GA-SEN 2022 Megathread: Werewolves and Vampires

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Walker employing the tried and true Trump tactic of waiting for your supporters to rally around a narrative before immediately picking a completely contradictory narrative for himself.

https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1577079431138406401

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Many people have paid for their girlfriends to get abortions, even those who claim to be pro life, but this is the line that I think really seals the deal of Walker being uniquely scummy and ridicule-worthy even beyond just being hypocritical:

The woman said Walker, who was not married at the time, told her it would be more convenient to terminate the pregnancy, saying it was “not the right time” for him to have a child. It was a feeling she shared, but what she didn’t know was that Walker had an out-of-wedlock child with another woman earlier that same year.

He told her it wasn't convenient for him to have "a" child when he had literally just had another child with someone else. Maybe work on helping raise that infant child and you won't find yourself in this situation, especially when by that point he was already a nationally-famous and wealthy retired football star and not, you know, in a desperate living situation. And I doubt that feeling varies much across the abortion divide.

And look, I totally get that even new parents will find themselves with unexpected pregnancies. But maybe the fact that Walker found himself in that situation would, I don't know, make him feel some empathy for others in that same situation now?

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So does anybody know the rules on replacing a senate candidate in Georgia?

Fiddle battle against the disgraced candidate.

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You can tell that many Republicans don’t actually view abortion as murder, because imagine them trying to defend Walker if it came out that he paid for someone to drown his newborn in a bathtub. To prolifers, abortion is morally equivalent to killing a newborn baby. But for some reason they treat these two things as very different! Hmmmmm…

Well opposing BLM takes precedence over this in the Conservative Pyramid of Hypocrisy

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1577442950044426240

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https://twitter.com/sollenbergerrc/status/1577661077466353664

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Strong “I’m not a witch” vibes from this one.
https://twitter.com/malloryblount/status/1577742645799141382?s=21&t=9QhHeRTc...

A very good point in the comments:

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1577748741699915782

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https://twitter.com/SmnWeekly/status/1577704048454946816

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Walker will still get votes from the Christian Right because of his policies, not his actions

This is why I think Walker will still get ~45% or so of the vote in Georgia at the end. This is not a Todd Akin situation, where he would lose by double digits - a scenario that might have happened 20 or 30 years ago, but is not possible now, due to increased polarization. But I think that this move on the part of evangelicals could be one of the reasons why religiosity in the United States is declining, as many younger people view them as hypocrites who don't actually live up to their moral standards.

Yeah, for all the "I don't care what he's done, we need that Senate majority" strategy, I can see it working in the short term to get them that majority, but it's exactly the reason why there's a general trend away from religious conservatism in the first place. If they want a majority 20-30 years from now, they need to be willing to recognize when their support for a candidate is a cancer on their movement as a whole.

Although maybe that level of long-term strategic thinking is a bit much to ask from a demographic where a straight-up majority thinks we are currently living in Biblical end times.

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Maybe they're just waiting for Warnock's margin to get out of recount range, idk.

Yeah, this seems to be some unwritten rule since 2020. Most stations called PA for Biden on this standard.

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This guy really needs to join Atlas.

https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1600350656736403456