I went into this sole Pennsylvania senatorial debate tonight with my tribal war paint on my cheeks. I was ready to take no prisoners. I wanted to capture Gettysburg, both literally and figuratively. I was ready to win.
And 60 seconds into the broadcast, one which only a very limited audience could view, my heart dropped. When John Fetterman looked into the camera and said “Good night,” I realized he was about to intone his own eulogy. And it got progressively (no pun intended) worse.
We all knew, we Pennsylvania voters, that the Democratic candidate had suffered a life-threatening injury a few months ago. What we didn’t know was the extent and nature of its impact on his cognitive skills. We were told by nervous and dishonest political operatives that he was recovering well from the stroke that almost killed him. We were assured that his residual problems were superficial and had nothing to do with his mental reasoning or his capacity to comprehend. We were promised that those close captions he demanded as a concession for debating Oz were merely to help him hear, not to understand.
And then we saw him, alone on that stage without his omnipresent wife, Gisele, running interference and challenging anyone who questioned his fitness with vague threats. And it was a prelude to some Halloween slasher film: horrific.
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Fetterman performed so poorly, even he could not do a rhetorical limbo under a bar set unfairly low for him. He stammered. He gazed vacantly into the distance, collecting thoughts that would not come. He repeated platitudes devoid of detail about his concern for the working man. He contradicted himself, Fetterman who opposes fracking against Fetterman who supports it. He tried to harness the power of the aggrieved feminists with his insistence that he’d protect the right to choose…an abortion. He never mentioned the privilege of bearing a child. He floundered on how he’d bring down tuition costs, refused to even answer a question about releasing his medical records, and kept attacking his opponent Mehmet Oz for bad commercials. He was, even by the generous standards of a friendly media corps, an unmitigated disaster.
And I watched, and at first became elated at how poorly he’d done. I channeled that warrior spirit and prepared to claim some scalps. And even though Oz wasn’t brilliant, I exulted in his semi-brilliance when seen in comparison with Fetterman.
But then, I stopped. The political became the personal. I looked at a man who was lost on a stage, alone with thoughts so jumbled he couldn’t capture them even for the brief span of a television hour. His eyes had the fevered glint of a trapped animal, his posture looked pained, his voice was thin. This was a sick man.
And I thought of his ambitious wife, pushing him onward despite his infirmity.
I thought of doctors who were Democratic donors and prostituted their judgment for some political advantage.
I thought of campaign operatives desperate to hide what could not be hidden forever, hoping to beat the electoral clock.
I thought of the Fetterman children, deprived of a father at time they needed him most, and he them.
I thought of my tribe, justifiably angry conservatives who forgot their humanity to celebrate the landing of that shot, that harpoon, that heavy blow against our political enemy. We, collective Ahabs had speared our whale.
And I cried. I hate everything Fetterman represents. I hate the people who love him. They are anathema, and toxic. And yet, I cried for a man, not a movement.
Politics is cruel. Tonight showed that, in technicolor terms.
John Fetterman must go home. He deserves better. So do we.
Christine Flowers is an attorney and lifelong Philadelphian. @flowerlady61
Christine, another insightful piece on the corrupt political system that supports a “slug” like Fetterwoman.
MSM Censorship has once again overlooked the background of the wife Gisele, who was identified, as a potential National Security Threat in an Investigative Report published Today at Mailonline.com.
Her “Favorite Uncle Tielmo,… a Father Figure,” was a Brazilian Intelligence Operative who was convicted and participated in the removal from Office of Top Government Officials, and convicted of illegal espionage and spent time incarcerated.
Gisele is another National Security Risk and a perfect fit for the Brain Dead Candidate promoted by the Treasonous Radical Progressives and their Fellow Travelers.
Dr. Oz voted in Turkish elections as recently as 2018. He became a Turkish citizen as an adult. He served in the Turkish army. He’s the one on the ballot. Not Fetterman’s wife’s uncle. Dr. Oz was endorsed by a threat to our national security, Donald Trump.
Christine Flowers keeps shaming John Fetterman’s wife. Where was her shaming of Melania Trump who supported her husband’s Capitol riot and all his disgraceful shenanigans? Gisele is only guilty of supporting a stroke victim.
MARYBETH:
WE THE PEOPLE< THE TAXPAYERS….. OWN THE CAPTIOL MY DEAR..
WE ARE NOT GUESTS.. ((((THEY))))) who "represent us….. ARE INVITED GUESTS….. BY the PEOPLE.
Gisele is a grifter..
Can’t change history, my dear. Trump and Melania are responsible for the January 6th Capitol riot.
Melania is a traitor to our country.
Because?????
Splain’ it to me like I’m a democrat. Real slow like…..
More fake emotion from the ever-crying Flowers. She cried at people who criticized her church. She cried when someone mocked a fictitional “saint”. Now she cries for someone who (right here in the article!) she admittedly hates. Trying to hide your partisanship in sympathy is genuinely heinous and only the simplest of mind can’t see through it. If Fetterman was a QMAGA candidate, she would be praising his courage for following through with his journey. Oh…. and early in the article, she alludes to the idea that Fetterman’s aphasia is a deficit in his mental capacity. Every single person that reads that should dismiss her as a partisan hack right off the bat. What a shameful excuse for a decent human Flowers is. Hateful, phony, delusional and willfully ignorant. That’s a scary combination.
Not for nothin’, but exploiting a person who clearly has some serious cognitive misfiring, is just plain wrong.
Doesn’t matter what side of the aisle they are on…..or even who they are.
Anybody, who even slightly identifies with being human, SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT.
Conner Lamb must be beside himself. Imagine having him instead of Fetterman as your advocate on the Senate floor for any issue the Democrat party feels strongly about. If the Fetterman camp had been forthright from the start, Conner would be the Democrat nominee and the race could likely be a +7 Democrat one.
Perhaps, Uncle Festerman was a serial drug user and His Medical Records would so verify, thus His refusal to submit independent Medical Records, not supplied by His donor and foreign Quack.
This would explain His penchant for the criminal drug offender and may directly be a cause of His Dementia and evolved brain damage.
Gisele’s Brazilian Connections would have fueled Festerman’s Drug and Porn Appetite that She has Mastered.
I could see that.
Nothing would surprize me anyone.. nothing.
Wonder if she’s a master at pole dancing…..