Posted on 10/09/2018 10:37:29 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
On a balmy night in Austin, against the backdrop of the glittering high-rises of the city’s booming downtown, Beto O’Rourke is laying out his audacious plan to change the face of Texas, and America.
In front of him, packed into an open-air park, a largely young crowd of 40,000 is thrumming with scarcely contained glee. Even in the liberal bubble of Austin they have never experienced anything like this: a Democrat seriously in the running for a Senate seat, vying to topple Ted Cruz, the Tea Party fanatic whom even fellow Republicans call “Lucifer in the flesh”.
“We are not running against anything or any political party,” O’Rourke tells his supporters. He punches his arm in the air like a pumped-up revolutionary while simultaneously wooing them with a crooner’s charms.
The message is relentlessly positive. The 45-year-old has tweaked Barack Obama’s 2008 catchphrase “Hope and change” for darker times, so now it becomes: “Hope over fear”.
“We are running for each other and this country that I love so much,” he says, to a giant roar.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I never thought I’d see people stupid enough to support a cross-dresser.
Then again, I never thought I’d see people stupid enough to elect an Islamic apologist in the wake of 9/11. A guy who stole clips from movies for his various elections. A guy who was about as American in his beliefs as Robert Mugabe.
LOL.
Well, there you go...
40,000 people???
Are they serious?
No:
damaged goods
I just looked at the pictures...
THERE IS NO WAY THAT IS 40,000 PEOPLE!!!
4,000 maybe, and it appears to be a mall or something.
It’s Austin.
The lib student/faculty population at UT alone is around 75,000.
Hmm. Oh, it's the Guardian. The comic page? Ha, ha, ha! That's the lunatic Boehner who called him Lucifer. Fellow Republicans!
I’ve been wondering how his name is going to appear on the ballot.
If it doesn’t say, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, the lib voters will be thoroughly confused.
They’ve never seen his real name before.
Yep
That’s just part of why I say he is spirit of antichrist and some part of the Strong Delusion must have already begun.
Obama is such an obvious liar and fraud it boggles the mind.
These people believe in an alternate (un)reality that is destroying the country. And it’s right in front of their eyes. But they refuse to accept that it is the Democratic Party creating insurrection and chaos. They think it make sense. If you’re trying to destroy the U.S.A. then I suppose Obama does make sense. And Hillary and the Democrats are on board with that.
The only thing I can guarantee is my vote...The rest is from listening to Beto and thinking the more people hear Beto the less they will like.
Go Cruz!
The Texas women I know are fired up over the disgraceful
treatment of Kavanaugh, too.
Cruze will win, but the troubling thing is that Cruz won by 16 points in 2012. Demographics, slowly but surely, becomes destiny.
#homorourke !
Well, there you go. The liberal Ministry of Truth goes out of its way to inflate numbers for Democrats.
I'm in Texas, and can tell you that the Beto campaign feels like astroturf.
Wasn’t Willie Nelson singing at this event?
If so, the crowd was there for Nelson, not this Beto fraud.
I doubt O’Rourke gets more than 12% of the vote.
There are Ted Cruz yard signs everywhere.
The answer to a question asked in a headline is almost always “No”.
No. It’s Texas you morons - not California or New York.
Something is wrong with him......for sure.
No, robert francis o’rourke will NOT win.
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