and had no issue with it. Fake moral outrage is pathetic.

You're straight up full of shit. On this issue, the leftists here have been incredibly consistent. You righties are the ones who can't step up.

 

[zeke4ahs]

As Baris just stated on his podcast nothing will rally the Republican base like a double standard. And like he said all this did was rally the base to circle the wagons around Walker. Given the domestic issues Warnock has himself these attacks do nothing to persuade any repubs to drop support of Walker.

Haha. Yeah Repubs are all about repudiating the double standard. That’s why they are so outraged at Trump’s behavior. Can you even type that with a straight face?

 

[anon_mya1phvcpf5x4]

the clearly more competent Oz.

Did you actually type that with a straight face?

lmao hahahahahaha.

You are hilarious.

 

[cosmickid]

As Baris just stated on his podcast nothing will rally the Republican base like a double standard. And like he said all this did was rally the base to circle the wagons around Walker. Given the domestic issues Warnock has himself these attacks do nothing to persuade any repubs to drop support of Walker.

Yep notice the startling difference, over far less serious charges...Nothing in here about Imhoff ever holding a loaded weapon to his wife/girlfriend's temple or blaming it on "personality disorder"...

Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press
Wed, October 5, 2022 at 2:24 PM


A Democratic candidate for a state House seat in Jackson is ending his campaign after social media posts pointing out past allegations of threatening to carry out a school shooting and using compromising personal pictures to pressure a person prompted prominent party leaders to pull their endorsements and financial support.
In a statement, Maurice Imhoff did not address any specific allegation and did not agree to an interview. But he said he would end his campaign after "a lot of soul searching."
"I've been suspended, arrested and convicted of things of which I am not proud," Imhoff said in a statement released to the Free Press.
"Who I was is not who I am today, but I find myself confronting it on this campaign...I have decided to end my campaign."

Michigan Democratic candidate exits race as revenge porn claims, troubling past surface

Imhoff did not address specific allegations but acknowledged a prior school suspension, an arrest and conviction.

www.yahoo.com

"Who I was is not who I am today, but I find myself confronting it on this campaign"

Admittedly, this part does sound like Herschel and his multiple personalities/identities

 

[larsIU]

Man, you're a d#$k

Like I always tell her, I say NO the first couple times as nicely as I can. After that, you're taking your life into your own hands.

 

[Sope Creek]

If you are a hypothetical single issue, pro-life voter in Georgia, who do you support?

You don't. You stay home.

 

[BigDoggyDogDude]

You don't. You stay home.

I don't disagree, which also illustrates why being a single issue voter is so stupid.

But in a different political reality, you could definitely make a strong case for voting for Walker if you are pro-life. If it was a forgone conclusion that Democrats were going to hold the House and this GA seat could potentially be seat #60 for Democrats in the Senate, wouldn't a staunch pro-lifer be obligated to vote for Walker to prevent a federal law expanding abortion?

He's a hypocrite and an imperfect vessel, but all of our elected officials are.

 

[larsIU]

I don't disagree, which also illustrates why being a single issue voter is so stupid.

But in a different political reality, you could definitely make a strong case for voting for Walker if you are pro-life. If it was a forgone conclusion that Democrats were going to hold the House and this GA seat could potentially be seat #60 for Democrats in the Senate, wouldn't a staunch pro-lifer be obligated to vote for Walker to prevent a federal law expanding abortion?

He's a hypocrite and an imperfect vessel, but all of our elected officials are.

It's the Bettlejuice dilemma. On the one hand you need to get the Deitz's out of your soon to be Bed and Breakfast but your only option is Beetlejuice. We all know how that ended.

 

[cosmickid]

Please try to not rip directly from twitter. It's okay if you aren't clever, own it. But don't pass others humor off as your own.

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The Walker thing does raise an interesting question though. If you are a hypothetical single issue, pro-life voter in Georgia, who do you support? It certainly isn't Warnock. Walker's alleged hypocrisy might be a bridge too far for you, but I would think you would feel more comfortable with him in Washington than the alternative if you are deciding not to stay home.

It's the same reason Democrats will pull the lever for a deadbeat vegetable to go to the Senate in Pennsylvania rather than the clearly more competent Oz. We all view elected representatives as tools to manifest our preferred policy, not as role models. Which is the way it should be.

Of course if we acknowledged this fact, we would contain our political disagreements to policy discussions and not petty back and forth character assassination's.

"Your guy is a badder guy than my guy!" Childish. But carry on.

"It's the same reason Democrats will pull the lever for a deadbeat vegetable to go to the Senate in Pennsylvania rather than the clearly more competent Oz. We all view elected representatives as tools to manifest our preferred policy, not as role models. Which is the way it should be."

John Fetterman had a stroke, brought on by atrial fibrillation, which is a heart rhythm problem that could happen to anyone. He is clearly intelligent and as the mayor of what had been one of the most crime ridden cities in PA, dramatically reduced crime and was so successful as a role model for urban renewal that he was contracted to present a series of Ted talks because people and various foundations liked what they saw.

Herschel Walker committed a number of offenses including holding a loaded weapon to his ex-wife's temple, and has even admitted that he wanted to murder someone. He claims that it was a result of his multiple personality syndrome, and that he's "cured". But there is no evidence he's reclaimed even a modicum of intelligence, assuming he hasn't always been this stupid.

If you're going to shallowly argue against voting for Fetterman because he hasn't fully recovered from a stroke he suffered about 5 months ago, how can you (with a straight face) ask people to vote for the human vegetable that is Herschel Walker who still hasn't recovered any intelligence that he may have possessed prior to suffering his "mental illness"

"clearly more competent Oz".

What is competent about Oz? He's a surgeon. That doesn't qualify him for Mayor, much less Senator. He doesn't even live in Pennsylvania and votes in Turkish elections. What about that makes him as qualified, much less more competent than Fetterman?

The GOP could have nominated McCormick and he'd likely win. But what qualifies Oz to be a Senator- his ability to grift like his mentor? The strange aspect of Oz's candidacy is that he has totally reversed himself on multiple issues that he championed when he was a media personality. Course that's the soul sucking capitulation that comes with earning Donald Trump's endorsement...

 

[Sope Creek]

I don't disagree, which also illustrates why being a single issue voter is so stupid.

But in a different political reality, you could definitely make a strong case for voting for Walker if you are pro-life. If it was a forgone conclusion that Democrats were going to hold the House and this GA seat could potentially be seat #60 for Democrats in the Senate, wouldn't a staunch pro-lifer be obligated to vote for Walker to prevent a federal law expanding abortion?

He's a hypocrite and an imperfect vessel, but all of our elected officials are.

Walker is a different level of incompetent/crazy than your average elected official.

BTW, my guess - and it's just a guess - is that all those ads talking about his tendency towards violence were pre-diagnosis for his multiple personality disorder. But that creates a problem for him . . . once you start explaining that stuff, you call attention to it and lend it credence.

I'd guess that Georgians wouldn't vote for a man who admits to having been crazy, no matter what his policy positions are. Tom Eagleton and all . . . ya know?

That the GOP nominated him boggles my mind . . . Kelly Loeffler would have won this election hands down, IMO.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Walker is a different level of incompetent/crazy than your average elected official.

BTW, my guess - and it's just a guess - is that all those ads talking about his tendency towards violence were pre-diagnosis for his multiple personality disorder. But that creates a problem for him . . . once you start explaining that stuff, you call attention to it and lend it credence.

I'd guess that Georgians wouldn't vote for a man who admits to having been crazy, no matter what his policy positions are. Tom Eagleton and all . . . ya know?

That the GOP nominated him boggles my mind . . . Kelly Loeffler would have won this election hands down, IMO.

CTE

 

[Sope Creek]

CTE

Nope.

MPD. Multiple Personality Disorder was the official diagnosis. No CTE about it. There's no excuse for nominating him . . . .

 

[Sope Creek]

I think you are underestimating the power of Georgia Football. Something to bear in mind is that probably about 10% of the people that will push a button on election day have not watched the news in 6 months, don't really follow politics, and will vote for the guy simply because they remember his name from the jersey he used to wear.

The Hershel-for-Senate texts I get use #34 in them. UGA football is a powerful force . . . .

 

[mcmurtry66]

Nope.

MPD. Multiple Personality Disorder was the official diagnosis. No CTE about it. There's no excuse for nominating him . . . .

CTE. Mark my words. They’ll cut that tissue after he croaks and find it in abundance. Could have mpd too. But I guarantee he has CTE

 

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

Nope.

MPD. Multiple Personality Disorder was the official diagnosis. No CTE about it. There's no excuse for nominating him . . . .

Maybe, sometimes, he just "identifies" as someone else? Some days, a Georgia peach. Some days, an Alabama boiled peanut. Who are y'all to judge?

 

[Sope Creek]

Maybe, sometimes, he just "identifies" as someone else? Some days, a Georgia peach. Some days, an Alabama boiled peanut. Who are y'all to judge?

Weak.

What part of "official diagnosis" do you not understand?

 

[Sope Creek]

CTE. Mark my words. They’ll cut that tissue after he croaks and find it in abundance. Could have mpd too. But I guarantee he has CTE

Weak.

I guess we'll just have to kill the guy to find out. (sarcasm)

 

[jet812]

Weak.

What part of "official diagnosis" do you not understand?

Like gender dysphoria?

 

[anon_mya1phvcpf5x4]

Like gender dysphoria?

Like transphobia?

 

[jet812]

Like transphobia?

In that they are all diagnosable, maybe. But while transphobia may arguably make one an asshole, it’s not a mental illness like the other two.🙂

 

[cosmickid]

Walker is a different level of incompetent/crazy than your average elected official.

BTW, my guess - and it's just a guess - is that all those ads talking about his tendency towards violence were pre-diagnosis for his multiple personality disorder. But that creates a problem for him . . . once you start explaining that stuff, you call attention to it and lend it credence.

I'd guess that Georgians wouldn't vote for a man who admits to having been crazy, no matter what his policy positions are. Tom Eagleton and all . . . ya know?

That the GOP nominated him boggles my mind . . . Kelly Loeffler would have won this election hands down, IMO.

GA GOP Primary voters have no excuse. They may not have known about his stable of illegitimate children or his paying for his girlfriends abortion. But if I knew about his history of domestic violence and the threats he (or one of his multi-personality selves) posed to his girlfriend and others over the past 20 yrs well enough to post about it in Aug 2021, then the GA GOP voters are guilty of negligence...

"The Pubs may win the House, where races are inordinately shaped by redistricting.
But the Senate where all the voters in the state have a voice is going to be problematic for pro-Trump GOP candidates who come from purple states where Trump is a negative.

Just today Herschel Walker announced he's running in GA for Warnock's seat, and he'll likely emerge as the GOP candidate. But even before he announced it's become clear he's a flawed candidate with domestic abuse issues, including his wife recounting in a book that he pointed a gun at her head.

As Herschel Walker eyes Senate run, a turbulent past emerges​

Former UGA football player Herschel Walker has been eyeing a political run. Associated Press documents reveals a turbulent personal history.
www.onlineathens.com"

The problem is that the other GOP candidates tip toed around the issue, although Gary Black tried to warn them that Herschel was majorly flawed and would be exposed in the general...

This debacle is on Trump and Hannity from the start since they basically coerced him into running. This poll doesn't even reflect the latest problem, since it was conducted prior to the most recent development. But what's telling is that his numbers with Black voters are unbelievably low (6%) and also that this poll puts Rev Warnock over the magic 50% level that would avoid a runoff. There is no way that Herschel approaches 50%, even if he should manage to have a lead on election day...

 

[DANC]

I can't see anybody but hyper-partisan hacks voting for Walker. How can any clear-thinking person vote for someone so reckless, irresponsible, violent and ignorant?

Yeah, Warnock sounds like a real upstanding individual.

Raphael Warnock’s ex-wife claims he ran over her foot during domestic dispute

The ex-wife of Georgia Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock told police he deliberately ran over her foot during a March 2020 domestic dispute, and that her ex-husband is a “great actor,&#8…

nypost.com

 

[DANC]

"It's the same reason Democrats will pull the lever for a deadbeat vegetable to go to the Senate in Pennsylvania rather than the clearly more competent Oz. We all view elected representatives as tools to manifest our preferred policy, not as role models. Which is the way it should be."

John Fetterman had a stroke, brought on by atrial fibrillation, which is a heart rhythm problem that could happen to anyone. He is clearly intelligent and as the mayor of what had been one of the most crime ridden cities in PA, dramatically reduced crime and was so successful as a role model for urban renewal that he was contracted to present a series of Ted talks because people and various foundations liked what they saw.

Herschel Walker committed a number of offenses including holding a loaded weapon to his ex-wife's temple, and has even admitted that he wanted to murder someone. He claims that it was a result of his multiple personality syndrome, and that he's "cured". But there is no evidence he's reclaimed even a modicum of intelligence, assuming he hasn't always been this stupid.

If you're going to shallowly argue against voting for Fetterman because he hasn't fully recovered from a stroke he suffered about 5 months ago, how can you (with a straight face) ask people to vote for the human vegetable that is Herschel Walker who still hasn't recovered any intelligence that he may have possessed prior to suffering his "mental illness"

"clearly more competent Oz".

What is competent about Oz? He's a surgeon. That doesn't qualify him for Mayor, much less Senator. He doesn't even live in Pennsylvania and votes in Turkish elections. What about that makes him as qualified, much less more competent than Fetterman?

The GOP could have nominated McCormick and he'd likely win. But what qualifies Oz to be a Senator- his ability to grift like his mentor? The strange aspect of Oz's candidacy is that he has totally reversed himself on multiple issues that he championed when he was a media personality. Course that's the soul sucking capitulation that comes with earning Donald Trump's endorsement...

Is running over your wife's foot with a car not a crime?

 

[UncleMark]

Is running over your wife's foot with a car not a crime?

You know the police said her claim was totally unsubstantiated, don't you? That there was zero evidence to back up her claim?

 

[anon_mya1phvcpf5x4]

Is running over your wife's foot with a car not a crime?

Did you know fact checking is not a crime?

 

[DANC]

You know the police said her claim was totally unsubstantiated, don't you? That there was zero evidence to back up her claim?

Oh, I thought unsubstantiated claims were taken as gospel now?

When did that change?

 

[DANC]

Did you know fact checking is not a crime?

Go play in the streets, junior.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Weak.

I guess we'll just have to kill the guy to find out. (sarcasm)

I actually think it’s sad

 

[Spartans9312]

You know the police said her claim was totally unsubstantiated, don't you? That there was zero evidence to back up her claim?

Walker is terrible candidate
Warnock is a terrible candidate
By all accounts, they are both terrible humans.
If I lived in Georgia…I would leave this one blank.

 

[outside shooter]

Walker is terrible candidate
Warnock is a terrible candidate
By all accounts, they are both terrible humans.
If I lived in Georgia…I would leave this one blank.

Walker is as horrible a candidate as can be imagined.

Warnock may well be a bad candidate and yet still be 100x better.

 

[BigDoggyDog]

"It's the same reason Democrats will pull the lever for a deadbeat vegetable to go to the Senate in Pennsylvania rather than the clearly more competent Oz. We all view elected representatives as tools to manifest our preferred policy, not as role models. Which is the way it should be."

John Fetterman had a stroke, brought on by atrial fibrillation, which is a heart rhythm problem that could happen to anyone. He is clearly intelligent and as the mayor of what had been one of the most crime ridden cities in PA, dramatically reduced crime and was so successful as a role model for urban renewal that he was contracted to present a series of Ted talks because people and various foundations liked what they saw.

Herschel Walker committed a number of offenses including holding a loaded weapon to his ex-wife's temple, and has even admitted that he wanted to murder someone. He claims that it was a result of his multiple personality syndrome, and that he's "cured". But there is no evidence he's reclaimed even a modicum of intelligence, assuming he hasn't always been this stupid.

If you're going to shallowly argue against voting for Fetterman because he hasn't fully recovered from a stroke he suffered about 5 months ago, how can you (with a straight face) ask people to vote for the human vegetable that is Herschel Walker who still hasn't recovered any intelligence that he may have possessed prior to suffering his "mental illness"

"clearly more competent Oz".

What is competent about Oz? He's a surgeon. That doesn't qualify him for Mayor, much less Senator. He doesn't even live in Pennsylvania and votes in Turkish elections. What about that makes him as qualified, much less more competent than Fetterman?

The GOP could have nominated McCormick and he'd likely win. But what qualifies Oz to be a Senator- his ability to grift like his mentor? The strange aspect of Oz's candidacy is that he has totally reversed himself on multiple issues that he championed when he was a media personality. Course that's the soul sucking capitulation that comes with earning Donald Trump's endorsement...

Pat Toomey really did the country and PA a disservice by retiring and allowing these two clowns to duke it out.

Democrats embrace of Fetterman however is troubling. Oz may be a carpetbagger and another celebrity politician but he has at least achieved throughout his life. Son of lower middle class immigrants he rose to incredible heights on nothing but his own hard work and ingenuity. Harvard Magna Cum Laude, UPENN MD and MBA, Professor Emeritus at Columbia. Hugely successful career as a heart surgeon, television host and professor.

To put it in the kindest of terms, Fetterman is a ****ing loser. A deadbeat who lived off his parents until his mid 40’s and dresses up as a working man for fun despite his upbringing being far more affluent than that of Oz. Fetterman also spent years collecting degrees, albeit with the ultimate goal of becoming a mayor of an 1800 person town that actually LOST people while he was in office talking about how planting gardens outside of steel mills will bring jobs back or some such nonsense. That is all before you account for the fact that he is now incapacitated and who knows how long or if he will ever recover.

This race is emblematic of democrats war on successful people. OZ is successful so he must be bad, Fetterman hasn’t achieved anything in his life so he must be noble. It’s a disease that the party is riddled with. Oz is evidence of the American dream, Democrats think that dream is dead.

I will be really disappointed in the people of PA if they vote in this absolute waste of space.

 

[Spartans9312]

Walker is as horrible a candidate as can be imagined.

Warnock may well be a bad candidate and yet still be 100x better.

I wouldn’t vote for either one. In the same way I didn’t vote for either Trump or Clinton.

 

[UncleMark]

I wouldn’t vote for either one. In the same way I didn’t vote for either Trump or Clinton.

Other than being a Democrat, what makes Warnock so bad?

 

[stollcpa]

Walker is as horrible a candidate as can be imagined.

Warnock may well be a bad candidate and yet still be 100x better.

Of course, he’s liberal who damn near ran over his wife.

 

[outside shooter]

Of course, his liberal who damn near ran over his wife.

There seems to be disagreement about that, with the Police believing it never happened

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Of course, his liberal who damn near ran over his wife.

Yeah, that's a tough equivalency to defend. Walker admitted in court to doing a lot of the things he was accused of (he blamed his dissociative identity disorder). There is no form of arbitration justifying the accusation against Warnock. The only thing we have to go on beyond a he said-she said is that the medical examination showed no injury.

Warnock might have done what his ex said, I don't know. But equating that accusation with what Walker has been accused of is a stretch beyond stretches.

 

[stollcpa]

There seems to be disagreement about that, with the Police believing it never happened

How do you pick which unsubstantiated he said/she said accusations to believe? Never mind, don’t answer. I know the answer.