I don't think I would like to vote for him but it would depend on whom he was running against and how much damage they would do to what I believe in.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't want.
His opponent is Raphael Wornock. Politically, he's somewhere between establishment Democrats and the left wing of the Party. As leftists, we know he's not one of us, but we also know he's not our enemy and he's not actively trying to obstruct us like Pelosi or Schumer or the Democrats further to the right of them like Manchin, Sinema or Cuellar.
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@Strychnine, I'd say Warnock has a similar worldview and personal beliefs. Like a lot of African Americans who are devout Christians and have some religious and cultural affinities with white evangelicals, but a VERY different way of expressing them politically. I believe Strychnine is from Georgia, just like Warnock. And Marjorie Taylor Greene for that matter.
I think Warnock is a more serious and devout Christian than self-identified Christian nationalist Marjorie Taylor Greene. The woman shamed her husband and made a mockery of their marriage by cheating on him openly, and eventually he had enough and filed to divorce her. There's no evidence that suggests that Warnock is a wife beater, deadbeat dad, child abuser, or paid for abortions like Walker has.
Warnock is a person who grew up in poverty in a housing project as one of 12 siblings, but his parents were preachers and provided a stable home life for him. Warnock worked hard to make something of himself, he got a bachelor's degree in psychology at a secular university and then got a master's and a PhD at a seminary and followed his parents' footsteps in becoming a reverend.
Honestly, even as someone who strongly supports left-wing policies and politicians, if you swapped out their positions, I would have a hard time voting for someone who was as inarticulate and unintelligent as Walker and who has such profound character flaws and criminal history as he does. Walker doesn't even deny pointing a loaded gun at his ex-wife and threatening to kill her, or holding a straight razor to her throat, but claims he doesn't remember these incidents and blames them on his dissociative identity disorder.
We don't need someone with his lack of intelligence, lack of personal control, lack of taking responsibility for his own actions, history of mental illness, history of domestic violence, history of child abuse, neglecting his children, etc. in a position of power and importance. If Walker were on my side, I would have to sit that one out, or vote 3rd party or a write-in vote.
Thankfully, Democrats haven't steeped as low as the Republicans have in recent years when it comes to candidates. I would acknowledge and act accordingly if they did, because being a principled person is a matter of great importance to me. We should have HIGHER standards for our representatives, not LOWER. There are ex-cons who have more remorse and responsibility for their actions than Walker who either deflects or denies. That's why his son Christian publicly turned on him, because he's fed up with the lies and the hypocrisy.
By the way, Christian Walker is a conservative Christian. He's not doing this because he's a liberal atheist who's opposed to his father politically. He supports Republican politicians, but he's sick of lying/lying by omission about who his father is.
I don't like DeSantis but the difference between someone like DeSantis and Walker is that DeSantis is intelligent, articulate, he doesn't mistreat women and children based on what we know, he's not mentally ill, he doesn't show signs of having CTE. I don't like DeSantis, but DeSantis is fit for public office. Walker simply is not.
