and not being a farther to his three kids holding a gun to his girlfriends head. lying about being a cop and other officials.
And lying about his business experience, big time. Walker doesn't just exaggerate...
The anti-abortion GOP Senate nominee's supporters say they care more about his policies than about his behavior.
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Bulloch said she tends to vote conservative, but like many young women, has a more liberal view when it comes to abortion rights. Walker’s apparent inconsistency on abortion, though, was less of a concern to Bulloch than television ads she has seen alleging he misrepresented his business success and claiming he worked in law enforcement.
“It was 2009, it was a long time ago. His views can change,” Bulloch said of the alleged abortion. “But it bothers me that he lies. He seems like he lies a lot.”
Hmm. That voter should likely have thought about consequence of voting for liars back aways...
This guy Herschel Walker, if elected to the US Senate, is not capable of being more than a walking puppet for whatever K street wants most from the Republicans between 2023 and 2028. And that's assuming Walker doesn't get himself into personal or medical trouble in the meantime.
What ticks me off the most about the GOP's bans on abortion is their painting of political opposition as "pro abortion". The Democrats are pro choice. They want the decision left as it should be, a health matter left to physicians and a woman or couple.
The negative implications of a national ban on abortions are myriad, as are some of the results already occurring in states with draconian anti-abortion laws:
Brain drain of physicians, especially ob/gyn specialists, not to mention their medical assistants.
Corporations starting to look around for a state they could move their headquarters to, in order to try to stave off employee lawsuits over insurance coverage changes.
Universities wondering if they can attract the level of academic instruction --maybe especially young PhD candidates with teaching posts-- that they have relied on in the past to supplement full professorships. How to keep bright high school kids from looking to go to college out of state despite extra expenses. How to keep state university doors open.
Law enforcement wondering exactly what their mandate really is, or might be, and what are the consequences of their misunderstanding the law or the situation when some citizen decides to sue either because of a particular abortion or because one was not made available. Next up: who the heck wants to be the AG or maybe even a city's District Attorney in such a state?
State political parties wondering how to attract competent candidates for public office in metro areas and mid-size municipalities. The downspill of an exodus from any state hits public offices quickly. Why? Because candidates are looking for a slot that will boost their resumé. What are the chances there, when anyone with the ability to join a statewide brain drain has already done that... so who's left? Voters ready to sue, recall, vote out of office at the drop of a hat when anything in their life goes wrong, that's who. That's already true, but the landscape of possible "things going wrong" is vastly expanded when expertise picks up stakes and leaves en masse.
Finally: an increased tolerance for corruption. When a law becomes too burdensome, lawbreaking becomes more popular. So do attempts to get the right people to look the other way at convenient moments. Look for more cases of corruption in both law enforcement and medicine if there's a national ban on abortion. You can buy an illegal abortion, so why not buy a kidney transplant by jumping the line and snagging a kidney before it's your turn? If you can get the DA not to charge a doctor for privately finishing a botched DIY abortion in his office, maybe can also get the DA not to charge for a hit-and-run that killed a two-year-old? Maybe because you know he didn't charge a few doctors for performing a few abortions... ? All kinds of lessons wait to be learned from workarounds to a national ban on abortion. Most will be ugly.
ALL OF THESE ISSUES affect quality of life for everyone in any state that passes abortion bans. This even for old men, infants, and everyone in between without a need for or thought of abortion.
And if the Rs manage to pass a national ban? Well for emergency medical attention, good luck. For medicated terminations gone bad, likewise. For those who should have used better birth control, it's back to pre-1973 back alley fixes, or sneaking off once again to Dr. FeelGood on Park Ave, who for a special price can provide a clinically sterile if not necessarily expert abortion.
All this from Republicans meanwhile talking up personal freedom. Do they ever hear themselves?
I wish the Georgia Republicans with even a shred of personal integrity would stand up and say enough already, and disavow Walker right now. That's not going to happen though, and so I hope instead that Georgia Democrats turn out to re-elect Raphael Warnock by a majority of hundreds of thousands. So to end Herschel Walker's pathetic post-football career as no more than the pathetic pawn of Trump and a bunch of cynical "pro-Trump" Republicans.
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