Fetterman post-debate
OK, this is serious
I hear Democrats clutching pearls and wondering if they should vote for Fetterman.
I didn’t watch the debate.
I don’t care.
If he came out on the stage and blubbered, I’m voting for him. And you must, too.
Here’s what we are up against.
We are up against a party that admires fascist dictators. A party intent on destroying democracy, public schools, and the construct of the Great Society and New Deal.
We are up against a party that has this attitude about a Senate candidate who committed repeated acts of domestic violence and who is demonstrably a serial liar, an ignoramus, AND an ardent anti-abortion warrior who paid his girl friend to have an abortion. a leading right wing talker put it this way:
“There’s a report that Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Republican running in Georgia's Senate race, got a woman pregnant then paid for her abortion back in 2009.
“Like other staunchly anti-abortion Republicans, I have one thing to say about that: I DON’T CARE!
“Dana Loesch, a conservative radio host and former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association, put it best this week when she said: ‘I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.’”
“Amen, sister. Abort those eagle babies! Like Loesch, I believe deeply in the sanctity of life and oppose all abortions – except for this one, which I will accept to prevent it from costing my party control of the Senate.”
We grew up in a world where politics were played between the 40-yard lines. People fought out the elections and if they lost, they congratulated the winner, gritted their teeth, worked to dilute their program, and tried harder in the next election.
The earth destroying comet destroyed that world about 15 years ago. The lights are turning out. We’re now living in a world where a gubernatorial candidate pledges to destroy public education, where a Senate leader pledges he’ll confirm no judges for two years if he gets a chance, where a former president can abscond with our nation’s highest national security secrets – and it doesn’t bother his supporters even a little bit.
So, on his worst day, Fetterman is more knowledgeable, more thoughtful, and more committed than Mehmet Oz on his best day. PLUS the Senate in the balance.
The thing to take from this is this: work a little harder. Make one more phone call.
Two weeks.
Think George Washington, standing by the Delaware River, begging his army to stay with him for one more throw of the dice.
Think about Ike, deciding tonight was the night to launch the greatest invasion force ever.
They were fighting a desperate battle to save liberty and democracy.
So are we.
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