ETA: added to above
Yeah, “highly invasive and stressful experiments” “without an endpoint” qualifies as bad. That he paid fines and was denied further grant money confirms it.
Fuck him, then - we can just add it to the list.
And Mitch McConnell lets out a sigh that comes all the way from his toes, knowing this is exactly what was going to happen nominating insane celebrities rather than good old boring-but-conservative career politicians.
mcconnell should take a breath, reckon on not having the majority, and just pound back at trump. especially after that thing trump wrote about him and his wife.
staying quiet about trump didn’t work in jan of 2021, it won’t work now. try for some decency, mitch.
“The front of that (get-well) card features a drawing of a steaming cup of tea”
In spite of this steaming pile dumped on the Walker campaign, it’s likely his supporters will be able to overlook such a transgression by a “devout Christian” and vote for him anyway. Independents may be less impressed.
Will the optics of inhumane puppy-killing be harder for the Oz campaign to overcome?
Jeez, but the yo-yo’s that have gotten Republican Senate nominations this year are a sight to see.
Well contrary to my expected opinion, Christian Walker did not wake up sober and decide that he regrets his actions of the evening:
I think this goes here - new Fetterman tweet/video comparing Oz to Dr Nick on The Simpson’s:
I assume his campaign cleared copyright issues - and I also assume that Fox doesn’t own the rights to the Simpson’s?
By Susie Madrak — September 28, 2022
If you live in Pennsylvania, you’ve been barraged by the wave of Oz ads, relentlessly slamming John Fetterman as a lawless hippie who’s soft on crime, and wondered when Fetterman was going to fight back.
The Oz ads are effective, pointing out Fetterman wants to repeal life sentences for homicide.
Of course they don’t mention the rest: Fetterman is against the mandatory life sentence for those convicted of second-degree homicide - as in, a friend borrows your car and then kills someone. He goes to jail for life – but so do you.
The latest CNN analysis:
Man, whoever Fetterman has on payroll to do his campaign ads is (or are) freaking genius(es).
Some legal quagmires in PA…
Oh, Herschel…
They don’t give a shit so long as he votes how they want him to be vote. I don’t see why this is difficult for people to understand.
To be fair, I’d pretty much do the same thing if it was a Democrat in a close race.
I’m with @hajario , I don’t see this hurting him much if at all with Republican voters, especially if the allegation and evidence remains anonymous. In 2012 it came out that Republican Representative Scott DesJarlais had pressured a mistress to have an abortion and supported his wife in having two abortions. He’s been re-elected four times since then.
Some of them give a shit. There’s a tiny sliver of the Republican population that actually believes the the things they claim to believe. Could make a difference in a close race.
But doesn’t that just bring you back to hajario’s point? Granted that they actually believe the stuff, do they pull the lever the guy who’ll vote the way they want him to vote, or for the guy who’ll vote the opposite way about stuff They Actually Believe to be super important?
They just don’t vote. Happens all the time.
There’s also Libertarian Chase Oliver on the ballot. At a glance at his website, he’s a bit of an oddball even by Libertarian Party standards.
Unfortunately, there are too many pictures of him with a combo Gadsden/Pride flag (1) and not enough pictures of him with guns (0), for him to get much traction with disaffected Georgia Republicans.
Speaking of campaign websites…
“Weak leaders create bad results — and we are sick and tired of politicians not being held accountable for their actions.” - Herschel Walker (campaign website August 2022)
Exactly. Scandals like this don’t generally serve to stampede voters to the other side, except in the increasingly vanishingly rare case of a somewhat non-polarized race. A few might flip, but more usually what it does is suppress the scandalized base to some marginal degree - it’s becomes “a pox on both sides” for those folks.
I guess it’s just an alien mindset to me; I can readily picture folks who’d say pox-on-both — but if we’re limiting this to voters for whom abortion is so big a deal as a matter of sincerely-held belief, and one candidate will vote for A and the other will vote for Z when it comes to abortion, well, then, (a) I’ll take your word for it, but (b) I can’t fully understand it.