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2022-03-19 Home Front: Politix

Beto O'Rourke pivots to right in uphill bid to unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

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Posted by Fred 2022-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 I have a gut feeling he's going to win Texas. What a nightmare.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-19 06:24|| 2022-03-19 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 There's always a fringe candidate ready to sweep up the disgruntled far-left votes. Beetle just doesn't have that much maneuvering room.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-19 08:43|| 2022-03-19 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 The best comment on him still comes from that cover story (was it GQ?) showing him in jeans with a pickup and his hands in his rear pockets. The caption was, "See? I can too find my rear end with both hands."

Posted by Tom 2022-03-19 10:50|| 2022-03-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 A lot of people around here really dislike Abbott, and though they won't vote for O'Rourke I fear they may just not vote.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-03-19 11:07|| 2022-03-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 O'Rourke pivots to the right

Ya mean Dem policies suck and few people like them? Is O'Rourke a Dino? Or a Rino? You have to run as something you are not in order to have a chance? Manchuria candidate? He's stuck in infantilism.

Posted by JonhQC 2022-03-19 11:45|| 2022-03-19 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 "Mr. O’Rourke has not flip-flopped but has refined his positions on some issues. He still feels as strongly about these issues as before, but now in the opposite way."

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-19 12:46|| 2022-03-19 12:46|| Front Page Top

#7 O'Rourke is running only because of the cashflow that goes from his fundraising through his "vendors" back into his personal bank account. He sucks as a candidate. I am sure that everyone in Texas outside of Austin knows that he is a clown that you wouldn't hire to run a shift at McDonalds. He said he would take all the guns, LA liberals sent him money, now he says that he won't take guns, no gun owners are fooled. This is all a dodge for him. He will follow up his concession speech with the announcement of his 2024 presidential campaign. What you won't see him do is work a job. Winning is for suckers.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-03-19 20:20|| 2022-03-19 20:20|| Front Page Top

#8 This is another Democrat head fake. Like candidate Joe Biden the "reassuring, sensible moderate"

Posted by Glans Spawn of the Veal Cutlets3551 2022-03-19 20:41|| 2022-03-19 20:41|| Front Page Top

#9 He was not electable for statewide Texas office when people liked Democrats. Dem likability is now -10 nationally, that includes California and Oregon. Beat Hoe has no chance. He is doing us a favor by sucking resources away from viable candidates. Unless he is an idiot, he knows he has no chance. He is electable for office like Mayor of Austin, but that would probably require work and would likely be a pay cut. Because I am not his accountant, I have no idea how much he is raking in with this gig as a failed politician. It must be lucrative or he would be in Stelter’s spot on the CNN Primetime line-up.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-03-19 21:07|| 2022-03-19 21:07|| Front Page Top

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