# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/81 "2022-10-11T23:28:22Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > Huh, McConnell actually supports him. I thought he would stay out of that mess, but I guess he really needs Georgia. So much for lamenting the lack of more qualified people in national offices. I’m sure McConnell still laments Walker. Just not publicly. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/82 "2022-10-11T23:49:18Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I’m sure McConnell still laments Walker. Just not publicly. I would not be sure. The R strategy seems to consistently be say the most outrageous stuff and people take notice – there is no such thing as bad publicity. The running back is listening to the coaching staff and playing according to the team plan. Surely Yertle has to support that. ---
**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 12, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/83 "2022-10-12T00:02:35Z")
Well, let’s hope McConnell laments Walker after he loses the election. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/84 "2022-10-12T00:07:59Z")
The plot sickens further: > **[Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/herschel-walker-abortion-payment/)** > > The account, echoed by a person she confided in at the time, adds to the swirl of controversy around the antiabortion Senate GOP candidate in Georgia. > The mother of one of Herschel Walker’s children had to repeatedly press the former football star and now-Republican Senate nominee in Georgia for funds to pay for a 2009 abortion that she said he wanted her to have, according to the woman and a person she confided in at the time… ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/85 "2022-10-12T00:10:51Z")
A Republican trying to duck a financial obligation? The hell you say! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/86 "2022-10-12T03:26:48Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Has he been fucking cows? now, that is just sexist (which, in context …) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/87 "2022-10-12T13:05:31Z")
It does seem like the point of Walker’s candidacy **is** to just have one more warm body on the R benches to turn the majority, and then let him be the equivalent of Taylor-Greene or Cawthorn, not really a legislator but just an upjumped influencer with a platform just because he is a Senator. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/88 "2022-10-12T13:26:21Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > … Herschel Walker only supports abortion . . . for women that have sex with Herschel Walker. I sense there’s a strategy there. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > Well, let’s hope McConnell laments Walker after he loses the election. I’m looking forward to his lamenting Oz, but then Oz is the candidate I’m most hoping will get crunched in November. ---
**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 12, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/89 "2022-10-12T13:29:00Z")
They have explicitly said that all they care about is getting power, and they are willing to get it by any means. They never stop to think that _they_ aren’t getting power by voting for Walker, they are giving power to _other_ people, and if those people get that power, then suddenly, their character may actually matter. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/90 "2022-10-12T17:57:54Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Apparently he’s telling the voters that they should stick with Senator Warnock, and I must say that his every word confirms the logic of that conclusion. The final sentence of his speech that was clipped off was: [(from great wonkette take on this](https://www.wonkette.com/herschel-walker-pregnant-cows)) > So what I’m telling you don’t think something is better somewhere else. This is the greatest country in the world today. I guess the idea being shouldn’t look at other countries that have universal health care, better work/life balance and lower gun crime, but instead keep doing things how we’ve been doing them. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/91 "2022-10-12T20:05:25Z")
And have sex with the cows in your own pasture. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/92 "2022-10-12T20:47:17Z")
Because the cows in other pastures may have penises. (checking off transphobia on my bingo card) Wow this simple story works on so many levels, Herschel must be a genius! ---
**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 12, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/93 "2022-10-12T21:05:43Z")
He said that, out of the bull and six cows, three are pregnant. He didn’t mention that the three pregnant ones are two of the cows and the bull. ---
**Author:** ![StraightTalk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straighttalk/32/9982_2.png) [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/94 "2022-10-13T01:46:07Z")
The bull insisted the fourth one get an abortion. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/95 "2022-10-13T04:41:52Z")
The bull “promised” to pay for said abortion _wink wink_ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/96 "2022-10-13T18:25:25Z")
Chief Sitting Bullshit: > **[Herschel’s ‘Full-Blood Cherokee’ Claim Is News to His Mom](https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walkers-mom-rebuts-his-claim-his-grandmother-was-full-blood-cherokee)** > > Walker has been saying he just found out that he is Native American for months. His mother told a different story to HuffPost. > In January, at a campaign event at the University of Georgia, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker boldly announced that he had just found out through his mother that he is “40 percent Native American.” > In the following months, the former NFL star would repeat the claim several times, with slightly different twists, though each time he said he had just learned the news… ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/97 "2022-10-13T20:21:37Z")
I’m sure we’ll see conservatives giving Walker the same shit they gave Elizabeth Warren . . . right after my unicorn/pegasus pony arrives. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/98 "2022-10-13T20:39:13Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > 40 percent Native American I’m still trying to figure out how that works… ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/99 "2022-10-13T20:55:25Z")
Rounding? If his father was 75% NA (paternal grands 100% and 50%) and his mother was 3.125% NA (one ancestor 100% and all (5 or 6) marriages down the line 0%), then 37.5%+1.5625% = 39.1%, rounded up. I have a long history of screwing up math on this site, so hopefully that is close to accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/100 "2022-10-13T21:02:38Z")
What with lineage confusion and various children by different women, we’re heading inexorably toward the new [Herschel Walker campaign song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7La1agJGxMc). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=6)