Pennsylvania Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania suffered a stroke this year. Excerpts of a recent speech indicate that the aftermath is still with him. But who in the Democratic Party — or the media — has the guts to step up and say that he still needs rehab and recovery time? Can his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, say anything about Fetterman’s health without appearing self-interested?
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15 replies on “Not All There: Democrat Senate Candidate Fetterman’s Stroke Aftermath Ignored by Media”
Bill’s last point was the key point.
In order to do his job, this guy must be able to link coherent thoughts and debate on behalf of his state. He must be able to win arguments and influence other senators. And he mus be able to decide on important issues affecting the state of Pennsylvania.
Perhaps that is less important from the democrat point of view- all they need is somebody who will vote as they are told (a la Mark Kelly and most of the rest of the dim population). But from my point of view a senator should be the guy I can go to and who will assist me as well should something of national urgency interfere with my life (and it has in the past).
Where is the sanity on this? I know the dims don’t have much of a bench to go to, and perhaps what we are seeing is the future of their vote-bots based party. I mean, one has to ask why only Manchin and SInema are in question on important votes when I KNOW that many of the other 489 senators are not voting as their sates would have them. Do these politicians just think they go to work for Washington DC when they arrive there? You don’t have to answer that.
As sick as it would make me feel to vote for Mehmet Oz, the other half of this pathetic Senate race, I urge Republicans to go to the polls, choke down the bile, and vote for him. Yes, he’s a carpet bagger, yes, he lives in New Jersey, yes, he’s a very leftist person who should have been in the Democratic primary, which is a big part of the reason he’s not winning over brain-dead, never-had-a-real-job, worthless hippie. But still, if he can somehow pull this off, Oz in the Senate will at least be subjected to Republican pressure, and he might vote in marginally better ways than would Fetterman, who is guaranteed he’d vote in lock-step with the Schmer/Pelosi axis, and all the worst leftist ideas.
Most importantly, an Oz win would be a vote for McConnell as Senate majority leader, over Chuck Schumer.. That’s what this race is, a proxy vote for McConnell over Schumer. So think of it that way, and vote, and vote Republican, dammit!
Finally, having learned your lesson from this stupid debacle, Pennsylvania Republican party, start fostering and training some Ron DeSantis-like candidates for the future, who will be willing to act for the principles of the center-right, such as rule of law and keeping Soros D.A.s out of office, patience and steady, marginal improvements to the anti-abortion agenda, a closed border, legal immigration over illegal, sanity over insanity in our public schools, rejecting climate change mass-hysteria, etc.
In analysis after analysis, the “Right” takes the conversation pertaining to the pure incompetence of the Left to a Line BUT will NEVER cross it. 1) WHERE? are the RHINO WHIGS, AWOL 2) elected Officials cannot get into office unless they are Voted in by Citizens eli, YET they are NOT held Accountable, WHY?
The Voter gets what they voted for, period. Change does not come about through Hope nor Make a Wish. I(ll Informed Voters make ill informed Choices
Another case for abolishing the 17th amendment. These guys should be appointed by their state houses.
Except that in our current state of 50-50 Congress / Senate, one person can very well make all the difference, as we saw “for a time” with Joe Manchin. Glad Bill corrected Scott on that point, even if they both agree that in a better world politics would not loom so large in all of our thinking and feeling.
But “trains of abuses” and “the Right … to institute new government…” and all of that DOI “stuff”.
Democrats abusing a mentally impaaired patient by forcing him to run a campaign and expecting him to win while campaigning out of his basement? That’s just too crazy to believe!
The only reason Fetterman is doing so well is that Dr. Oz is such a terrible choice for an opposing candidate.
If the choice is between a brain dead moron (Fetterman was a moron before his stroke rendered him brain dead) and a RINO who has the potential to follow the model of The Wicked Witch of Wyoming Her Infernal Majesty Liz Cheney — it’s hard to see why anyone would go out and vote.
It’s not just the DNC that is at fault here, the Republicans choose very poorly in running Oz too. It is a comedy of errors that isn’t funny at all.
You are very accurate when you say that Republicans keep choosing some very bad candidates and it has been through what I believe is the peoples blind following some of the candidates that have been endorsed by Trump. I liked Trump for most of the things he did as president but I surely have not voted for some of his favorite candidates. Herschel Walker was a great football player and has in recent years made himself known for some good things in the media but I believe he is a terrible candidate for senate for the state of Georgia even though he is running neck and neck at the present time with a really terrible Dem in Raphael Warnock. Then again, in my opinion our country will never have any kind of representation for state’s rights until and unless the 17th amendment is rescinded and we go back to states actually having some representation.I know that I will not live long enough to see that happen so we will just have to live as we have been doing since 1913 claiming state’s rights without a real rep for the states.
The only real difference with a republican candidate is you have a 50/50 chance they will do the right thing. With a dim, it’s guaranteed they will vote lock step.
Think of it like this- when we were discussing the BBB plan, only Manchin and Sinema were considered approachable. Why were 48 other senators not being questioned as to the logic of their votes? We have grown to simply accept that dims will vote exactly as they are told, and are shocked when they do not.
The Fetterman situation is painfully sad but it highlights the venality of his party. He is being marketed as a working man’s hero, when in fact, he is a Harvard grad who lived with mom and dad into his 40’s. The hoodie and ink are just wardrobe. He ascended from being mayor of a town of 1300 to being an invisible Lt. Governor.
As Scott knows well, PA politics boils down to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia against the rest of the state. They know Fetterman is damaged but they can replace him if they also win the race for governor.
I recall from reading John Glenn’s auto-bio that he dropped out of a race due to a head injury because he know he could not serve until he recovered. That’s the kind of integrity so lacking in his party today.
Another election with an obviously impaired Democrat. Surprise me? Hardly. This is actually best case scenario. There would be a real possibility that if they nominated a human with a soul, functioning logical brain, and a conscience their policies would be a hard thing for that person to support.
Being a neck surgeon, I’ll tell you that the “growth that looks like it ought to have teeth” and erupt out of the neck is probably just a large lipoma. Lipomas are benign fatty tumors and you only remove them for cosmetic reasons.
Joe Biden, the barely sentient houseplant of a President, probably didn’t have a stroke. But he obviously had dementia at the time of the election, probably at least stage 3 at the time, and now he’s a stage 5, even with the best meds ever used to keep him there. His life expectancy is around 2 years with this diagnosis. And it’s elder abuse to prop him up.
I’d need a lot more info to diagnose Hillary. My guesses as to her potentially actual illnesses are biased and mean.
If there was a single real journalist in PA, they would ask Fetterman one simple question:
Mr. Fetterman, you had a stroke recently and are clearly not fully healthy; if you win this election do you intend to serve at diminished capacity or will you step down and let the Governor name a replacement?
If that answer is I will step down, the Gov should be asked who will be appointed.
The Gov is a D – so they would keep the seat.
But the question should be asked and answered so that the people voting know who will serve.
I’m surprised that teh PA Dems aren’t pulling “a Toricelli” like they did in NJ & find some old familiar place they cn shove on the ballot
After the primary I am not sure that they could make a change.
Since when do Democrats allow trivialities like the law get in their way? They could just find some friendly judge to rubber stamp an approval and allow the courts to fight it out well after Philly & Pitt’s 10PM vote avalanches put their candidate into office