That a candidate with a history of domestic violence and multiple “secret” children — kids the former football star Herschel Walker fathered but never parented — could still win a U.S. Senate seat doesn’t surprise me as much as I wish it did.
That pro-life Republicans care more about Walker’s political opposition to abortion than whether he pressed a former girlfriend to have one in 2009 doesn’t surprise me at all.
“Do you wait for a candidate who is perfect?” the Rev. Anthony George, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church Atlanta, asked this week, even as new Walker scandals just kept coming. “Herschel would have to do and say a whole lot for me to not support him” over the Democratic incumbent, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. At least Pastor George is honest enough to admit that he can’t think of anything at all that “our fellow conqueror, our brother, our friend” Walker could say or do that would put him off.
