Betomania, TP On Their Own

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/25/beto-orourkes-false-claim-he-did-not-try-leave-scene-dwi/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5090bd76539d

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.

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.

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.

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 ! 

Tom Steyer's Mother's Day Ad

Happy Mother’s Day from Tom Steyer | Power Line:

This is one that I find so unbelieveable that I spent some time checking for Snopes on it ... nope, apparently we are talking "reality", though it is the sort of reality that one finds (hopefully mostly) in ex coal magnate Tom Steyer's billionaire head -- and barely at all in the left wing media. USA Today was the only semi-left coverage I could find.

In Steyer's universe, this is not the Onion ... this is something that he believes that Trump-hating "progressives" will find motivating!

One of the many things that was held sacred in the old America (the great one!) was "Motherhood" ... you know, God, Country, Mom, Apple Pie ... those old stupid values. I remember the old days when we used to deride platitudes as "motherhood" ... none of those mothers found believing in smaller government, hard work, independence, God, life, liberty, the Constitution, respect for flag and parents to be "equivalent to being a drug addict".

The ad does all it can to paint male Republicans as racist, xenophobic, sexist, closed minded people doomed to live alone ... I mean after all, no woman is going to marry a guy that is pro-life! As of 2017, his chances MIGHT be limited to the 38% of women courageous enough to self identify as pro-life on a poll! Those are some brave ladies ... for a woman to self identify as pro-life in BOistan is nearly as courageous as somebody identifying as a "Nazi"!

** note, seeing someone willing to stand up for their unpopular beliefs as "courageous" does NOT mean you agree with them. I respect Muslims that stand up and say that Islam demands Sharia Law and death to infidels a lot more than those that deny that is a tenet of Islam!

While the ad is a sick example of tribal politics, I give it one strong vote -- the son came home ( humorously to get his laundry done, no liberal son has EVER done THAT!). While mom is worried about her boy, she has not said that she refuses to see him until he "gets off Republican ideas" ... unlike the estrangement that is often the case when Christian kids turn left and leave Christ.

Perhaps if the boy turned Christian she would cut off contact? I wonder if the irony of a woman who deals with her worries with a bottle vs say "prayer" registers with any of the lefty brains? While they tried to tie being Republican to being a drug addict, I thought the largest irony was how much it might have been an old discussion on homosexuallity ... her son had apparently "come out" as conservative, and it sounded like she might want him "deprogrammed".

Can Conservatives and Christians be drugged or deprogrammed to think as our liberal elite masters demand we think, or are they just going to have to go full National Socialist and exterminate us? Ads like this make you realize just how far tribal politics has already gone.

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