Monday, April 23, 2018

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition to Beto O'Rourke

   

     "We have to hope and pray that things turn around in November," a friend said over dinner on Friday.
     I felt a muscle in my jaw tense.
     "If only Ted Cruz could be defeated in the Senate," a Facebook friend mused. "But I'm not holding my breath. Texas is a red state ... So I wouldn't bet on Cruz losing this year. But I can dream, can't I?"
     Hope. Pray. Dream. A certain peasant fatalism has crept into Democratic thinking.
     Not without reason. Our nightmare president builds his cult of personality every day while the party supporting him sheds its values and beliefs, rolling at his feet like puppies.
     Yet surrender is premature. Our nation was not forged and preserved by a bunch of quitters.
     So while I try to religiously avoid all Facebook debates as pointless time sinks, I couldn't resist commenting after his "dream" remark: "Well, that and send Beto O'Rourke money. I am."
     Everyone knows who Ted Cruz is. The most hated man in the Senate. "Lucifer in the flesh," in John Boehner's memorable description. But who is Beto O'Rourke? He is the Democrat running against Cruz this November and doing surprisingly well. Last week, a new poll showed a close race, Cruz leading 47 to 44 percent. O'Rourke has raised more money than Cruz, thanks to small donors such as myself.
     No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas in 24 years, so it's a long shot. But Satan's senator is obviously scared.
     Even before O'Rourke's victory in the March 6 primary was confirmed, his campaign aired a radio commercial mocking O'Rourke's first name, accusing him of changing it to appeal to voters. In response, O'Rourke released a photo of himself as a toddler, wearing a sweater with "Beto" — his nickname since birth — stitched across the front.
     Cruz's actual first name is "Rafael," a reminder that Trump does not hold monopoly on either deceit or hypocrisy.


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7 comments:

  1. Let's see if Trump gets involved. Thinking his participation might gain Beto just enough votes to prevail.

    john

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    1. How could he not get involved? The sun rises and sets on Der Donald.

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  2. So there might still be hope for a state about which Civil War General Phillip Sheridan once said, "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."

    Tom

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  3. Changing demographics will flip Texas by the next decade, barring intense voter suppression. It is the smaller red states, the single digit electoral prizes, populated by double digit IQ'ed racists and heavily gerrymandered to boot, where the real work of democracy needs to be done. Someone should inform Cruz that to appeal to Texans O"Rourke would have changed his name to Bevo, University of Texas, Longhorn mascot. Perry, W, and Rafael, real life 'Three Amigos', making Texas proud.

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