Posted on 03/18/2019 4:40:42 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
The shallowest man on the planet. – Over the weekend, Irish Bob O’Rourke compared bureaucrats at the EPA who write climate-related regulations to the thousands of incredibly brave American soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. I knew a couple of those men in my younger days, and I’m frankly glad they are no longer around to witness such abject nonsense emerging from the mouth of a candidate for the U.S. presidency.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Irish Bob also had to issue his first apology to the social media outrage mob on Sunday, not something we’d have expected to see from the guy who last fall was the idol of the college campus set. The intrepid Irishman’s sin was … wait for it… oh, you have to wait for this one… GIVING HIS WIFE MOST OF THE CREDIT FOR RAISING THEIR CHILDREN!
I kid you not, the outrage mob decided Irish Bob had to genuflect before them in supplication after he credited his wife Amy with raising their children “sometimes with my help.” This simple expression of gratitude to his wife for taking up the slack during the many times he’s been away from home due to his political career created such a high level of outrage on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the fidgety ex-congressman felt the need to say the following:
“Not only will I not say that again, but I’ll be more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our marriage,” and “My ham-handed attempt to try to highlight the fact that Amy has the lion’s share of the burden in our family — that she actually works but is the primary parent in our family, especially when I served in Congress, especially when I was on the campaign trail — should have also been a moment for me to acknowledge that that is far too often the case, not just in politics, but just in life in general. I hope as I have been in some instances part of the problem, I can also be part of the solution.”
Breathtaking. You seriously cannot make this stuff up.
But here’s the funniest part of the whole incident: He said all of that with his normally-flailing arms held rigidly at his sides. Watch this clip:
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The Hill ✔ @thehill While campaigning in Waterloo, IA, Beto O'Rourke explained why he'll stop joking on the campaign trail that his wife has been raising their children "sometimes with my help." http://hill.cm/3bfEHt6
77 10:45 PM - Mar 16, 2019 152 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Once again, a Donald Trump kill shot has had a major impact on one of his opponents. In case you missed it, after Irish Bob had formally announced his campaign in a frenetic, hyperactive speech during which his arms were flailing all over the damn place, President Trump gave the speech this hilarious review during a White House press availability:
“Well, I think he’s got a lot of hand movement. I’ve never seen so much hand movement. I said, ‘Is he crazy or is that just the way he acts?'” Trump said at the White House. “I watched him a little while this morning, during I assume it was some kind of a news conference, and I’ve actually never seen anything quite like it.”
Just three days later, Irish Bob’s arms appear to be welded to his sides.
Coincidence? Not hardly. This is classic Trump, doing to O’Rourke what he did to Jeb! “Low Energy” Bush, Little Marco Rubio and “Pocahontas” Warren. Once the President issues one of these kill shots and they get repeated endlessly in social media and the fake news media, it becomes impossible for voters to see these people without having that image in the back of their minds.
Even worse for Trump’s opponents, being the subject of such a kill shot makes them so self-conscious and focused on proving him wrong that they end up doing incredibly stupid things, like Rubio going on a series of ballistic tirades during a debate and “Pocahontas” killing her career with that idiotic DNA test. And now he’s got Irish Bob so focused on keeping his arms and hands still that he appears to be doing an impersonation of a Civil War statue.
This just creates another huge problem for Irish Bob. All of his arm-waving and running around the stage and bobbing and weaving and jumping and skate-boarding and just general flailing about is a big, big part of his appeal where the college set is concerned. These are children who grew up with their eyes constantly welded to their I-Pad or I-Phone in a never-ending quest for an image or short video clip that will give them that next shot of dopamine. They have the attention span of the average squirrel and require constant visual stimulation in order to hold their focus.
To this point, O’Rourke has served as their own political version of YouTube. If he becomes just another rigid talking head and stop giving them their shots of dopamine, all these kids are just going to go back to streaming videos.
One thing’s for sure: Trump has already gotten into Irish Bob’s head, and it is showing.
That is all.
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This beto character is shallower than a wee puppy’s pee puddle. No doubt he appeals to women, and some men, with a sexual fantasy.
Mostly. He's acknowledged his white privilege.
Yes, Fox News played the video this morning of Robert O’Rourke saying that he realizes he has had White privilege and that he thus has had many more opportunities than others.
Of course, he has…but he failed to mention that he’s had all that “privilege” because his father is a multi-millionaire, and he married a woman whose father is a multi-millionaire. The rest of White folk are not carrying all that “privilege” guilt, because for us, being White means we are taxed to death on our Middle Class paychecks to pay for the Socialism that the Democrat Party uses to win power.
Good post!
Cruz became an elitist ivory tower Senator.
He has become infamous for not returning direct mails, emails, calls and the like. His email and vmail boxes are always full so you cannot even get a message to him.
He has missed a lot of votes and is mostly MIA.
He has become Evita and removed from the grass roots people who put him into office.
Every time Trump says something, I liken it to him throwing a bone to the media. He’s just so consistent.
He’s Just a gigolo
And everywhere he goes
people know the part
He’s playing
Wife’s dad pays for every dance
While in short pants
On a skateboard he’s playing
But there will come a day
Voters will pass away
then what will they say
about him
When the end comes I know
they’ll say just a gigolo
as life goes on
without him
I see a lot of political ads here in Iowa, and this was was harsh. And since it just kept going, I was dying to know who paid for it.
And finally at the end, in little letters at the bottom, "Paid for by Club for Growth". Thought that was interesting. Definitely a Republican, economic conservativeish outfit. Aren't they primarily funded by the Koch Bros?
Just wondering if they had some polling that he was bad in a general. Just surprised to see them funding a hammering this early in the race against Beto.
Hahaha...I had this vision of an Emperor Trump with laurels and that patented grin, feasting at a banquet table with a bunch of dogs near him who, given the chance of eating him would gleefully do so, and instead, he throws them morsels from the bodies of their fellow dogs, which they happily wolf down!
Interesting. He’s since opted out of living “money-less.”
The story about the children is disturbing, however. I don’t think that sort of “fantasy” is common. Nor normal.
The “poem” about the cow (or whatever it was about) also struck me as “not normal.” I may have written some bad poetry in my young days but not THAT bad!
When O’Rourke gave his ‘coming out’ speech he stood on the restaurant’s counter ... right next to food his audience was expected to eat... He’s wants people to “breath his feet”...
Buff my balls,
Love the Cow,
Good fortune for those that do.
Love me, breathe my feet...
“...hammered by the chronically triggered ...”
Haha!! “Chronically triggered”... Perfect Brother Dawg!
WOOF!
If Bob O’Rourke can not withstand criticism from the spoiled children on social media how is he going to face real deadly enemies of our nation?
Woof woof, awooooo!
There was a young man named Bet-o
Who’s résumé was not that great-o
“By a linguistic trick,
I’m both Mexi and Mick,
And can play both Gay and Straight-o!”
Hey Haiku Guy, That’s a Limerick!
And a darn good one, too...thanks for the laugh!!!!
Has he apologized for being white yet?
I saw a short clip of a black woman (on CNN via YouTube) where she was explaining that that there was not role for whites in the Democrat leadership. She suggest every leadership position be held by a minority.
I wonder when the average white Democrat figured out today’s Democrats are not their father’s Democrats. They want their votes but not their input.
Seriously, it looked like it was causing Beto pain to hold his arms still.
To get elected in El Paso
Rob changed his name to Beto
With a different name
He’s still the same
Namely a liberal ass-o
Hehehehe...his obvious (to me) discomfiture made it even funnier to watch!
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