Monthly Archives: October 2022

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Daily Broadside | Two Imperfect Self-Proclaimed Christians Battle for Georgia Senate Seat

Daily Verse | Matthew 5:37
“Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”

Wednesday’s Reading: Matthew 8-11

We’re already to the first hump day of October.

Somehow I got Herschel Walker’s autograph when he was a member of University of Georgia football team and eventually won the Heisman trophy as a junior in 1982. I was hoping to find it and post a picture of it, but the photo below will have to do. He went on to play for 12 seasons in the NFL after playing for three in the now-defunct USFL.

Now he’s the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, opposing incumbent Democrat “Reverend” Raphael Warnock. I place Warnock’s titular title in scare quotes because he’s a “pro-choice pastor.”

I can’t tell you whether Warnock is “saved” or not. His relationship with God is between him and God, but I can’t see how he can logically hold that position with what scripture teaches about the value that God places on human life. Hence the scare quotes.

Herschel Walker, on the other hand, claims he is a pro-life candidate who opposes abortion with no exceptions. He’s a first time political candidate and a friend of Donald J. Trump, who encouraged him to run. He also claims to be a Christian, but I can’t vouch for his faith any more than I can Warnock’s.

Walker is virtually in a dead heat with Warnock, which is important because a “Walker victory in Georgia is crucial to Republicans’ chances of retaking the Senate majority.” Earlier the Washington Examiner reported that “the race between Walker and Warnock remains too close to predict, with polls alternating back and forth between which candidate is leading the other. The recent polling that shows Walker (47%) leading Warnock (44%) is a reversal from the 3-point lead Warnock held over his Republican challenger in July.”

But, because it’s October, SURPRISE!

The uber-leftist The Daily Beast reported that an anonymous woman alleges that Walker paid for her to have an abortion when they were dating back in 2009.

‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion

… A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009 he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.

She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.

The woman said there was a $125 difference because she “ball-parked” the cost of an abortion after Googling the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs.

Amazing that this story is just breaking now. Why didn’t the woman come forward earlier?

Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said Walker never had. Asked why she came forward, the woman pointed to Walker’s hardline anti-abortion position.

“I just can’t with the hypocrisy anymore,” she said. “We all deserve better.”

The ‘hypocrisy’ is so overwhelming that I’m willing to anonymously accuse a pro-life candidate who happens to be threatening the Democrats’ control of the US Senate.

Walker immediately denied the claim as an “outright lie” and threatened to sue The Daily Beast for defamation.

Look, I don’t know if what the woman alleges is true or not. I also don’t know just how a “Sen. Herschel Walker (R-GA)” would behave in the US Senate. But one thing I know is that we are in an existential fight for the survival of this country, which is being overrun by true fascists and moral deadbeats.

With that in mind, I honestly don’t give a flying political rip whether or not Walker did what he’s accused of doing 13 years ago. Yeah, if he did it, it was immoral and that sucks, but it’s irrelevant. I’m concerned about now.

The Democrats are the political equivalent of the mob or a drug cartel. I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them. Any complaints or accusations against Walker and anyone who supports him falls on my deaf ears. They have no standing with me to complain about corruption or hypocrisy or any other matter of moral judgment.

If I had to choose between a divorced ‘pastor’ who supports broad access to abortion with no limitations and was accused of deliberately hurting his ex during a domestic dispute, or a divorced former athlete who opposes abortion with no exceptions and also claims to be a Christian but hasn’t lived up to that billing either—I’ll go with the guy who opposes abortion every time.

Unfortunately, I won’t be voting in Georgia’s midterms. But spare me the faux indignation coming from the Left.

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Daily Broadside | Red, Blue and The Color of Politics

Daily Verse | Matthew 1:5-6
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.

Tuesday’s Reading: Matthew 5-7

Tuesday and enquiring minds want to know: why red for Republicans and blue for Democrats? Who made that decision?

I think we can all agree that the red and blue have their origins in our flag of red, white and blue. Blue was also associated with the north during the Civil War, while gray was associated with the south. But how did we get to the current associations?

I always thought the designation of red for Republicans was because both red and Republican start with the letter “R.” Easy to remember.

But then there’s blue and Democrat. That doesn’t work. Where’s the alliteration?

I tried to name a color that starts with “D” but not “dark.” Red, yellow, green, blue, black, white, gray, orange, brown … there really isn’t a common color that starts with “D.” I had to go to a box of 64 crayons to find “Dandelion,” which is a muted yellow that leans orange, or “Denim” which is a vivid blue.

But no one is going to refer to, “red states and dandelion states” or “red states and denim states.” The first sounds like Democrats need to weed their garden. I mean, they wouldn’t do it themselves, but they’ll pay Pasquale who just crossed the southern border to do it. The second raises the question of whether Democrats wear jeans. They do if they are these jeans.

The point is that it’s not about alliteration. So, how did the colors come to be associated with each of the parties?

In the presidential election of 1976, our bicentennial year, NBC was the first network to debut an electronic electoral map using light bulbs that could turn red or blue. The colors followed the scheme used in Britain, where red was associated with liberal parties and blue was associated with more conservative parties.

The bulbs on NBC’s map turned red for Jimmy Carter, the Democrat, and blue for Gerald Ford, the Republican—exactly the opposite of what the colors mean today.

Over the next 25 years or so, multiple TV networks offered colored maps of the states during an election, with each network choosing its own color scheme. That proved confusing for the general public, since they could watch one network with one set of colors, and then see another network with a different set of colors.

That all came to an end in the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore, the Democrat, and George W. Bush, the Republican. That was the election of the hanging chads in Florida, and it dragged on for weeks while each side fought a legal battle over how (and if) the ballots would be counted.

As coverage of the controversy continued with persistent graphics over many weeks, a consensus emerged among the major networks to use the same designations with blue for Democrats and red for Republicans.

The red and blue designations cemented themselves in the mind of the public and has remained that way ever since.

Red is for Republicans; blue is for Democrats.

With the deep political divide in our country, the two colors are an efficient way to refer to states which tend to consistently vote one way or the other. It’s too broad a brush, of course, because even “deep blue” states, like New York, have hundreds of thousands or even millions of conservative voters living there—much to Kathy Hochul’s dismay who, if she had her way, would empty the state of them. And even deep red states, like Arizona, have liberals living among them who (*ahem*) “flipped” the state blue in 2020.

But the associations of red and blue have stuck. Not only are they an efficient way to designate the general voting patterns of a bloc of people, they also represent a way of life or a political philosophy.

If I say, “Texas is a red state,” I mean that it is a conservative, patriotic, fiercely independent, Second Amendment-loving population, even if Austin is a sour blueberry in a strawberry patch. If I say, “California is a blue state,” I mean that it is a smug, liberal, anti-American, fascist-loving, ideologically driven land of fruits and nuts on the Left coast.

Guess where I’ll move if I am forced to choose between the two?

The red and blue designations reinforce the divide between Americans of different political persuasions even as they are helpful as shorthand to talk about our differences.

Vote red in November.

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Daily Broadside | Brandon Isn’t the Hero We Need Right Now

Daily Verse | Malachi 4:2
“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.”

Monday’s Reading: Matthew 1-4

It’s October or, as one of the local FM stations I listened to as a kid used to say, “Rrrocktober!” I’m sure radio stations all over the country used to say that but I only heard mine.

We’re also on our way with the last quarter of Bible reading, starting Matthew in the New Testament today. If you’ve been reading through the Bible with us this year, congratulations and stay strong through the finish. Almost there!

A friend of the blog referred me to a quote at the end of The Dark Knight, in which Lt. James Gordon says about Batman, who is on the run:

“Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

“So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.

“Because he’s not our hero.

“He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector.

“A Dark Knight.”

The meaning of that first sentence is hotly debated in the fanboy subs of Reddit and on Quora. I’m not a Marvel or DC Comics guy so I’m certainly not an authority on the dialogue, but after reading a number of interpretations, I get the impression that the meaning runs along these lines:

Gotham deserves a hero like the Batman who operates with the best interests of the city at heart, even at great personal cost. He’s done more for the city than anyone with a badge, including protecting it from the League and the mob—but he had to do it outside the law, operating at night and “bending” the rules.

What the city needed was Harvey Dent, who was the public face of the results—not Batman. Dent is perceived as having cleaned up the city without breaking the law or sinking to the level of criminals to achieve safety for his citizens. Referred to as the White Knight, Dent “proved” that right prevails over evil (personified in the Joker)—even though he is corrupted by the Joker.

The quote came up in reference to the feeble-brained, mush-mouthed, ethically challenged sock puppet desecrating the White House, who would have you believe that he’s in complete control of his faculties and could still take you out behind the barn and beat you to a pulp without breaking a sweat or his aviators.

I’m talking “Dark Brandon,” as in “Dark Brandon is the hero America deserves but not the one it needs right now,” a distortion of the original quote with the bad guy being referred to as the hero.

Here’s what it means, according to me.

America deserves Dark Brandon for at least three reasons, the first being those who voted for him. I don’t care how much you hated Trump; if you voted for the pathetic little man, you deserve him and the complete wreck he’s making of the place. How are you liking your 401(k) or your home value or the cost of a dozen eggs or a gallon of gas? Enjoying the groomers in your child’s classroom or at the public library? How about the hundreds of illegals being shipped to your small town?

You know some of those voters are thrilled and wave away any concerns. They hate America.

It’s not just those who voted for Brandon that deserve him. It’s also those who didn’t bother voting for Trump. As Hugh Hewitt wrote, If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat. Brandon “won” the general election by 4 percentage points. But in the states that mattered, it was a photo finish as, for example, in Arizona, a traditional Republican stronghold. Brandon beat Trump there by only 10,000 votes—a 0.3% margin that put electoral votes in the Democrat column for only the second time since Truman.

It was close enough to cheat. But if you chose to sit out the election even though you were eligible to vote, Dark Brandon (and the misery he’s inflicting on you) is the hero you deserve.

America has abandoned its institutions to the Left. I’m not sure how, but the cultural Marxists have completed their march through the institutions. Somehow, some way, conservatives gave up on conserving and progressives finally filled the vacuum. (My guess is that it was largely a matter of a religious and virtuous life of duty to God, country and your fellow man being cast aside in the pursuit of wealth and sex and entertainment and a life of ease.)

Well, those institutions conspired to “save” the election of 2020. They admitted it. And those institutions deserve their hero. They own him and everything he’s done to this country. I hope that, some day, they will get their comeuppance for the misery they inflicted on themselves and the rest of us.

The rest of us.

The rest of us are Americans, too. We don’t deserve Dark Brandon. There are still large swaths of the populace who are patriotic and believe in the promise of America. It is they to whom the last half of the quote belongs: “Dark Brandon is the hero America deserves, but not the one it needs right now.”

The hero we need right now is someone in the mold of Donald J. Trump or Ronald D. DeSantis. Someone who is constitutionally literate. Someone who is unafraid of the Left (or the enemies in his own party). Someone who can give as good as he gets. Someone who governs with common sense. Someone who stand for what is right and good and for the benefit of the American people.

We need someone who is going to take the fight to the swamp. A hero who, like Superman, stands for Truth, Justice and the American Way.