# Herschel Walker (need I say more?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861 "2022-10-07T01:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/21 "2022-10-07T17:15:09Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I want control of the Senate.” I want (the party that is okay with electing people who pay to abort endangered baby eagles) in control of the senate. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/22 "2022-10-07T17:22:45Z")
The scandal **is** affecting him, if you trust polls. > **[Herschel Walker Tumbles In Georgia Senate Poll As Scandals Mount](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/10/05/herschel-walker-tumbles-in-georgia-senate-poll-as-scandals-mount/?sh=1e1812971239)** > > Walker had been locked in a tie with Warnock in June. > Less than a third of independents said they would vote for Walker, along with 21% who identified as moderate, 75% of Republicans and 69% of respondents who identify as conservatives. That doesn’t sound very good for him. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/23 "2022-10-07T17:28:47Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > The _Washington Post_ has a great article (paywall) This article is available free on [MSN.com](http://MSN.com) [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-crisis-in-herschel-walker-race-was-nearly-two-years-in-the-making/ar-AA12GqjP](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-crisis-in-herschel-walker-race-was-nearly-two-years-in-the-making/ar-AA12GqjP) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/24 "2022-10-07T17:37:39Z")
Especially in a midterm, turnout is critical. I’m really hoping that with Kemp (the man who let Joe Biden steal the election) and Walker ( a black man with dubious family values) as the key Republicans on the ballot - many MAGA voters, tired from a long and stressful day at work on Nov 8th, decide they’d rather do something other than stand in line at the polls. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/25 "2022-10-07T18:05:20Z")
She also said she supports Herschel’s policies, making it seem like that guy actually has thoughts on policy. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/26 "2022-10-07T18:26:31Z")
The simple fact that there is a very good chance that Walker could be elected is simply astounding. Just like Trump in 2016. It should tell you all you need to know about the state of American politics. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/27 "2022-10-07T18:31:02Z")
I knew it was over when he got elected. I said it back then there is no coming back from that. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/28 "2022-10-07T23:02:29Z")
Some of them may think that the abortion was the woman’s idea, and maybe it was but it’s a private issue. It’s his ATTITUDE about the whole thing! The Atlantic has a new story about him, and the title alone speaks volumes. And as for being Christian, okay, only God knows what’s in his heart, but his opponent is REV. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church - yeah, that one. > **[Herschel Walker’s Candidacy Is Just Insulting](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/herschel-walker-abortion-son-2022-election-warnock/671675/)** > > The contrast with his opponent renders it all the more egregious. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/29 "2022-10-07T23:09:52Z")
And speaking of eagles: [https://www.cartoonistgroup.com/cartoon/Mike+Luckovich's+Editorial+Cartoons/2015-08-11/131114](https://www.cartoonistgroup.com/cartoon/Mike+Luckovich%27s+Editorial+Cartoons/2015-08-11/131114) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/30 "2022-10-07T23:14:44Z")
Of Walker’s many memorable quips, I think my favourite is the one where he said (I’m paraphrasing from memory) that a debate with Warnock would be very unfair because he (Walker) was not very bright and Warnock would thoroughly embarrass him. I guess in Walker’s mind – and quite likely in the minds of many of his supporters – being dumb as a brick is a feature, not a bug, and distinguishes one favourably from contemptible elitists who use things like facts, logic, and big words. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/31 "2022-10-07T23:22:36Z")
(cough cough) Sarah Palin? Or Michele Bachmann? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/32 "2022-10-07T23:23:01Z")
Did y’all see this gem? > **[Watch: Herschel Walker says if Georgia voters don’t elect him they won’t even...](https://www.rawstory.com/watch-herschel-walker-says-if-georgia-voters-dont-elect-him-they-wont-even-have-a-chance-to-be-redeemed/)** > > Herschel Walker is now suggesting the souls of Georgians are in the balance, and if they don't elect him to the U.S Senate they will not even "have a chance to be redeemed," a Christian religious belief about being delivered from sin by God. Walker... Of course, I do not know how trustworthy Raw Story is I guess God redeemed him from the pushing the abortion, the domestic violence and the abandonment of his children he fathered out of wedlock. Don’t do as I do, do as I say! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/33 "2022-10-07T23:26:40Z")
One of his biggest critics, his own son Christian Walker (yes, his real name) is from a mixed-race marriage. I wonder how some of his supporters feel about that, if they even know. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/34 "2022-10-08T00:24:21Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > And as for being Christian, okay, only God knows what’s in his heart, but his opponent is REV. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church - yeah, that one. The charlatan Al Sharpton is a REV. too. What does being a REV. have to do with who will serve the people of GA best as Senator? ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/35 "2022-10-08T00:36:07Z")
What does serving the people of Georgia have to do with it? It’s all about “pwning the lib’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/36 "2022-10-08T00:38:33Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > The charlatan Al Sharpton is a REV. too. And would also be a better Senator than Herschel Walker. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/37 "2022-10-08T00:43:58Z")
Really? How so? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/38 "2022-10-08T00:47:53Z")
You’ve got to remember that Republicans are neither pro-life nor anti-abortion. I’ve said many times that there are actually six sides to the abortion debate, not two, and the side most Republicans, or at least most Republican office-holders, are on is the anti-choice side. Anti-choicers would be just as happy to mandate abortion as to ban it, if the political environment made that possible, and certainly have no problem with abortion so long as it wasn’t the woman who made the decision. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/39 "2022-10-08T01:16:08Z")
Sharpton isn’t stupid. His views are often, um, controversial, but he HAS views that are mostly logically consistent. Walker seems to say whatever pops into his head, whether it has any connection to this reality or not. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/40 "2022-10-08T01:17:15Z")
> [@split\_p\_j](#): > > [Dana Loesch] also said she supports Herschel’s policies, making it seem like that guy actually has thoughts on policy. ⁢ He doesn’t have policies of his own, but he very much seems to be saying he’ll keep his head down and vote for whatever the Republicans tell him to. That’s the policy she agrees with [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=3)