It’s sometimes hard until later on when you look at things in perspective to tell who “won” a political debate. But when even your opponents admit something went terribly wrong (see article attached below) you can trust your instincts when feel it was a train wreck.
And that’s what happened last night on stage to John Fetterman. The six foot nine, heavily tattooed lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania took off his hoodie, donned a poorly fitting business suit, covered his tattoos and engaged with the moderators and his opponent “Dr. Oz.”
But to say it was bad is an understatement. Fetterman has serious neurological damage from a stroke he suffered some months ago. He can’t understand the sounds that he hears. His brain can’t process the signals coming from his auditory center. So he was provided with a closed captioning feed on his lectern to allow him to read the spoken questions and comments.
And if that were the end of his problems maybe that wouldn’t have been that bad. But Fetterman obviously has lost some of his other faculties. His sentences were fragmented and sometimes ungrammatical or even confusing. And sometimes he just refused to answer the questions and just stuck to some former statement that ignored the question. It was a terrible performance.
It is true that he was a sympathetic character. Your heart goes out to someone struggling to communicate through a barrier. That said, this was not the performance that would inspire confidence in Fetterman’s abilities or allow him to score points off of his opponent. This was a resounding defeat for Fetterman on the eve of the election so to speak.
Now of course Pennsylvania is now infamous for being able to fabricate over a half million fraudulent ballots overnight back in 2020. That kind of capability goes a long way to allow a bad candidate to overcome a lack of voting support. So who knows? Maybe Fetterman is destined to be the next senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. But if he is then it’s a stunning indictment of the post-democratic nature of our present republic.
Democrats in second-guessing mode after Fetterman-Oz Pennsylvania debate
Fetterman’s opening statement was horrible. And he should have rehearsed that hundreds of times.
The fact that he couldn’t even get a rehearsed statement right tells you that he is not fit to drive, much less serve in the senate.
I think that debate lost Fetterman the race. Unless they can really get that ballot photocopier humming.
I know enough democrats that won’t care about the debate. Hell, they still support dementia Joe. They will vote for a reliable Dem vote in the senate who will do whatever Chuck tells him to do. Fortunately, most elections (without ridiculous levels of cheating) are decided by the independents. They won’t vote for Fetterman after that performance. I hope the GOP lawyers learned their lesson last time and are ready to fight. I expect PA democrats to cheat and cheat bigly. This one will probably go to the courts. Any guess as to how long it will take to learn… Read more »
I have no clue how all this will turn out. But I’ve decided that this is the acid test. If the Republicans don’t win and win decisively then there is literally no hope. If everything that’s happened in the last three years doesn’t scare the hell out of the majority of Americans then nothing will. and I’ll be figuring out Plan B.
I don’t understand all the uproar, Fetterman would make a perfect Dim Senator. Thought, reasoning, communication skills, none of these are necessary. All that is necessary is for Fetterman to shut up and vote 100% of the time as directed by Chuckie Schumer.
So you see Fetterman as the Democrat of the Future. And I guess he kind of is. But he more closely resembles the popular image of Neanderthal Man. All he needs is the Fred Flintstone sabre tooth tiger tunic and he’d be all set. Yaba Daba Doo.