Posted on 11/09/2022 4:49:35 PM PST by Morgana
He was a completely uninspiring candidate all around - most were probably only voting against Fetterman. Oz gained ground after Fetterman’s extremism started being highlighted, not because they found Oz to be in a more favorable light.
Oz allowed Fetterman’s campaign to define Oz and introduce him to voters after the primary. The damage was done over the summer and the race was lost over the summer. Oz sat around and just let it happen, and people already had formed full opinions on Oz by the time he even started to campaign.
I think the carpetbagger, elitist, rich man imagery did as much damage as his wishy washy stance on abortion.
Just my outsider opinion.
Lazy cheap excuses.
Trump should have stayed out of it.
So the anti-abortionists were so simple-minded that they allowed a man to get elected who is 100% pro-abortion because they refused to support his opponent because he was only 90% anti-abortion?
I don’t understand why people want someone running for national office to declare themselves on the abortion issue.
The Supremes have sent the matter back to the States, and it’s for the State Legislatures to decide now.
The issue has been political suicide for some, as SauronOfMordor noted in this post:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4107492/posts?page=222#222
I realize, Morgana, that this is probably your most important issue; but sometimes you need to be strategic and set the stage for possible future accomplishment.
Democrats do. It motivates a lot of their base.
Some people are very passionately against allowing women access to abortion. Some people are very passionate on the other side. Many (perhaps most) are not very passionate either way, having other issues (crime, economy, etc) as higher in their priorities.
What we have seen this election is, for every person who is passionate against abortion, there are MORE who are passionate the other way. Not necessarily wanting third trimester abortions, but wanting at least first trimester.
You can rail against me all you want, but I am in category 3. If I had a candidate who was solidly free market, willing to expel illegal aliens, and be effective against crime, then he would have my vote without regard to his abortion position.
I think the GOP would have lost anyway because of the abortion issue. McCormick was for a no exceptions ban, so the returns would have probably looked more like the Mastriano race.
Trump took the Court out of the mainstream as POTUS, but now he is a private citizen. The problem isn’t Trump so much as that the GOP seems to have been co-opted once again (last time was Libertarians, this time its Catholics), so we get to play that game again. The Libertarians got the deregulation they wanted, which resulted in the crash that nearly took out the world’s financial market. It looks like this time the game is to relegate women to second class citizenry as the opening gambit. The other thing I know is that the church is a huge fan of open borders and of compliant politicians that the priests can threaten with damnation if they don’t get their way, so we’ll see if all of that happens or not. It’s early days.
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