2020 Democratic presidential primary

He'll make a good VP for Harris.

I don't like Harris but at least she talks policy.

In that Wapo articles that talks about him also being shitty to his staff and wanting to run for congress when his wife was pregnant with their first kid and crying, this was the part that made me totally over him:

“I’m having a super hard time right now,” O’Rourke said at one point, driving himself to a campaign event. “To have like the Wall Street Journal reporter asking me 50 questions in an hour to then, right away, sit down in front of the NPR reporter and dance for a little while in front of him. And then, don’t eat, get up and go into this town hall and try to be genuine and direct with people. There’s just no time for your brain to relax and unclench and it . . .” He closed the thought with a vulgarity.

That he brought up not being able to eat!!!

what a fucking baby

speaking of which, wtf is this shit

Beto tells a coffee shop crowd that he just talked with his wife, Amy. “She is raising, sometimes with my help,” their three kids. Then says he’s running for president for his kids, and theirs.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 14, 2019

fucking christ. It drives me crazy when men act like their help in raising their kids is a supplemental perk on an hourly basis.

He'll make a good VP for Harris.

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:43 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't like Harris but at least she talks policy.

― Simon H., Thursday, March 14, 2019 10:44 AM

otm

- Look. We're trying everything to beat Trump. Would you take a male candidate?

- I'm open to it.

- What if he's white?

- Like I said, I'll look at all the candidates...

- Christian? Heterosexual?

- OK?

- From the Republic of Texas?

- GODDAMMIT.

xxp eh, that's just a hamhanded pol joke these guys tell to credit their wives. it's intended to ingratiate but corny af

oh, but i hear it every day in how actively married men say "oh, i've got the the kids tonight/this weekend." Like bitch, you should have your damn kids all the time.

AMEN

seems like the kinda joke that plays better in texas. he should try running for office there.

I'm just making the distinction that usually when you hear men do this they are taking credit for doing so little, and here it's meant to give credit to his wife for doing more. Anyway fuck this guy

prez just now: "I've never seen so much hand movement. Is he crazy or is that just how he acts?"

wait who said that now?

Devastating Beto attack ad pic.twitter.com/UHYJ9JTP7P

— Jon Millstein (@jmillstein) March 14, 2019

the only "cool" thing about nominating a centrist cipher like Beto will be watching all the nEveR tRuMpeRs tie themselves into knots refusing to endorse him, or outright feeling they've been forced to back Trump because... something

that's going to happen w/ any Dem nominee I expect

though yes they will have to strain harder in such a case

I feel bad that I keep wanting to make "Beta O'Rourke" jokes because I should really be a better person than that by now

they will have to strain harder in such a case

I doubt it will overstrain them. Rationalizations and equivocations come easily when you keep in practice as much as they do.

i mean i guess it really is all about assuaging donor class fears of creeping socialisms or insuring consultant dorks' job security, but the DNC is just gd dumb if they think this dude is going to be the Trump slayer

DNC?

he's way too much of a newbie to be their Chosen One i'd suspect

Quick transcript of Beto O'Rourke's response on Medicare-for-all in interview with Radio Iowa -- bold is mine.

"No one person, perhaps no one party, can force the decision on this"https://t.co/82Iyrcw2IE pic.twitter.com/xlv9qlze6j

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) March 14, 2019

Feel like I should point out that O'Rourke comes from a state where the GOP executive branch gutted Obamacare simply because it was created by a black guy it was Democrat-created plan.

labels

take a shot xp

lmao he really would be a good texas senatorial candidate

he certainly hasn't troubled himself with updating his messaging for the national stage huh

meanwhile

JUST IN: Abrams and Biden meet as both consider entering 2020 race https://t.co/0JL87Ulbej pic.twitter.com/nszuykoCOL

— The Hill (@thehill) March 14, 2019

DREAM TICKET

i don't think Abrams has much of a chance but she'd definitely be at or near the very top of my own list right now.

BREAKING NEWS: The entire state of Louisiana has announced an exploratory committee for its 2020 candidacy for the Presidency

maybe beto has a long game where losing the dem primary for being "too conservative" for the national democratic party is supposed to help him in his next texas bid, idk

For O’Rourke, what followed was a near-mystical experience. “I don’t ever prepare a speech,” he says. “I don’t write out what I’m going to say. I remember driving to that, I was, like, ‘What do I say? Maybe I’ll just introduce myself. I’ll take questions.’ I got in there, and I don’t know if it’s a speech or not, but it felt amazing. Because every word was pulled out of me. Like, by some greater force, which was just the people there. Everything that I said, I was, like, watching myself, being like, How am I saying this stuff? Where is this coming from?

You know, Obama and Reagan and JFK weren't this obvious about their narcissism.

I'm so sick of this shit. Imagine a woman getting away with it.

wow beto got real bad real fast huh

he's like emo trump

I hate beto

you beto be doubtful

maybe he'll pull a rubio and pivot into the senate race?

if he doesn't embarrass himself on the national stage first, i mean

can't wait

Hoping that dunking on beto will unite this thread at last

lol was he even ever really likable ? there was that one video that seems cool but i forgot what the hell he was talking about tho

I haven't seen any video of him speaking ever.

i was rooting for him to clown Cruz but i never got much of a read on him, i mean i doubt many people outside of texas really "got to know him".

He had one speech where he said some good if not necessarily unique or profound things about kaepernick iirc.

it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWmh-maevk

the video that went around where he talks about the Taylor Branch books? that’s the only one I’ve seen of him. it was charming; he seemed really nervous

xp yeah that’s the one

i'm gearing more towards harris, but i will say
beto seems to have (or at least want) the
social media savviness that got trump
in office.

this was on the la times front page:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-president-election-20190314-story.html

the video is intense