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The Beto Moment Has Passed. I Mourn.
Beto’s poll numbers are no longer even measurable with normal-sized samples. I mourn the passing of the Beto campaign in verse, just as Beto would have me do:
Published in GeneralHe stood on our tables and let revelations flow.
It was never where Beto is but where Beto will go.
And take us. To where we could be. Yet always were.“Positions” are for muggles, lamers, and proles.
With Beto we would discover what matters to our souls.
A new us. A new we. Finally free to be who we always were.Beto was our Columbus of self—without the rape and genocide.
Beto was our Hubble soulscope—fiercely looking for our gentler side.
The parts of us that make “we.” Where you could hug you yet be hugging me.Beto, our late comet, never to be seen again.
Beto, fading like a mist, with ratings lower than CNN.
Now with reality we must again collude. Bummer, dude.
At this point in the 2016 election Trump hadn’t descended the escalator yet, right? The length of the primary season needs to be shortened and I don’t know how it could be done.
Bobby O’Rourke had such promise. He convinced the media he was Hispanic. He convinced soccer moms he was the bad boy they crushed on in high school. He had the billionaire family, which opened doors. He had that great donor list. To bad he turned out to be such a ditz. My Hand saw through it.
Beto’s gone? I would not have guessed from frontlawn signage in Austin. Beto for Senate; Beto for President; Beto for America. I expect soon to see Beto Eats Quiche On Spaceship Earth.
Don’t mis-underestimate him. This year might have just been a trial run for a future election cycle.
Beto is moving to a temporary higher plane before he comes again. Maybe. If we are worthy.
I have the suspicion that running for office, win or lose, is a paying job for some of these candidates. They don’t need to get any votes, just some contributions and lots of press.
Beto is the political equivalent of Kim Kardashian. Famous for being famous, foremost. It appears to be lucrative these days.
The weird thing is that Ms. West is more substantive on issues than Beto. She has called for recognition of the Armenian genocide and taken serious positions on sentencing reforms. I mean, if you seem like a flake or a lightweight as compared to Kim…
I agree, she seems to really have matured since the birth of her children. But her original fame was based upon a recognizable father and stepfather and a sex tape.
Nominee for Best Political Humor Award, 2019.
The poem or Beto himself?
Its all part of his strategy. He lures you into a false sense of security and just when you think he is gone, bam! He becomes president.
Nobody wants to see a superfluous Comment from me where I am just saying that I thought something was way too good for just a Like.
So I am voluntarily limiting myself to two Chortling Out Loud, or “COL”, awards per week.
Wait for it.
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…COL!!!
If there’s anything that would make me less likely to vote for him that’s it.
I was about to make the same comment. Kim occasionally deserves some attention. Beto hasn’t, doesn’t and shouldn’t get a thing from the public. To quote Kevin on Shark Tank, it would be nice if someone would go and quash him like the cockroach that he is. I suspect that a serious lack of attention from us in the public and from the press, and he would slink away on his own, no quashing needed.
I’m glad he has become invisible in the race, because he had that annoying -nails on a chalkboard- quality about him. Unfortunately here in El Paso, he’s not gone. All five of his supporters are still here, who he probably paid with Whattaburgers. Can we find somewhere else to send him?
Old Bathos – Have no Fear! Beto will rise like a Phoenix during the primaries to spout ooodles of new nonsense.
So apparently grasping one’s own buttocks while a small dog looks on sadly was not the best way to go.
Who’d-a thunk it?
“You gotta grasp other people’s buttocks. That’s the key.”
– Joe Biden
Saw my first Beto 2020 bumper sticker yesterday.
I don’t know who used this line last November, but it works here too. Phony Betomania has bitten the dust.
I wonder if his “Rich White Guy” reparations tax proposal cost support among wealthy Democrat donors:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/orourke-suggests-using-tax-code-to-transfer-wealth-from-rich-whites-to-african-americans
Clever poem, Old Bathos. Ricochet’s Ogden Nash is what you are.
Beto’s Texas campaign never existed except for the purpose of sucking money out of Ted Cruz and to exercise get-out-the-vote tactics for progressives. I don’t think the big money that drove his campaign had any real expectation of winning, at least at first; they just wanted to force Cruz to spend his money.
I don’t know this, but I suspect that Cruz was in some heavy debt from his presidential campaign. Before the Nov 2016 election, and after he had dropped out, he was already aggressively seeking donations for the 2018 senate campaign (I admit to having some concerned words for the poor schmucks who kept calling me for Cruz 2018 campaign donations in October 2016). I think he was flat broke and wanted to do everything he could to not be beholden to Trump to pay his campaign debt. (It’s my understanding that a lot of times the loser in a primary asks the winner for help in paying off the campaign debt in exchange for supporting him.).
So I think that the democrats smelled blood in the water, and ginned up their “Run with Wendy” machine to offer us Beto, and did a better job of it with fewer gaffes.
My name is Skyler, and I am not a political analyst.
Thanks, Annie, but we’ve already got Kasich here, so we’re good.
Outstanding.
This is such a superb line
I kinda stole that line from the Smothers Brothers who had a funny mock love song with the line: “So much with us in love are we, that you could kiss you and I could kiss me.”
Ah, the Smothers Brothers. The Stephen Colbert of their day.
They were funny until Tom Smothers in particular went off the deep end. The idea never registered with them that TV viewers who tune into comedy shows are expressly trying to escape the Big Issues, not get socked with bitter sophomoric diatribes instead of punch lines. Then became whiny unemployed martyrs after CBS cancelled the show. What a waste of talent.
Well nicely stolen then.