Republicans had hoped to take the seat from Warnock because of Walker's name recognition and fanbase. However, Walker's outrageous claims and outright lies cost him a victory in a state where the Republican governor was re-elected over Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate who is highly regarded in the party. That means that people who voted for Kemp over the popular Democrat did not also vote for Walker.
Despite multiple women claiming he encouraged and paid for abortions shattering his claims to be pro-life, and his son's allegations of the abuse and intimidation he and his mother experienced destroying any myth that he is a decent human being, he got just under 49% of the vote from the party that claims to support family values. However, hypocrisy is one thing, lying is another thing, and stupidity is still another thing. Walker is a stupid, lying hypocrite all rolled up in one person.
I've covered the lying and hypocrisy in the first three paragraphs, so there is only the stupidity left to address.
When Lyndon Johnson said that Gerald Ford "was so dumb that he couldn't fart and chew gum at the same time," he could not have fathomed someone as stupid as Herschel Walker is being a serious candidate for Congress.
Whether it is declaring that he would rather be a werewolf than a vampire, or saying his resume' compares to that of Barack Obama's, it seems as if the only people stupider than Walker are the people who vote for him. The Republicans are so aware of his propensity to say stupid things out loud that they have old white men accompanying him out of fear that he will say something that makes Marjorie Taylor Greene sound educated.
The latest revelation that establishes Walker as a stupid, lying hypocrite was reported in the past two weeks. Six months after declaring his candidacy as a Senator from Georgia, which requires his primary residency to be in Georgia, Walker claimed a homestead credit for people whose primary residence is in Texas. Even an idiotic tax-cheater like Trump has to be throwing ketchup over this. It may be difficult to imagine, but it's possible that Walker's association with Trump is actually more damaging to Trump's legacy than it is to Walker's reputation.
Trump has systematically suppressed evidence of his wrongdoings, but journalists are easily able to uncover Walker's wrongdoings because he isn't shrewd about hiding them. On the residency matter, Walker's attorneys will say that he is a resident of Georgia so that he remains qualified to be a Senator from that state. They will also need to pay the tax and fine due to Texas with the explanation that he didn't mean to answer "yes" to the yes or no question of "is this home in Texas your primary residence," and now he wants to guess the other answer.
Senator Warnock should have easily retained his seat in the Senate after the midterm elections in November if this were about qualifications and being a decent human being.
People who live in Georgia tend to be conservative, but they are not stupid, lying hypocrites who cheat on their taxes. That probably includes Walker, too, but not because his isn't a stupid, lying, hypocritical tax-cheater. Rather it is because he does not really live in Georgia.
I hope the people who live in Georgia see it that way next Tuesday.
