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Betomania: Why Democrats are crazy for their 'authentically cool' Senate candidate
NBC News ^ | October 17, 2018 | Alex Seitz-Wald

Posted on 10/18/2018 8:11:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Britt Daniel, the lead singer of venerable indie band Spoon, has started noticing something unusual in the streets of New York City, where he's been spending time with his girlfriend, thousands of miles away from his native Texas: Stickers and T-shirts for Beto O'Rourke.

"Maybe there are some Texans up here," Daniel said in an interview. "But it does seem like even non-Texans have taken a lot of interest in this race. Maybe they just see him as someone who has a future for the party, a future in politics, or maybe they're just genuinely inspired by him."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: betoorourke; senate; tedcruz; texas
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"Cool" as in Beto might lose by 8% instead of 16%. But hey look at the bright side Lincoln lost his bid for a Senate seat.
1 posted on 10/18/2018 8:11:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

He’s a few sexual assault allegations away from stardom.


2 posted on 10/18/2018 8:13:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: LUV W; Jane Long

Fauxrourke Ping. The American Soviet Media beclowns themselves.


3 posted on 10/18/2018 8:14:43 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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“Maybe there are some Texans up here,”

Only if by “Texans” you mean Pinkos.


4 posted on 10/18/2018 8:14:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan
They are grooming him for the national stage. His coming loss will seriously crimp their plans, but maybe they'll matchmake him with the hottish NYC socialist crazy ex-girlfriend.

The new power couple, to replace Weiner and Hummer. That arranged marriage burned out with style.

5 posted on 10/18/2018 8:15:58 AM PDT by dead
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To: C19fan

He doesn’t expect to win. This race is merely a springboard to a 2020 presidential run.

This is why you are seeing this sort of stuff outside of Texas.

Just my opinion.


6 posted on 10/18/2018 8:16:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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Alex Seitz-Wald

Is that a male, female or “it?”

5.56mm


7 posted on 10/18/2018 8:16:22 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: C19fan

These Morons have no idea what Beto’s positions are.

They have no grasp of the ramifications on the Republic should his Agenda be implemented.

They think he is cool and that’s all that matters, just like the love and adoration they have for the Mass Murderer of Children, Men and Women, Che Guevara.


8 posted on 10/18/2018 8:18:41 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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"O'Rourke, a former punk rocker with a message like Obama's and a face like a Kennedy's, has seen his star rise so steeply that, for now, he seems to have reached escape velocity from mere politics. For a moment, at least, he's become cultural phenomenon on the lips and in the hearts of Democrats around the country in a way few outside of Obama and Bernie Sanders have achieved before him.

"It's like when the Beatles came to America," Bill Maher said..."

Good lord. Save your blue dress, NBC.

9 posted on 10/18/2018 8:19:09 AM PDT by dead
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To: cuban leaf

Agreed. Too many of his stances are non-starters to win statewide in Texas. He is positioning himself for a leadership position in a Bernie-fied Dem party.


10 posted on 10/18/2018 8:19:16 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Style over substance.

The left has tried to find the next JFK or RFK the last forty years or so. Beta even tried to project the image of an RFK.


11 posted on 10/18/2018 8:19:43 AM PDT by BluegrassCardinal
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...or maybe they're just genuinely inspired by him."

If they find Bobby Frank inspirational, then they would find toe jam inspirational.
12 posted on 10/18/2018 8:20:03 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan

Democrats drool at the fantasy of Texas turning blue. Since they’ve abandoned the White working class, they’re desperate to make up the.electoral votes lost in the Midwest somehow.


13 posted on 10/18/2018 8:20:08 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Maybe he can start wearing pink tennis shoes and Sandra Bullock will make a movie no one wants to see about him, too?


14 posted on 10/18/2018 8:20:09 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: C19fan

My Neighbor a died in the wool Democrat has 2 Beto signs in his yard...

I live in Pennsylvania...

I just laugh every time I see them....

The bigger the crushing this little twit gets the better....


15 posted on 10/18/2018 8:20:19 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Sadly if TX doesn’t stop being so apathetic, and having only 35% of its electorate actually vote, the Dems will likely sneak in someone sooner than they think


16 posted on 10/18/2018 8:21:16 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: C19fan

The phony baloney el pasoan Hispanic Beto butch manufactured by the enemy of the USA the mediaVOMITS ain’t gonna fly in red states or states Trump won....he has too many skeletons in his closet!!


17 posted on 10/18/2018 8:21:42 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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This article is like a parody of a fawning Teen Beat love letter to Leif Garret or David Cassidy.

"Why does he look so perfect doing even the most simple things?" the women's magazine Elle gushed about a video of O’Rourke petting a chubby bunny. "Beto's like your energetic, young math teacher who got you very hot and bothered about fractions."

18 posted on 10/18/2018 8:22:26 AM PDT by dead
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Authentically cool FAKE Hispanic, what a joke.

Hey, I think Irish-Americans are cool, I don’t know why “Beto” can’t be one honestly....


19 posted on 10/18/2018 8:22:27 AM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: C19fan
He always makes me think of Pittsburgh's crappiest pizza.


20 posted on 10/18/2018 8:22:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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