By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 14, 2019
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“I want to be in it,” O’Rourke said. “Man, I’m just born to be in it, and want to do everything I humanly can for this country at this moment.”“The gushing Vanity Fair profile also framed O’Rourke as someone who, in contrast to President Donald Trump, “can appear almost too innocent” and “decent” to be a politician:
“But unlike Trump, O’Rourke can appear almost too innocent to be a politician—too decent, too wholesome, the very reason he became popular also the same reason he could be crucified on the national stage. I tell O’Rourke that perhaps he’s simply too normal to be president. “Whether you meant it or not, I take that as a compliment,” he says.(Breitbart)LOL! It would take more than $70 million he blew on his failed senate run to make Beto look “too innocent to be a politician—“too decent, too wholesome”.
“O’Rourke’s critics on the left immediately pointed to his “white privilege” and mocked his “weird as hell” “Messiah-esque” tone that they predicted “will not serve him well” in a presidential run. (Breitbart)
Vote Beto, “He was born to do it.” That’s weird as hell.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) March 13, 2019
Hmmm. Not sure this Vanity Fair piece will help Beto’s campaign ...
— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) March 13, 2019
Beto O’Rourke, as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run: “I’m Just Born to Do This” https://t.co/mLSi4MSfZx
The allure of Beto is that he wasn’t ‘born to it.’ This Messiah-esque tone will not serve him well.
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) March 13, 2019
These negative Tweets will look like so much milquetoast in comparison to what Warren, Harris and Gillibrand will have to say. Beto will then need more than a college boy sweater to fend off their coming attacks.The Messiah cometh..
— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) March 13, 2019
'I'm just born to be in it,' Beto O'Rourke says he "feels called" to run the for US Presidency in 2020. @CNNPolitics https://t.co/nuim0COX8n
“Others pointed out that O’Rourke’s comments suggesting he had a “birthright” to the presidency were especially tone deaf after celebrities and high-powered executives were caught this week bribing college officials and coaches to get their kids into prestigious universities. (Breitbart)
No shade, but "I'm just born to be in it." is an unideal phrase in this cultural moment, esp. as we talk about children of privilege being given things they don't deserve. Not that that's Beto, just that being born into something in the US isn't compelling proof of worthiness. https://t.co/Pv7zHyYeeq
— R. Eric Thomas (@oureric) March 13, 2019
“The New York Times noted this week that “Democratic strategists argue that the relatively positive reception” to O’Rourke after his 2018 defeat is “evidence, yet again, of the deep double standard female candidates face.”(Breitbart) “O’Rourke’s critics have also reportedly been pointing out, highlighting the disportioncate amount of buzz he has received compared to someone like failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, that “he is being given a benefit of the doubt that wouldn’t be extended to a woman or a candidate of color.”And we can already hear the screeching of Occasional-Cortex from far away New York when it sinks in that Mr. Beto is copying her scare tactics on the world coming to an end within the next 12 years. “We're doomed! Beto O'Rourke starts presidential campaign by claiming the world faces 'catastrophe' and warns 'hundreds of millions' of climate refugees will overwhelm borders and humanity could go EXTINCT unless we fix the planet in 12 years.” (Daily Mail, March 13, 2019) “O'Rourke praises 'Green New Deal' as the best proposal to address 'singular crisis we face, a crisis that could at its worst lead to extinction.’” Better back off, Beto while the going’s still good. You’re about to replace the ‘I hate Trump’ movement that’s been gnawing at the bones of a duly elected president for the last two and a half years. Meanwhile, “Run, Beto, Run” has just taken on a whole new meaning.
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