2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

"some good if not necessarily unique or profound things" = white people pontificating in 2019

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/orourkeablog

Is this an accurate picture of his fundraising so far today?

btw inside scoop but one of his main online fundraisers from 2018 is working on kamala harris' campaign this year, heads up

What do they say? The bar for white men is the core of the earth.

from what she talked about on fb, beto campaign was a good experience, but i know she's always championed women candidates (she worked for a state rep when i met her).

here's cnn about her: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/politics/shelby-cole-beto-orourke-kamala-harris-2020/index.html

I'll keep saying this, but the best possible outcome for Castro & O'Rourke is they get bounced early enough for the former to go for the Senate in '20 and the latter to take on Abbott for the governorship in '22.

Beto seriously has developed the mannerisms of a fledgling southern preacher. Or high school physics teacher.

both castro twins and o'rourke need to be running for the two US senate seats and the governor's office goddammit.

^^Gets It.

Beto's very 'Cool Youth Pastor', it's true.

Actually, if we could get somebody on Lt. Governor too, that'd be great.

http://d3m2ca683sarz5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/17143501/sopranos-tan-paul-schulze-then.png

“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?

He's Owen Wilson in Zoolander

I would in no way want to put any blocks in the way of Stacey Abrams doing whatever the hell she wants to do, and people always tell young, usually female, almost always black, politicians to work their way up or wait their turn, and I want to make sure this doesn't come across as that, but she's the only Democrat in the state of Georgia right now who could conceivably beat David Perdue in the 2020 senate election and David Perdue reeeeeeeally sucks and needs to be taken out. If she runs for the White House, he might not be.

That quote is actually kind of endearing him to me. Would totes read his zine.xp

NB a year before he became PM, everyone made fun of Justin Trudeau this way too so.

I hated JT then, too, but I also assumed his being PM was an inevitability. Not getting that vibe with Beto and the presidency just yet.

I don't think Trudeau would do that well in the Dem Primary field. Like Hillary and Bernie were both much more impressive to me as public speakers.

Yeah, relating to the other thread, a last name can make a big difference.xp!

How is he worth 9mil already?!? Is this inheritance?