So although I continue to believe that while Harris is the most dangerous potential nominee, I can see a ticket of Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke to be challenging.
Posted on 03/14/2019 4:29:30 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an actress. – Everyone should watch this video. Trust me, just watch it. It’ll be the best 23 minutes you invest this week. I’m going to keep this pinned at the top of each piece I post for the next few days in order to maximize its – and her – exposure.
And speaking of political losers. – Sometimes, events just follow the Campaign Update around. Our focus yesterday morning was on the Democrats’ Ongoing Fascination With Political Losers, and – viola! – this morning, Irish Bob “Beto” O’Rourke is formally announcing his candidacy.
All the girls – and most of the guys – who pose as fake journalists in our fake news media are swooning and cooing sweet nothings they hope will eventually meet their precious Beto’s ears. Fake news hacks from El Paso to Austin to New York City to Washington D.C. are all lining up at the door to their fake editors’ offices, er, cubicles, vying for the glorious assignment of following the jumpy, sweaty, skate-boarding, 46 year-old around the country in the hopes that he will give them a passing glance, maybe one of his crooked smiles, or even – gasp! – repeat their name back to them during an evasive answer to one of their softball questions.
Oh, the glory! What more could a girl – or guy – possibly want amid a miserable life spent faking the news for a living?
The Texas Tribune, an Austin-based digital publication that acted as a pro bono PR firm for Irish Bob’s failed senate campaign last year, led with this paragraph in its story on this morning’s announcement:
“After months of intense speculation, Beto O’Rourke is entering the presidential race Thursday, marking an extraordinary rise from little-known El Paso congressman a few years ago to potentially formidable White House contender.”
Ah, so it’s been an “extraordinary rise”, has it, this progression from little-known congressman to senate race loser to presidential candidate currently pulling 6% in the Democrat preference polls? I suppose we should feel lucky the writer resisted the impulse to use the word “meteoric” instead.
To be fair, Irish Bob has been truly extraordinary at two things thus far:
- He raised an extraordinary amount of out-of-state money in his senate race against Ted Cruz, ultimately out-spending Cruz by a 3-to-1 margin in a losing effort; and
- He has attracted an extraordinary amount of free media from the fawning press, possibly more than any politician in U.S. history not named Obama or Clinton. But maybe even more impressive is how many fake media outlets have chosen to publish pretty much the exact same “profile” of Irish Bob. Hell, Vanity Fair just put another one out there yesterday, complete with a photo spread by Annie Lebovitz.
Every profile of Irish Bob published over the past year reads like the breathless prose of a lovesick college coed, and they’re all structured as if torn from a page of a paint-by-the-numbers book:
- Beto is “Kennedy-esque. Indeed, if that word does not appear in the story, it is not an official profile;
- His hometown of El Paso, population of 683,577, is described as “small”, “backwater”, “isolated”, or my favorite, “dusty;”
- He sweats a lot, and it shows. Swooning fake reporters spend a ton of time admiring Beto’s perspiration;
- He rides a skateboard;
- Hey, didja know he used to be in a punk rock band?; The perpetually-jumpy politician with more tics than a stray dog has “nervous energy.” Oh;
His eyes are “piercing,” because hey, how else do you describe the eyes of someone who is “Kennedy-esque?” Just be glad they didn't say "dreamy", because that's what they're all thinking.
Pablum for the masses, all in an effort to promote the candidacy of a guy whose main accomplishment in life – outside of having an admittedly-lovely family – is having raised $75 million in a senate race that he lost.
The conventional wisdom out there today seems to be that O’Rourke is getting into the race in an effort to become Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020. While I think that vastly underestimates Irish Bob’s massive ego, wouldn’t that outcome be wonderful?
Think about it: How would the rapidly-growing social justice warrior wing of the Democrat support base react if its 2020 convention were to nominate a ticket consisting of two of the most pasty-white men ever born in America outside of Wisconsin? It would be glorious.
So Irish Bob is officially in, and the Democrat fascination with political losers continues. I would say let the fawning fake news media slobbering over “Beto” begin, but as Vanity Fair and the Texas Tribune and many others demonstrate this morning, it began long ago.
That is all.
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It’s amazing how all the Rat losers think they can do what Prez Trump does.
How long before one of the “Coalition of the Ascendant” calls him out for being a white man LARPing as a Latino? I have popcorn, let the show begin!
Even with Betobutthead, the combined IQ of the Demonicrats running for president is still a single digit.
So although I continue to believe that while Harris is the most dangerous potential nominee, I can see a ticket of Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke to be challenging.
Why?
The only explanation that I have for this guy’s candidacy is that there are some Democrats who really do think that voters are idiots. I’m assuming that the appeal is supposed to be that this guy is from Texas, that he is a white male, and that he is used to performing onstage (as a musician), so he must be perfect for flyover country, because what everyone wants out there has nothing whatsoever to do with policy, it must really be all about tribalism. So just wow, if I’m right.
>> marking an extraordinary rise from little-known El Paso congressman
He’s even got a theme song picked out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow_mFs-urWw
Kinky Friedman might even hit the scampaign train for him
This candidate is random and like a much less competent version of Beck’s “Wow” music video with a lot more sweating and embarrassing movement issues. Did the Dems decide to put the pages of a phonebook from Texas up on the wall and pick by throwing darts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCkhPTU13w
Is he some metro-sexual dude? He doesn’t seem all that manly to me based on pics I have seen.
Gggggrrrrrreeeeeaaaaaaaatttttt, another overly feminized, girly man, skinny jeans wearing, surrender monkey, hipster thinking he can be the President of the United States of America.
Thanks to odunga, now every girly man thinks they can do the job, which odunga proved to the world that he was a coward and child and surrendered every chance he had, how many Taliban for a known deserter…How much cash was on those pallets that he gave to Iran.
Robert O’Rourke would not be any better than odunga, and quite frankly would only endanger the lives of American Troops because he does not think about America as a sovereign nation and a super power, every decision he would make would come from a position/view of weakness, I pray to God that America has learned its lesson about electing overly feminized, skinny jeans wearing, hipster, girly men…It will not end well for America, it will be great for our enemies, but not America.
“ Irish Bob”
Hope Trump starts using that
You have got to see this youtube satire about Beta’s dog
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFRTmchnbw#
Chomo Joe and a fake Mexican?
Okay.
He’s going to save da planet by moving everyone to America. What an idiot.
It’s gonna be Biden/Beto, a very formidable challenger to Trump/Pence. God help us all.
I don’t think the Dems would let SlowJoe have a white male as VP on the ticket. Almost mandated to be a minority female.
In the case of RAT voters, the evidence is on his side.
“I don’t think the Dems would let SlowJoe have a white male as VP on the ticket. Almost mandated to be a minority female.”
If I were the Trump team, I would run campaign ads for two weeks leading up to the first CNN debate, showing them on record admitting to giving the debate questions to Hilary...And then at the start of the debate ask Joe right up front, “did you receive the debate questions before hand, like CNN has ADMITEDLY knowingly done in the past, I just want to be clear that we are starting on even ground, did you Joe, receive the questions before our debate.”
Yes, it's a very revealing video. You will learn a lot. But you have to watch it with a critical eye. You have to compare it to what you actually see and learn from other sources, and not just parrot lines from it.
Yes, Beto is foolish. So was Justin Trudeau. Not taking him seriously and trying to win through ridicule was Harper's downfall.
Trudeau's ace in the hole was his last name and the memory of his father. If Beto's last name actually were Kennedy, we would really have to be nervous about him.
Even so, strange things happen in politics and predictions have a way of going wrong.
Maybe so.
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