Posted on 10/30/2022 12:39:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Despite deep ideological differences between Mehmet Oz, a right-leaning Republican, and John Fetterman, a left-leaning Democrat, the U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania has mostly skirted the issues. It has been a slugfest, marked by relentless attacks and counter-attacks that generated more heat than light.
Mr. Oz hammered on — and sometimes misrepresented — Mr. Fetterman’s criminal justice policies, even though a U.S. senator has nothing to do with state criminal justice and sentencing policies. Mr. Fetterman, in turn, characterized Mr. Oz’s legitimate calls for Mr. Fetterman to release his medical records as mean-spirited and insensitive. His campaign huffed and puffed over Mr. Oz’s use of “crudites” for raw vegetables on a platter. It was, admittedly, a tone-deaf blunder, but hardly a pivotal matter in the U.S. Senate race.
During Tuesday’s debate, after hundreds of thousands of votes had already been cast, voters finally learned something about where the candidates stood. They learned, among other things, that Mr. Oz opposes federal intervention in abortion rights, and Mr. Fetterman supports the broader Constitutional guarantees provided by the overturned Roe v. Wade decision. They learned Mr. Fetterman supports a federally mandated $15-an-hour minimum wage, and Mr. Oz wants market forces to raise wages. They learned both candidates support fracking. They also learned both men are politicians, as they ducked and dodged questions about why they had changed their minds on fracking.
Neither candidate has experience as a U.S. senator. Given the lack of substance during the campaign, many voters will have to make a leap of faith on Nov. 8.
We believe Mr. Oz is the better bet for Pennsylvania.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
“Well, he’s got severe brain damage, but he’ll be a reliable vote for Schumer.”
Beat me to it!
An asinine statement so typical of the morons in the media.
And just when Fetterman was learning to use chubby pre-school crayons to write his signature (”X” but it counts.)
If PA and Fetterman think he can reverse a brain injury by Jan. They need a better neurologist. It doesn’t work that way.
the U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania has mostly skirted the issues
The only 'skirting' that's been done is Lurch hiding behind those of his Communist wife.
Oz has got to be way ahead to make up for cheating in Philly.
Kinda like what Jeffrey Dahmer wanted to create.
The only takeaway here is, buried in all that sobbing about sending Oz to the Senate, is that the PPG considered the alternative: a slobbering Fettermann, even in rare public appearances, as obviously unfit to be a Senator.
That would serve to remind everyone -- particularly such a critical electoral state as Pennsyltucky -- of Biden's equal infirmities.
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