Can Beto do it?

The Guardian ^ | October 7, 2018 | Ed Pilkington

[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.

[jmaroneps37]

“No; next stupid question; yes you in the back row with the tin foil hat, what is your stupid questuion?”

[Honorary Serb]

.....Can Beto do it?.....

No.

[pepsionice]

No. He loses by eight points.

[SaveFerris]

Can Beto cross-dress it? Well, he has before:

Beto is Obama's kind of cross-dressing guy-gal. Is this transvestite, transgender or just tranny in drag?

[MEG33]

NOPE!

[TADSLOS]

Young people in the crowd say they are drawn to what they see as a new style of politics crafted by Beto (everyone uses his first name, pronounced “Bet-Oh”). They like how he eschews focus groups and strategists, speaks his mind and refuses to take money from big corporate donors. The “Beto for Texas” campaign logo is printed in black and white rather than Democratic blue to denote a desire to cross boundaries.

Uh huh...

[Glad2bnuts]

If America is to have a 21 gun salute to begin the mourning of this nations passing, this would be in the first salvo. I refuse to believe this will happen, it must not be allowed to happen.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Are you sure?

Suburban white women in Dallas and San Antonio’s burbs may fall in love with Beto’s rhetoric

[simpson96]

Nope. Go cry in your ale, left-wing UK Guardian.

[jyo19]

I am calling it: he loses by 20-plus percentage points. Just like pink pussy shoes.

[bgill]

Only with illegal votes.

[jyo19]

His first name is Robert.

[pepsi_junkie]

“Beto for Texas” campaign logo is printed in black and white rather than Democratic blue to denote a desire to cross boundaries.

Or confuse people with a hispanic name and a sign that looks like its for something other than a dem.

[RightGeek]

[TADSLOS]

He is about as Mexican as a plate of corned beef and cabbage.

[SaveFerris]

[The “Beto for Texas” campaign logo is printed in black and white rather than Democratic blue to denote a desire to cross boundaries.]

That’s hilarious. Only someone dumb enough to believe Obama could believe a lie like that.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

After the way that Cruz dismantled him in their debate...I’m thinking Cruz has it locked up.

[TADSLOS]

That’s exactly what’s going on. He can’t stand on his own record in Congress as a liberal democrat except in the El Paso district he came from.

This guy is a sleazy street con shuffling the bean around under the cups.