Herschel Walker doesn't think voting rights bill fits Sen. John Lewis' legacy

[CatWoman]

Both Herschel and his son need to keep their ignorant, misinformed mouths shut:

In case you missed it, Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker today claimed in an interview that it “doesn’t fit” civil rights icon and voting rights advocate John Lewis’ legacy for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to carry his name.

During the interview, Walker also twice suggested that Lewis — a longtime member of the U.S. House — was a “senator.”

Transcript:

WALKER: You know what’s sad about that – to use the name of a great man to brand something that is so bad, I think it is terrible to do. Senator Lewis was one of the greatest senators that has ever been and for African-Americans that was absolutely incredible; to throw his name on a bill for voting rights I think is a shame.

First of all, if you look at the bill, It just doesn’t fit what John Lewis stood for, and I think they know that. And I think that it’s sad for them to do this to him.

Well if he doesn't know John Lewis was never a senator are we sure he knows he was a great man? or anything at all about the voting rights act? where does the gap find these candidates?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/22/2070086/-WALKER-VOTING-RIGHTS-BILL-DOESN-T-FIT-JOHN-LEWIS-LEGACY

[relayerbob]

1. The first four words of your title is really all that is needed here

[CatWoman]

3. LOL!!!!

good one

[hlthe2b]

6. Sadly, has always been true--even when all he had to speak to was UGA football.

[Solly Mack]

2. I read part of the interview and started shaking my head.

I don't even know what to do with it. Seems pointless to correct him. Like it wouldn't even matter. I was left wondering how he could be so clueless.

[RockRaven]

4. If one could prove to me that this guy actually sat down and read the act in its entirety,

from beginning to end without skipping a word, you would be able to knock me over with a feather...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Is This Seriously Who Republicans Want Representing Georgia Instead Of Raphael Warnock?

[CatWoman]

7. i suppose the bottom hasn't been reached yet

[Sneederbunk]

8. They will take what they can get away with.

[Turbineguy]

9. None of that matters to the trumpers.

[BornADemocrat]

10. He sounds like he was hit in the head one too many times

So embarrassing to be him, what an idiot.

[lastlib]

13. too many plays without his helmet on.

Seriously, the synapses just are not firing up there. If he is that uneducated about voting rights, what else is he stoopid on?

[erpowers]

11. Didn't John Lewis Advocate for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

I realize the name of the act may, or may not have been changed after John Lewis died, but didn't John Lewis advocate for that act when he was still alive.

[erpowers]

12. Will Peggy Noonan Demand Hershal Walker Be More Humble and Read Briefing Books?

Clearly, this man was not prepared for this interview. It is obvious he did not do any research on John Lewis, and likely did not do any research on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, before sitting for this interview. Would Hershal Walker be able pick John Lewis' picture out of a group of pictures?

[3catwoman3]

14. If voting rights doesn't fit what John Lewis stood for, then what does.

Voting rights was pretty much his raison detre.

Ignorance of an appalling degree. But there are those in Georgia who will vote for him because he played football.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. time for some "Good Trouble."

[PurgedVoter]

16. Well Herschel is definitly a Republican!

Claiming a degree over and over till a newspaper exposes the lie and then saying it was a mistake? Republican.
Entirely rewriting history? Republican.
Taking a great mans core legacy and turning it backwards? Absolutely Republican.
And in the process trying to rob his brothers of their voice? Core Republican values.

It is a sad tale, the tale of Herschel Walker. A man who gained the world and lost his soul.

[thenelm1]

17. Money corrupts. And just for the record, TFG was the guy who gave Walker his first pro football...

contract back during the USFL startup days when TFG was the owner of the NJ Generals.

[RainCaster]

18. Did that guy tackle too many walls?

There's something loose in his helmet. Makes him a perfect Republican.

[Hulk]

19. Tapping opinions of some of the greatest "minds" in the field today...

I wouldn't take directions on how to find the center of town if only 300 inhabitants made it up.

Can't believe this dumb ass is running for the Senate. Is the kardasuan clown in drug rehab right now??

[DanieRains]

20. And Herschel Walker Is Smarter Than Most Republican Voters In Georgia

And better educated.

Whoa Nellie.

[Poiuyt]

21. Herschel Walker is an idiot!

Nuf said

[misanthrope]

22. Walker and Tuberville will make quite the pair

Now if Mississippi will elect their own gridiron goofus to the U.S. Senate the trifecta can be complete.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

23. Rich idiot former NFL player who does not know any history, news at 11

people who love Georgia football will still vote for him.

anybody with 5 cents worth of brains will not vote for this man.

John Lewis would be over the moon if he could protect every americans right to vote fairly.

[UTUSN]

24. I didn't know him but when Drumpf endorsed him - well, of COURSE!

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

25. These MAGAt candidates are all either...

too corrupt for office or too stupid. A few of them are both.