http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-wilhelm-heather-beto-orouke-ted-cruz-1021-story.html
Unsurprisingly, it looks like "Beto" with his $38 million war chest is going to lose big.
It turns out that "Beto" (Bob) , while a common Hispanic nickname, has not even 1/1,024th Hispanic blood in him -- although lots of people THINK he is Hispanic, something that Ted Cruz actually IS -- 1/2 Cuban descent from his father.
Mr. O’Rourke announced Friday that he had raised over $38 million in the last three months alone, a staggering sum for a statewide race and the most of any Senate candidate in history. But a new poll completed Thursday night by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College indicated that Mr. Cruz now leads Mr. O’Rourke by eight percentage points, 51 percent to 43 percent, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 points.
Beto also has a drunk driving arrest in his past, which he tried to "run" away from. "Run" would be a misnomer, since he was so drunk he could hardly walk. He lied about running away in a debate and the WaPol article above gives him 4 Pinnocios after giving lots of creedence to how it "might seem true to HIM".
O’Rourke was so drunk that he could barely get out of the car without falling, so perhaps he would not have gotten far — or he was simply confused. Perhaps in his memory, O’Rourke believes he did not try to leave. But, given his blood alcohol content at the time of the crash, O’Rourke’s memory 20 years after the fact is not nearly as credible as the police reports written just hours after the crash. Even if one is inclined to dismiss police reports as riddled with errors, it is the one contemporary record we have.
O’Rourke could have dodged the question during the debate or he could have said his memory of the night is not clear. Instead, he chose to dispute the factual record. We also believe in second chances, and O’Rourke should revise his answer if given another opportunity. In the meantime, he earns Four Pinocchios.They certainly believe in 2nd, 3rd, or 40th chances for DEMOCRATS! For Republicans, well, we just saw with Kavenaugh, any 35 year old assertion against you with no corroboration is as good as a conviction, and 35 years of exemplary life are not evidence of a "2nd chance". For Republicans, the WaPo / TP standard is "One accusal and DONE"!
The middle linked article has this "remarkable" in a sane universe quote ...
Of the countless head-scratching elements of the O’Rourke phenomenon, one wins handily as the head-scratchingest of all: A troubling percentage of the Betomaniacs I have met in Texas moved here after fleeing places ruined by Beto’s favored policies. These locales are often expensive, increasingly dysfunctional, wildly overregulated and inevitably run by Democrats. Why does no one seem to make this connection? I don’t know! One hero in Austin has taken to posting stickers around town featuring an image of a giant locust, paired with the following text: “I MIGRATED TO A THRIVING TEXAS FROM A LEFTIST (NIGHTMARE) AND NOW I’M VOTING FOR BETO FOR SENATE.” (The posters feature a word much worse than “nightmare,” which I’m not reprinting because I run a PG-13 column here.)
I had to flee one of the high tax, high cost of living, job losing economies of CA, OR, IL, etc and move to Texas -- but hey, "consistency is not an issue"! My favorite polices destroyed my own home! Let's see if the same policies have the same effect here!
Yes, as a fat guy, this DOES align with how I deal with food -- "Hey, I lost some weight! Let's have some high calorie food to celebrate!" The IDEA of democracy was that we would have more sense on such things when it came to voting, but since we live in a world that has sworn off cause and effect, many of us clearly don't !
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