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We Were Right About John Fetterman: Pennsylvanians were handed a clear choice, the voters in that state chose Fetterman anyway, ignoring what was being demonstrated plainly in front of their eyes.
Red State ^ | 02/09/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 02/09/2023 6:27:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind

When news broke on Wednesday evening that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) had been rushed to the hospital and was being kept “overnight” for observation, I wasn’t sure how to respond.

For months on end, some of us in the conservative commentariat begged and pleaded with Pennsylvanians and the national press to take Fetterman’s health issues seriously. After all, this was a man who had a major stroke just months prior to the campaign and was essentially unintelligible in the only debate he attended.

We were ignored.

Oz: "Fetterman didn't pay for his own house. He got it for a dollar from his sister."

Fetterman: "He got his Pennsylvania house from his own in ladies for $1. That's typical." pic.twitter.com/Es1jlhX5kB

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 26, 2022

As time progressed, it became clear he wasn’t getting any better either. In fact, by the time he did his first major interview, Fetterman was obviously getting worse. Yet, anyone who pointed out the reality of the situation was dismissed and accused of ableism.

On the eve of the election, I wrote an article once again warning Pennsylvanians about the mistake they were about to make. Everything I said turned out to be right.

Something is going on with his health that isn’t being made public, which is almost certainly why he refuses to release his actual medical records. Instead, he relied on a primary care doctor who is a big campaign donor to write him a letter that he’s “fit to be serve,” as Fetterman stated at the debate.

Strokes are not predictable. A lot of people die within a few years of having the type that Fetterman had. Far from a recovery being expected, it is completely possible that he will continue to deteriorate. Certainly, he’s not going to be well enough to actually do his job by January. Pennsylvanians must stop this farce before they end up saddled with Fetterman for six years. I say that because there is no chance his overly ambitious wife, who longs to be a political star, is going to let him resign. It’ll be a cluster, and as of right now, it’s avoidable if voters act.

Fetterman’s overly ambitious wife led the charge to keep her husband in the race, lionized by a compliant media that refused to ask any real questions about the now-senator’s condition. Instead, they wrote glowing profiles of Giselle Fetterman as a warrior against discrimination and the brains behind the campaign.

Meanwhile, those of us with an ounce of intellectual honesty felt like we were in the twilight zone. Fetterman would do a public appearance in which he’d mumble, mix up words, and make no sense at all, and the press would insist it was just a hearing problem.

But what hearing problem results in a person mixing up words and not being able to form complete sentences? The truth of Fetterman’s problems didn’t matter, though. The narrative that it was just an “auditory processing” issue took hold, having been spread far and wide by Democrats desperate to maintain control of the US Senate. That desperation led them to prop up a man who wasn’t qualified for the job and who likely suffered more harm to his health by not dropping out of the race.

In the end, though, I don’t feel sorry for Pennsylvanians. They were handed a clear choice, and while I had my disagreements with Mehmet Oz, he was harmless as a politician. If anything, Oz went out of his way to present himself as middle-of-the-road, and yet, the voters in that state chose Fetterman anyway, ignoring what was being demonstrated plainly in front of their eyes.

That’s on them, and now they get to suffer the consequences.



TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: byanymeansnecessary; cardboardcutout; clowngovernment; johnfetterman; pennsylvania; stroke; unclefesterman
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To: All

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The entire Party and Media is based on Hate.

When you factor the motivation is Hate, then Biden, Fetterman, and the new Politician makes sense.

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21 posted on 02/09/2023 6:49:21 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: Fai Mao

Oh, yes. As bad as Oz was, he was much better than Fetterman. A thousand times better.

The problem is that Oz’s ads never got that point across. The GOP needs to learn from this. Fetterman’s ads portrayed him (Fetterman) as a solid, sensible, middle-class guy. The kind of guy you would work with at the mill, and would grab a beer with afterwards. None of that is true, of course.

Ozs early ads were just silly. They had him wandering around a Pennsylvania factory with a silly grin on his face, like he was lost. Oz’s later ads got better. They hit Fetterman on crime. But that was too little, too late.

And then there was the voter fraud (see my tagline). That’s a separate issue.


22 posted on 02/09/2023 6:53:32 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: packagingguy

I do believe there was fraud. But it has to be relatively close or the fraud is painfully obvious. As regards democrat voters:

“Any government whose policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul can count on the support of Paul”

George Bernard Shaw


23 posted on 02/09/2023 6:54:09 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The PA Rebublicans are also a joke. I have several connections to “well heeled” ones there. Many are RINOs.


24 posted on 02/09/2023 6:54:45 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SeekAndFind

They didn’t vote FOR Fetterman. They voted AGAINST Oz.

A perfectly rational thing to do.


25 posted on 02/09/2023 6:54:48 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Jim Noble

> They didn’t vote FOR Fetterman. They voted AGAINST Oz. <

That is by and large correct. See my post #17.


26 posted on 02/09/2023 6:56:13 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right
They had him wandering around a Pennsylvania factory with a silly grin on his face, like he was lost

Which he was.

27 posted on 02/09/2023 6:56:28 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Jim Noble

Oops. I meant see my post #22.


28 posted on 02/09/2023 6:57:28 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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It’s a no brainer


29 posted on 02/09/2023 6:58:46 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Agreed, and OBVIOUS.

FetterDominion.

30 posted on 02/09/2023 6:59:47 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Jim Noble

RE: They didn’t vote FOR Fetterman. They voted AGAINST Oz.

I would have to say that they voted FOR THE GREATER OF THE TWO EVILS ( even if Fetterman were healthy ).


31 posted on 02/09/2023 7:01:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Scott Adams said it perfectly, liberals voted for a man who would take orders from women.


32 posted on 02/09/2023 7:02:16 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Leaning Right
And Oz was a terrible candidate, for many reasons.

He'd have to be, to lose to a stroke patient who stopped campaigning in the middle of the campaign.
33 posted on 02/09/2023 7:06:24 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SeekAndFind
"To Serve Mankind" was a cookbook!
34 posted on 02/09/2023 7:13:46 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Oz seemed ok enough to me, not perfect, but certainly better than that douche.


35 posted on 02/09/2023 7:16:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

> Oz seemed ok enough to me... <

One of Oz’s many problems is that he was rightfully perceived as a carpetbagger, a cynical outsider. One day he’s in Hollywood, telling Oprah about the supposed benefits of some stupid diet plan. And then the next day he’s in Pennsylvania, saying how he understands the problems of the average working-class guy.

Too many Pennsylvania voters didn’t buy that, and understandably so.

As I noted previously, Fetterman was much, more worse. But unless you frequented conservative sites like Free Republic you’d never know it.


36 posted on 02/09/2023 7:27:37 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Team Fetterman stole the election — that’s what Rat thugs do.


37 posted on 02/09/2023 7:32:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: fwdude

truckloads of bogus “mail-in” ballots stole the election made possible by his psycho commie supporters


38 posted on 02/09/2023 7:34:23 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

You voted for this guy, so suck it up and live with it, dummies.


39 posted on 02/09/2023 7:35:47 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Exactly


40 posted on 02/09/2023 7:36:35 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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