Filipkowski explains Fetterman - He grew up rich, never had a job? No military

[UTUSN]

Lays out perfectly our trajectory of how we supported him and "dragged him across the finish line."

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[Norrrm]

1. Yet he was still better than Oz.

[UTUSN]

3. Then and erratically now.

[Cha]

8. That's not saying much at all.. We needed a

a True Dem, Conor Lamb.

[Goonch]

2. ;-{) Shopping

[rampartd]

4. at least he beat oz

but maybe oz would not do as much damage as a senator as he does to medicare/medicaid.

[UTUSN]

5. No question about picking F. or any other Dem over any Repub, but it was our support that did the beating of OZ.

Not only the PA Dem voters but our wider Dem encouragement and donors. The OZ harm there or here wouldn't make most Dems pick OZ in any case based on speculation back in real time, no?

[rampartd]

7. no. oz is a charlatan

like most of the trumpetocracy. (rule by the loudest ? or rule bt the brassyest? maybe both)

[karynnj]

12. Lots of credit should go to his excellent staff

I didn't live in PA, but MSNBC played the wonderful video responses they made highlighting every Oz misstep.

[karynnj]

13. With Oz winning, Biden's successful first two years would not have happened

There were only 50 Democratic Senators then so Harris broke a lot of party line ties. In the second two years, we had lost the House, so having 51 Senators was only good for confirming nominations.

[oasis]

6. "Fox New's useful idiot"

[Skittles]

9. we have to be careful

it is.....against the rules to call him a piece of shit

[UTUSN]

10. We won't call him a piece of shit.

[fujiyamasan]

15. Can I just call him an ass hole?

Ass holes serve a purpose, just like Fetterman (after all, we need his seat to remain blue, but not much else).

[karynnj]

11. I never saw a reason to prefer Fetterman to Lamb, but one thing is infair

"Never had a job" ignores that he was mayor and then lt Governor before being a Senator. If you don't count government jobs, Bill Clinton, who was an AG and then governor when he the first ran for President, had only a small period in between as a college law professor. Biden was a Senator at age 30 until he was VP. Public service counts as a job.

This is an attack that is more honestly that he was a career politician.

[UTUSN]

14. True. I would look for contact information on FILIPKOWSKI, but

[karynnj]

16. Probably the same "but" I have

He may be someone backing most of what I agree with, but his goal is to get clicks and use what is out there.

I am not even sure how much a change there was in Fetterman as I know very little of his actions as Mayor or Lt Governor. Not to mention, relitigating whether he should have been our nominee is useless.

As the stroke was days before the primary and the seriousness was not known, it would have been unthinkable for an opponent to argue that it would be better for him to drop out. He had essentially already won the nomination at least from polling.

It also seems clear he will .be successfully primaried.

[UTUSN]

17. I usually try to be clear, so will fix my indirection here. I don't think FILIPKOWSKI is a click-baiter (I only see

bits that other DUers post here), but his take grabbed me because of the ongoing frustration about FETTERMAN (like with SINEMA and MANCHIN before) and learning the grew-up-in-a-rich-house and no-job (besides politician, thanks again). My "but" seems to be different from yours, but will leave it to the imagination - so much for my clarifying!

As for "how much a change" - I, too, know nothing about his views before the senatorial run - or really, even during it and now! - but FILIPKOWSKI filled in about how he adopted Bernie's Progressive stances (in preparation for the Senate run? ), so the change is about his current frustration to us.

Somebody else brought up the relitigating suggestion. It never crossed my mind and certainly not now preferring OZ or ever or even replacing FETTERMAN in the primary back then.