Robert Francis O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just lost big to Ted Cruz in a senate race despite outspending Cruz by more than 2 to 1 is about to announce a bid for the presidency. It's pretty funny. While O'Rourke (who goes by the nickname Beto so that he can pretend to be Hispanic) was running against Cruz, the national media treated him as some sort of folk hero. Then Texas voted and he became beaten Beto. That didn't matter to some people who thought of Beto as the new far left version of JFK, a soon to be Democrat icon who could move the geriatric party leadership into a new and far-left generation. Polling about Beto was based upon all that positive press he got while running and losing for the senate. Beto was getting 7 to 9 percent in many national polls. That's really good for a guy that most of the voters couldn't identify in a line up.
Then something happened. The media adoration stopped. There were just too many candidates for the mainstream media to give Beto totally positive coverage or even much coverage of any sort. Beto's poll numbers have dropped by about 50%. He was fading away. So what is his remedy? That's right, he's announcing for president.
The truth, though, is that unless Beto can do a magic act or maybe do some juggling during the debates among the Democrats, he's going to get lost in the shuffle as a total nobody. My prediction is that the most likely future for this candidacy is for Beto to be out of the race by Super Tuesday in 2020. Hopefully, Beto will at least be able to criticize Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden as really old, indeed too old to be president. At least in that way he will perform a valuable service to the nation. We don't need a president who can't remember where he put his phone or his keys.
Then something happened. The media adoration stopped. There were just too many candidates for the mainstream media to give Beto totally positive coverage or even much coverage of any sort. Beto's poll numbers have dropped by about 50%. He was fading away. So what is his remedy? That's right, he's announcing for president.
The truth, though, is that unless Beto can do a magic act or maybe do some juggling during the debates among the Democrats, he's going to get lost in the shuffle as a total nobody. My prediction is that the most likely future for this candidacy is for Beto to be out of the race by Super Tuesday in 2020. Hopefully, Beto will at least be able to criticize Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden as really old, indeed too old to be president. At least in that way he will perform a valuable service to the nation. We don't need a president who can't remember where he put his phone or his keys.
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