You may feel free to be done, but I'm not.

Your OP was "Pete, what were you thinking." A clear note of disapproval.

Apparently, you didn't like what he said. Your OP then started the onslaught of people saying it was an error, they hope he can recover and all the other Lindsey Graham having vapors comments. I feel pretty sure that is exactly what you wanted to happen. I am sure you wanted to have a lot of people agree with you.

The whole thing then leads to everyone saying things that become talking points and links to this site from conservative sites. Where they say "See! Even Democrats don't think he's ready for the national stage"

What would have been the right, supportive thing to say is something like "Pete is right. The GOP, long before Trump, HAS taken this country out of its place as great. The GOP blocked infrastructure bills that would provide jobs.The GOP gave the wealthy a tax break. The GOP wants to take your health care. Pete is right. That's not what a great national does."

We don't need to make the talking points for the GOP, we need to counter them. Every time people react with things like "What were you thinking?" We give them power.

We must stop ceding power to them. Trump says batshit crazy every day. No on cares about it anymore. We can't call out our candidates for saying things that are true just because it's not a popular truth. We need to use those unpopular truths to rally people the way Trump used racism and xenophobia. We can do that I. A positive way rather than his negative manner.