Fetterman's growing on me

[George K]

From the RWEC: "I was wrong"

It’s time for me to do something that pundits seldom do: Flat out admit I was wrong.

This is a rarity in the commentating world. But boy, was I.

Here goes: I was wrong about Sen. John Fetterman.

Writing in The Post on Valentine’s Day in 2023, I opined that Pennsylvania’s new US Senator lacked the mental and physical abilities needed to serve.

Sen. John Fetterman speaking at the Yeshiva University commencement ceremony in Queens on May 29, 2024.
Sen. John Fetterman speaking at the Yeshiva University commencement ceremony in Queens on May 29, 2024. Dennis A. Clark
According to reports, he couldn’t understand voices, had trouble walking and generally wasn’t up to the job.

The mainstream press rallied to protect him (there was a D next to his name, after all), but even a New York Times puff piece admitted that to Fetterman, voices sounded like the adults in the “Peanuts” cartoons — indecipherable noise — and that his health problems had left him with “physical impairment and serious mental health challenges.”

But that was a rare concession. After NBC’s Dasha Burns interviewed him both live and on camera, she said Fetterman didn’t seem to be able to follow their conversation.

That revelation got Burns dogpiled by lefty activists and fellow journalists (to the extent there’s a difference nowadays) amid charges of “ableism” and the like. She was denounced on the air by her own network’s Savannah Guthrie and in the pages of the Times.

From all this, I concluded that Fetterman was just going to be a party tool — shepherded around by his staff, told how to vote by handlers, an institutionally pliable vote for the Democratic Party and the leftist activists who control it.

Basically, a Senate voting machine programmed by the apparatchiks.

Again: Boy, was I wrong.

Good for him.

[Axtremus]

So … we stop talking about Fetterman’s penchant for hoodies instead of business suits now?

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Fetterman's growing on me:

So … we stop talking about Fetterman’s penchant for hoodies instead of business suits now?

If you go to church worship, and I don't know if you do, do you wear something that shows respect for the institution, or do you come in a wife-beater t-shirt and shorts?

It's possible to have zero respect for tradition and still be right, you know.

But in answer to your question, "Yes."

[Mik]

No, he’s still horribly dressed.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in Fetterman's growing on me:

No, he’s still horribly dressed.

Agree.

[Axtremus]

Sen. Fetterman might know a thing or two about surviving disastrous debate performance ahead of an election …

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4745539-fetterman-defends-biden-debate-performance/

Still growing on you?

[Jolly]

Fetterman could and did get better. The Resident will not. Oh, they may jack him up and he might have a good rally or two, reading scripted remarks off the teleprompter or cue cards, but he's in a decline you don't come back from.

[LuFins Dad]

I’m becoming more and more convinced that Fetterman died in the hospital when he was taken in for depression last year, and they’re paying my buddy Rob to take over as John. The money is probably good enough to have him tow the line on some stuff, but he’s slowly shifting his positions…

[Copper]

Fetterman's growing on me, AI version

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in Fetterman's growing on me:

I’m becoming more and more convinced that Fetterman died in the hospital when he was taken in for depression last year, and they’re paying my buddy Rob to take over as John. The money is probably good enough to have him tow the line on some stuff, but he’s slowly shifting his positions…

Here's one for George or Bach (or maybe one of George's daughters), but after a stroke such as Fetterman's, I know some personality things can happen. But can this much of a political change occur? This guy is smart enough to read the political landscape pretty well right now.

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in Fetterman's growing on me:

@LuFins-Dad said in Fetterman's growing on me:

I’m becoming more and more convinced that Fetterman died in the hospital when he was taken in for depression last year, and they’re paying my buddy Rob to take over as John. The money is probably good enough to have him tow the line on some stuff, but he’s slowly shifting his positions…

Here's one for George or Bach (or maybe one of George's daughters), but after a stroke such as Fetterman's, I know some personality things can happen. But can this much of a political change occur? This guy is smart enough to read the political landscape pretty well right now.

Stroke? Forget the stroke. He’s been changed since he went to Walter Reed for depression. Smarter, able to speak coherently, personality, everything.

[George K]

No-show.

[Jolly]

He's positioning himself...

[Mik]

Sure looks like it.

[jon-nyc]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he was denied a prime speaking spot and would rather not show up than be just another senator.

[Jolly]

Could be. What does that say about the current state of the party?

[jon-nyc]

That not every junior senator gets a prime speaking spot regardless of how ambitious they are?

[LuFins Dad]

I think the Israel thing might be a real sticking point for him.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in Fetterman's growing on me:

That not every junior senator gets a prime speaking spot regardless of how ambitious they are?

I would say that independent of the convention situation, the democratic party has on some level an anti-semitism problem.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Fetterman's growing on me:

@jon-nyc said in Fetterman's growing on me:

That not every junior senator gets a prime speaking spot regardless of how ambitious they are?

I would say that independent of the convention situation, the democratic party has on some level an anti-semitism problem.

I wonder if they are serving bagels at the continental breakfast tables at the hall?