Eugene Robinson: Republicans, you can do better than Herschel Walker. Draw a line.
How far has the Republican Party fallen into atavistic tribalism? Voters in Georgia are about to provide an answer. Woe to the nation if it’s the wrong one.
Tuesday’s runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock and GOP challenger Herschel Walker is almost a perfect laboratory experiment. Both men are Black. Control of the Senate is no longer at stake. Former president Donald Trump, who inflames passions in both parties, stayed out of the state. There is no other contest on the ballot to help or hinder either candidate’s prospects.
There is only the stark choice between Warnock, who has shown he is competent to be a U.S. senator, and Walker, who manifestly is not. It’s the rare moment when Republicans should be able to abstain from supporting a terrible candidate in good conscience, and in doing so restore a little self-respect and sanity to the national political process. If Walker wins, it will be because Republican voters decided that loyalty to party was more important than having effective representation in the Senate.
It is not as if Georgians are unaware of Walker’s shortcomings. The NBC News exit poll from the Nov. 8 election found that nearly two-thirds of Georgia voters believed Walker lacked good judgment, while fewer than half said the same thing about Warnock. Why vote for someone with bad judgment to be a senator?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/05/republicans-herschel-walker-runoff/
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think of the caliber of person one has to be to support repukes these days 
