Matt Lewis: GOP to America: Family Values Are for Suckers

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-is-proof-character-doesnt-count-in-todays-gop?ref=home


GOP to America: Family Values Are for Suckers
HISTORY REPEATING
Herschel Walker is the latest to prove that when it comes to conservatives, celebrity and image now ranks above all else.
Matt Lewis
Senior Columnist
Updated Oct. 04, 2022 8:49PM ET / Published Oct. 04, 2022 8:24PM ET

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Let’s be honest. Character doesn’t matter. Today’s Christian conservatives and the Republican Party have concluded that we are in a war with the left. And in wars, we do not have any room for niceties like policing our own side—or being concerned with silly things like character. Warriors have to do gruesome and immoral things sometimes.

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But here’s the thing: Raphael Warnock cannot undermine the integrity of Christian conservatives or the Republican Party. He cannot tarnish our reputation or cause us to sacrifice our values for the sake of winning. Herschel Walker already has. And by sticking with him, many ostensibly anti-abortion rights groups and the Republican Party, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), are saying that there is literally nothing a Republican can do that would forfeit their support.

The fact that Walker fathered several illegitimate children and allegedly paid for an abortion is not a crime, but it certainly doesn’t qualify him to be a U.S. senator (not that he has any other credentials). Is this what we want from the party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan? Apparently so.

Actions have consequences, and by allowing Trump to hijack the Republican Party, conservatives sent a message loud and clear that values don’t matter. What matters are things like celebrity, image, and a reputation for fighting. Herschel Walker being a 2022 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate is yet more proof that Idiocracy was a documentary. And the fact that Christian conservative groups and the Republican Party are immediately rallying to support him demonstrates that the conservative movement is decadent and depraved.

So go ahead, conservative Republican politicians. Grab women by their privates. Pay for abortions. It doesn’t matter what you do. Character doesn’t count. Family values are for suckers.

[Hekate]

1. Could make the angels weep. Cry, the beloved country.

[Casady1]

2. Matt Lewis is putrid

He painted Warnock as just about as bad as Walker. Lewis loves McConnell.

[Celerity]

3. +10000000000000000

examples of his bullshit

[babylonsister]

4. He's a rethug, always has been, which is why

this is a fairly remarkable article.

[BadgerMom]

9. Even a stopped clock and all that.

Have his eyes been opened wide or does he just get it in this one incredibly difficult-to-miss instance?

[LudwigPastorius]

5. If they'll back Trump (and they did),...

they'll back Satan himself.

[calimary]

6. How do we know for sure that trump ISN'T Satan himself?

Satan's supposed to be a shrewd talker.

[czarjak]

8. If Trump'll lie about Jesus, he'll lie about anything. Period. (He does)

[aggiesal]

7. Idiocracy was a documentary ...

I have oy one thing to say about that comment