Herschel Walker & Abortion: What to Make of the Allegations Against Senate Candidate

I’m going to go way out on a limb in the year 2022 and suggest that if the allegation that Herschel Walker paid for his girlfriend’s abortion in 2009 is true, then the morally correct response to the revelation — honesty and contrition — would have also been the politically savvy response.

I know, I know: We are living in a post-Clinton, post-Trump era, in which lying and other types of depravity aren’t supposed to matter at all in elections. Conventional wisdom now holds that the politically savvy response to any and all scandals is deny, deny, deny. But I think the conventional wisdom is wrong in this case.

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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I’m going to go way out on a limb in the year 2022 and suggest that if the allegation that Herschel Walker paid for his girlfriend’s abortion in 2009 is true, then the morally correct response to the revelation — honesty and contrition — would have also been the politically savvy response.

I know, I know: We are living in a post-Clinton, post-Trump era, in which lying and other types of depravity aren’t supposed to matter at all in elections. Conventional wisdom now holds that the politically savvy response to any and all scandals is deny, deny, deny. But I think the conventional wisdom is wrong in this case.