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Beto’s In
May this campaign go as well as his run for the Senate. The announcement video here:
I feel like he’s asking to be my life coach.
Published in General
At least a subset of the Irish vote.
Exactly. Thank you.
I’ll call him O’Rourke, Robert, or, occasionally, Robert Francis O’Rourke. I’m not going to call him “Beto,” because that’s too cute and sneaky.
Same goes for Miss Ocasio-Cortez. These people are running on a platform of coolness. For a lot of them, that’s all they’ve got. Let’s not encourage it by using their cool nicknames.
Actually he seems to be a Beta.
Campaign theme. Do it Robert!
Angelo Carusone?
Vanity Fair. Sums him up perfectly.
If you are sick of candidates with a list of specific proposals or actual competence in some issue area, Beto is your guy. He has locked up the Holden Caulfield vote because he is authentically undecided or even indifferent to policy specifics.
He has invited us to share in his process, his feelings as we move forward, together, somewhere, whatever.
Some say he is running for VP, the young sidekick for some fossil like Joe or Bernie. That fits because nobody cares what a VP thinks.
True. His assumed nickname provides a useful platform for a more fitting nickname.
You understand why that is perfect for Democrats though – the party is made of factions that don’t agree on policy. At all. A personality is the thing that can unite them. Obama did it. Hilary couldn’t.
How about the guy going on trial for some white-collar infraction invariably walking into the courthouse holding hands with his wife? That’s a sure sign he’s guilty.
The guy is holding his wife’s hand because she needs two to strangle him with . . .
I’m surprised he did not make the announcement from the dentist’s chair.
His video makes a perfect satire video of all that the Dems hold dear. As for the greatest challenge in living memory – that would be someone taking Robert Francis (Beta) O’Rourke seriously. Pair him with Biden and you would have the most manic pair of running mates ever.
For dems tired of all the crazies he may be just the blank slate needed on which to write their newest hopes and dreams.
Moderator Note:
VulgarWhat’s with the Dams and their onomatopoetic names?
Beto is a beta male.
Kamala looks like a camel.
[redacted]
your turn…
Biden is biding his time . . .
Hickenlooper is a sickened trooper . . .
Spartacus ain’t on par with us . . .
I retract my previous statement. Judging by the headlines on my facebook feed he’s gone full lefty.
In the announcement video, I thought it was creepy how “Beto”‘s wife stared at him with such slavish fixation and a kind of besotted adoring grin for the first several minutes. She only looks at the camera twice, with a look that seems to be saying, “Wow, isn’t he amazing! I’m so lucky — and you can be too!” before her focus returns to him.
And that’s where his focus is too. He never even looks at her as she bounces up and down on the couch with the force of his hand waving while she’s clinging to him like that.
It is way too much. Totally unnatural feeling. I’m trying to imagine Melania ever looking at Trump that way. Or me looking at my husband like that for that long.
<Chortle chortle snort snort.>
Some of you might enjoy Piers Morgan’s take on the announcement: “Beto O’Rourke is a deluded loser running on a ticket of lies, hypocrisy and the vote-destroying message that all Americans are about to die.”
I finally forced myself to watch the video. I think criticism of his wife is a bit much. She just sits there with a pleasant smile, most of the time, a little bit of boredom she tries to politely hide, and an occasional big smile of excitement. I have no problem with her and I think criticism of her goes a bit too far.
He, however, comes off as a empty headed shell repeating slogans that are even emptier. The lack of depth in what he’s saying forces his very odd gestures which have no relation to the words he is using.
Giving his spiel from a bouncy couch was probably unwise. The producer should have shored that couch up so that it didn’t bounce. I think much of the criticism of the wife comes from her bouncing while he is gesticulating so vigorously and vacuously.
For those criticizing the wife, tell me this: How was she supposed to behave? More bored? Somber? Nah, she was fine.
Attcking him and his ideas should be the focus, not on his (somewhat) innocent spouse.
I would like to answer by saying that she should not have been there in the first place. I criticize not only the wife but the husband and the handlers who thought it would look good to have her bouncing on the couch. Did they not do a run-through? Why did they decide to do it this way?
If she had not been in the entire video, she would not have had to act so unnaturally for such an extended period.
Like many others, it was LOL when I first saw this. It could be, I have discovered, a litmus test: Liberal friends don’t get the joke at all.
It went better than the Kevin McCluskey interview in The Last Hurrah.
I find that fascinating.
“Besotted” may be the only way she can tolerate him . . .
Who is this Beta O’Dork person everyone is talking about??
To his credit, he at least paid lip servive to American Exceptionalism.
El Jefe
Hey, Moderator, tell me you didn’t think the same thing that I did, upon learning that Mr Buttigieg is gay. C’mon. It can’t be denied.