John Fetterman can’t speak. This is disqualifying. Just watch. Answers like this are happening over and over again: pic.twitter.com/vnRQ0GMbtL
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 26, 2022
If anyone realistically says this man is fit for office, and not a blatant liar, shame on you! pic.twitter.com/AmXBoP1WQW
— Mjc (@mjc72zz) October 26, 2022
This is not funny. It is not something to make fun of. It is genuinely upsetting. And if Fetterman gets elected, it will show the degree to which Democrat voters are prepared to exploit vulnerable humans for political purposes. pic.twitter.com/8UW2YRRuK0
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) October 26, 2022
Fetterman could have stepped down and he didn’t. He doesn’t deserve sympathy. https://t.co/Ragp1pZGCg
— Lisa Boothe 🇺🇸 (@LisaMarieBoothe) October 26, 2022
As it turns out, this Fetterwoman debate is one of the funniest things ever.
I don’t even care if they make all of the Democrat candidates in the future stroke victims. With this vax, they’re soon not going to have any choice.
I’m not a fan of Dr. Oz, who is literally a Turk citizen and a child tranny promoter, but he is a Republican. This presumably means the Senate is going to flip. (I’m not really going to claim that means something good, it probably doesn’t, but the thing is the thing.)
Longtime political observers were shocked by Democrat John Fetterman’s display in Tuesday night’s Senate debate against Dr. Mehmet Oz, in which the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor repeatedly stumbled over his words — and lapsed into incoherence on more than one occasion.
Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May, struggled to make himself understood throughout the showdown after releasing a doctor’s note last week that claimed he was fit to hold office.
Despite using a closed captioning system to help him understand what the two debate moderators and Oz were saying, Fetterman repeatedly lapsed into uncomfortable silences and mixed up his words.
At one point the tattooed 53-year-old said, “I do not believe in supporting the Supreme Court” in response to a question about whether the high court should have its traditional nine justices.
“There is no amount of empathy for and understanding about Fetterman’s health and recovery that changes the fact that this is absolutely painful to watch,” tweeted New York magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi at one point.
There is no amount of empathy for and understanding about Fetterman’s health and recovery that changes the fact that this is absolutely painful to watch.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 26, 2022
In another awkward moment, Fetterman gave a jumbled answer following a long pause after he was asked about his stance on fracking.
“I do support fracking and —I don’t, I don’t, I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking,” he managed to say after the moderator pointed out Fetterman had stated clearly in a 2018 interview that he did not support the controversial procedure.
Conservative attorney and podcast host Jeff Blehar noted that Fetterman’s answer was “gonna cost him in W. PA”, where fracking is a significant part of the local economy.
“I am no longer in the snide juvenile position where I can mock people with obvious difficulties as they age, or experience catastrophic medical events,” Blehar added. “I have…lived through it. But he shouldn’t be running, and aside from that, there was no good answer anyway to this flip-flop.”
People are saying they feel bad. I don’t feel bad.
These vaxies wanted every bad thing to happen to we, the purebloods, and there is nothing that would make me feel bad for them. I don’t think they deserve to be like, tortured. But they do deserve to be humiliated, and they deserve to die.
I make no apologies.
I cant believe it's this bad
I feel bad for Fetterman
This is sick
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) October 26, 2022
Shame on Democrats and the Pennsylvania media for pretending like @JohnFetterman is well.
This is so sad.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 26, 2022
Whoever decided to let Fetterman debate should never be involved in Democratic politics ever again
— Eric Cunningham (@decunningham2) October 26, 2022
I spoke to Fetterman recently, and I expected him to be very bad tonight. But he was much much worse than I expected (and much worse than in our one-on-one conversation.)
— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) October 26, 2022
Democrats are asking the same thing post-debate: Why did Fetterman's team allow him to take the stage tonight? No one I'm talking to on the left has a good thing to say about what just took place.
— Al Weaver (@alweaver22) October 26, 2022
Just so we are all clear: that was Fetterman WITH weeks of prep and specialized computer assistance throughout. So what you just saw is the very, very best Fetterman can do. Which is terrifying.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 26, 2022
Independent Pennsylvania voter: Before the debate “I was definitely leaning towards Fetterman, and I think I have totally changed to the Oz side.” pic.twitter.com/rgkMJSlyzP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 26, 2022