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John Fetterman’s purple pivot could make him the next Joe Manchin
The Hill ^ | 01/30/2024 | CHRISTOPHER BROOKS

Posted on 01/31/2024 5:51:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Residents of Lilliput, one of the islands of “Gulliver’s Travels,” dubbed Gulliver “man-mountain.” In the plight for his freedom, “said man-mountain” promised to, “be aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping to raise certain great stones.”

Perhaps a figurative stone is the weight of the political moderates. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) the senator, as opposed to John Fetterman the candidate, seems to be doing this in a Sen. Joe Manchin-esque (D-W.Va.) manner.

We might want to start calling the 6-foot-8 Fetterman man-Manchin.

Capturing the politically murky middle is a difficult task, particularly in a journalistic environment where extremes get clicks. It nevertheless remains where the majority of votes lie. Manchin has managed to capture them since his arrival to the U.S. Senate.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: fetterman; manchin; pivot; purple
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We don't need another Manchin
1 posted on 01/31/2024 5:51:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Far rightwing Fetterman from Pennsylvania. New narrative?


2 posted on 01/31/2024 5:54:46 AM PST by Bayard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lol! NOW the democrats are going to decide he’s mentally unfit to serve and try to remove him...


3 posted on 01/31/2024 5:57:40 AM PST by apillar
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To: Bayard
John Fetterman’s purple pivot...

Should be: "John Fettermens purple pivot"


4 posted on 01/31/2024 5:57:47 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Bayard

Deep State may not want to risk getting caught stealing another senatorial race.

He still needs to be primaried and replaced.

Whatever he says, Deep State installed the expletive-deleted.

He’s their man.


5 posted on 01/31/2024 5:58:42 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

From time to time, Donald Trump includes the recital about the snake that was rescued by the woman who took pity on the frozen near-dead creature. But in the end, the snake was not the least grateful, and reverted to its true nature, biting and causing the death of its benefactor.

John Fetterman is just such a snake.


6 posted on 01/31/2024 6:10:17 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Health willing he will probably become President at some point. Just something about him.


7 posted on 01/31/2024 6:10:45 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: alloysteel

Snakes are smarter.


8 posted on 01/31/2024 6:12:34 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NO ONE should trust Manchin or Fetter-Woman. They’re both corrupt leftists, despite wearing ‘moderate’ garb.


9 posted on 01/31/2024 6:20:42 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: mewzilla

I’m completely fine if the Deep State is backtracking on election theft. Don’t see that happening, but I’d be surprised and glad if it did.

Also, dismantle the deep state.


10 posted on 01/31/2024 6:22:46 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Bayard

Oh, Deep State will steal any time it sees the need.

But while Deep State’s frontmen are stupid, the people hiding behind them are not.

Deep State will try to minimize the need.

Hence Festerman’s latest attempts to look like what he isn’t.


11 posted on 01/31/2024 6:25:16 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FetterManchin


12 posted on 01/31/2024 6:40:22 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I tried to tell folks here back in 2022, Fetterman is not what the idiot flappy headed folks at the RNC and their mouthpieces were parroting to you.

You were sold a bunch of lies by these folks. Yes, he’s a democrat and he’s leftist, but he was never ever the whackadoo extremist left wing nutter they tried to sell him as to you, in an attempt to push the single worst candidate I have ever seen run for statewide office in PA as a republican named OZ.

Fetterman is not a lightweight, and he didn’t “pivot” to purple... this is the same guy who I have met and watched for more than a decade. No I don’t agree with him on policy , but the attempt to paint him as the next AOC, or just a stumble bum lurch charicature were just flat out lies.

Only people “surprised” by this stuff are people who swallowed these lies, anyone whos actually met and seen the man in action is not surprised by any of this.

Maybe next time instead of swallowing wholesale lies by folks who tell you what you want to hear, or more adequately “want you to fear”.. you will be open your mind a bit and actually listen to folks who are on the ground and know something.. rather than just parroting RNC talking point ad nauseam out of DC and NYC.

Had Fetterman actually not had his health issues and been able to campaign properly, OZ would have gone down by 8-10 points on the minimum. It is inexcusable that 100M+ was wasted trying to put lipstick on that pig. The decision by Republican leadership to push that turd, cost the party countless house races where that money would have made a difference.


13 posted on 01/31/2024 6:51:49 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: ChicagoConservative27

JF is a snake, a vermin of the first degree, he speaks with two faces and a forked tongue. He has a knife hidden in that awful track suit. Shun him!


14 posted on 01/31/2024 6:54:12 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

100% talk, 0% action.

His voting record is still ultra-liberal and probably always will be until he’s coming up for re-election and the Rats think a few fakes to the right would be advisable.

They might get shook up a little in PA if Empty Suit Casey somehow loses his Senate seat this year (unlikely) and Trump also takes PA (doubly unlikely). But even if they make it close, that might cause Fetterman to persist with his fraudulent “I’m not really a progressive” schtick.

When the time comes, we’ll see who he has fooled.


15 posted on 01/31/2024 6:56:18 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: mewzilla

Sorry, but you really need to take a pill... You are showing derangement syndrome.

As someone who has lived in PA for closing in on 40 years, I’ve watched this man since he came on the scene, the crap the RNC and their parrots tried to sell you about this guy were and have been absolute lies.

Fetterman hasn’t “pivoted” at all, this is the same guy he’s always been.. the attempt to paint as some radical left wing nutter is just flat out stupid and lies.

Yes, he’s liberal, and he’s a democrat, but he’s never been what they tried to sell him to you as. This guy hasn’t “pivoted” this is the guy, nothing about this is surprising to anyone who’s actually known and watched this guy.

Maybe you need to stop listening to liars out of DC and NYC, and actually listen to people who are closer to the action.

You are exhibiting a derangement sysndrome with your comments.

Yes Fettermens a democrat, and he’s a leftist, but he’s never ever been some radical left wing nut job, and as much as they want to characterize him as some brain dead “Lurch” that has never been true of him either.

I don’t agree with this man on policy, but I have seen him in action and watched him since he first showed up in Braddock, and he was NEVER, EVER what they tried to tell you he was....

Only people “shocked” by this are the people who bought into the propaganda.. he hasn’t pivoted at all.


16 posted on 01/31/2024 6:58:09 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As annoying as it sounds, it makes sense to have a senator such as this in the State of Philadelphia Pittsburg.

What makes no sense is having purple senators in states as red as West Virginia or South Carolina. (I mean Graham, among many)


17 posted on 01/31/2024 7:14:50 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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18 posted on 01/31/2024 8:15:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

With any luck Scott Pressler’s efforts will overcome Fetterman’s pivot.


19 posted on 01/31/2024 8:29:29 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His commie wife is dumping him.


20 posted on 01/31/2024 8:30:46 AM PST by dforest
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