Posted on 09/04/2021 3:30:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
NFL legend Herschel Walker‘s fledgling Senate bid is a little over a week old and he is already being cast as a political opportunist and damaged goods — and that’s by fellow Republicans.
Mr. Walker, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Georgia, entered the primary race as an odds-on favorite and quickly hit the buzzsaw from the state’s Republican establishment.
The situation is bringing back haunting memories from the 2020 special election where the knock-down, drag-out GOP primary fight between Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins that helped pave the way for Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s rise.
“Right now the other Republicans in the race want to define Walker,” said David Johnson, a GOP strategist. “They want to define him as another carpetbagger and as someone with so much baggage that he can’t beat Warnock.”
His rivals have cast him as a relic of the past, and suggested the lack of campaign events the first week suggests the campaign is concerned about him going off script and shows he must have something to hide.
The Walker campaign said his critics are desperate to dent his image.
“Herschel is not a politician, and is not running a traditional campaign,” said Walker spokesperson Mallory Blount. “There are many on the left and the right who have seen Herschel‘s poll numbers and are trying their best to distract from his tremendous popularity with Georgia voters.”
“He‘s running for office not because he needs to but because he is frustrated with the direction of the country and can’t sit on the sidelines anymore,” she said.
The stakes in Georgia couldn’t be higher in 2022. Mr. Warnock’s pivotal win helped flip Senate control to the Democrats. Republicans need a net gain of just one seat next year to take back the Senate...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
With the current mood of the Country after the last 18 months, I believe an Underdog could win in almost every Federal Election
Lived in Georgia all my almost 68 years. Will be voting for Herschel and Vernon!
I’m telling you folks. I guarantee you by the end of this year, the Dems and RINOs are going to bring out the fact that his son is gay and use it as a wedge issue to separate Walker from the evangelicals in GA.
The McConnell smear machine will be in high gear before too much longer.
I didn’t read the entire article so, sorry if I missed it but, is Trump still behind him?
Any member of the Senate intent on keeping the USA at the forefront of true liberty and justice must be capable of crafting rhetoric that decimates the left and endears the right, not unlike Kennedy of LA. Does Walker have the necessary comprehension and rhetorical skills? The last thing we need are tokens. We need substance. So many conservatives enter the field but cannot articulate their convictions in a manner that shames the left. Who is going to coach such ones so that their words and ideas cut to the quick, and they are not swallowed up by “gotcha” questions? DeSantis seems to do well.
Read the article? I thought I was on FR. Lol
Republicans have a buzzsaw??? Where did they find it?
Who makes that Republican buzzsaw? Fisher-Price?
>>Republicans have a buzzsaw??? Where did they find it?
They only use it against conservatives.
There’s one in every crowd.
The difference between private business and establishment Republicans, is in private business your ass would be fired to doing a really bad job.
Well done.
His son is awesome. My mid-30s daughter is a big fan and first told me about him. Millennials don’t care if someone is gay so I don’t see younger conservatives being turned off by his son’s homosexuality. They’re grasping at straws here, including the GOP establishment. I think they really don’t GAF if they’re in the minority or majority; they get to keep their jobs either way.
Post 4- A cheerful message from another bright light.
Yes! He just endorsed him.
They are going to use him as a wedge to get Walker to support gay rights or something.
And the moment Walker does, it's game over.
Nothing surprising there...
The worthless GOP always shoots itself in the foot or forms circular firing squads so as to assure permanent stooge status...
Prediction: Communists will overwhelm GA in a Soros-fueled landslide...
As originally defined in the former Constitution, there will never be another "election"...
The communists are in total control and there is nothing realistically foreseeable that will change that...
The sheeple have accepted that the best course is for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
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