Ron’s nickname for Beta is Beto the Pedo.
Scary specter on the horizon . . . Robert Francis O’Rourke, nicknamed “Beto” for no particularly good reason, seeing as how he has about as much Latino blood as Lizardbreath Warren has Cherokee.
Calls himself a “moderate” Democrat but tends to vote straight ticket with the radicals on everything except term limits (which he favors, BTW). Believes climate is perhaps our most serious threat today and somehow got the notion in his head that he’s qualified to run the whole shootin match from 1600 Penn’s Woods Lane.
So I did some readin up on him. Gotta say, he definitely has more real-world experience in gubmint and management than DingleBarry did when he ran, but when a guy who wants to be PotUS says entering this country without authority shouldn’t be a crime and it’s o.k. for athletes to kneel during the anthem, my hackles tend to get up.
Pedo O’Rourke . . . a bucktoothed, crook-nosed, arm-flapping Irish dork with a mild case of ethnic delusion and a serious case of importance inflation. My guess is that he’s marginally NOT stupid enough to think he can actually pull off a Soetoro and get the nomination outright in his own right, but may drag in enough pop support from teenyboppers and cash from hollywooders to get picked for the Biden Veep spot, and thereby a ticket for 2024 when Gropey Joe will be too old.
He’s NOT a strong supporter of gun rights but believes in relaxed restrictions on immigration, marijuana, LGBTQ rights, protecting DREAMers, impeaching and indicting Trump, and taking a knee by pro athletes during the anthem. He also supports single-payer universal health care, abortion, and gay marriage. Supported HRC for PotUS, too.
Perhaps the biggest knock I have on Pedo, even if he IS a centrist, is that he’s been endorsed by such people as LeBron James, Ellen DeGeneres, Willie Nelson, Jim Carrey, and numerous Hollywood airheads. My biggest concern is that he reminds me too much of a white Soetoro, and I lived through that error.
Less than two full days after his initial formal announcement of candidacy for the 2020 Dem PotUS nomination, his campaign swing through Iowa morphed into a full-blown apology for jokes he made about his wife and some stuh-RANGE things he wrote when he was younger.
He also has met with Soundbyte Al (Sharpton), always a huge plus for politicians who want to be taken seriously, and announced that he will be meeting with him again soon.
What disturbs me about a “Beto” candidacy is that people seem to like him as some kind of “boy-next-door-with-buck-teeth-and-a-guitar” who isn’t afraid to own up to past foxpaws and can raise money better’n a meth dealer in Nogales.
In a poll of Democrats concerning people already declared in the running for 2020, Pedo beats out EVERYbody except Joe Biden in the favorable-versus-unfavorable impression ratio. Biden’s is right at 7, and his is 5.4, notably higher than Sanders’, which is 5.0. All the rest are below 5.
AND, as a virtual unknown in what’s still a red state, he raised more than DOUBLE the money raised by any other candidate for congress last year (not counting PACs), over $80 million. And half of that was from small donor contributions. Ted Cruz raised only $30 mil.
What’s frightening is the level of name recognition he’s building and his remarkable ability to attract donors. He’s already more popular than all the other candidates except Sanders and Biden, and in light of what happened in the 08 genelec, this guy could be flyin that Resolute Desk soon, if not in 2021, then 2025. And that’s scary, ‘cause Murkan elections are nuttin but popularity contests.
Records show that as a Congressman, he voted
AGAINST legislation to stop late-term abortions.
AGAINST legislation to end taxpayer-funding of Planned Parenthood.
AGAINST efforts to repeal Obamacare.
AGAINST the Keystone XL pipeline.
AGAINST a resolution opposing carbon taxes
AGAINST legislation to cut off federal grants to sanctuary cities.
AGAINST a resolution honoring the brave men and women of ICE
AGAINST legislation to stop the Pentagon from funding sex changes in the military.
Clearly an albino Soetoro with just a few more primo boxtops. He would undo everything DJT has accomplished and put us back on the DingleBarry one-way track to dissolution. Here’s a quote from his failed senate campaign:
“Black men, unarmed, black teenagers, unarmed, and black children, unarmed, are being killed at a frightening level right now, including by members of law enforcement without accountability and without justice.”
Yeah, like we need another one of those in the White House.