Posted on 03/16/2019 5:09:35 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Just don’t call it Jeb!II, ‘cuz that looks funny. – Just days after his 2016 campaign’s Super PAC was hit with a huge fine for taking more than $1.3 million in illegal contributions from Chinese interests, Jeb! Bush was on CNN (because of course he was on CNN) saying that someone (hint, hint) ought to challenge President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination in 2020.
Gosh, who would that be, Jeb!? Why, what Republican out there would have the ability to raise something like, oh, I don’t know, $150 million or so from U.S. and Chinese interests to fritter away in a hopeless effort to challenge a hugely-successful sitting President from his own party?
What prominent Republican is so filled with hubris and lacking in anything substantive to do with the rest of his life that he would be willing to take on the mantle of the rapidly-dying #NeverTrump nitwit faction of the GOP in such a Quixotic quest? Even better, what prominent Republican has a last name that every American voter immediately recognizes thanks to a family legacy of ex-Presidents and his having tossed away $150 million in American and Chinese currency during the 2016 nominating battle?
Hey, I know who that guy is – he’s Jeb! And the great thing is, Jeb! could even promise to name Paul Ryan as his running mate, since Ryan’s got nothing better to do right now, either. That worked out so well for Mitt Romney in 2012, after all. Maybe even call him Paul!, because that worked out so well for Jeb!, didn’t it?
“Jeb!Paul!2016!” The bumper stickers practically name themselves!
Ok, that’s too many exclamation points – time to move on.
Dear Irish Bob: Your window of opportunity was January 1. You missed it. – Back in November, I told you all that I fully expected Robert Francis O’Rourke to be the Democrats’ 2020 nominee for the presidency. Then, in early February, I warned you that the lanky, fidgety Texan had better fish or cut bait pretty quick, because his window of opportunity was closing.
Here’s an excerpt from that piece:
A month ago I’d have made Irish Bob the odds-on favorite to be the 2020 Democrat nominee because he is the absolutely perfect Democrat candidate: Completely unqualified; no accomplishments in the private sector of our economy of any note; no real accomplishments in government, either, for that matter; willing to say literally anything to attract votes from depraved and demented Democrat base voters; and he looks good on television. Hell, he even has his fake nickname that leads at least half of all Democrat voters to still think he is Hispanic or something, allowing him to tick off that “Minority” box even though he isn’t one, just like Fauxcahontas has made a habit of doing throughout her adult life in order to get ahead.
Today, I’m telling you that my February piece was overly-optimistic, and our hero’s window of opportunity most likely closed way back in January, maybe even December, before any of the other candidates got into the race.
There was plenty of reason in late November to believe O’Rourke could become the Democrat nominee. Yeah, he’d just lost his senate race to Ted Cruz, but he had made it pretty close thanks to a 3-to-1 spending advantage, and today’s Democrats are all about the moral victory, just fascinated with political losers. He was clearly the favorite of all the young girls in the news media and many of the young men as well, all of whom longed to get the plum assignment of covering his campaign.
He truly had everything going for him, all the political momentum in the world, and then…he decided to take a few months off. He said he had to go “find myself”, and spent weeks wandering around who knows where, live-streaming dental visits, doing interviews with an ever-willing Oprah and “60 Minutes” crew and apparently raising a clinically depressed black Labrador retriever.
December came and went. January came and went. February came and went and then half of March, until there were 11 Democrat candidates in the race, but still no precious Beto for all the local TV news anchors to swoon over. Simply put, by the time Irish Bob finally got around to formally announcing he was going to run, a huge portion of his potential support base that was firmly behind him in late 2018 had already moved on.
Even more devastating for the de facto favored candidate of the news media, many of his potential suitors had grown tired of being stood up for the date, and had even grown bitter. Even worse than that, some of them had even figured out the essence of his schtick, as evidenced by the headline of the piece published yesterday by the very liberal New Republic: “The Profound Emptiness of Beto O’Rourke.” Ouch.
The leftwing media pushback wasn’t limited to the New Republic – far from it. The lunatics who run Slate beat them to the punch by two full days with an anti-Beto diatribe headlined “Beto 2020 Has No Reason to Exist.” Yikes.
By Friday, the growing awareness in the fake news media of Irish Bob’s essential emptiness as a human being and similarly-growing awareness among the Social Justice Warriors among the Democrat voter base that this guy with the Hispanic-sounding nickname is really just another pasty-faced white guy had the hacks at Politico using the dreaded “B” word: “Not One Woman Got That Kind of Coverage: Beto Backlash Begins.” Hooboy.
Indeed, the backlash momentum had become so severe by week’s end that not even the news-fakers at CNN could resist getting in on the act:
Paul Riehm @PaulRiehm .@CNN smacks Beto for being a white male 52 times in one day. http://bit.ly/2F3UEhL
10:01 PM - Mar 15, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy
CNN Hammers Beto’s ‘White Maleness’ 52 Times In One Day CNN has discovered that Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is a white male, and they are not happy about it. The cable network went into race-baiting overdrive following the announcement
newsbusters.org See Paul Riehm's other Tweets This was not how it was all supposed to go for our precious Beto, not how it was supposed to go at all.
The fact that Friday was March 15, aka the Ides of March, had many speculating that Gestapo Chief, er, “Special Counsel” Robert Mueller would use the Caesarian symbolism of that date to issue his final report. Well, the long knives of the American Left were certainly out on Friday, but they weren’t coming for President Trump, they were coming for Irish Bob.
March 15, 2019 should forever be remembered as the Ides of Beto, the day it became obvious that the guy who couldn’t win Texas despite an enormous money edge and the entire national news media serving as his campaign’s propaganda operation won’t be able to compete on a national stage, either.
It turns out that window closed way back in January.
That is all.
Follow me on Twitter at @GDBlackmon
When is Dorkbag Beto going to be driven out of running by the perpetually aggrieved social justice warriors about culturally appropriating a Hispanic nickname?
Thank you for posting. Good article.
There was a young man named Bet-o
Who’s résumé was not that great-o
“By a linguistic trick,
I’m both a Spic and a Mick,
And I can be both Gay and Straight-o!”
My dad’s name was Robert.
His friends called him Bob, or sometimes “Bob-o”
O’Rourke’s first name is Robert.
At best he should be referred to as Bob-o.
Bobo, to his friends.
Limericks, too? Multi-culti is breaking out on FR!
Poor Irish Bob. The media went from full “ass waxing and ball scrubbing” of him in 2018 to this.
After the Ides of Beto, it is now Boo Who.
It's clearly a limerick only masquerading as a haiku, but that's a perfect fit for the fake Hispanic anyway.
Why do we keep calling him Beto? He’s not hispanic. Call him Robbie, or Francis. Just not Beto.
He only uses the name Beto because he’s trying to fool voters into thinking he’s Hispanic. If he were a Republican, he would be accused of “cultural appropriation”, and called a racist. He should only be referred to by our side as “Robert”, “Bob” or “Bobby”, but never as “Beto.”
O’Rourke is simply another in a long line of limp-wristed democRATS.
Of all the presidential candidates that have run as democRATS, think of how many were NOT a limp wrist. I can only think of a two. LBJ and Bubba are the only two that come to mind.
Stevensen, Muskie, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, J. Brown, Kerry, Obama, Bernie, et.al. THe entire lot of them are a bunch of effeminate posers who lack testosterone. Irish Bob is another ball-less dork in a long line of ball-less dorks.
I saw a few sound bits of Bernie Sanders giving a rally speech and it scared me he’s damn right evil and Trumps drove him off the madd.can you emigine what Trump will do to him I bet Trump gives him hell over selling out to Hillery and being a communist bum I can see Sanders head exploding
Right now each of the DemonShit candidates is massively flawed to the point where they have achieved virtual equality with one another. Hence, when one arises, the others try to tear him/her down. It’s like a game or “Hearts” where all of the players try to stick the leader with the bad cards. Best of all, the Berners are so infuriated over what the Witch did to Bernie in 2016 that they aren’t likely to accept anybody but Bernie.
Did you folks take notice of the massive amount of Iowa supporters that turned out to welcome and get behind Democrat, Beto O’Rourke in his quest to obtain & become the POTUS.
On his first day of campaigning after his anouncement that he will run for POTUS, did the Iowa folks turn out 500, 1000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000 peole to greet O’Rourke....”NOPE”!!!
It was a stunning, record breaking somewhere between 25-50 people. IN fact there were many more Media folks, then them there was O’Rouke supporters. And, to boot as Beto flailed away with his arms and mouth, his supporters were either asleep or they were preoccupied reading papers or literature...no one was listening to the Beto Rant!!!
Now...if you want to attend a rally with real meaning, you can attend the POTUS, Donald J. Trump first rally of the 2020 election. It is being held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 28, 2019 at the “Van Andel Arena” located in Grand Rapids. The doors open at 4:00PM (EDT) & the Rally begins at 7:00PM (EST). The Arena holds about 11,000 folks. Two (2) free tickets are available at the “Trump for POTUS” website!!! Be there or be nowhere...folks!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.