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Beto O’Rourke plans ‘reintroduction’ as 2020 buzz fizzles
Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2019 | Will Weissert and Steve Peoples

Posted on 05/11/2019 9:23:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Beto O’Rourke barreled into the 2020 presidential race with breakneck energy and a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants campaign style that saw him leap atop tables to address overflow crowds with the organic, off-the-cuff candor that had made him a Texas sensation.

But since his mid-March campaign launch, the buzz surrounding the former congressman has evaporated. Competing in a massive field of Democratic White House hopefuls, O’Rourke has sagged in the polls. He’s made few promises that resonated or produced headline-grabbing moments, instead driving around the country meeting with voters at mostly small events.

In a tacit recognition that this approach isn’t working, O’Rourke is planning to try again, taking a hands-on role in staging a “reintroduction” ahead of next month’s premier Democratic presidential debate. As he finalizes his plans, O’Rourke has entered an intentional “quiet period” to build out campaign infrastructure, according to an adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the campaign’s strategy.

That will end soon.

O’Rourke plans to step up his national media appearances after skipping most of that kind of exposure in recent months. He is scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday night and ABC’s “The View” the next day. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2020; betamale; betoorourke; bobblehead; fakenews; orourke; robertfrancisorourke
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To: Olog-hai

VETO BETO


21 posted on 05/11/2019 10:05:22 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Beat me to it. We’ve seen this game before. It’s what losers do when they feel like they’re losing.


22 posted on 05/11/2019 10:06:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Olog-hai

Allow mysself to introduce myself
23 posted on 05/11/2019 10:14:23 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, concur. Old Beto is as big a failure as New Beto. Too late to come out as homosexual; Alfred E. BootyJudge already occupies that “intersectional” space.


24 posted on 05/11/2019 10:16:14 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: TomGuy

Resuscitation and defibrillation are definitely extreme measures to get a heart started and operating again.

If the first shock does not set things running, turn up the voltage (typically 3,000 volts) to about 5,000 volts, and watch the spine arc even higher.

Cure or kill.


25 posted on 05/11/2019 10:20:04 AM PDT by alloysteel (Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori [Latin for"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country."])
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To: Olog-hai

He will now be called Bobby Kennedy O’Rourke.


26 posted on 05/11/2019 10:24:14 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Olog-hai
Beto O’Rourke barreled into the 2020 presidential race with breakneck energy and a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants campaign style that saw him leap atop tables to address overflow crowds with the organic, off-the-cuff candor that had made him a Texas sensation.

I see the AP is its usual objective self. Gush much?

In a tacit recognition that this approach isn’t working, O’Rourke is planning to try again, taking a hands-on role in staging a “reintroduction”

I think Gropin' Joe has a corner on the "hands-on" market niche, but it's worth a try, I suppose. Warren has the ethnic fakery market covered, so that's out, sorry, Señor O’Rourke. Bernie has the spittle-throwing Commie vote wrapped up. Hillary's still hanging onto the blackmail photos from the corporate heavy donors, and Harris is still sucking up to the establishment, so to speak. Not much room left in a crowded clown car.

27 posted on 05/11/2019 10:29:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai

What, ANOTHER Cuck video?


28 posted on 05/11/2019 10:30:44 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Leaning Right
Drop the Hispanic gimmick. It’s just not working. Instead, stake out a new identity, one that hasn’t been taken. May I suggest Asian-American?

OR, Yiddish. "Beto Juice". He could hire Alec Baldwin to say his new nickname 3 times, then Beto Juice pops out from behind a curtain.

29 posted on 05/11/2019 10:33:53 AM PDT by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s gonna figure this thing out, even if it harelips the guvnah!


30 posted on 05/11/2019 10:37:43 AM PDT by avenir
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To: DPMD

Quite. In terms of intersectionality, Beto is bankrupt and that is the coin of the realm this election season.


31 posted on 05/11/2019 10:38:01 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Here is an idea—Come up with some NEW IDEAS! Read the Bio of JFK. Start talking like an American—a bit of patriotism sounds good to me. Dump idenity politics and talk old school Teamster Union politics.


32 posted on 05/11/2019 10:39:05 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: avenir
He’s gonna figure this thing out, even if it harelips the guvnah!

My mother used that expression a lot!

33 posted on 05/11/2019 11:01:53 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: Olog-hai
See the source image
34 posted on 05/11/2019 11:15:49 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Olog-hai

Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
- Mr. Robert Zimmerman


35 posted on 05/11/2019 11:16:55 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Olog-hai

Try for 2040, Beatoff.


36 posted on 05/11/2019 11:51:11 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah that will certainly propel him to great heights. /sarcasm


37 posted on 05/11/2019 12:01:11 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

3 words:

Veni

Vidi

Vamoos


38 posted on 05/11/2019 12:11:40 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: Olog-hai

This time he is Roberto O’Rourke.


39 posted on 05/11/2019 12:25:01 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Olog-hai

The only sin RATS won't embrace or tolerate is losing and O'Dork is a loser.

40 posted on 05/11/2019 1:09:13 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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