Betomania Megathread: "Mr. Trumpachev, Tear Down This Wall!"

[Sherrod Brown Shill]

"I left liberal"

"I left liberal"

"I left liberal"


"I left liberal"

BETO FINALLY ADMITS TO BEING TRUE LEFTIST, ¡BETO 2020!

[new_patomic]

Beto abandons Liberal Kansas and drives through fog:

https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/this-was-the-most-intense-fog-id-seen-ab0776efa35f

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What a NEW DEMOCRAT, abandoning LIBERAL and instead embracing CONSERVATISM.

Beto clearly has never experienced the wondrous joys of tule fog.

Anyone else tired of the Beto shtick? He comes off as very sanctimonious and preachy, you are a politician not some guru or life coach.

He's over-exposing himself for sure.

[Roll Roons]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Anyone else tired of the Beto shtick? He comes off as very sanctimonious and preachy, you are a politician not some guru or life coach.

No wonder BRTD loves him.

[Comrade Funk]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

That's definitely a bad look.

[The Free North]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

That's definitely a bad look.

Nah its a great one. He's not a partisan hack (mostly) and hes not willing to throw a friend under the bus regardless of what letter is in front of his name.

[scutosaurus]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

Not sure what the issue is here. It's not like he pulled a Henry Cuellar and actively campaigned for Hurd; if I was in the same position as him I would have done the exact same thing. Throwing aside friendships for partisan hackery would not be an admirable trait, and it would make me like Beto less rather than more.

[Comrade Funk]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

That's definitely a bad look.

Nah its a great one. He's not a partisan hack (mostly) and hes not willing to throw a friend under the bus regardless of what letter is in front of his name.

I doubt the primary electorate cares who his friend is. POTUS is the leader of the party, and he/she campaigns for their party.

[Continential]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

That's definitely a bad look.

Nah its a great one. He's not a partisan hack (mostly) and hes not willing to throw a friend under the bus regardless of what letter is in front of his name.

I doubt the primary electorate cares who his friend is. POTUS is the leader of the party, and he/she campaigns for their party.

I'm pretty sure that he would endorse the Democrat if he became the POTUS nominee to make sure that he wouldn't get attacked by the Berniecrats and other Democrats and the media.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Nobody is going to care about any of this by the time he actually starts running. He's just keeping himself relevant.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

Nobody will care. Next.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Beto has visited the town of Ulysses Kansas. Interestingly, it has the same bad-ass name as his son.

https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/i-had-been-to-ulysses-kansas-once-before-briefly-312e9dac8011

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Maybe Beto should have gone the Ted Cruz route with the beard. Helps to connect with the rural WWC voters.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Beto has jumped the shark. Should have declared in his Texas Senate race concession speech.

[Sbane]

Nobody is going to care about any of this by the time he actually starts running. He's just keeping himself relevant.

Yeah, this is just fan service.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

Nobody will care. Next.

Yeah. And it's still not like Cuellar CAMPAIGNING for Carter or David Scott giving money to Mia Love

[Skill and Chance]

I don't get this to be honest.  If he wants to build a political career, he should run for the other Texas Senate seat next year.

[Heebie Jeebie]

I don't get this to be honest.  If he wants to build a political career, he should run for the other Texas Senate seat next year.

He'd be overwhelmingly likely to lose again, and that's not the kind of start you want to build a career on.  He'd be better off finding a job where he could focus on organizing and building up the Texas Democratic Party and doing Latino outreach.  Then he could challenge Cruz again in a couple of years and beat him this time.  In the interim, maybe the next Democratic administration offers him a cabinet post or something so he can attach his name to some kind of actual policy accomplishments.

[DINGO Joe]

Beto has visited the town of Ulysses Kansas. Interestingly, it has the same bad-ass name as his son.

https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/i-had-been-to-ulysses-kansas-once-before-briefly-312e9dac8011

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Maybe Beto should have gone the Ted Cruz route with the beard. Helps to connect with the rural WWC voters.

Pretty wild story about the town of Ulysses via Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses,_Kansas

The town had no means of paying off bond holders for city improvements and in fact some grifters had run off with money before any improvements were made, so in 1909 then literally dragged the town two miles west.

[free my dawg]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

The more I hear about Beto, the less I like about him.

We do not need a both sides-ist as our nominee.

[OneJ]

Article on Beto's refusal to endorse the Democrat in TX-23, due to his personal friendship with Hurd. Wonder if this will hurt him at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/beto-orourke-democrats-president.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0xEJNT2ohMuhEncFWjMPQZP1oG3I1XOe5HbLsM0q35F55MXq0QwpCnr9o

This is something that I kinda care about. As long as Gina Ortiz-Jones or any other person who is the Democratic nominee isn't found out to be a terrible person of some kind you shouldn't have a problem endorsing that candidate. People part of popular political families broke off to support the opposite of what they support.

[Mr. Morden]

Posted without comment:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/heres-video-of-beto-orourke-singing-blitzkrieg-bop-in-a-sheep-mask-and-a-onesie/

[Progressive Pessimist]

Posted without comment:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/heres-video-of-beto-orourke-singing-blitzkrieg-bop-in-a-sheep-mask-and-a-onesie/

Well that clinches it! He really is overrated!

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Cowbetos and Indians:

https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/i-saw-the-spanish-peaks-from-a-distance-emerging-from-the-flat-yellow-plains-shrouded-in-clouds-db530f5eb65e

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Posted without comment:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/heres-video-of-beto-orourke-singing-blitzkrieg-bop-in-a-sheep-mask-and-a-onesie/

My problem with that video is he's covering a Ramones song, and thus a right wing band.

[Comrade Funk]

Posted without comment:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/heres-video-of-beto-orourke-singing-blitzkrieg-bop-in-a-sheep-mask-and-a-onesie/

My problem with that video is he's covering a Ramones song, and thus a right wing band.

Joey was a liberal Democrat