By Bonchie
I’ve got a confession to make. When I saw that Republican Herschel Walker had accepted a debate with Democrat incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, I wasn’t exactly enthused. Yes, to some extent, Walker’s communication issues have been overstated, but no one was ever going to confuse him for a charismatic speaker, and certainly, no one thought he would be a good debater
The running assumption for the month leading up to the event has been simple: Walker would be lucky to get out alive, and absolutely no one was entertaining the possibility that he could excel.
In a shocking twist, though, that’s exactly what Walker did. It wasn’t a perfect performance, but far from bombing, people are actually suggesting that the Republican candidate may have won the debate. That’s a far cry from the predictions of total meltdown being made just prior to showtime.
We’ll go through some of the highlights and then I’ll give my thoughts on where I think this leaves the race. But first, if you want to know how well Walker did, here’s a columnist from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a leftwing outlet, giving her thoughts.
That was the most coherent I've ever seen Herschel Walker, prepared, aggressive, direct. Some of those answers won't play well, but no catastrophes, which is saying something.
— Patricia Murphy (@MurphyAJC) October 15, 2022
You know he did what he needed to do when someone who writes for the AJC and The Daily Beast (an outlet currently producing non-stop stories trying to take Walker out) can only muster up that “some of those answers won’t play well, but no catastrophes.”
Anyway, let’s dive into it.
Warnock: "A patient's room is too … cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the US government."
Walker: "There's a baby in that room as well." pic.twitter.com/l5NJO9z7G5
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 14, 2022
With a story breaking recently that Walker paid for a girlfriend’s abortion back in 2009 (a story he denies), it’s actually surprising that he was willing to go that hard on the topic. Having seen him do it, though, I’m convinced it was the right move. Walker did not need to give up on the chief way to paint Warnock as an extremist, especially when the Democrat is limited in how he can respond because he has his own skeletons in the closet he doesn’t want to be brought up. All in all, it was a good strategy.
On the economy and other policy questions, Walker pressed Warnock on his support for Joe Biden and his inability to make positive change for Georgians. It was another good segment for the Republican candidate.
WALKER: “For those of you who are concerned about voting for me — a non-politician — I want you to think about the damage politicians like Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock have done to this country.” #GASenDebate pic.twitter.com/cgWkMUi5Yx
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 15, 2022
Herschel Walker to Raphael Warnock: "You continue to pat yourself on the back, but right now families are starving." pic.twitter.com/J1FEDDR4eU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 14, 2022
The common theme with Walker’s approach tonight was aggression. He did not show up to play defense, and I think that played to his advantage. Instead of sitting back and waiting for the moderator and Warnock to hit him on his scandals, he kept pressing Democrat policy failures at every turn. It completely shifted the debate in Walker’s favor, again, something almost no one thought was possible.
Things got so bad that Warnock actually refused to answer whether he’d support Joe Biden in 2024.
“Would you support Pres. Biden running for a second term in 2024?”
Warnock: “I have not spent a minute thinking about what politician should run for what in 2024”
Total fraud. Warnock votes with Biden 96% of the time. pic.twitter.com/ss0husUbip
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 14, 2022
That’s what a man on defense looks like. Warnock has obviously gotten way too used to not being challenged, with his re-election chances constantly rated high. He wasn’t ready for much of what he faced at this debate. That includes questions about a report that his church pays him over $7,000 a month for a “housing allowance” while they evict people over a few hundred dollars in late rent.
Walker: "He won't answer that about evicting the people from the church.."
Warnock: "We have not evicted those tenets."
Walker: "He's now telling you 'I didn't evict anyone.' It is written in the paper!..Senator, you did! It's okay to speak the truth. Do not bear false witness! pic.twitter.com/YxBzjr8XeX
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 14, 2022
Moving to something a bit lighter, Warnock muffed his answer on the Atlanta Braves, Georgia’s beloved MLB team.
Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock is asked if the Atlanta Braves should “rethink their name, their logo, or their signature cheer.”
Warnock won’t say. pic.twitter.com/VKLxGxFad3
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 15, 2022
It’d be easy to assume that a disastrous non-answer like that won’t amount to anything, but never underestimate how shallow voters can be. There’s a non-zero number of people in Georgia who will see that and see Warnock as a coward, so warped by Washington politics that he can’t even support the hometown baseball team.
In the end, Walker’s closing argument came down to the same point many have been making about this race: That Warnock is a ward of Joe Biden and both have helped diminish the country to its current, sad state. All The Daily Beast hit pieces in the world won’t change that reality.
It’s so amazing to see the media admit the truth.
Paid trolls online stick to their puppetmasters’ line.
Likewise, Tudor Dixon destroyed whitmer last night in Michigan’s gubernatorial race.
The MAGA candidates are fire.
Walker is not a polished politician like phony-evangelist Warnock. But Walker has his convictions and that beats out ideology.
I hope the Republicans are mobilized to seek out and overturn election fraud, because Georgia was election fraud central in 2020, both in the Presidential election and the runoffs that put the trash Warnock in office. This cannot be overstated. NO MORE “WATER MAIN BREAKS”!
“Walker is not a polished politician like phony-evangelist Warnock. But Walker has his convictions and that beats out ideology.”
When one listens to him speak off the cuff, he comes off as either brain-damaged or moderately retarded, despite whatever lies Nan G. tries to tell. I understand why you want a Republican to win the seat, but I don’t get why you chose one who is clearly impaired. Is it because he’ll be easy to control?
Are you saying you did not vote for Biden and would not vote for Fetterman?
You seem to be tacitly acknowledging that Walker is either brain-damaged or otherwise cognitively impaired.
Au contraire, but you do tend to read into my comments what you want to, even if you have to change the subject. Care to answer my question?
The thread’s about Walker, not Biden or Fetterman. You’re deflecting so you don’t have to boost the cognitively impaired Republican candidate.
What medical evidence do you have to validate your assertion Walker is cognitively impaired? Do you have access to a cognitive test taken by Walker if there is one?
Both biden and the satanic fetterman are brain impaired. One the result of two aneurisms and the other of a severe stroke.
Diagram that sentence, groomer. It’s 4th-5th grade stuff. Perhaps that is above your pay grade.
“Diagram that sentence, groomer.”
I appreciate the way you tried to work some kind of school reference into your comment.
Walker’s going to have to be told by his handlers how to vote on every bill, because he won’t be able to understand any of them on his own.
Any guesses as to how many times he’s going to tell the “cows want to have sex” joke on the Senate floor?
Hank Johnson ( guam tip over retard) will laugh each time.
He is also one of those in congress that are also lawyers.
told by his handlers how to vote on every bill, because he won’t be able to understand any of them on his own.
My, how racist of you.
“Hank Johnson ( guam tip over retard)”
This must be in some kind of private code, because it makes no sense as it is.
I said nothing about hank johnson, perhaps the dumbest member of Congress
Try paying better attention to the flow in the thread
For your entertainment
More mindless drivel from middles schooler mikey.
A wife beater and doesnt want children to be protected from abuse.
Look into his camp and why he was arrested. Warnock has a highly questionable past.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/11/warnocks-arrest-for-interfering-in-child-abuse-probe-surfaces/
Well, now I won’t vote for Warnock. Thanks for the tip!
None of us will, we are not residents of the state. What is it that Nan lied about? You never followed up on that false accusation.
“You never followed up on that false accusation.”
I certainly did. I’ve addressed it directly to her twice, and the first time I included links that supported my accusation.
She gave quotes from Walker and characterized them as being “off-the-cuff, no notes” when they were actually from a prerecorded speech and a prerecorded campaign commercial.
Oh we have never heard anyone running for office use or repeat any talking points? Was the entire statement made only 30 seconds as most commercials?
You are pathetic.
You don’t appear to understand my comment.
You don’t appear to understand my comment.
Well, nothing you wrote bears on what I wrote in response to your question.
Yet you indicated you’d vote for Fetterman if you could. Pot meet kettle. BTW without prepared text, teleprompter or “off the cuff”, Obama quickly loses his luster.
In American history Calvin Coolidge was known as silent Cal. He did just fine with few words.
Why don’t you stop beating around the bush and say what you’re trying to say; “He sounds like a n****r.”? He’s not the “black man that is clean and articulate”, like idiot Biden described Obama, is he? He’s more of a regular person, someone that is not pretentious or phony.
You know, not being able to to speak in a poetic cadence doesn’t make one dumb, nor does being able to recite talking points on command make one smart. Walker is extremely smart, dynamic, dedicated and accomplished, as opposed to Warnock, who is just another racist black “reverend”, leaching off his constituents and congregation. I prefer honesty to party affiliation and loyalty.
But, based on your criteria, it sounds like you reject Fetterman, correct?
“But, based on your criteria, it sounds like you reject Fetterman, correct?”
Why would that be the case? Intelligence isn’t the problem there, as it is with Walker. As Burns says, “Once he reads the question, he’s able to understand.” Certainly you don’t feel that anyone who needs the written word to communicate—people like the hearing-impaired—should be excluded from holding office.
Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/fetterman-struggles-understand-hears-speak-221922232.html
You specifically mentioned “brain damaged”. Ever heard of “stroke”? Do you know what that is and how it affects a person? Brain damage is the result.
Having suffered concussions might technically qualify as “brain damaged”, but if you see many who have played a lot of football (Stabauch, Aikman, Bradshaw, Young, etc), they hardly appear “mildly retarded”. No, your problem with Walker is he ain’t one of your “domesticated” blacks that does the white man’s bidding, toes the party line like a good servant and is a dependable prop. No, you’re problem is your racism. A brain damaged white guy is no problem; he can still vote exactly as he is told. But a black guy that had concussions long ago, sought treatment and therapy and no longer suffers any ill effects?
“no longer suffers any ill effects?”
If that’s the case, then the issue is strictly one of sub-normal intelligence. I still don’t know why you’d push so hard to send a cognitively-impaired individual to the Senate.
Looking at your own state, you sir live in a glass house. Most are criminal, retarded, insane or a combination.
Why did you vote in 2020 to send a cognitively-impaired individual to the Oval Office?
Your guy makes my guy look like a Nobel laureate in quantum physics.
How are you determining his intelligence as “sub-normal”? He just defeated your guy in a debate. What does that say about Warnock’s intelligence, then?
There’s nothing impaired about Walker. Why would you support a wife-assaulting, racist, deadbeat?
“How are you determining his intelligence as ‘sub-normal’?”
I listen to him speak. I see what he has to say. I can tell that he’s smarter than you, yet still less intelligent than a doorstop.
Somehow you “see” what he says? What, you have a teleprompter? By every indication, Walker is far more intelligent and certainly more accomplished that a spooge like yourself.
“Somehow you “see” what he says? What, you have a teleprompter?”
I have a laptop connected to the Internet. It’s not the magic trick you’re trying to make it out to be.
I see what he says by reading transcripts of his quote when a clip is posted. Then I watch the clip.
So, you don’t see what he says, you see what is written about what he says. Does it ever dawn you that the two might not be the same thing? No, of course it doesn’t. You can’t face the truth, so you WANT to be lied to. That’s the way Democrats remain Democrats.
How did brain-damaged, retarded, stupid Walker take Warnock apart in their debate? Does that mean Warnock is even MORE stupid than you mis-characterize Walker as being?
“So, you don’t see what he says, you see what is written about what he says.”
No. As I said, I read the transcript of what he says, and then, unable to believe that an adult human would say such a thing, I watch the video. This is the opposite of what you’re suggesting.
No, it’s just that unless a black person is speaking the liberal script, you don’t think they can be “smart”. You don’t see having one’s own mind as smart. You, like other Democrats, look at blacks as slaves and servants who must say the things Democrats demand they say.
But when Warnock says he fights for women’s rights but tries to run over his wife and ignores child support for his kids, how do you compute that? Intelligent? Honest?
I guess really it’s just “Democrat”.
@DM
Ultimately, it’s going to be up to Black Americans to throw off the chains of their Democrat Oppressors.
Under Trump, life for Black Americans got better…demonstrably.
Under Biden it’s gotten worse than even the Obama era.
Malcolm X nailed it, years ago:
Well said.
Warnock is recovering from a stroke. Herschel Walker won’t be recovering from the effects of repeated concussions. His admitted problems with dissociative identity disorder emerged long before he suddenly decided to enter politics.
From 2017: NFL star, former Olympian shares struggle with mental illness with Phoenix Veterans
I’m afraid “he’s crazy” doesn’t amount to a hill of beans after you installed a senile pedophile in our WH, illegally.
It doesn’t matter if the GOP wins the House or the Senate. We the People are done with you creeps, and your time is over.
Rig all the elections you want…it won’t matter.
Checked Biden’s job approval rating lately?
Trump’s 4-year average was roughly the same; he went out at around 34%.
Trump was relentlessly and falsely attacked by the media, the DOJ and the IC base on lies they KNEW were lies. Idiot Biden gets a pass on his incompetence and corruption. Idiot Biden SHOULD have a 100% approval rating, but his failures and disasters are too large and harmful for the media to hide. Polls heavily weighted to Democrats cannot bury that fact.
Biden’s “approval rating” is sitting at about 15% or so.
Ah, the Department of Pulling Numbers Out of Your Ass checks in.
So, let him recover. That he hasn’t recovered exempts him from being a Senator. Meanwhile, Walker, who trounced Warnock in a debate, shows no signs of impairment.
“That he hasn’t recovered exempts him from being a Senator.”
Is there a law to that effect, or are you making up your own rule?
No, it’s a conclusion intelligent people that actually care about this country arrives at.
Yeah, that’s what Democrats consider “competent”.
Why is this?
Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., has voted alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ”100% of the time.”
Is it because she is dumb?
Loyal?
A useful idiot?
Rep. Cindy Axne (IA), congressional Democrat from Iowa, has voted 100 percent of the time with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on her partisan agenda items, causing rising prices on goods in her own state.
Is it because she is dumb?
Loyal?
A useful idiot?
Nancy Pelosi and Elissa Slotkin are from the same party and have agreed on 100 percent of votes in the 117th Congress.
Is it because she is dumb?
Loyal?
A useful idiot?
In 2018, 22 Democrat congresspersons have voted with Pelosi 100 percent of the time.
Colin AllredTX-32100%
Sean CastenIL-06100%
Gil CisnerosCA-39100%
TJ CoxCA-21100%
Sharice DavidsKS-03100%
Lizzie Pannill FletcherTX-07100%
Katie HillCA-25100%
Chrissy HoulahanPA-06100%
Ann KirkpatrickAZ-02100%
Mike LevinCA-49100%
Tom MalinowskiNJ-07100%
Debbie Mucarsel-PowellFL-26100%
Dean PhillipsMN-03100%
Katie PorterCA-45100%
Harley RoudaCA-48100%
Mary Gay ScanlonPA-05100%
Kim SchrierWA-08100%
Donna ShalalaFL-27100%
Haley StevensMI-11100%
Lauren UnderwoodIL-14100%
Jennifer WextonVA-10100%
Susan WildPA-07100%
Is it because they are dumb?
Loyal?
Useful idiots?
And that is the problem with Democrats; they can’t have a mind of their own, they have to vote en bloc because despots like Pelosi will have them destroyed if they don’t follow the party line and rubber stamp everything for the far left.
That’s why dems can be such stupid people in office.
They even seen to try to put in stupid people.
Who benefits from having mentally incapacitated politicians in office?
Voter turn-out today—the first day of midterm early voting in Georgia—surged to the level of the 2020 presidential election. 10/19/22 – US midterm elections: Record turnout as early voting starts in Georgia
We wont know the outcome until next month, its only GA in the mid terms it means little. Maybe they can keep chain of custody this time not put retards in the polling places.
Democrats have plans to rig this election as well.
Armies of volunteers are already ready with cameras and microphones, and any Democrat victory will clear evidence that voter fraud occurred.