Running as a winner
Fetterman has been running as the front runner since the beginning. He never apologizes for being a Democrat. He doesn’t hedge when supporting democratic policies. Sports comparisons are probably overdone, but there is such a thing as momentum. Fetterman has it.
The GOP is giving up on one of Trump’s gift to the Democrats.
Trump’s endorsements follow a simple pattern: He endorses the person he’s heard of.
New York has a longstanding habit of electing senators who aren’t from New York, but that doesn’t work in other places. Door-knockers in PA said the No. 1 comment they hear is “No Jersey boys.” Pennsylvanians, even those out west, tend to hate New Jersey.
I had to watch Oz’s “crudités” ad a few times to convince myself it wasn’t a parody. He even got the name of the store where he was filming the ad wrong.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-all-the-mistakes-dr-oz-made-while-grocery-shopping-for-crudites-says-this-nyc-chef-11660675873
Liked this coverage too: Wegners? Dr. Oz confuses Wegmans, Redner’s in odd video on shopping for crudités
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2022/08/16/dr-mehmet-oz-mispronounces-wegmans-wegners-redners-grocery-store-video-crudites-wife/65404984007/
Plus
Video Shows Dr. Oz Saying He Has Two Houses. He Actually Has 10. — It’s a simple question for most people: How many houses do you own? But apparently, it’s not so simple for Dr. Oz. … It’s a question most Americans can answer pretty easily: “How many houses do you own?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/video-shows-dr-oz-saying-he-has-two-houses-he-actually-has-10?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4.
At least John McCain said “I’ll have my staff get back to you” on how many houses he owns:
https://www.politico.com/story/2008/08/mccain-unsure-how-many-houses-he-owns-012685
(The right answer was also “ten”).
I think there is a Wegner’s in Nambia.
The Nambia Wegners has the best covfefe.
You would think, for all the time he has spent on television, that Oz would have done a second take after screwing up the supermarket’s name. Even Trump knew enough to do that.
I think the worst thing about Oz is the fact that he was a shister daytime tv doc and he’s worth over $100mm. Thats the second biggest problem with out country – the deifying of entertainers
Celebrity doctors are almost always surgeons, who have very little experience outside of cutting people open, removing things and sewing them back up.
Doctors have insults for every specialty. Their take on surgeons: “Often wrong, never in doubt.” That’s why I laugh when I see clickbait headlines like “Surgeon says you should never eat this one food.” Surgeons don’t know shit about diet and nutrition — it’s not covered in medical school — but they don’t hesitate to pontificate about it.
And don’t even get me started on chiropractors who insist on being called “Dr.” The only people worse about it are people with PhDs in education, like “Dr.” Bill Cosby.
Yea but having a doctorate does help with reservations at new and trendy restaurants. in delaware one of those would be a new olive garden
And don’t forget Dr. Jill and her EDD!
Her too, troll. We don’t worship our politicians.
Just a reminder – DC-based Democrats like Coons wanted Coner Lamb who made his career apologizing for being a Democrat and trying to water down Democratic policies.
Can you imagine losing to a candidate as terrible as Oz? Lamb could have accomplished that easily.
I agree. Lamb gave up an important House seat to run an election he knew he would lose – and not because there was no one else running. Fetterman’s campaign is a valuable model for Dems, but we also need to make an example out of Lamb so folks know what not to do.
They labor under the illusion that people base their votes on candidates’ positions on the issues, rather than the letter beside their names.
So they think they can poach moderates who are turned off by Republican extremism by running guys who are basically Republicans in Democratic clothing. It can work in certain races and places — that’s how you get a Manchin or a Connor Lamb elected — but only when it’s close to 50-50 to begin with.
Rather that make an example of Lamb, I’ll wager that, should Democrats hold onto Congress, Lamb will be rewarded with a government job appointment.
I’ve been incredibly impressed with John Fetterman’s campaign so far. His ads pointing out Oz the Quack’s carpetbagger status, and that fact that he is far from being an ‘everyman’, are spot on, not to mention John’s great ability to come across a ‘regular Joe’, and even his ability to make fun of himself. GREAT ad campaign. My only worry is, and we all know it’s coming, the barrage of socialist ads that the Reps and their henchmen will be saturating the airwaves with in the next few months. Are they going to work? They sure did in 2020. This was the main reason why I am still skeptical that John Fetterman was the best nominee, and, unlike many here, preferred Connor Lamb. Those arguments wouldn’t fly against him. With Fetterman, they may very well stick, and possibly cost us a Senate seat. Hope I’m wrong. For the record, I’ve been contributing to Fetterman’s campaign, and intend to continue doing so.
The problem with this type of thinking is simple: They will call anyone a socialist, even Connor Lamb, though in his case they would just say he’s a pawn of the socialists. So you might as well nominate an actual socialist.
The people who are swayed by the “socialism” boogeyman aren’t going to vote for any Democrat, even Connor Lamb.
…and Lamb’s waterdown, GOP-lite would only drive the Dem base away from the polls.