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Trump calls Democrat Beto O'Rourke a 'total lightweight'
CNBC ^ | October 19, 2018 | Jacob Pramuk

Posted on 10/19/2018 5:56:42 PM PDT by Baladas

President Donald Trump tried to stoke fears of socialism Friday as he bashed Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat pushing to upset Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in red Texas.

Ahead of his Monday visit to Houston, Trump called the 46-year-old representative a "total lightweight compared to Ted Cruz" who "comes nowhere near representing the values and desires" of Texans. He suggested O'Rourke wants to "turn Texas into Venezuela" — deploying rhetoric he has used in an attempt to portray Democrats as dangerous leftists as the GOP tries to defend its congressional majorities on Nov. 6.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: betoorourke; search; tedcruz; texas; tx2018
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To: Baladas

I don’t trust no 40-year-old burrito on a skateboard!


21 posted on 10/19/2018 6:25:35 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

will CSPAN or a youtube channel carry it live?


22 posted on 10/19/2018 6:26:59 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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Beta O’Dork is indeed a total lightweight, but he is candid about being a hard left ‘rat. The positions really define the two candidates at a visceral, popular level. Crass but clear.

I expect Beta to lose hard, but also - unless there is tampering - he will be a good litmus test for how much to the left Texas has drifted with the steady infection of carpetbaggers and mojados. Cruz’s personality pluses and minuses aggregate to middle of the road ‘meh’. O’Dork is glib and more contemporary, but vapid and also ‘meh’, but there is no mistaking them as anything but polar opposites.

I don’t find either candidate as interesting as the showdown between them, itself. I think Texas will show some erosion from all the imported lefties over the years, but still be a red state.

Anyway, yeah, Trump nails a one line summary again. ‘Total lightweight’ for Beta O’Dork.


23 posted on 10/19/2018 6:42:48 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Elizabeth Warren...fake Indian
Rachael Dolezal...fake Black
Beto O’Rourke...fake Mexican

Liberal identity politics


24 posted on 10/19/2018 6:53:13 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: lurk

...He suggested O’Rourke wants to “turn Texas into Venezuela” — deploying rhetoric he has used in an attempt to portray Democrats as dangerous leftists...

It’s not a suggestion. It’s a fact


25 posted on 10/19/2018 6:53:55 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Baladas

Drunky McDumbass works for me.


26 posted on 10/19/2018 7:00:28 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Baladas
in an attempt to portray Democrats as dangerous leftists

Attempt? They do a fine job of showing just how dangerous they are by themselves.

27 posted on 10/19/2018 7:12:59 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Baladas

POTUS Trump is being kind. Beto should be thankful that his fake name passed POTUS Trump’s lips.

BEAT O BE TOE.


28 posted on 10/19/2018 7:15:33 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Sasparilla

Elizabeth Warren...fake Indian
Rachael Dolezal...fake Black
Beto O’Rourke...fake Mexican

Liberal identity politics


Beto doesn’t seem to know that citizen Mexicans are not stupid. They know a fake when they see one.


29 posted on 10/19/2018 7:33:45 PM PDT by KittenClaws ("They've got Daryl's Dad's car! .....Red Dawn)
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To: Baladas

Lightweight?
Irish Bob can handle his liqueur.
Well, okay. He does run into people.
But he still retains enough cognizance to drive off afterwards.
Lightweight indeed.
Hmmmph...


30 posted on 10/19/2018 7:40:54 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Sasparilla

All of them are masquerading as people, when they are total scum bags.


31 posted on 10/19/2018 7:48:41 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Baladas

New online Reuters poll shows Beto up by two. I don’t trust/rely on polls, but I will be absolutely disgusted if this guy wins down here. Heading to vote bext week.


32 posted on 10/19/2018 8:41:56 PM PDT by TexasRosie
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To: TexasRosie

I would not put any credence into a Reuters poll, they are biased and Left. Last poll I heard about Cruz was up.


33 posted on 10/19/2018 8:50:42 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Baladas

What is a Jacob Pramuk? Sounds like something you treat with penicillin!


34 posted on 10/19/2018 8:59:40 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Baladas

The boy’s campaign ads are really creepy.


35 posted on 10/19/2018 10:27:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Baladas

Oddly Beto will lose grandly in the election but will become a stalwart of the democrat party in the future.

Of notice in his campaign adds he is much darker than he really is, courtesy of Photoshop. In fact he is just as white as Ted Cruz. It is all about making an Irishman that speaks very good Spanish pretend to be a Mexican of which he is not.

I speak Spanish as does Robert the Irishman as I was also raised in West Texas. I am white as he. He is a fraud.

I much love my Mexican culture that I grew up with. I do not pretend to be Mexican. I am a white boy married to a most wonderful Mexican lady from Mexico whom came to my country and attended our universities in English and grabbed the American dream legally.

Robert also as he likes to be known as Beto is a fraud on both cultures.


36 posted on 10/20/2018 12:35:51 AM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Baladas

I would call Trump’s statement an understatement


37 posted on 10/20/2018 12:41:30 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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