Is his campaign a screen play? It's just too far crazy left to be taken seriously. Is he there for the other commies to point at and say "at least I'm not that guy"?

Loser is trying to be relevant, but his 15 is done. Commies have moved on to their next Messiah.

His polling never got out of the low single digits so I don't think anyone really ever took him seriously. He was deluded into running by a media that made him out to be the next JFK during his Texas senate run. They would have given the same treatment to a sweet potato if one had been running against Cruz. Beto has always been a lightweight even when he was in Congress and never had a serious chance at being a real contender nationally. The media won't turn on him, but they will never promote him over the other more real candidates.

And with Sanders, Warren, Harris and Booker really doing their best to outbid each other on ways to confiscate and redistribute more wealth, find new categories of victimhood and generaly disparage America and capitalism as racist and evil, I don't think it is going to work for any of them to point to anyone as further left than themselves. Biden is the only one who could possibly make that work, and he is steadily moving left as Warren starts to look stronger against him.

All in all, Beto is a complete non-factor in the race.

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Originally posted by mark123:
Is his campaign a screen play? It's just too far crazy left to be taken seriously. Is he there for the other commies to point at and say "at least I'm not that guy"?

Pretty much, yes.
The left will always move farther left. A large part of the "progressive" left will keep pushing toward socialism, and communism.

By now even Beto knows he won't be elected President. But he is moving the conversation farther to the left... which is the true goal of his campaign.

The only Dem candidates that aren’t “crazy left,” e.g. Delaney and Gabbard, weren’t allowed in the last debate because they are not drawing the big donors from NY and California. The rest are all crazy left, and that’s why we have the latest “existential threat” from the President. They know NONE of these jackasses can win an election with the platform they’re running on. So impeachment and tearing down the electoral college is their roadmap to “victory,” no matter what happens to our country. Pelosi calling the latest impeachment attempt “patriotic” is yet another debasement of our system of government.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
His polling never got out of the low single digits so I don't think anyone really ever took him seriously. He was deluded into running by a media that made him out to be the next JFK during his Texas senate run. They would have given the same treatment to a sweet potato if one had been running against Cruz. Beto has always been a lightweight even when he was in Congress and never had a serious chance at being a real contender nationally. The media won't turn on him, but they will never promote him over the other more real candidates.

And with Sanders, Warren, Harris and Booker really doing their best to outbid each other on ways to confiscate and redistribute more wealth, find new categories of victimhood and generaly disparage America and capitalism as racist and evil, I don't think it is going to work for any of them to point to anyone as further left than themselves. Biden is the only one who could possibly make that work, and he is steadily moving left as Warren starts to look stronger against him.

All in all, Beto is a complete non-factor in the race.

From your lips to God’s ear.

I am pretty confident Francis would easily win the nomination on the democrat ticket in Brewster county. Bunch of GDCs up in here.

Nah. Beato is independently maniacal. He's so damaged now that only equally maniacal people would vote for him. His only chance is local politics in a flaming commie district.

If the term "propped up" means anything to you that is what he is.
Irrelevant.

Don't bother trying to assign lofty leftist goals to Robert Francis. It's much more basic than that. He is a con man. He likes the money.

Plausibly yes, but the other half of that strategy would require the other candidates to act reasonable.

Maybe he will tour with Greta, and they can do a you all suck tour, because we know better.

Don’t think money is what drives him. His wife has plenty. It might be he is gunning for the VP slot or he just craves the adoration.

Lately I have been accused of being a bad grandfather for teaching the grandkids to say they need to take a ‘Beto’ when they need potty.

The potty word here for a too long time was "take a Barry"

Don't think they are that smart.

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By now even Beto knows he won't be elected President. But he is moving the conversation farther to the left... which is the true goal of his campaign.

Challenging the norm, if we believe there is more going on that a simple politician with a bias against guns and that it's part of the leftest overall agenda, driven by the investors in progressivism becoming mainstream, soros, bloomberg, et al

Since he's irrelevant, his job is to test the waters on such forbidden subjects like semi auto rifle legality. The task is to break the glass ceiling and get people talking about things they normally wont, putting restrictions on 2A. The method is to go straight at it to see what the results are, and to start a national conversation about how to implement there changes. Theory being that the age old ideal that you can't have a conversation about guns isn't that big of a problem that can't be overcome, to change thinking, it's not about now it's about winning at some time in the future, if it happens now, all the better..

The left is testing old theories of what can and cannot be discussed by politicians, and in doing so working to drive the narrative their way be it gun confiscation, socialized medicine, mandated minimum wages, taxes, tariffs, rules, education and especially energy. Move the money from Oil and Gas to renewable and drive money to a different political group.

Beto is just the sacrificial lamb in one side of the story, Warren and Bernie on pure socialism.

Or maybe not.... I'm low on tin foil, maybe one of the giant rolls at a restaurant supply will last....

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
His polling never got out of the low single digits so I don't think anyone really ever took him seriously. He was deluded into running by a media that made him out to be the next JFK during his Texas senate run. They would have given the same treatment to a sweet potato if one had been running against Cruz. Beto has always been a lightweight even when he was in Congress and never had a serious chance at being a real contender nationally...

How did he get 48.3% of the votes in the Senate race??? Ted Cruz won with 50.9%

https://ballotpedia.org/United...ction_in_Texas,_2018

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
How did he get 48.3% of the votes in the Senate race??? Ted Cruz won with 50.9%

O'Rourke, who early in his campaign ran as a Mexican, then exposed for his tactic of hiding his true heritage, did not venture into extremely left territory (unlike now). He relied on his youth, a new face, a marketing campaign of essentially being the white Obama, and having a larger war chest than Cruz (most of the money from CA). And not known to many folks are allegations of voter fraud; electronic ballots changed, and poll workers letting illegals vote. Voter fraud very likely happened in Florida and AZ, and I believe also with the Texas senate race- Cruz's election was the most important race in 2018 and the Dems wanted that seat at any cost.

Cruz won by approx 100,000. But what is interesting is that conservative Republican Greg Abbott easily won an additional term as Governor in the same cycle, and won by over a million votes. Is it really feasible that the hundreds of thousands who voted for a conservative Abbott also voted for a liberal O'Rourke?. Rush Limbaugh was the only person I heard speak of this.