Posted on 10/13/2018 11:46:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Beto O’Rourke’s response to a question during a Houston town hall meeting this past summer lasted only four minutes. But for some Democrats it said everything. It was authentic.
In an exchange that quickly went viral, the Democrat congressman and Senate hopeful was asked whether he found NFL players who knelt during the national anthem to be disrespectful. A passionate O’Rourke told the room of Texans, not necessarily a sympathetic crowd, that he could “think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights.”
Clips of his answer were viewed millions of times online, generating buzz in O’Rourke’s uphill battle against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
For national Democrats, it was the type of moment that epitomized a common buzzword in Democratic circles — “authenticity” — and the push to present candidates in a more open, unvarnished manner offering a window to their values.
One of the widely accepted lessons from Democrat Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 to Republican Donald Trump was that voters gravitate toward candidates they perceive as real, even if flawed. They’re drawn to politicians willing to deliver unexpected candor. […]
In an effort to deliver that authenticity this election season, the party has tried to assemble a group of candidates with nontraditional backgrounds. They’ve recruited veterans, women and politicians with diverse histories. They’ve encouraged them to talk openly about their lives in ads and to make casual, unscripted social media posts.
There’s no hiding that some of this effort borrows from the man Democrats are hungry to beat. …
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If they really want to kneel, we have room for them in our church. No press,please.
Okay, they’re an authentically Angry Mob.
Bingo
“think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights.”
There’s a time and place for such actions.
But to practice this protest of so
called oppression at the expense of
respect for veterans’ spilled blood, and
the American flag, is communist. I hope
the NFL suffers an agonising death from
lack of viewership. I never thought I’d
live to see the day when Texas would start
taking a slow turn to the left.
They don’t seem to be picking Beto over Cruz.
I suspect that people thought that Texas was “taking a slow turn to the left” when Abortion Barbie was being pimped by the media too.
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