This guy is running for Senate. No really:
And yes, he’s a Republican:
TV doctor Mehmet Oz formally announced his campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, resetting the GOP field in a critical race with a focus on the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have not managed our crises as effectively as past generations,” Oz wrote in a Washington Examiner op-ed. “During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions. That’s why I am running for the U.S. Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal.”
Oz didn’t specify in his column that he was running for the Republican nomination, but after the piece was published, he released a video that identified him as “Dr. Oz, Republican for U.S. Senate.”
His announcement was originally teased for Fox News host Sean Hannity’s program Tuesday evening. Hannity hinted that Oz would appear on the show with a “huge announcement” related to the midterms.
I’m looking forward to his insights into the pandemic. Like this one:
When Fox News host Sean Hannity wondered what would it take to reopen the country amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, he turned to his trusted source on all things medicine and science: Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and TV personality better known as Dr. Oz.
“First, we need our mojo back,” Oz said Tuesday night, in a sound bite that has since gone viral. He suggested that some things could be opened “without getting into a lot of trouble,” such as schools. “I tell you, schools are a very appetizing opportunity,” he said, adding that resuming classes, according to his reading of a new medical journal analysis, “may only cost us 2 to 3 percent in terms of total mortality.”
That death rate, he concluded, “might be a trade-off some folks would consider.”
With 56 million school kids in the States, that’s up to 1.7 million dead children.
His suggestion sparked an enormous response on social media — prompting a somewhat apologetic statement late Thursday: “I misspoke,” he said in a video released on Twitter, acknowledging that his words had “confused and upset people.” The goal, he said, was to discuss “how do we get our children safely back to school” as he is “being asked constantly how we’ll be able to get people back to their normal lives.”
He flogged Hydroxychloraquine. With gusto.
He’s a quack. So naturally he’s running for the US Senate. After all, they already have GOPers Rand Paul, John Barasso, Bill Cassidy and Roge Marshall. They can form a Quack Caucus to work together to cut health care for as many Americans as humanly possioble.