Beto…
…we hardly knew ya [typos corrected in the following quote]:
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, according to a report by the New York Times.
The Times is reporting that O’Rourke had planned to withdraw “from the race in Iowa on Friday evening and follow up with an email message to his supporters.” According to the times, Beto stated in a draft of the message to his supporters that “he was proud of championing issues like guns and climate change but conceded that his campaign lacked ‘the means to move forward successfully.'”
And what we knew we didn’t like.
About time this turkey dropped out.
But, he did serve a useful function, and that was to manage to move the Overton Window quite a bit to the Left.
In essence, forcing his fellow candidates, in their bids to capture those supporting him, to follow “Beto” in proposing policies that kept getting more and more radical in their efforts to top one another.
Bottom line–Beto’s Pied Piper action–this procession to the Left has left the remaining candidates espousing increasingly radical leftist policies that will likely make them less and less viable in the general election.
The means he lacked, of course, being anything that might appeal to more than super woke white male store clerks and stay at home gamers. I often wondered how he thought that was going to work in the general election. What office did he imagine he was actually running for? At least he caught a clue before Cory Booker.
Maybe he should issue a special spanish language drop out speech.
But, look at it this way, we will no longer have to watch Beto having his teeth cleaned, his ear hairs chopped, him skateboarding, or whacking his guitar, jumping up and down, and pretending to sing.
It seems to me that he might have a promising career hawking some kind of worthless, overpriced product on TV.
Well, he was a genius at selling guns…
We’ll always have videos of Robert Francis having his teeth cleaned and skate boarding. Robert Francis is exactly what McKinley Morganfield meant by “mannish boy”.
So, O’Rourke-the-not-hispanic drops out: who gets his voters?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/01/why_low-polling_2020_democrats_still_have_a_chance.html
And why it may not matter:
https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-reserve-army-of-the-gop/
The Democrats have such a weak slate of candidates this year. It’s amazing.
Whatever Bill, Hill and Barack were up to while leading the Democrats, it wasn’t nurturing a healthy next generation.
If Trump wins next year, as I believe he will, Democrats may have severe internal problems when the younger Democrats try to roll the septuagenarians, as is the natural order of things, as well as the law of failure. Can Sanders, Biden, Warren, Pelosi hold out as powers-that-be in 2024?
But it’s hard to see that next generation. Buttigieg? Yang? Klobuchar? Gabbard? I have a hard time believing them. Deval Patrick? Someone from the Squad? Or someone might emerge from the wilderness?
And what is Obama doing?
Demographics may be on the Dems’ side, but not their bench.
Despite him dropping out for lack of support more than three months before the Iowa Caucuses, expect him to still be considered a front-runner by the press in four years.
“And what is Obama doing?”
You mean, besides killing off the Democrat party?
In all honesty it was worth 8 years of Obama, seeing how the Democrats are now a permanent minority. And now watching their heads explode as Trump undoes his “legacy.”
Obama tried, but it doesn’t look like he did permanent harm.
Imagine how much fun it will be when Trump picks the replacement for Ginsberg.
O’Rourke (please don’t call him “Beto” — that’s a dishonest attempt on his part to identify with a demographic that he in fact has no part of) was never going to be the Democratic nominee for President. I think that he, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and about ten other people who threw their hat in the ring did so because they hoped to catch the eye of the eventual Democratic nominee and be offered the second-place spot on the ticket. Maybe that will still happen, in hope (as far as the presidential nominee is concerned) that he can bring in the electoral votes from Texas. As Tim Kaine found out, though, being the V-P nominee on a losing ticket is not a very career-enhancing move. I fully expect whoever accepts the offer to run for V-P on the D ticket will be as disappointed in thirteen months as Tim Kaine is right now. Let’s see — which one of the three or four front-runners right now wants a wealthy white phony Hispanic as his running mate? Biden? Not likely. Elizabeth Warren? I don’t think so. Mayor Pete? You’re kidding, right?
No, O’Rourke did not just quit the presidential race, he acknowledged that he has no possibility of being any part of a national ticket in 2020. I am not mourning his departure. I’ve seen enough of his tooth-cleaning, ear-hair-clipping, arm-waving, skateboard-riding candidacy. May he rest forever in obscurity.
My curious mind wonders … Does Delta O’Rourke actually have an IQ in the 75 to 90 range, or does he act like that because he thinks that this is the best pathway to the limbic brain of his target voters?
His candidacy shows the effect Obama’s had on the intramural culture of Democratic office-holders. Six years as a back bench member of Congress (after a run of years as a sometime employee of his wife’s) and he’s running for President (making a nonsense cause his signature issue).
Weird guy. Terrible public speaker.
Now his wife can get back to raising her 4 children, the 3 she birthed and the 1 she married.
Harry: I enjoyed your comments.
Actually, I enjoyed all the comments.
So much resemblance between Beto and Massachusetts pols. Like John Kerry, he married rich. IIRC, Beto used his position on the El Paso City council to push a land deal that favored his in-law. Like Ted, Beto used his push to get out of a drunk driving charge. In Beto’s case, it didn’t hurt that his father was an El Paso County judge.
When Beto was running for Senate, a Beto campaign worker knocked on my door. I told her that I would vote Democrat over my dead body, In retrospect,I should have wasted her time, talking about Beto’s drunk driving and other things.
Addressing F’s musings about VP slots.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/kamala-harris-fades-into-irrelevance.php
But more directly –
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/bye-bye-beto.php
Gringo on November 1, 2019 at 10:05 pm said:
… In retrospect,I should have wasted her time, talking about Beto’s drunk driving and other things.
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That’s actually not a bad idea.
I suspect a lot of the GOTV volunteers don’t really know the negative points about the candidates they are stumping for.
Thanks Edward!
Another Democrat was lamenting that Beto will be appearing in GOP ads for years. He the 21st century Dukakis tank photo.
Another Democrat was lamenting that Beto will be appearing in GOP ads for years. He the 21st century Dukakis tank photo.
Dukakis in a tank was mildly amusing. Beto trying to stick the bill for slum crime with rural target-shooting enthusiasts and proposing tax rape of Christian congregations not on board with feminist and homosexualist ideology is the Democratic Party Id talking.
GET ME REWRITE!~
“…he was proud of chumping up issues like taking guns at gunpoint and climate cons but conceded that his campaign lacked ‘the brains and Mexican genes to move forward suckcessfully.’ “
Gringo said: “I would vote Democrat over my dead body,”
Many people do. 🙂
And Epstein did not kill himself.
As the not-gonna-be-elected dwarfs of the Dem Party leave the trail, it should become clearer that they do not know, nor care, about Reps nor Independents.
Trump’s likeliness to win most Independents is likely to carry over into a big Rep win – maybe Pres., Senate, and House. Tho included will be many RINO / Romney types. So it won’t be as secure as a solid Dem majority would be.
Still, while I believe this is coming, I realize I want it, and fear that my desire for it is blinding me to good reasons why it doesn’t happen.
A decision-analysis trick (aka technique) is to assume the bad outcome (Dems win House) – how did they do it?
Successfully demonizing the general Rep, as well as Trump – with Independents believing the general Reps are bad, and voting Dem instead, but supporting Trump as Pres. Vote-splitting, with their nose-holding for Trump leaving them to vote for Dems for the House.
Hmm… F’s comment got me thinking for a moment. (Yes, it happens once in a while.) About O’Rourke not being part of the claimed demographic. I suddenly wondered if there could come a time when the Democratic Party might begin to require formally certified genetic testing of each of its presidential or other candidates to verify that there is whatever minimum required proportion of “oppressed” ethnic minority blood in him/her/other, whatever the amount required at the time by unwritten Party statute (as the bigs would never put the number on paper).
Well, that’s one more chump gone, so I guess that means that there will now be a little more leg room in the Democrat clown car, and the clowns that are left won’t have to worry about fake Hispanic Beto’s flailing arms.
But, we still have to endure fake Indian Elizabeth Warren.
As a matter of fact, Warren’s pre-DNA test whopper, that she used to tell everyone (funny, that I’m not hearing that story being told by her anymore), about how her parents had to sneak away to elope, because the groom’s family objected to her mother’s “Indian Blood” was rather entertaining, at least until people turned up the newspaper announcement about the apparently well attended family wedding of her parents, held in a nearby town.
We also still have to endure “Spartacus” Booker, and his tales about his imaginary Newark drug dealer friend from the Hood, “T-Bone.”
Then, of course, we have Biden and his tale of his epic “West Side Story” style parking lot face off–steel chain vs. rusty straight razor, no less–with gang leader “Corn Pop.”
Kamala Harris has her own credential establishing mythology, as she talked about her “Jamaican roots”–smoking pot and listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac, apparently in the 80s (a fable which her patrician Jamaican father, a university professor, refuted and was not happy about.)
Yes, the Democrats certainly have a surplus of myth makers among them.
I wish we had up-vote options here.
Snow on Ice, may I copy your comment and post it on social media?
Life imitates art: “Another One Bites the Dust”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
It will be even more apt when the mayor drops out.
From eating dirt to biting the dust.
Beto is weird. That’s it.
Thank goodness, but he should never have even been a contender. These superfluous candidates need to stop wasting people’s time and money. On both sides.
Jonah Goldberg came out with an article calling for abolishing primaries. I’m inclined to agree.
How personally repulsive must Ted Cruz be? His GOP colleagues in the Senate not only preferred Trump over him, he legitimately came close to losing to Beto in 2016.
Mike
“Jonah Goldberg came out with an article calling for abolishing primaries. I’m inclined to agree.”
Rethink that. Without primaries, there would have been no Donald Trump OR Ronald Reagan. Conversely, without primaries we likely would have had President Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama.
It’s a really dumb idea, which is no doubt why it appeals to Jonah.
Mike
Beto gives up the fight.
Manju hardest hit.
Robert tried and failed to exploit diversity with a label and appeal to empathy. Unfortunately, for him, Americans aren’t so green, and aren’t the bigots normalized in Democrat political myths. #HateLovesAbortion
MBunge:
No doubt you preferred Beto over Ted Cruz? Or do you just have an abiding dislike for Ted Cruz? If so your dislike seems to have lasted longer than others in the 2016 race. Sad.
“No doubt you preferred Beto over Ted Cruz?”
Facts are important. So is the truth. Cruz nearly did lose to Beto and when it looked like the choice facing the GOP was either Trump or Cruz, the GOP establishment pointedly refused to rally behind Cruz.
THIS is the reaction Cruz generated from Republicans in 2016: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36164195
I have no ill will toward Cruz myself but it is amazing that an apparently smart and capable guy is so viscerally despised by even his own side.
Mike
GOP-e doesn’t like anyone moving their cheese, nor did they like candidate Trump at the time. So what most of the GOP senators like or dislike is to me pointless. It would be different if they could be counted on when it really matters, but drama and uncertainty as to how they will vote is typical.
F:
Absolutely.
Kind of a shame, in a way.
I was looking forward to a Beto-Kam ticket.
Ed Bonderenka–I stay away from social media, and am not on any of these websites, which I consider pernicious.
So, I’m glad you think my comment has some merit, but I’d rather just leave my comment where it is.