Seems like mental illness is the only requirement these days to run for GOP office. Or is that to still vote GOP? Either way I can't think of a candidate I would rather face as a democrat than a pro-football has been with a serious mental illness and a history of abuse and anger issues.
I stand corrected. That's what I get for not paying attention to local news. I suppose his metal health has improved somewhat or he would be a democrat.
Interesting take Steve. For starters i dislike carpet-baggers. Doesn't matter which party, run for office where you live. Just my humble opinion.
Usually you can judge the character of a human by the company they keep. I don't care about 20 years ago when he put a gun to his wife's head or when he used to play Russian Roulette with friends who stopped by, all part of his illness. Perhaps he has recovered and is just fine.
I would however take Tim Miller's assessment from the Bulwark to heart and share with you and your readers this paragraph: "Herschel and Christian continued to bang the drum about fraud all the way up through Insurrection Day. In one of the many…many…tweets Christian sent about election fraud in January, he declared that to get a fair vote in Georgia, someone should “throw Stacey Abrams a bucket of Popeyes fried chicken to distract her.”
Christian is his son and again not interested in dragging his unique characteristics into the discussion. However, the minute walker becomes the voice of stupid regarding the big lie, he becomes one of them. Throwing more gas unto the fire, he helped stoke the flames of January 6 and beyond.
Nice Guy? Really? Sorry Steve not buying any of it. Nice guys don't feed the frenzy with lies and innuendo. They simply become part of the greatest con in the history of cons. Somebody bring in the band, strike up the music and then send in the clowns. Yet another in a long line of hanger-ons trying to suck off the trump teet.
Voters don’t decide elections based on a candidate’s son’s tweets. Whether Walker would make a good senator is a different question, but he does have a shot. The polls speak.
I don't give two hoots about Christian's tweets Steve, it's herschel's nonsense i was referring to. If you took a couple of minutes to read Tim Miller's article on Bulwark you might see that. Here's another paragraph: "On November 21, Herschel claimed that some of our elected officials knew about the fantastical “Dominion fraud” and that, as a result, they might end up in jail. The next day Herschel sent two tweets about his faith in Sidney Powell, saying that doubters “will be shocked” when Powell “lays the SMACKDOWN.”
Nothing I wrote should be taken as an endorsement of HW. I simply wrote an analysis of the polling. I read what Erick wrote and agree with him, that the mental issues will be a campaign issue. Many analysts think that HW can't win in a general election. Many Georgia voters, however, are fine with the "election fraud" line. Some will be turned off. If HW continues to spout it, I expect his polling will crater. If he moderates his talk, he might do better. The polls show he has a decent shot right now. EW wrote something similar. In my opinion, a high-name awareness candidate who is not a jerk and is engaging has a good shot as a Republican, even if linked to Trump, for reasons other than policy. But we will see.
I think a major factor that will play into this Senate race, is whether refusing to promote the Big Lie will be a political liability to the MAGA base. Or conversely, just how much the Atlanta suburbs will tolerate if Walker indulges in election trutherisms in order to placate the base. In Walker's favor is that Trump is not President and not at the top of the ticket. But given that Trump won't settle for being quiet, it might not matter. With that being said, one of the major factors will be just how much of an influence Trump will have on the GOP by the time November 2022 comes around. If the former President's influence on the GOP wanes, candidates might have much less pressure to acquiesce the former President in promoting the Big Lie. Given that Georgia is now a swing state, Biden's approval numbers around the time of the midterm elections will have some impact on the Senate race.
Good points. I think among the GOP/Trump base, the majority will follow and acquiesce to whatever Trump says and does. From what I've seen anecdotally, they are the ones much more likely to get vaccinated. Those who booed him when he suggested getting vaxxed, were among those who were anti-vax and digesters of lies and conspiracy theories right from the get go, and before Trump entered the political arena. I know several people personally who are among the latter. Trump was just a convenient tool for their lies and conspiracy theories to gain steam and traction. People like Alex Berenson and Tucker Carlson tend to be among the latter it seems, as they are willing to criticize Trump when he doesn't advance their narratives, willingly or not. As for the Big Lie, while many in the base favor that false narrative, the emotional investment in the lie varies a lot from person to person. There will be those who will refuse to vote for any Republican who doesn't completely acquiesce to promoting the Big Lie, but many others will simply vote Republican because they don't want the Democrat to win.
It's going to be interesting to see how Walker fares in this Georgia Senate race now that he has officially thrown his hat in the ring. I frankly don't know all that much about him, and what his views on the issues are. It seems that a major potential political liability for him is his history of mental health issues. If he was running about 10-15 years ago when Cobb and Gwinnett counties were solidly red, he'd be a near shoo-in. But with these two suburban Atlanta counties having trended sharply to the left in the past two election cycles, Walker is going to be walking a political tightrope. It seems those counties started trending blue around the time when Bush 43's popularity took a hit, and Obama announced his run for President. So it seems the Democratic trend did predate Trump, except the latter rapidly accelerated that process. So I'm interested to see if suburban Atlanta will reverse that trend in 2022, or continues its drift leftward.
While Herschel is a nice guy, I have concerns about his known dissociative identity disorder for which he was diagnosed in 2001.
Symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (criteria for diagnosis) include:
The existence of two or more distinct identities (or “personality states”). The distinct identities are accompanied by changes in behavior, memory and thinking. The signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual.
Ongoing gaps in memory about everyday events, personal information and/or past traumatic events.
The symptoms cause significant distress or problems in social, occupational or other areas of functioning.
Seems like mental illness is the only requirement these days to run for GOP office. Or is that to still vote GOP? Either way I can't think of a candidate I would rather face as a democrat than a pro-football has been with a serious mental illness and a history of abuse and anger issues.
Herschel is not in that category. I do think there are better GOP candidates out there. Herschel or any of them would be an improvement over Warnock.
He is literally all of those things. They are all documented facts. Seriously Curtis reality isn't all that bad come on back.
I stand corrected. That's what I get for not paying attention to local news. I suppose his metal health has improved somewhat or he would be a democrat.
Interesting take Steve. For starters i dislike carpet-baggers. Doesn't matter which party, run for office where you live. Just my humble opinion.
Usually you can judge the character of a human by the company they keep. I don't care about 20 years ago when he put a gun to his wife's head or when he used to play Russian Roulette with friends who stopped by, all part of his illness. Perhaps he has recovered and is just fine.
I would however take Tim Miller's assessment from the Bulwark to heart and share with you and your readers this paragraph: "Herschel and Christian continued to bang the drum about fraud all the way up through Insurrection Day. In one of the many…many…tweets Christian sent about election fraud in January, he declared that to get a fair vote in Georgia, someone should “throw Stacey Abrams a bucket of Popeyes fried chicken to distract her.”
Christian is his son and again not interested in dragging his unique characteristics into the discussion. However, the minute walker becomes the voice of stupid regarding the big lie, he becomes one of them. Throwing more gas unto the fire, he helped stoke the flames of January 6 and beyond.
Nice Guy? Really? Sorry Steve not buying any of it. Nice guys don't feed the frenzy with lies and innuendo. They simply become part of the greatest con in the history of cons. Somebody bring in the band, strike up the music and then send in the clowns. Yet another in a long line of hanger-ons trying to suck off the trump teet.
Voters don’t decide elections based on a candidate’s son’s tweets. Whether Walker would make a good senator is a different question, but he does have a shot. The polls speak.
I don't give two hoots about Christian's tweets Steve, it's herschel's nonsense i was referring to. If you took a couple of minutes to read Tim Miller's article on Bulwark you might see that. Here's another paragraph: "On November 21, Herschel claimed that some of our elected officials knew about the fantastical “Dominion fraud” and that, as a result, they might end up in jail. The next day Herschel sent two tweets about his faith in Sidney Powell, saying that doubters “will be shocked” when Powell “lays the SMACKDOWN.”
There's way more and i doubt you will take the time, but here is the link. https://www.thebulwark.com/get-ready-for-the-herschel-walker-experience/
By the way, even EE has his doubts about hw. I won's provide the link i suspect you did read that commentary.
Nothing I wrote should be taken as an endorsement of HW. I simply wrote an analysis of the polling. I read what Erick wrote and agree with him, that the mental issues will be a campaign issue. Many analysts think that HW can't win in a general election. Many Georgia voters, however, are fine with the "election fraud" line. Some will be turned off. If HW continues to spout it, I expect his polling will crater. If he moderates his talk, he might do better. The polls show he has a decent shot right now. EW wrote something similar. In my opinion, a high-name awareness candidate who is not a jerk and is engaging has a good shot as a Republican, even if linked to Trump, for reasons other than policy. But we will see.
I think a major factor that will play into this Senate race, is whether refusing to promote the Big Lie will be a political liability to the MAGA base. Or conversely, just how much the Atlanta suburbs will tolerate if Walker indulges in election trutherisms in order to placate the base. In Walker's favor is that Trump is not President and not at the top of the ticket. But given that Trump won't settle for being quiet, it might not matter. With that being said, one of the major factors will be just how much of an influence Trump will have on the GOP by the time November 2022 comes around. If the former President's influence on the GOP wanes, candidates might have much less pressure to acquiesce the former President in promoting the Big Lie. Given that Georgia is now a swing state, Biden's approval numbers around the time of the midterm elections will have some impact on the Senate race.
Trump was booed for suggesting campaigns. Trump isn't really the issue. The republican base is who demands the spread of the big lie.
Good points. I think among the GOP/Trump base, the majority will follow and acquiesce to whatever Trump says and does. From what I've seen anecdotally, they are the ones much more likely to get vaccinated. Those who booed him when he suggested getting vaxxed, were among those who were anti-vax and digesters of lies and conspiracy theories right from the get go, and before Trump entered the political arena. I know several people personally who are among the latter. Trump was just a convenient tool for their lies and conspiracy theories to gain steam and traction. People like Alex Berenson and Tucker Carlson tend to be among the latter it seems, as they are willing to criticize Trump when he doesn't advance their narratives, willingly or not. As for the Big Lie, while many in the base favor that false narrative, the emotional investment in the lie varies a lot from person to person. There will be those who will refuse to vote for any Republican who doesn't completely acquiesce to promoting the Big Lie, but many others will simply vote Republican because they don't want the Democrat to win.
It's going to be interesting to see how Walker fares in this Georgia Senate race now that he has officially thrown his hat in the ring. I frankly don't know all that much about him, and what his views on the issues are. It seems that a major potential political liability for him is his history of mental health issues. If he was running about 10-15 years ago when Cobb and Gwinnett counties were solidly red, he'd be a near shoo-in. But with these two suburban Atlanta counties having trended sharply to the left in the past two election cycles, Walker is going to be walking a political tightrope. It seems those counties started trending blue around the time when Bush 43's popularity took a hit, and Obama announced his run for President. So it seems the Democratic trend did predate Trump, except the latter rapidly accelerated that process. So I'm interested to see if suburban Atlanta will reverse that trend in 2022, or continues its drift leftward.
While Herschel is a nice guy, I have concerns about his known dissociative identity disorder for which he was diagnosed in 2001.
Symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (criteria for diagnosis) include:
The existence of two or more distinct identities (or “personality states”). The distinct identities are accompanied by changes in behavior, memory and thinking. The signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual.
Ongoing gaps in memory about everyday events, personal information and/or past traumatic events.
The symptoms cause significant distress or problems in social, occupational or other areas of functioning.
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/dissociative-disorders/what-are-dissociative-disorders
Erick Erickson also noted that. I’m sure it will be a huge campaign issue.