GA-SEN: Walker called son "dumb as a brick" and "an X-Files alien" in speech.

[RandySF]

Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, faces incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in the nation’s most brutal election of the 2022 midterm cycle.

Both campaigns are emptying every clip of ammunition possible in the election’s final weeks. The latest controversy revolves around a resurfaced video of Walker, speaking to soldiers during an unspecified date, oscillating between loving comments about his son Christian to calling him “dumb as a brick” and an “X-Files alien.”

“Book-wise, he’s extremely smart. Street-wise, he’s dumb as a brick,” Walker says in the video. He’s 19. I delivered him. … He had a long head. He looked like an alien. I told my wife, ‘Your parents got some awful genes and stuff.” [But] no matter how ugly your child is, you think he’s pretty.”

Though Walker talked about loving his son, Christian, at birth, he said he looked like an “X-Files alien” since “little kids are ugly when they’re … born at first.”



https://thecomeback.com/politics/herschel-walker-alien-baby.html

[ColinC]

1. Very possibly the next Senator from Georgia.

[mucifer]

2. he really doesn't want to win

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. It's becoming more apparent, isn't it?

Herschel can't stop himself from making horrible headlines. If someone tapes his mouth shut, he might actually win.

[Cha]

3. Walker is Projecting AGain.. like a

Bloodsucking Vampire.

[Blue Owl]

5. My God, what a dick he is

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Why is this even an issue? Walker has said a lot of dumb stuff, but...

this is parental bullshit and has nothing to do with him being a Senator. Someone found an old video and put it out to embarrass him, not that he shouldn't be embarrassed for just being there.

Truth is, I blame the voters for putting up with this bullshit.

[brush]

9. It's not that complicated. It's simply to make voters see...

what an unqualified a-hole Walker is so he loses some votes. It's what oppo research came up with to damage walker.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. That, I understand. What I don't understand is "why".

[brush]

11. To lose him votes. That's what it's all about. To win the election.

What's in the video is true, not lies. When it gets down to the wire politics is hardball, not tiddlywinks. I'm glad to see Dems not being polite, milquetoast pushovers for a change.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Of course, but it speaks little of us to fall for this bullshit. Imagine...

how much research into water for the Southwest could have been done with the money thrown at this election.

Don't email me for more wasted money. Tell me about how you're going to at least trying to stop it.

[brush]

13. Water for the southwest is a valid issue but this is the priority...

now as it's about winning the run-off election in Georgia which gives Dems much more leverage in the Senate than the barely-there, 50-50 majority with the Veep's tiebreaker vote. A 51-49 majority means Dems chair all the committees and the majority on the committees, there's no sharing that power as in a 50-50 split Senate. It also helps to minimize the power of the two contrarian senators who vote so often against Joe Biden's agenda. And I'm sure you know who I mean.

It almost sounds that you don't care whether we win or lose the run-off.

[whathehell]

18. "Parental bullshit"?

Some might say publicly trashing your own son on the basis of his looks and intellect goes to character.

[Initech]

7. Walker is not a Christian, he is a monster and a piece of shit.

But the Christian right attracts these people in droves, which says more about them than anything.

[ananda]

16. Just a typical Republican these days

Unhinged fascist monsters.....

[obamanut2012]

19. Except he is indeed a Christian

We need to quit saying these people aren't Christians, because they are.

[Initech]

20. Well they are monsters and assholes.

Maybe instead of saying they’re not Christian, we tie the two together?

[Freethinker65]

8. Well, at least in this case Walker was honestly expressing his own semi-coherent opinion

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Of course he blames his wife . . . .nt

[multigraincracker]

15. 10 yard penalty and loss of down.

Ya got ta speak his language.

[Raine]

17. Walker should lose because of his stand on the issues...

issues he always seems to get out of discussing. 🤔 Instead the focus is on ridiculous statements like this that he made in the past.

[Richard_GB]

21. If I were a brick

I would feel both insulted by and superior to Walker.

[Norbert]

22. If his kid is extremely smart, I question whether he is the father

[FSogol]

23. Dumb as a brick means he's five times as smart as Walker.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Another brick in the wall

[UTUSN]

25. May the son get an apology next Tuesday.