Since Dr. Mehmat Oz won the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania to run for the state’s open senate seat, he’s been running one of the most tepid campaigns I’ve ever seen. His opponent, Democrat John Fetterman, suffered a stroke last May after admittedly ignoring his doctor for years and hasn’t been seen on the campaign trail since.
Despite those obvious issues surrounding Fetterman’s health, Oz has attempted to take the high road. Predictably, Fetterman hasn’t returned the favor and has been viciously attacking Oz as being from New Jersey on social media. In fact, the Democrat’s entire campaign has been to make that charge over and over. It’s to the point where it’s become a meme.
— Bucks County PAtriot 🇻🇦🇺🇸 (@ajhpa01) August 2, 2022
While I’m on record as thinking Oz is a bad candidate and that it was a mistake for Donald Trump to endorse him, the lack of fight being put up was still inexcusable. In a contest, you would expect a Republican candidate to be aggressive. However, the gloves were finally taken off Friday and it was not too late.
The Oz campaign makes quite a statement. @NBCNewsResponding to Fetterman’s decision to return to campaign trails, Casey Contres said so. Casey Contres (campaign manager) tells me Fetterman has become a “spoiled boy-child”, and calls him out on his habit of “hiding down in his basement scrolling Social Media for months” pic.twitter.com/GJ4h5TnsRs
— Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) August 5, 2022
Fetterman is indeed a “spoiled man-child,” and in more ways than one. He was supported by his millionaire parents well into his late 40s while serving as mayor of a small town, and it’s fair to say that he’s never held a real job in adulthood, being a consummate public leech. He’s also an ogre of a man and deeply unhealthy by his own choice. In July, it was reported he couldn’t even speak properly following his stroke. Yet, he’s received rave reviews for his Twitter slams of Oz, which have been magnified by his too-online bot army. It’s a highly effective campaign, which seems much more than it is.
The attack on Fetterman that he’s afraid to defend his record and policy views is also fair. While the Democrat attempts to paint himself as a working-class everyman (a fake persona as explained above), the reality is that he’s basically Bernie Sanders with no hair. Fetterman is in favor of banning fracking. He is in favor of male biological athletes competing against females. He believes in letting criminals be released from jail before they are too late. He’s also a supporter of universal healthcare.
There is no daylight between Fetterman’s positions and those of the radical left because he’s part of the radical left. While his strategy of hiding from the world in the basement protected him, soon Fetterman will need to debate, and campaign. That’s when the game really begins.
Oz has to press all of Fetterman’s weaknesses going forward. This is not a race where he can float above the fray because his opponent isn’t going to allow that to happen. The Democrat has deliberately avoided public scrutiny. It’s time to make Fetterman’s ill health an issue. It’s also time to get in the mud over the fact that he’s a bum of a politician and not at all who he says he is.
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