I'm happy Warnock won and equally sad over 1.7 million folks voted for Walker. Overall a better mid term than could have been hoped for but....1.7 MILLION??? smh..As a nation the nightmare is just always around the corner.
Any responsible conservative should revoke their membership in the Republican party and demand their elected representatives become Independent or lose their support. ANY REPUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDER WHO HAS been an enabler over the last six years is unfit for office. There needs to be a new Conservative party that truly represents the principals and positions of American conservatives. Yes, this will split the vote on the right and result in losses over the next few election cycles. However, the existing Republican party needs to be exterminated. The band of deplorables that are its energized base need to be left behind. They are not an asset. Only a complete rebuild can once again create a viable alternative to the Democratic party. Whatever my differences with Democrats, they are committed to this country!
Yesterday was a difficult day for my family as we said goodbye to Cookie, our faithful 14-year-old pup. Yet even in the darkness, Light shines. CONGRATULATIONS to Senator Warnock and my Georgia fellow. We done good!
I believe the people who voted for Walker are amoral. Walker is manifestly unfit for any public office, yet he got over 1.7 million votes.
Who votes for a candidate who wants to debate about vampires vs werewolf’s? Georgia voters who tried to make Walker a U.S. Senator should be ashamed of themselves.
“There could have been other campaign operatives or another campaign that could have said, ‘OK, Herschel Walker has all this baggage, so we’re just going to run to the left and just try to turn out as many of our voters and just let Republicans eat their own,’” Fulks added. “We didn’t do that.”
This is the way. Because it's what the majority of Americans want.
I don't know whether it can be said that Herschel Walker was exactly gracious in defeat, but he did concede and did refer to the election as having been fair. Progress!
Herschel Walker is a lowlife - mentally unstable, dumb, a liar and violent. Both his son and the women Walker abused spoke out against him. Yet over a million Georgians voted for him. Disgusting.
Is this where Democratic "operatives" (Twitterites) continue to push away from the center of American politics? Let's not fix what ain't broke: the center and the left working together has been more or less getting the job done.
I have no idea why nobody seems to have a memory that reaches earlier than 2016, when discussing Trump. People are referring to his current bid for the White House as his third, but it's not. It's his fourth. He ran in 2012. He didn't get very far but he ran, and he managed to give widespread popularity to the birther movement in so doing.
Color it as you wish, but the net effect of the GA Senate race is that Biden will advance his agenda (in particular, in the Senate) and Trump will not. This is the reason that so many GA Republicans gave for voting for such an unqualified candidate as Walker. Republican voters need to look long and hard at what their party, and their putative presidential nominee, presented to them. It’s nothing short of disrespectful. We saw Kemp in the final weeks, scurrying around to put out the brush fires, but the damage was done. As has been repeatedly stated in the Bulwark over the past few weeks, the messenger is as important as the message — especially when the messenger can barely deliver the message and can only do so after standing in front of the mirror and practicing lying without snickering. (Seriously, discussing vampires vs werewolves as some sort of policy issue!?). So the party apparatus still beholden to Trump will try to console itself with the notion that it will be able to stifle Biden’s agenda with the House. The Dems’ attempts will provide new fuel for the outrage machine. On to ‘24! But maybe Trump’s failures will make Republicans recognize the insult and the injury of Trump; then there might just be enough real Republicans who can reach across the aisle to form an American agenda focused on the needs of its people instead of one man’s agenda of nothing but revenge.
The fact that the GA race was as close as it was shows the depth of idiocy in the Republican Party. Brian Kemp (one of the R's favorite Gov's) did a fawning ad for Herschel.
I am not dancing on any graves. Trump will win the nomination if he is alive in 2024.
McConnell, McCarthy and their gang of dangerously selfish revanchists can never gain integrity they never possessed.
Best part of this column today.....identifying Scott Jennings as a GOP flack! Chef's kiss.
Representative government is not "tin can on a string" government - where the elected representative merely and solely mouths the opinions of the electorate. The voters are (or are supposed to be) inspired, motivated, and informed by their chosen representative and that individual is supposed to have sufficient confidence in their own character (which is what was elected, after all) to speak to and on behalf of the voters through the clarity of that conscience. Please don't tell me that Republicans are afraid of the base ... they have forgotten what it means to lead with integrity and character.
I took a deeper dive on the Georgia general election numbers and was surprised by what I found. Everyone says Kemp is a popular governor and that's why he ran so far ahead of Abrams. That is wrong. Kemp actually ran BEHIND, albeit slightly, the GOP baseline in Georgia. Kemp won by 7.53%. Statewide candidates such as the Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Insurance and Superintendent of Schools ran 8.13% to 8.38% ahead. Those races are important because very few people know the candidates in those races and they're instead voting their party. That's what establishes the partisan breakdown...not the high profile races.
The Republican candidate in Georgia who did the best in 2022 was SOS Raffensbuger who won by 9.24%. There were two candidates on the statewide ballot, besides the Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who were very close to Trump - AG Chris Carr, who was seeking re-election, and Burt Jones who was running for Lt. Gov. They won by 5.26% and 4.96% respectively, far below the 8.13% to 8.38% GOP baseline margin.
These results prove to me the following: 1) That Georgia is still a red state; and 2) Trump is not popular in Georgia; 3) That there are a number of Republican-leaning voters in Georgia who are going to vote against any candidate associated with Trump; 4) That another GOP candidate not named Trump and not seen as endorsed by Trump, should be able to win Georgia in 2024.
Walker lost, but this was not the repudiation for which I had hoped. Republicans put up more of a fight than I was expecting, showing up for a second time to vote for someone so manifestly unfit for office. Someone like Walker should lose to someone like Warnock by 30+ points, and while I wasn’t expecting that, I was expecting more than 3 points in an election rerun without control of the Senate at stake.
It's interesting to me that the votes cast for Walker were essentially anti everything that is not right, white, and straight. Walker was a pawn - openly manipulated for wrongful reasons.
I'm happy Warnock won and equally sad over 1.7 million folks voted for Walker. Overall a better mid term than could have been hoped for but....1.7 MILLION??? smh..As a nation the nightmare is just always around the corner.
Any responsible conservative should revoke their membership in the Republican party and demand their elected representatives become Independent or lose their support. ANY REPUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDER WHO HAS been an enabler over the last six years is unfit for office. There needs to be a new Conservative party that truly represents the principals and positions of American conservatives. Yes, this will split the vote on the right and result in losses over the next few election cycles. However, the existing Republican party needs to be exterminated. The band of deplorables that are its energized base need to be left behind. They are not an asset. Only a complete rebuild can once again create a viable alternative to the Democratic party. Whatever my differences with Democrats, they are committed to this country!
Yesterday was a difficult day for my family as we said goodbye to Cookie, our faithful 14-year-old pup. Yet even in the darkness, Light shines. CONGRATULATIONS to Senator Warnock and my Georgia fellow. We done good!
I believe the people who voted for Walker are amoral. Walker is manifestly unfit for any public office, yet he got over 1.7 million votes.
Who votes for a candidate who wants to debate about vampires vs werewolf’s? Georgia voters who tried to make Walker a U.S. Senator should be ashamed of themselves.
“There could have been other campaign operatives or another campaign that could have said, ‘OK, Herschel Walker has all this baggage, so we’re just going to run to the left and just try to turn out as many of our voters and just let Republicans eat their own,’” Fulks added. “We didn’t do that.”
This is the way. Because it's what the majority of Americans want.
I don't know whether it can be said that Herschel Walker was exactly gracious in defeat, but he did concede and did refer to the election as having been fair. Progress!
The cherry on the schadenfreude sundae is Zelensky being named Time's Person of the Year! Can you imagine Trump's reaction to that?
Herschel Walker is a lowlife - mentally unstable, dumb, a liar and violent. Both his son and the women Walker abused spoke out against him. Yet over a million Georgians voted for him. Disgusting.
Abrams' turn-out-the-base campaigns: 0-2
Warnock's appeal-to-the-center campaigns: 2-0
Is this where Democratic "operatives" (Twitterites) continue to push away from the center of American politics? Let's not fix what ain't broke: the center and the left working together has been more or less getting the job done.
I have no idea why nobody seems to have a memory that reaches earlier than 2016, when discussing Trump. People are referring to his current bid for the White House as his third, but it's not. It's his fourth. He ran in 2012. He didn't get very far but he ran, and he managed to give widespread popularity to the birther movement in so doing.
Color it as you wish, but the net effect of the GA Senate race is that Biden will advance his agenda (in particular, in the Senate) and Trump will not. This is the reason that so many GA Republicans gave for voting for such an unqualified candidate as Walker. Republican voters need to look long and hard at what their party, and their putative presidential nominee, presented to them. It’s nothing short of disrespectful. We saw Kemp in the final weeks, scurrying around to put out the brush fires, but the damage was done. As has been repeatedly stated in the Bulwark over the past few weeks, the messenger is as important as the message — especially when the messenger can barely deliver the message and can only do so after standing in front of the mirror and practicing lying without snickering. (Seriously, discussing vampires vs werewolves as some sort of policy issue!?). So the party apparatus still beholden to Trump will try to console itself with the notion that it will be able to stifle Biden’s agenda with the House. The Dems’ attempts will provide new fuel for the outrage machine. On to ‘24! But maybe Trump’s failures will make Republicans recognize the insult and the injury of Trump; then there might just be enough real Republicans who can reach across the aisle to form an American agenda focused on the needs of its people instead of one man’s agenda of nothing but revenge.
The fact that the GA race was as close as it was shows the depth of idiocy in the Republican Party. Brian Kemp (one of the R's favorite Gov's) did a fawning ad for Herschel.
I am not dancing on any graves. Trump will win the nomination if he is alive in 2024.
McConnell, McCarthy and their gang of dangerously selfish revanchists can never gain integrity they never possessed.
Best part of this column today.....identifying Scott Jennings as a GOP flack! Chef's kiss.
Representative government is not "tin can on a string" government - where the elected representative merely and solely mouths the opinions of the electorate. The voters are (or are supposed to be) inspired, motivated, and informed by their chosen representative and that individual is supposed to have sufficient confidence in their own character (which is what was elected, after all) to speak to and on behalf of the voters through the clarity of that conscience. Please don't tell me that Republicans are afraid of the base ... they have forgotten what it means to lead with integrity and character.
Charlie,
I took a deeper dive on the Georgia general election numbers and was surprised by what I found. Everyone says Kemp is a popular governor and that's why he ran so far ahead of Abrams. That is wrong. Kemp actually ran BEHIND, albeit slightly, the GOP baseline in Georgia. Kemp won by 7.53%. Statewide candidates such as the Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Insurance and Superintendent of Schools ran 8.13% to 8.38% ahead. Those races are important because very few people know the candidates in those races and they're instead voting their party. That's what establishes the partisan breakdown...not the high profile races.
The Republican candidate in Georgia who did the best in 2022 was SOS Raffensbuger who won by 9.24%. There were two candidates on the statewide ballot, besides the Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who were very close to Trump - AG Chris Carr, who was seeking re-election, and Burt Jones who was running for Lt. Gov. They won by 5.26% and 4.96% respectively, far below the 8.13% to 8.38% GOP baseline margin.
These results prove to me the following: 1) That Georgia is still a red state; and 2) Trump is not popular in Georgia; 3) That there are a number of Republican-leaning voters in Georgia who are going to vote against any candidate associated with Trump; 4) That another GOP candidate not named Trump and not seen as endorsed by Trump, should be able to win Georgia in 2024.
Walker lost, but this was not the repudiation for which I had hoped. Republicans put up more of a fight than I was expecting, showing up for a second time to vote for someone so manifestly unfit for office. Someone like Walker should lose to someone like Warnock by 30+ points, and while I wasn’t expecting that, I was expecting more than 3 points in an election rerun without control of the Senate at stake.
It's interesting to me that the votes cast for Walker were essentially anti everything that is not right, white, and straight. Walker was a pawn - openly manipulated for wrongful reasons.