Posted on 12/06/2018 6:39:20 AM PST by C19fan
The Post reports:
Beto O’Rourke, weighing whether to mount a 2020 presidential bid, met recently with Barack Obama at his post-presidency offices in Washington.
The meeting, which was held on Nov. 16 at the former president’s offices in Foggy Bottom, came as former Obama aides have encouraged the Democratic House member to run, seeing him as capable of the same kind of inspirational campaign that caught fire in the 2008 presidential election.
O’Rourke, as Obama did, certainly has the rhetorical skills and charisma to make Democrats swoon. He has some of the same advantages Obama enjoyed, and a few that Obama lacked.
First, O’Rourke comes from red Texas not blue Illinois. As he showed in his hard-fought Senate race against Ted Cruz, he can speak both to the left and to disaffected Republicans. He is clearly progressive, but can talk in a way that does not frighten voters who are more moderate. He can tout his legislative record in promoting health care for veterans — but also vigorously oppose President Trump’s family-separation policy. He supports immigration reform but has avoided silly positions such as abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is at ease talking about values — as he did when he defended the rights of NFL players to protest (“I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, anytime, anywhere, in any place”). While he is a strong advocate of restrictions on semiautomatic weapons, he can also say with conviction “we have this great proud honorable heritage and proud tradition of gun ownership in Texas.”
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Yeah, the race that had three billionaires adding their shekels to Beaten's race making it THE MOST EXPENSIVE SENATE RACE EVER!!
But he still lost because Texas didn't have enough voter fraud to make a big difference.
"Been looking into Beto a little more. Turns out he's purchased by the Israeli lobby and defense contractors. He receives more money from Big Oil than any Senator except Ted Cruz. Even the dreaded healthcare industry is stepping in to support him...and he's deep in with Wall Street which is why he opposes taxing them. Beto is the oligarchy's answer to suppress the progressive revolution in 2020."
Jennifer Rubin is the kind of fake “conservative” the MSM loves to put forward....
Elect? Not a snowball's chance in hell... But if democrats want him to run - fine. He'll lose. He's plastic and shallow... and that'll shine through on a national stage.
“Can Beto O’Rourke make the leap?”
let’s hope so ... the more Dem losers that throw their hats in the ring, the more money being pissed away by Dem donors, and the more candidates to beat each other up in the debates and primaries ...
Folks, we are still in the process of burying G.H.W. Bush - the man who didn’t get a second term because he did not take seriously enough a long shot opponent - H. Ross Perot. That fatal error ended up giving us 8 years of Bill Clinton and all the sequelae that brought with it. Imagine as alternate history, if Bush had beaten Clinton. Bill Clinton would go back to Arkansas, and Hillary would be a small footnote in history. Not speaking ill of the dead here - but that lame excuse for a 1992 campaign had dire consequences for the country. Bush was the far better person, the far better leader. Not taking out Perot early and decisively meant that Clinton wins with 43.8% of the popular vote.
I am hoping the Dems hitch to the Beto wagon as the Donald will eat this punk for lunch and show him for the panty wearing wussie he is.
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