Comments on: Beto… https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463669 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:02:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463669 Ed Bonderenka–I stay away from social media, and am not on any of these websites, which I consider pernicious.

So, I’m glad you think my comment has some merit, but I’d rather just leave my comment where it is.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463564 Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:09:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463564 Kind of a shame, in a way.

I was looking forward to a Beto-Kam ticket.

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463432 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:40:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463432 F:

“O’Rourke (please don’t call him “Beto” — that’s a dishonest attempt on his part to identify with a demographic that he in fact has no part of)….”

Absolutely.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463357 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:34:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463357 GOP-e doesn’t like anyone moving their cheese, nor did they like candidate Trump at the time. So what most of the GOP senators like or dislike is to me pointless. It would be different if they could be counted on when it really matters, but drama and uncertainty as to how they will vote is typical.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463339 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:22:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463339 “No doubt you preferred Beto over Ted Cruz?”

Facts are important. So is the truth. Cruz nearly did lose to Beto and when it looked like the choice facing the GOP was either Trump or Cruz, the GOP establishment pointedly refused to rally behind Cruz.

THIS is the reaction Cruz generated from Republicans in 2016: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36164195

I have no ill will toward Cruz myself but it is amazing that an apparently smart and capable guy is so viscerally despised by even his own side.

Mike

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463335 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:00:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463335 MBunge:

No doubt you preferred Beto over Ted Cruz? Or do you just have an abiding dislike for Ted Cruz? If so your dislike seems to have lasted longer than others in the 2016 race. Sad.

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463332 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 19:39:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463332 Robert tried and failed to exploit diversity with a label and appeal to empathy. Unfortunately, for him, Americans aren’t so green, and aren’t the bigots normalized in Democrat political myths. #HateLovesAbortion

]]> By: John Guilfoyle https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463327 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:29:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463327 Beto gives up the fight.
Manju hardest hit.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463326 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:55:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463326 “Jonah Goldberg came out with an article calling for abolishing primaries. I’m inclined to agree.”

Rethink that. Without primaries, there would have been no Donald Trump OR Ronald Reagan. Conversely, without primaries we likely would have had President Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama.

It’s a really dumb idea, which is no doubt why it appeals to Jonah.

Mike

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/01/beto/#comment-2463325 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:51:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90954#comment-2463325 How personally repulsive must Ted Cruz be? His GOP colleagues in the Senate not only preferred Trump over him, he legitimately came close to losing to Beto in 2016.

Mike

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