Apparently, Pennsylvania politics is all about getting the suburban mom vote, or so the professionals in polling say. This endorsement seems puzzling, but perhaps the Pennsylvania Treepers can clear it up. Prior story on PA political happenings here.
I don’t want to dump on anyone, but Dr. Oz being endorsed by President Trump seems out of sync with the base. Ultimately, it’s up to Pennsylvania Republican voters, and maybe they like this guy as the most viable candidate. Voter registration ends May 2nd, and the Pennsylvania primary is May 17th {link} [General election Nov 8].
I am honored to receive President Trump’s full support and endorsement, and I thank him for that. President Trump knows how critical it is to change the kinds of people we send to Washington. I’m ready to bring an America First agenda to the Senate for Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/7gmhZupinr
— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) April 10, 2022
Not a lot of people in my random unscientific Twitter poll are in favor.
However, how many people are from Pennsylvania?
This Senate seat is currently held by Toomey, a retiring Republican.
If we don’t retain it, it flips to Democrat.
PA doesn’t have run off elections. Who ever gets the most votes on May 17 wins the primary.
That is why a strategic vote should be considered, as much as I hate to say it.
If I were to put my finger on it, Trumps loyalty belongs to the Republican party, not the American people.
If you think this is going to take us to the Promised Land, well OK!
The man who revived the middle class when he was in office? You mean that Donald Trump?
He should endorse that middle class instead of finding the nearest RINO to promote.
The middle class, by the way, would love to hear from Trump. Does he plan on using the social platform he launched like he used to use Twitter? When he only releases statements and gives speeches and endorses RINOs it feels an awful lot like he’s being managed. It’s 15 months since he left office despite winning the election in a landslide…
Trump has a strategy but we are still to see if it’s the right one.
Besides, if he should stumble we do have a very attractive Governor in Florida who can pick up the baton.
So you don’t trust President Trump. OK, got it.
/sheesh
We will begin to lose elections because the lemmings still don’t understand President Trump. How could they when it is clear that they stopped reading after “endorsed Dr. Oz” and before President Trump went into some detail about “why”…
Trump is now more like a plate of scrambled eggs, where you have to unscramble the eggs to figure out what is going on. Because that in itself is such a daunting task, people just say “pass the Ketchup” and fork away.
And you are more like that pile of stuff a dog leaves on the sidewalk.
The major difference between you and President Trump is that the President has brain.
Kindly stop with the personal insults aimed at fellow Treepers.
If that was a Treeper, I am Catherine the Great. This place is alive with trolls… They play with minds on sites like this one. No more the Treehouse of old.
Just because we don’t think Trump is perfect doesn’t make us trolls. I for one will not give RINO republicans a win. The GOP will see that we MAGA adherents will not vote for any candidate, even one endorsed by Trump, that stands for issues that are alien to America’s founding principles.
Spot on! I am very disappointed in this recent development! Republicans still lack a comprehensive and aggressive ground game to rival democrats to which on a grass roots level to be unable to vette and find more qualified candidates who actually are not fomer Democratic party members crossing over and claiming to be conservatives. (RINO) We’ve seen this game before ie: “the lesser of two evils” narrative, when in reality its more about appeasement and laziness to put in the necessary work in developing such effective ground games to find true conservative candidates. This is why we have the situation in our politics today, where change is needed in a two party system, is in other words being manipulated with proxy candidates such as Dr. Oz for the sake of the party and not the long term future of the country as a whole. The more things change the more they remain the same and certainly with this endorsement is indicative that Trump still hasn’t learned from the past, so it seems. Maybe it’s all part of another problematic symptom that we have also become accustomed to, “business as usual”
The RNC is not in favor of MAGA policies. They never have been and never will be.
They only want our labor and lower wages via outsourcing.
Why don’t you share with us the ground game you are volunteered with? Dems are far more activist than we Republican Conservatives. We are more inclined to pound away on our laptop keys, spouting cliches, than to hit the streets and get out among ‘em. So tell us about your successful ground game history. We could use that experience…
I am writer, and produce media content on several broadcast outlets for my advocacy. Maybe not make assumptions before deciding to flap your gums at people you have no idea what they are about!
strategy
How do you propose he *endorse the middle class* without a GOP majority Congress? Oz is , contrary to popular (conservative* media not a RINO. I’ve read many of the accusations that cherry picked actions or comments of his to portray him as RINO, but he’s not. I don’t think he’s rigid MAGA, but pragmatically close enough. For instance, I;ve heard that he’s pro-abortion, based on comments he made that he thinks we need to make it easier for women considering abortion to carry their babies to term for adoption. Makes sense to me, rather that the insistence that there be no abortions, but with hardliners offering no suggestions on how to help those women carry those babies to term.
Have you read ANY of Sundance’s posts here, or do you always try to compete for the snark of the year award?
Once upon a time a fiery hand appeared and wrote something on a message board. Unable to understand the post, a man started sobbing. His mommy heard his distress and came down to comfort him. She gently touched his shoulder as he sobbed into his pillow and said “hey baby, what’s wrong, what’s wrong?”
Mommy then explained to him “When your daddy was around and he was troubled, he always called on this dude who had a very sagacious mind. I will fetch him for you and he will set you at ease.” Then mommy stood up, went to her bedroom, cracked the door and spoke “Hey Bert, can you do me a little favor?”
You could do all of us a favor and go be a troll somewhere else.
You could start on page one and you will find that the OZ pick by Trump is about as welcome as Lindsey Graham or Mitt Romney.
Somebody is going to find that Dr. Oz program where he talks about women needing male enzymes to be complete and reach their full potential, and it does not matter how the women takes those enzymes.
It should not take to long for Democrats to find it and rub it in your face.
That’s BS, hon. Oz is nowhere near being a Graham or Romney. I am MAGA but I am not a rigid MAGA zealot that brooks no deviation from that. Oz has actually been able to explain his positions. For instance, the fact that he featured some *trans* kids on his show does not translate to support for that. He actually regards the *trans* phenomena as a mental or physical disorder. Ditto abortion….saying that he believes we need to make it easier for women to carry a baby to term for adoption, instead of aborting, is not support for abortion. But some folks nee d to hear *no abortion!* while refusing to consider anything to actually, pragmatically prevent abortions.
Is that all you have? Pathetic.
You just get more ridiculous every time you make an ill-informed comment. This is not surprising since your knowledge of President Trump is below zero.
Go and troll somewhere else.
Use vision my friend! All will be revealed.
Disagree. Trump takes on the Republicans almost as much as he does the Democrats.
If you mean that Trump’s loyalty is “reforming the gop” to maga/AF….then ok.
Isn’t there anyone else besides this creep?
There are quite a few. Kathy Barnette, whom I’ve mentioned (just noticed Gen. Flynn has endorsed her), Carla Sands, Dave McCormick (former hedge fund manager), Jeff Bartos (favored by PA GOP), George Bochetto.
cityandstatepa.com/politics/2022
If OZ is the same as Toomey, I can live with it. Toomey if far from MAGA, be he’s also not even close to the 3 Waco’s: Collins, “ski” & Romney. The only person who could out do those 3 AINO’s would be a Democrat winner. I believe that, like you implied…this pick is strategic.
Thank you! Not being rigid MAGA does not equate with ‘RINO’. SO many folks refusing to see the forest, and not just the individual trees. People seem to have this notion that Trump endorsing a candidate is like the Pope canonizing a saint.
I could hug you for understanding that rigid throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater zealotry is getting to be a very tireome an losing wedge, in favor of the Dems. People had better grow the hell up and start looking at the forest and not focusing on the trees. And, I might add, develop better long-term memory skills about how tremendously Trump succeeded, especially in the midst of all the enmity directed at him. Politically, Oz is a relative newcomer, but from what I can see he is not RINO, but a bit to the left of rigid right…moderate, if you will, not RINO. Pro-life, pro-borders, anti-Fauci-ism. He’s the best chance to seat another Republican in the Senate, and people had better start thinking long term, rather than demanding a candidate who ticks off every MAGA box or they will have a tantrum that costs us all.
OZ is a liberal who supports the Alphabet perverts. This was a foolish move on Trump’s part. I live in PA and Oz would be just another Rino.
I watched Dr. Oz many moons ago. He seemed to be promoting BJ’s because women needed the enzymes.
But hey, we need the women vote in PA.
I think that was on Orpah.
Face Palm.
Trump is starting to lose me…
So that’s the end of his career then. Who knew it could be that easy?
No, he doesn’t. I don’even know where you came up with that percetion, but it does not comport with facts. He has acknowledged that he views *trans* culture as a physical or mental disorder, not a reality that should be reacted to by castration and hormones. Nor should men be allowed in women’s sports. Pro-life, pro border controls, anti-Fauci, pro-alternative medical treatments if desired ( an anit-establishment stance, all on its own)
Hell, He endorsed this one for Gov of AZ!
If Obama had a daughter….
She’s got a second house in Jamaica and a Jewish husband just like Kamala.
So, being married to a Jew is now an anti-MAGA indicator?
Better alert President Trump about Ivanka immediately!!!
Better alert my husband too, because I’m Jewish. Ha!
Jews deny Christ. Why do you feel positively about those who deny Christ? Judeo-Christianity is not Christianity.
Thank you. I am not anti-Semitic at all but I’m sick of judeo being put in front of Christianity. This is a nation founded by Christian and is a Christian country!
When they start appending everything Christian with Judeo?
That is what Gramsci ideologies adopted by academia for so many years has been able to do. Change definitions, vernaculars in order to homogenize true definitions into something we forget altogether. Christians are the oppressors because it represents the hegemony of oppressive systems, so adopt the term “Judeo-Christians” to be more inclusive and less white and racist.
Uh…nooooo…it’s about acknowledging that Judaism is the foundation of Christianity.
So you miss the point! Well alrighty then!
Some are still finding Christ for the first time. Messianic Judiasm is spreading, which is interesting. As for me, I married a Christian who has introduced me to Jesus. Don’t judge too harshly those you don’t know, leave that to God.
Thank you!
My husband is Jewish, drawn to Christianity through Messianic Judaism. Personally, I find Messianic Judaism very enlightening and essential to understanding Christianity.
So much so you degenerate other Christians for have different views as your own. Well aren’t you special!
Telling some not to judge harshly is akin to telling them to jump off a cliff. It is in their DNA. I read the other day that it has a name: cynical hostility. Considered to be something that causes premature aging.
they do not “deny Christ”….they do not believe He was the Messiah…they KNOW a man named Jesus Christ lived in Israel and was crucified in Jerusalem…..that is why we are in the Age of Dispensation because the Jews failed to spread faith in and belief in the Almighty…..even then they are still God’s Chosen People and are included in His plans
God called them the “sons of (Satan)”.
Sure, they’re included in His plans. Early saints and Church Fathers wrote of the glory in Heaven reserved for the martyrs at the time of anti-Christ, declaring that these martyrs to come will take their place as the greatest saints in Heaven, even above the early church martyrs. The Jews are instrumental in those plans – they’ll be the ones martyring them.
Funny, it didn’t work out so well for them when wandering in the desert for forty years where they left their carcasses to rot while complaining to God they were sick of eating Manna. Funny how some things never change! Lol!
Most Christians today ARE Jewish. They believe in a lot of the same things Paul told us to stop with.
There is only one standard of Righteousness and few have any idea what it is. Beware the finger pointing that SHOULD be inward (log vs. speck).
Anything that begins “Most Christians” is the sort of unsupported statement of “fact” that is heavily indulged in around here. Link to your data?
Oh, just stop it, ALL of you! We all began as Jews, and Jesus came to us as a Jew. Thus, we are a Judeo / Christian nation.
That many Jews still await the Messiah, is on them. Please do not denigrate the Jewish People or nation. The Jews who are self-hating, like Soros and many others are the ones of great concern.
There are also plenty if Jewish conservatives who read here and have to read this anti-Semitic garbage.
The topic is Oz. He is a lousy pick for PA.
Soros is an abomination to most Jews I know, which is light years worse than just a self hating Jew.
Very unnerving to see that a number of Treepers are so denigrating toward Jews. Sickening.
Jesus was…oh, what was he? oh , yeah…a Jew, dear. No Judaism, no Christianity. Literacy and honesty can be your friends.
Trump Predicts Arizona Candidate Will Become the ‘Greatest Governor in American History’
I saw an interview with her, maybe a month ago. She seemed pretty sharp and was saying all the right things. But that’s all I have seen from her.
Other than antisemitism, is there any other reason to dislike her??
Uh…she voted for Obama, and was a TV anchor/actress.
She’s a chameleon and is owned. She’s not doing this for the betterment of her constituents.
Thanks, I didn’t know this.
I still don’t “know” it. Links, please.
I think she is MAGA enough, purity tests are the specialty of the left, we should not copy them, lest we eat our own.
I have a Jewish husband and children. What’s your point, other than to advertise a reprehensible anti-semitism that you view as a psotive feature of how you make decisions?
Meh.
Try harder.
OZ has dual citizenship too, Turkey and U.S. Plus he is involved with pro-edrogan orgs. OZ is a friend of and owes his wealth and fame to Oprah. He has tried to sell some snake oil products on late night TV also. We don’t need any more Hollywood in DC, we already have enough clowns there.
33% of PA voters are still undecided.
I wonder how that could shake out on election day?
Source
https://tinyurl.com/2p89mrhv
The Real DR. OZ
Through his participation in previous meetings of the World Economic Forum, Dr. Oz was elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow, a select group of individuals under the age of 40 who have been singled out by the WEF for their challenging and innovative ideas.
As head of the health initiative of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow, Dr. Oz has spearheaded formulation of a major policy report to be presented at the 2002 meetings. The overall document is titled “The Possible Human,” with one chapter titled “America’s Approach,”
https://welovetrump.com/2021/12/03/heres-why-i-am-screaming-no-on-dr-oz-for-the-pennsylvania-senate-gop-primary-find-out-his-globalist-ties/
Dr. Oz is close friend of Oprah. I believe she is the one who gave him his “break” into TV Land. Hollywood ties..
I personally would not vote for him.
Terrible endorsement by Trump. The Oprah angle should have said it all! Dr. Oz is a fraud.
WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow = traitor to their country
Great … another severely conservative Klaus Schwab butt-boy, just what we need.
Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore…
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Remember the Great Oz? He was a charlatan, too!
This is why I switched to the Libertarian party years ago. Republican voters are like Charlie Brown when Nancy Pelosi pretends to hold the football. Republican party never delivers.
GW Bush had a full deck and what did we get? The Patriot Act used against us every chance they get. Trump never seems to deliver either.
Whenever Democrat operatives want to kill off Republicans in close races, they direct resources to a Libertarian candidate to try and siphon off votes. Libertarians should be a significant block in the GOP grassroots and intelligentsia, but instead broke off and claimed the feel good loser award.
I’ve been down the Libertarian road and seen the downside. And I have the Harry Browne appreciation certificate to prove it.
Just curious: What do you believe Trump “never seemed to deliver”? So many of us lived pretty well, the border was secure, he didn’t get us into another foreign war. What didn’t you get that you had hoped for?
Obama’s DOJ and FBI were still in full control when Trump left. Who was held accountable for Russia-gate? What about Trump’s spending? What about his numerous poor personnel choices, including his VP? And his January 6 decisions? Just because he was better than Obama or Biden doesn’t mean he repaired the country. And why are you only mentioning Trump? Because almost every other Republican has been worthless?
The secure border didn’t last and the wall was not completed. Trump got in the way of the Deep State and Congress for 4 years but he was easily dismissed. His daughter’s involvement in the administration was just weird. People need to be more objective about Trump. DeSantis is more consistent. Republican voters keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Dr Oz…the next Mitt Romney.
This is why in so many ways DeSantis would be a far better choice.
No one talks more about draining the swamp while advancing swamp creatures into the worst possible positions.
Barr, Sessions, Comey, Wray, etc etc.
Trump’s personnel selection were a disater far too often and ultimately undermined him which contributed to his defeat in 2020
You should not forget he was constrained by a RINO Senate. Politics is the “art of the possible” PDJT’s nominees needed senate confirmation, so McConnell had a veto on them. He must be removed, and a MAGA senate leader chosen.
Thank you for that reply. Sadly it’s like trying to teach advanced calculus to a 5-year old.
He could have filled these positions with “acting” temporary heads that would not have needed senate confirmation.
And now he’s trying to elect a RINO Senate with this endorsement.
Kathy Barnette is a loyal MAGA supporter. She has also spoken out for investigating the fraud of 2020.
Just one tiny fact you have overlooked, or maybe still aren’t aware of – the 2020 election was RIGGED, therefore he was not ‘defeated,’ and his personnel selections had nothing to do with anything.
When “our own” say Trump was defeated in 2020, it tends to be self-disclosure…
It was rigged. How did Trumps appointments do in investigating it? Trump appointed FBI director Wray and AG Barr (Bush) did the nation proud huh.
Personnel choices are the most important thing a President does, as we see today.
Trump was not “defeated in 2020” -he won in a landslide. The game was rigged.
Sorry, not happening skippy. Ron is staying right here in Fla. Dream on.
Another Mittens Romney.
What are the choices?
I know Trump likes celebrities and he also likes winners.
I would also remind people – Trump was formerly a New York DEMOCRAT – and was pro abortion for instance.
Trump changed when he learned the truth.
Perhaps Dr. Oz can change as well.
Perhaps isn’t fact. Oz is WEF and therefore poison to the USA.
So nobody gets a second chance?
NO. The nation is at stake. SMH
lol
A carpetbagger, Globalist, red flag law lover, McConnell backed establishment, Rino-by-convenience, Oprah BFF, ugly phony ; what could possibly go wrong?
Trump’s failure to get righteous over his COVID scamdemic fake vaccine poison mistake along with supporting scum like this (an unforced error that can’t be blamed on Fauci) has me sickened to the core.
I am grateful to President Trump for what he accomplished and tried to accomplish. He did not have to go down that escalator and begin enduring scorn, slander, and subversion — for us.
I’ve always most admired the example he set in his politically incorrect speech at a time when it seemed dangerous to dissent.
That said, I don’t think blind hero worship is useful. I always winced when I read comments here asserting that Mr. Trump was “anointed of God.”
There’s got to be some balance between being respectful and grateful on the one hand and realistic on the other. It’s always good when we have reason to be respectful, grateful, and realistic at the same time.
Politics was invented by the enemy of God and the enemy of mankind. It’s a game to him. He uses gullible true believers to stir up controversies and create devision where none previously existed. It’s one of satans ways of unwinding after a long day at the office persecuting Christians. Politics is without a doubt the greatest corrupter of souls mankind faces. Power over others and the perks that come with the position are the motivation of MOST who seek these positions of control.
Man inherently has always known what is best for his survival but the enemy has so twisted the minds of most of those who aspire to lead (control) humanity that inevitably we are led away from sound judgement into a wilderness of futile meaningless pointless battles that no side wins.
Every living being has the same desire to live and the same needs that must be met on a daily basis. Most follow their conscience in their daily interactions with others. They wish to do no harm to others. The enemy exploits the worst of mankind’s fears and weaknesses and through the political process divides and alienates one group from another.
No one who enters the political arena stays pure and is immune from satans game. No one. Idol worship is a sin Americans love to embrace. Be they on the left or the so called “right” we love our idols… until we don’t.
Sad to say, but Trump gets alot of his political advice from Sean Hannity, who is also endorsing Oz. Trump really needs better political advisors than Mr. Tick Tock.
As of now, I’m voting for Carla Sands in the primary. But there’s other good candidates in the race too. Oz isn’t one of them, IMO.
Hannity is a liberal and establishment hack. Always has been.
A lib ? You’ve got to be kidding right?
Dr. Oz . . . friend of Trump and fellow graduate of Wharton School of Finance
with healthcare training at Penn Medical.
Every day now Trump seems less MAGA and more Republican. His base has been going in the other direction for years, but he seems oblivious to this. His endorsements are all the proof anyone needs. He derides RINOs at his rallies, but then endorses them when the rallies are over. And this happens over and over and over again.
That’s just it there are other much better candidates. Oz will get Democrats voting for him and lose Republicans!
The big guns have to let loose on Oz now and dig up ALL the dirt and make him pull out of the race like Sean Parnell.
This is horrible for PA and the USA.
I cheered when he endorsed Palin, I’m booing now.
Vannity’s texts with key WH people show he shut down all talk of the steal on 1-6.
President Trump doesn’t take advice from anybody. He may hear what they have to say, but he always has, and will continue, to make his own decisions.
That’s a nice thought, but unfortunately it’s not true. Guess who convinced DJT to put John Bolton in his administration? Sean Hannity.
BobC, that is exactly what I have heard from Day One. He listens to all. A person with a closed mind will never make it as an entrepreneur, let alone a president of the United States. But every account I have read about him emphasized his making his own decisions.
I’d love to know how one person states that the base is moving away from him – Trump supporters I know are still with him – when what they are really saying is that THEY are moving away from him. Such broad sweeping statements, unsupported.
How do you know that “Trump gets alot (sic) of his political advice from Sean Hannity”? Link?
I’m from PA and I don’t get this at all… Oz is a big Alphabet Mafia supporter and has no issue with Groomers in the schools. Big mistake here…
Endorsements can also give a clue…
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Endorsements in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race keep stacking up.
Excerpt:
Republicans
Kathy Barnette, conservative commentator
Organizations: BlakPAC, Pennsylvania State Police FOP Pioneer Lodge #37
Public figures: U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, former U.S. National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, actor John Ratzenberger
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Dave McCormick, former hedge fund executive
Organizations: National Border Patrol Council, the Butler County Republican Committee
Public figures: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, former U.S. Senate candidate and Army ranger Sean Parnell and Butler County Sheriff Mike Slupe
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, celebrity physician and cardiothoracic surgeon
Public figures: U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, musician Ted Nugent, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes
https://www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/2022/03/here-are-endorsements-pennsylvania-us-senate-race/364274/
Hell. No.
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“This is all about winning elections…”
You have to play the cards you’re dealt.
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The problem is Trump ignored a better card and endorsed the losing hand.
“ Oz, trust us we got Trump figured out. Visit Mar a Largo, take him a nice gift in hand, compliment Trump on his golf courses, make him feel like your loyal to him, kiss his ring and you’ll get his endorsement.”
Mitch McConnell
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Who? Who was ignored? Who is the viable alternative?
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Kathy Barnette.
That’s who I heard was maga. And I heard she was close to tying with oz in the polls.
Bottom line for Trump is WHO can defeat the democrat opponent in a specific race in a certain state; not who happens to be the most popular republican to the MAGA crowd on social media round the country.
No you play the cards that have a chance to improve the US. No use winning a seat if they are going to vote for destruction of the culture anyway. If MAGA has no undetlying PRICIPALS, it’s dead. Never vote for a WEF stooge.
Maybe he’s out of options in PA. I can’t believe he’s supporting this guy.
According to this Dec Breitbart article, McCormick at least has potential to be A populist Senator. Does he, though? I’m just starting to look into things.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/22/exclusive-populist-potential-ceo-of-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-plans-to-go-full-maga-in-looming-pennsylvania-senate-bid/amp/
On the other hand, McCormick’s maga makeover appears to be strictly political manuevering. He’s gonna flip back on day one, imo. I hate those fakers more than anything
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Former Bridgewater CEO Goes Full MAGA in Senate Race
https://bmceo.xyz/former-bridgewater-ceo-goes-full-maga-in-senate-race/
I agree on McCormick he’s a turd.
All these RINOS wanting Trump’s approval and endorsement in PA. That tells you they know Trump is important to win in PA. If he’s that important, go with a real MAGA candidate.
A thinker shows up!!!! Happiness all over you. Read, learn, investigate. That’s what informed voters do. They don’t just become hostile cynics with not a supporting fact to point to.
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McCormick was/is in thick as thieves with McCain, the Bushes, Mattis, and the whole crowd undermining of Trump every which way, including (last straw) criticizing him as responsible for Jan. 6.
Notwithstanding that I have a special place in my heart for West Pointers and veterans, but 20 years on when Trump came in, McCormick already had cemented his certain allies and networks in the Republican party and they are not the pro-Trump MAGA contingent.
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Suspicious of all “McC” names LOL.
Endorsing Dr. Oz is a major, major mistake. Who the hell is advising Trump, anyway?
Rudy G?
Tick-Tockus Interruptus.
Probably Javanka (Jared & Ivanka), who should have been kicked back to New York, as both are liberal. Ivanka ‘forgot’ to change her affiliation so she could vote for her father in New York…
Hannity
Oz is WEF. https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/major-report-world-health-presented-2002-world-economic-forum. why is Trump supporting him???
Dr. Oz couldn’t possibly be worse them the RINO he would be replacing.
On election night 2016 Toomey actually had the audacity to take credit for Trumps win. He thought that he brought Trump over the finish line. That kind delusional self important RINO is what wins in PA.
The republican voters
there are as gullible as they come. Especially the women. Sorry ladies.
That being said, being no worse than Toomey is not saying much.
Trump knows that winning the senate is critical. That enables him to decide who sits in the key chairs in the senate.
Sometime that is all we can hope to achieve.
Thankfully we have a fighter like Trump willing to deal with the deep state .
I know I couldn’t.
I too am disappointed in this endorsement. Not in president Trump but in the reality of the situation at hand.
This is a Kathy Barnette video just to give you a taste. She is so easy to like, good on the issues, and seems authentic.
Video
If I were to vote my heart/gut….I would vote for her (and still may).
If the Oz/McCormick race (as the top two likely to win) didn’t muck it up strategically, I would vote for Barnette. I think they all probably have equal chances in the general election because of the mood of the state.
Oz and McCormick will likely both be bad for the state. McCormick will turn on us right away. Oz, will likely treat Trump right….and perhaps, can be persuaded later (post Trump) because he may be a little too woke, but at least he doesn’t hate us.
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She has not clarified one single stand on any issue. The above video and everything she said could have been made for a leftist Democrat with only minor changes in the visuals. All vague or ignorant canned rhetoric. The only issue I could find was being against drilling for oil on public lands.
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If that video is her best shot, what is special about her? What does she do for a living now? History in politics? Anything? or just a pleasant non-threatening personality?
I don’t care about Oz – in fact, I think this is a sign of bad judgment. On the flip side, what good came off having ‘conservatives’ in the Executive branch the last time around? Conservatives such as Mulvaney, Pence, Pompeo, .. or the generals – Kelly, McMaster, Mattis, or broadly in the R-party (Paul Ryan, anyone?).
Bottom line is that if Trump clones is the gold standard, we’re going to end up being very poor. How many self-made billionaires, after what happened to Trump, are waiting in line to go that route again? So, the best one can hope is to take a chance on some of the sincere-sounding folks, and hope for the best.
For the record, I don’t trust most of the people running for elections. Only thing that will matter are results and actions. Everything else is empty talk. Everyone sounds as ‘severely conservative’ as Romney once did.
Yet another float in the parade of horrible personnel judgment and “elite” favoritism that hamstrung the Trump presidency. “He went to Harvard!” Gee whiz. Wow. I get that Trump thinks he’s the patrician who can command the loyalty of the plebs, but has he learned nothing? What’s the point of defeating democrats if the reward is John Roberts, Mitt Romneys and more money and power for Bushies? This is the first time I’ve second-guessed my support for Trump in 2024.
Paranoia strikes deep..into your life it will creep..Is everyone with a slightly differing opinion considered a troll or rino on this site? The idol worship and trashing of dissenting opinion is not helpful. This political correctness from some on the so called right reminds me of Commie Democrat tactics.. like the subtle references to“interesting views”.
Why not just come out and call those who disagree with the thought leaders you admire traitors that need to be put against the wall? Why pussyfoot around?
An interesting view.
Maybe, maybe not.
Depends on the reader I guess.
LOL… Just what I would expect a Troll or Rino or Treeperino would say…
LOL…
Your comments say more about you than those you comment about…
“It is curious, is it not?”
— Captain Corcoran
When all the momentum was there to start the MAGA party, Trump had a meeting with sodomite McCarthy and immediately publicly ruled out heading a new party that represented MAGA. He has no discernment and continues to support poison jabs.
He’s been compromised or it’s even worse.
People have to wake up and realize MAGA must continue with Desantis or someone else.
All the candidates are bad, and Trump should not have endorsed any of them. Northern Republicans are just a hopeless nightmare.
There are plenty of southern Republicans who are just as bad.
It’s a stupid endorsement, but I’m not going to get upset over it.
This may give you some ideas why PDJT endorsed Dr. Oz.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz
In September 2016, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump appeared on The Dr. Oz Show.[77] In the lead-up to the show’s taping, Oz promoted Trump’s appearance with a claim that Oz would assess medical records submitted to the show by Trump and reveal his assessment on the show.[78] CNN speculated that Trump’s appearance aimed to appeal to The Dr. Oz Show‘s large female viewership.[79][80] In 2018, Trump appointed Oz, athletes, and The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno to his Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Trump’s selections were criticized[by whom?] as choosing “pundits over experts” for the panel.[13] Trump appointed Oz to a second term on the council in December 2020.[81][82]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of media publications reported that Oz’s discussion of the 2019 coronavirus strain on television was influencing Trump’s decision-making after appearing on The Dr. Oz Show and promoting Oz to an advisory role.[83][84][85][86] Oz had promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a cure for COVID-19 on more than 25 Fox News broadcasts in March and April 2020.[87][88][89][90] Trump claimed to be taking the drug in May 2020.[91] In June 2020, the Food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine, stating that it was “no longer reasonable to believe” that the drug was effective against COVID-19 or that its benefits outweighed “known and potential risks”.[92][93][94]
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In March 2022, President Joe Biden asked Oz and Herschel Walker to resign from their posts on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, or be terminated. A White House official said the Biden administration does not allow federal candidates to serve on presidential boards.[71]
“I’m not here to tell you what to think or how to live your life. I’m here to help push for a cultural reset.” Dr. Oz…
I’m no genius and I haven’t stayed at a Holiday Inn recently, but those two statements seem mutually exclusive to me.
Trump should have just stayed out of this one.
No thanks. Oz is another Arien Specter. Yuck. Do better Pennsylvania.
How about Kathy Barnette. She seems like the stronger America First choice.
Sometimes Trump makes it very hard to be a supporter.
No no no. A thousand times no. I’m angry, this makes zero sense.
Oz is worse than Romney.
He’s Hollywood and a carpetbagger.
I live in PA. The other front runner is terrible also.
I don’t know were Trump got this advice, but Oz is pro abortion and pro transitioning children who think they are transgender. I’m not stupid with zero memory.
Trump should have chosen one of the 3 in the middle who were all polling about the same and given them the boost.
If Oz is at a Trump rally in PA he’ll get booed. This is horrible.
This is straight up Sean Hannity in trumps ear.
dr. Oz is a joke. He’s a leftist. Posobiec has all the receipts
All I know is: I love President Trump!🕊💕
That was a very diplomatic post. Instead of draining the swamp, Trump turned it into a resort on the shore. His horrible endorsements prove he cannot be trusted to save America.
With all those books and articles he has written, how has he had time to do anything else?
The dude from Queens is missing something here.
Harping on his education….
This is a copy of my post to DON from the recent Neil Oliver thread relating to an Abraham Lincoln quote:
This is right on target from a leadership perspective. The big problem is that the self proclaimed elitists, send their kids to different schoolrooms from K all the way through university grad/law schools.
Those kids get a different, better, and more comprehensive college/university education with curricula that are targeted to business/legal/political governance.
Comparatively, what I have noticed in the business/retail world is this:
Once a product is available at an affordable price to the average middle and lower middle class person, it is a decline of sorts even though it is much less expensive. Ladies hair salons, manicure and nail salons are a good example. The best salons are still too expensive for the masses. Ipod, Ipad and Iphones are my favorite example having been unaffordable at their roll out.
Transfer this idea to “higher education”. There are so many on line colleges, it is pathetic, prices pushed almost to unaffordable, but not quiet. And there are many “schools of nursing” that fall into that category (because of projected shortages of nurses)–they will admit anybody.
Today, due to the student loan racket, more people than ever before are being admitted to first, second, third, and un-tiered colleges and universities, whether they are capable or not.
Does anyone here think that Ivy League undergrad curricula is like all the rest?
One example of forward thinking at preferential universities: in the late 80’s early 90’s, the University of Chicago closed up shop for their nursing programs. Nursing has often been equated with lower class employees/participants. (Tell me again how ‘central long term planning does not exist?).
The schoolroom philosophy of the average child exposed to the satanists, will clamor and scream for whatever the politically social agenda of flavor of the future day is…in the unranked colleges, the extension of high school–with a different goal and curricula.
While schools and teachers clamor for LGBT etc and trans whatever…distracting from true education…
One prepares for ‘leaders’, the other prepares, beyond k-12, for malleable sheep.
We need a hidden and infiltrated population, who like back during the 1850’s–taught the illiterate slave and slave children, to read and write–to teach the concepts of Ivy League doctrine and education.
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My native State is PA. I have always believed in doing the right and reasonable thing. I believe Dr. Oz is smart, very smart and able to connect with everyday people on issues.
We definitely need accomplished and disciplined legislators, not people seeking a 40+ year career in elected government. Oz will be one who doesn’t need the money. He’s already had more accolades and money than most of us.
If he is able to do the job of a Senator with a heart for this nation and our Constitution, then vote for him. We know what we get with leftist Dems. Do we need more of them?
One thing comes to mind, Back when Oz was ran through the ringer of congress over his endorsement of weight loss supplements. He got a taste of what big farma is really all about. Maybe he can do some good busting farma down to size.
This is an interesting development….but my vote is still going to Kathy Barnette.
From what I’ve read and heard about Oz, it would appear DJ hasn’t learned from his past mistakes…GH.R. McMaster, Gen. Mattis, Barr, Bolton, Elaine Chao, Sessions, Haspel, Wray, Pence …and on and on…endorsing Mitt Romney and Cocaine Mitch…The last thing Trump needs should he win in 2024 is more of the same. He was a great President, but a lousy character assessor when it came to surrounding himself with loyalists….He can very well be his own worst enemy at times. It’s why I think I’d rather Desantis took a run at the office. Trump can be too immature when it comes to selecting people….He walks up to someone he barely knows and shazzamm…he endorses him…Oz probably said, he liked Trumps tie. That’s all it seems to take for our former President’s ego…And it is an ego problem.
Did you know that a number of his appointees were recommended by Condoleezza Rice? McMaster, Mattis, Kelly…others. He was not a swamp creature. He had to rely on the recommendations of others. Can you name a president who made perfect appointments? And was under fire from the time he announced his candidacy? How quickly we forget – continuous-cleaning minds? – if we ever knew at all.
Give it up. He was President and he could not have appointed more evil scumbag globalists if he tried. It sounds like your weak defense of an ongoing pattern or incompetence is to say he is so weak that he’s controlled by others.
Let me remind you that at the time of these appointments like Wray and Haspel it was near unanimous consternation from real conservatives. It wasn’t like he didn’t know, when we all knew.
Likely Trump would have endorsed Sean Parnell but he withdrew due to a messy divorce. Kathy Barnett is MAGA but not sure she can win the primary…trouble is the the Dems are running John Fetterman who is a complete and total socialist/communist.
Why is anyone surprised by this? The list of terrible hires, nominations, and endorsements is endless.
Politics make lousy bedfellows. McCormick is the only other viable Republican candidate and he is totally unacceptable. Both of these Democrats running as Republicans have crushed the other real Republicans with the weights of their war chests. McCormick is equivalent to another Cheney and Oz to a Manchin.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Reading that endorsement it looks to me like Trump is pulling Dr. Oz toward America First as much as he is pulling America First toward Dr. Oz.
It looks to me like Trump is trying to play it safe with his endorsements in key areas knowing the win itself is of monumental importance and knowing that in this area of partisanship, a turncoat who votes with our side most of the time would actually be better than a Democrat rubber stamp who will vote to destroy the country all the time. The endorsement of Perdue seems better but similar.
I’m not into idol worship either, but President Trump is the leader, and he’s consistently walked toward the fire and fought the good fight. I don’t fault him for not defeating the swamp because he needed more help from us to do it, and not enough of us were understanding of the situation.
I’m not in either of those states, but if I was, I would vote for the Trump endorsed candidate even if I would ultimately prefer not to.
With all due respect and I get where you’re comming from, I love the guy too, but neither you nor I selcted the cutthroats he employed…he did that all on his own…He’s a lousy judge of character in a job that requires the exact opposite.
What president made perfect appointments? People with character. I keep waiting.
From the very beginning the anti-Trumpers on both sides of the aisle resorted to calling his supporters “cultists” and worse. They all were happy to put him down because all they knew about him was that he was a successful businessman and had a TV show called “The Apprentice”. Not a bland nebbish in a suit who could be that nice guy next door. A guy like Trump scared the hell out of many. “He’s not like us…..” He wasn’t. But he had lived the American Dream, loved our country, and wanted the best for us and our country. He did not want the federal government to run our lives. He wanted us to be safe here — the border secured — and he didn’t want our young men and women sent to endless wars abroad. He wanted us to prosper. There was much more. So if supporting him is being a cultist, my hand is up. Guilty as charged. Ron DeSantis will be a good president at some time. There is no good reason to pit him against President Trump and he knows it. We will never have a president who passes a purity test – just as none of us will ever pass one. I’m with the realists, the pragmatists, and those who have given their best. Teddy Roosevelt said it best. I used to have this in a frame on my office wall:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
https://www.trcp.org/2011/01/18/it-is-not-the-critic-who-counts/
Do you want wants best for America? Well i hope we all do, and if you do then you should understand how these appointments like Wray, Haspel, Barr and Milley are what allowed this nightmare we are living in to happen. What about the vaccine?
Being an apologist is not helping. Trump either has ZERO discernment or he’s compromised.
President Trump has always seemed like he is to obsessed with ‘picking the winner’. He frequently boasts about the win-loss record of his endorsements at rallies. It seems he expects some loyalty out of people later, but he rarely gets it.
I am very disappointed with this endorsement. It makes me question PDTs judgement.
See poso twit. He has receipts on Dr Oz.