On a Friday night in 1979, I was standing on the visitor’s sideline at a high school football game. The home team was ahead by several touchdowns. Their star running back was tackled just a few feet from me. A particularly noxious man with a scraggly tobacco stained beard wearing a tobacco stained flannel shirt with the sleeves ripped off bent over the running back, stuck his finger in the running back’s face, and called him a string of profanity laden insults I had not heard before and have not heard since. The n-word was not even in the top 3.
The young running back stood, tossed the ball to the referee, looked the man in the eye, and said, “Look at the scoreboard.” Then he calmly ran back to the huddle. Another touchdown soon followed.
It took poise, self-control and a remarkably strong sanity to stay focused on his task while that man berated him. Not too many full grown men and far fewer teenagers could have done it. They would have retaliated and been kicked out of the game.
But not Herschel Walker.
Herschel’s talent came through hard, relentless work. He did not train in an expensive athletic complex with highly compensated coaches and other kids whose well-off parents paid for that privilege. He ran alone beside a railroad track. Everyday. He pulled heavy weights around a dirt track. He knew what things had to be done to achieve his goals.
He did those things.
His work ethic has since taken on the challenges to become a successful businessman, an MMA fighter and even a ballet dancer.
But he has possibly the hardest challenge of his life yet to come.
If you only know Herschel through what the Democrats say about Herschel (his falsified Wikipedia page seems as if it was written by a CNN scriptwriter), you don’t know Herschel. Everyone in Georgia knew about his kids. We may not have known if it was four or five or six. It did not matter. They were taken care of. It is a particularly egregious stunt the Democrats are pulling about his kids – they think Georgians don’t know Herschel has a gay son, and will be offended. They truly live in a different Georgia, in that Democrat imaginary Georgia that rich democrats like Stacy Abrams called “… the worst state in the country to live.” It is actually one of the best states in the country to live. Well, for now. The Democrats still haven’t molded it to their own New York and San Francisco and Los Angeles and Baltimore models- yet. Herschel will take that Democrat model and treat it like he treated Bill Bates.
He is berated for not debating Warnock.
Well, that great debate is happening every day in gas stations and grocery stores and public schools all across Georgia and the nation.
Let us “look at the scoreboard.” Both, not just what the Democrats show, sides of the scoreboard.
The “home team” – comprised of the values that made Georgia and America great – had $1.67 gas and no inflation. That gave all Georgians, especially the poor, more money and the ability to buy more groceries and go more places and help their families and even save some money.
The “visiting team” – the policies of the Bidens, Hunter and Joe and the doctor, and Abrams and Pelosi and Warnock – prices for gas and groceries are far too high for poor people to afford. Immigration is so high that wages will be kept permanently low. The Democrat policies are such that no poor person can survive without government assistance much longer. Perhaps that is their plan. It certainly benefits the non-working rich. And we have all seen what will become of the public schools if such people are in charge.
Herschel wins that debate by an overwhelming margin.
Herschel is divorced. He and his wife had many issues and problems. Today they are friends, and she supports him. The son he had with her is one of his biggest supporters, and quite a remarkable young man. Herschel overcame his marital problems by using the same strong sanity that conforms to reality, and is independent of any temporary perceptual flaws, that he has always used.
Today, Herschel is the same man that so many years ago looked that awful visiting spectator right in the eye and was neither afraid nor diverted from his task. That game had a controlling legal authority. The referee had the man removed from the stadium. Elections have no controlling legal authority to prevent the opposition from sticking their fat greasy fingers in everyone’s face and screaming unkempt profane untrue distorted obscenities. It seems the Democrats and the media are many more versions of that man today, speaking against Herschel. They are almost all from California and New York and Washington DC, though, and a great many on social media are bots. They are a visiting team, loud, obnoxious, do not represent the values of Georgia, and they are not nearly as numerous as they seem.
Herschel knows, Herschel represents – Herschel IS – the values and policies that will put Georgia, all of Georgia, back on the right track toward prosperity. He will implement those values and policies. As a young man, the world would have bent toward his will, he could have had anything in it. After high school, he could have left Georgia for the bright lights of California or the riches of Canadian football. He had a choice between keeping his values or succumbing to the temptations and crafty abasement of the world. It took a love of Georgia, strong values, and an even stronger sanity, to withstand that temptation. Herschel chose his Georgia values and his love of Georgia.
Herschel chose Georgia.
Now Georgia should choose Herschel.
Mike Fulford,
Evans, Ga.
