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O'Rourke candidacy asks: Can a moderate white male win the 2020 Democratic primary?
Reuters ^ | 03-17-19 | James Oliphant

Posted on 03/17/2019 9:19:11 AM PDT by McQ444

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To: ConservativeMind
Well sure. Compared to some of the other miscreants running, he could be more moderate. 😹😹😹😹😹. That is a load of 🐎💨💩
21 posted on 03/17/2019 9:34:14 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: McQ444

And where exactly would they find such a Democrat?

Today’s “moderate Democrat” is yesterday’s “communist Democrat.”


22 posted on 03/17/2019 9:34:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He’s running for Vice-President, and he’ll get it.

Yeah, that's what they said about Barry O.

23 posted on 03/17/2019 9:36:57 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: McQ444

Moderate?

Moderate?


24 posted on 03/17/2019 9:37:16 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: McQ444

what “moderate” wants to tear down what wall exists along the Mexico border? O’Rourk is just another extremist in a field overflowing with extremists.


25 posted on 03/17/2019 9:37:25 AM PDT by euram
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“O’ROURKE, on global warming: “This is our final chance. The scientists are absolutely unanimous on this. That we have no more than 12 years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis.” —

THE FACTS: There is no scientific consensus, much less unanimity, that the planet only has 12 years to fix the problem.

A report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, drawn from the work of hundreds of scientists, uses 2030 as a prominent benchmark because signatories to the Paris agreement have pledged emission cuts by then. But it’s not a last chance, hard deadline for action, as it has been interpreted in some quarters.”

https://apnews.com/fe7c9d4a9f8f458c827677d31230f594

Hard to believe that the AP of all places ‘fact checked’ Beto- they exposed his lie-


26 posted on 03/17/2019 9:37:43 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Mariner

Maybe he is asking for a friend?


27 posted on 03/17/2019 9:38:17 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: ConservativeMind

‘They’ are certainly seeking to plant that LIE in republican minds. The man is a moderate like Nazi Pelican nosy is a Catholic Nun.


28 posted on 03/17/2019 9:38:34 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Bob434

from same source:

“This has been a persistent source of confusion,” agreed Kristie L. Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle. “The report never said we only have 12 years left.”

there’s no confusion- the left know they are lying, and were hoping the msm would back them up- but the AP for now aren’t playing along- I’m sure they will get their orders to do so pretty soon


29 posted on 03/17/2019 9:39:04 AM PDT by Bob434
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30 posted on 03/17/2019 9:40:02 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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To: McQ444

Moderate? Please, detail how you differ from the Dem field on climate change, abortion, guns, government run healthcare, environment, death penalty, LGBT, immigration, taxes, spending, education, unions, or anything else. Pick any two.


31 posted on 03/17/2019 9:42:57 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: JimRed

He’s moderately white, and moderately male.


32 posted on 03/17/2019 9:45:34 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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SOURCE https://pjmedia.com/trending/beto-orourkes-gafftastic-day/

A clinical psychologist would have a field day with Beto’s online postings when he was a member of a culrish hacker group. One article he wrote as a teen mused how the world would work without money. After changing the system, including the government, O’Rourke foresaw the end of starvation and class distinctions.

“To achieve a money-less society (or have a society where money is heavily de-emphasized) a lot of things would have to change, including government as we know it. This is where the anti-money group and the disciples of Anarchy meet,” O’Rourke wrote under his pseudonym. “I fear we will always have a system of government, one way or another, so we would have to use other means other than totally toppling the government (I don’t think the masses would support such a radical move at this time).”

Another t-file from O’Rourke, written when he was 15, is a short and disturbing piece of fiction. “One day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles…. This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams.

“As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.”

A 15-year-old daydreaming about a “moneyless society” is pretty common. But “sweet visions filling my head” after running over a couple of “happy happy” kids with his car is definitely not common.

I have to ask it: what do you think the reaction would have been if a Republican candidate had written that? Every amateur Democratic mental health professional would declare the candidate unfit for office.

But for Beto? His apology suffices:

“I’m mortified to read it now, incredibly embarrassed, but I have to take ownership of my words,” the Democratic presidential candidate said during a taping of the “Political Party Live” podcast in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Whatever my intention was as a teenager doesn’t matter, I have to look long and hard at my actions, at the language I have used, and I have to constantly try to do better.”

If only Republicans had it so easy.


33 posted on 03/17/2019 9:51:09 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: McQ444

Are the democrats running a moderate white male? Betos self identity as a Mexican from El Paso seems to be in doubt as he U-turns what ethnicity he is depending on the audience. One day he is a mild mannered beta liberal gringo, the next a firebrand open border Mexican wannabe Pancho Villa/Zorro type hero. A real self identity crisis going on in that vacuous cranium. I am expecting (after his teeth cleaning video) for him to self identify with Bugs Bunny after the closeup of those AOC style growths in his mouth.


34 posted on 03/17/2019 9:57:07 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: McQ444

Somebody needs to look up the definition of the word, “moderate”.


35 posted on 03/17/2019 9:57:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: McQ444

Currently that really depends how many white Americans are woke to the state of their people. This number isn’t pollable and it’s not calculable as they won’t admit it openly yet. This is only measurable by how they vote or don’t vote. Disaffected whites tend to not vote which is as nearly as big a problem as them voting for the likes of a Beto.


36 posted on 03/17/2019 9:58:18 AM PDT by riri
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To: McQ444
O'Rourke candidacy asks: Can a moderate radical leftist, white male win the 2020 Democratic primary?
37 posted on 03/17/2019 10:13:28 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Can a moderate white male win...

We’ll never know because there hasn’t been a moderate white male in the demonrat party since Charlie Stenholm retired.

38 posted on 03/17/2019 10:16:44 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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There is no moderate white man running as a Democrat. Biden she as hell is not and neither is this idiot.


39 posted on 03/17/2019 10:23:38 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: McQ444

He’a about as moderate as a Unitarian is a theologian


40 posted on 03/17/2019 10:24:32 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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