Georgia Doesn't Need A Walker
It needs someone who can articulate Georgia's needs and brings home the bacon
I’ve said about as much as can reasonably be expressed by one writer about Herschel Walker, a man who’s as qualified to be a US Senator as I am to do brain surgery or perform a heart transplant (though you can learn ANYTHING on YouTube). Unfortunately, Walker, who’s either spent WAY too much time on Planet Reebok and/or suffered WAY too many traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), has difficulty stringing together complete, coherent sentences. How he’d hold up for six years in the Senate is anyone’s guess. My take would be “not well.”
This observer’s guess, and I’ll guaran-damn-tee it, is that he’ll be a laughing stock AND Mitch McConnell’s pet. I don’t say that lightly, but Walker doesn’t possess the mental/intellectual capacity to function in a deliberative body filled with some of the most inflated egos known to Mankind. Nor does he have the expanse of experience to make an impact for the Peach State in the Senate. He’ll be trampled and he’ll embarrass himself daily.
In this light, Pastor Jamal Bryant’s words come as a relief, in the same way a cooling breeze arrives on slippered feet as the clock winds down on a warm Georgia summer day.
On Sunday, October 30, Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church delivered a blistering sermon warning voters about the Trump-endorsed candidate.
He made his disdain quite clear saying, “In 2022, we don’t need a Walker, we need a runner,” Bryant declared….
Bryant’s remarks come amid new reports and pol projections that suggest Walker is closing the gap with his opponent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), the Democratic incumbent who is also a local pastor in Atlanta.
Per HuffPost: “Walker is reportedly inching ahead in the polls against Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, despite allegations that Walker, who is running on an anti-abortion agenda, in the past paid for two women to terminate their pregnancies. Walker denies the claims.”
Of course, the logical question is WHY Walker might be closing the gap with Rev. Warnock, an intelligent, well-spoken, gifted Senator, and an excellent representative of Georgia’s interests in the Senate.
It’s difficult to claim racism, as both candidates are Black. Then again, Rev. Warnock didn’t win a Heisman Trophy or lead the University of Georgia to a national championship in 1980.
[Bryant] went on to explain why a candidate like Walker isn’t good for the state of Georgia, and highlighted the qualities American voters should be looking for in political candidates.
“We need somebody who’s going to run and tell the truth about Jan. 6, we need someone who going to run and push for the cancellation of student loan debts, we need someone who’s going to run and make the former president respond to a subpoena,” he continued.
“We don’t need a walker,” he reiterated, adding, “we need somebody who will be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding knowing your labor is not in vain.”
Georgia already has that in Rev. Raphael Warnock, who’s shown himself to be an excellent Senator and a stalwart champion (along with Sen. Jon Ossoff) of the Peach State’s interests. I doubt any state can claim two more capable and effective Senators.
So why make a change? Does Georgia need a Heisman trophy winner/national champion in the Senate? Would Herschel Walker be an upgrade from Rev. Raphael Warnock? Surely Georgia voters can recognize that Walker has suffered a few too many TBIs and lacks the mental and intellectual capabilities that Rev. Warnock possesses in abundance?
It’s been said- often in this space- that voters get precisely the quality of leadership they deserve. Still, not even I believe that Georgia’s voters are so dense and undemanding that they deserve Herschel Walker, whose ONLY qualification, if it can even be called that, is his Heisman Trophy.
A US Senator should be intelligent, articulate, well-versed on state, national, and international issues, and capable of articulating the importance of those issues to their constituents. Unfortunately, Herschel Walker is a loose cannon, prone to speaking in false folksy tones because he can’t hold his own in one-on-one conversations. Whether that’s from too many TBIs, a lack of native intelligence, or various combinations of the two, the fact is that Walker is as suited to be a Senator as I am to be a cardiothoracic surgeon.
My intent is not to impugn or belittle Walker, but he’s unfit to serve in the Senate. That’s the plain truth, and the sooner the voters of Georgia recognize that, the better off the Peach State will be. They deserve full, fair, and lucid representation, which is what Rev. Raphael Warnock has been giving them over the past two years. So why would they toss out capable, intelligent, and articulate in favor of inept, inarticulate, and dense?
Walker can and should go back to his imaginary businesses, his imaginary FBI job, his imaginary police postings, or whatever else he’s convinced himself he’s doing. Or perhaps, like many failed Republican candidates, he can find a way to convince gullible Conservative voters to send him money for no good reason.
Whatever he does, Georgia and the Senate will be much better off without his lying, fantasizing, fake folksiness, and duplicitous, self-serving, fungible morality.
Perhaps an XFL or USFL team might be looking for an experienced running back this Spring. Yeah, he’s taken a few too many blows to the head, but he does have a Heisman Trophy and a national championship at Georgia to his credit. He may have a few miles on him, but consider what his name recognition might do for ticket sales, eh?
What could possibly go wrong?
