[ConservativeInPA]

I may be overly sensitive because I have never liked Oz, but when listening to him talk about Pennsylvania and Pennsylvanians at the rally he did not sound like he is one of us. There was something off. He wasn't quite believable. It was as if he was intentionally going through a check list that was given to him by advisors so he could better connect with Pennsylvania and MAGA voters. Oz talking about McConnell was one of these things. I got the impression that someone told him, "If you want to win, you have to speak poorly about McConnell. These MAGA people don't like McConnell." That's true, we don't like McConnell.

One of my acid tests to get my vote is simple. I don't want my next senator to vote for McConnell as majority leader. I want him to say it out loud, and often. Oz didn't do that. He can get to the point without name calling. Instead, Oz should have said, "I promise I will not vote for McConnell as majority leader," then enumerate the reasons why.

His speech was riddled with little things that did not seem true, or were just a little be off. I recall something about him saying he played football in high school. My first thought was, "Yeah, right. He's making up a story to appeal to yinzers." (People in Western PA, where HS football is huge.) That's a small thing, perhaps imagined since I don't like him. He didn't sound authentic to me.

I will not vote for Oz in the primary. Kathy Barnette is getting my vote. The last few days I have come to the painful conclusion that I have to hold my nose and vote for Oz in the general election if he wins the primary. I hate doing that.

[jjotto]

I’d never vote for him, but why is it hard to believe he played football for the expensive private high school in Delaware he attended? (Chris Coons was a couple grades behind him.)

[Erik Latranyi]

Why do so many allow this fabrication of “electability” stop them from voting for better candidates?

If murderer Ted Kennedy, stolen valor Blumenthal and communist Sanders are “electable” then so is a decent constitutionalist like Barnette.

The entire purpose of “electability” is to prevent us from actually putting good people into office which allows the cretins to lead our nation.