Saturday, October 22, 2022

HERSCHEL WALKER IS WAVING THE FAKE POLICE BADGE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, AS I PREDICTED

I made a prediction on Twitter a week ago:


I was right:
... Walker has turned the “fake badge” into a regular feature on the campaign trail, signifying his solidarity with law enforcement ... as NBC News reported:
Walker, a Republican, is now showing the badge, one of at least two he has from Georgia sheriffs, in TV interviews. He plans to tout it in a video cut for social media with Johnson County Sheriff Greg Rowland, who gave him the badge. And Walker’s campaign told NBC News that it has ordered 1,000 imitation plastic law enforcement badges that say “I’m with Herschel” as a fundraising tool....
At the moment, this is the centerpiece of Walker’s campaign.


Cops love Republicans, of course, and -- January 6 excepted -- Republican voters love cops. But, more important, Republican voters love phonies.

Republican voters loved the way Ronald Reagan incessantly returned the salutes of military personnel, even though, as commander in chief of the armed forces, he was superior to those troops and wasn't supposed to salute back. Reagan's primary military experience was as part of the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California, during World War II; he spent the entire war stateside. He became president by defeating Jimmy Carter, who'd attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served on nuclear submarines in the early days of the Cold War. Yet Reagan's fans saw him as the real military man.

George W. Bush avoided service in Vietnam after strings were pulled to get him into the Texas Air National Guard. In 2003, he wore a flight suit while landing a military jet to celebrate what he wanted us to believe was the end of the Iraq War. Right-wing voters (and even some liberal journalists) swooned. A year later, allies of Bush distributed purple Band-Aids at the Republican convention to mock the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, who'd won three Purple Hearts in Vietnam.

That's the pattern: You're a tough guy -- a cop, a soldier -- if you're a Republican and claim the status. No Democrats need apply, even if they've actually done the job. Those are the rules, according to the right.

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