On Sunday The Washington Post published a long article online that, in reality, was a loving paean to far-left Democrat and perpetual (losing) candidate Beto O’Rourke.
O’Rourke will run for Texas Governor, The Post conveniently skipped any mention of perhaps the Lone Star State’s top issue in “Beto O’Rourke’s risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas,” which would be the U.S.-Mexico Grenze.
The article by Jade Yuan — which appeared in Monday’s print edition on page one of the Style section — mentioned the border only twice as geographic reference points:
For six days and 10 events, I chased Beto from west to east across the state — a sliver of this mostly rural tour that began in his hometown of El Paso last month and traces the perimeter of the state, including the borderBefore ending in Dallas, September 2009, we had a brief meeting with Mexico.
(….)
People have responded with rapturous enthusiasm and a much greater crowd than they expected. This was evident in Lubbock (where over 1,000 attended) or Whitesboro (4,217 people near Oklahoma), which is a majority-White community. Grenze…
This was it. There were only two references to the border, even though illegal border crossings or massive illegal invasions were top priorities for those living in the deep red areas of Texas. O’Rourke wouldn’t want to bring up this issue while campaigning in Texas’ deep red areas. This would be a distraction from what is fundamentally an Post His memory is honoured.
To get an idea of their love for their candidate, let us review a few samples of The Adoration of St. Beto. It began with an Obama-like intro ahead of a campaign stop in tiny Spearhead (click “expand”):
Everyone in this 3,087-person Panhandle city knows that Beto O’Rourke is coming to campaign for governor today. It’s a major event, a big-time politician coming all the way out here, deep into rural oil country, where the landscape is dotted with pump jacks and cattle and grain elevators, and the worst drought in 10 years has sucked up all the water in the Canadian River so it’s just a dry bed of red dirt.
“People are buzzing! It’s a big buzz,” says Suzanne Bellsnyder, who owns the one coffee shop downtown. Local gossip networks have already alerted her that Beto (he’s achieved one-name celebrity status in these parts, like Cher) is next door having lunch. It’s a Saturday afternoon, and he’ll be speaking in a park, with the temperature hitting 105 degrees.
Is it a buzzy feeling? Like, excited?
She smiles. What do you think? You think?
Have you ever heard of the expression “Stop trying to make fetch happen?” Yes, it applies to the infamous furry.
Yuan also showed a photograph of O’Rourke’s handwritten note that he had left at a voter’s doorstep.
Are there any chances that Beto could win not in Austin or Houston liberal cities, but by driving his Toyota Tundra in remote areas, searching for votes, during the last three months of the campaign?
“I mean, there’s a reason to do this,” Beto says in Spearman, sweating through his white button-down. Having been married for 17 years, Beto often says, he knows no two people agree on everything, but he’s hoping people around here might at least like his plans to repair Texas’s power grid or to pay teachers more.
If nothing else, maybe they’ll respect that he came.
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It’s a typical marathon schedule for the 49-year-old father of three, who wakes up at 6 every morning to go for a four-mile run before driving himself and three staffers to every event, as well as knocking on doors in temperatures so high that tar from the road melts onto your shoes.
(….)
In Dumas, a Panhandle city that’s 55 percent Hispanic, truck driver Pablo Campos tells Beto he woke up at 3:30 a.m. so he could complete half his work shift and have enough time to go to the town hall gathering during his break. There, Mary Jane Garcia, 47, a devout Catholic, stood up to talk about the “spontaneous abortion” that saved her life when she miscarried at 17, and how scared she is that her daughters might be denied that medical care.
(….)
On a country road, he pulls in front of a group of beautiful horses and a pony. “This will be the best part of my day,” he says.
(….)
Beto’s been reading Guthrie’s autobiography with his younger son, Henry, 11, and there is this quote he’s been thinking about a lot. The sentiment goes, Beto says, “‘I don’t like a song that makes you feel fat or skinny or too old or too inexperienced or too this or too that,’” and it’s a lot like what Beto wants to do with his campaign, to help Texans find common ground rather than alienating those who are transgender or immigrants. Guthrie was a unifier, he stated. “This guy was for everybody.”
How nice of the awe-struck Yuan to faithfully protect the beloved Beto by not bringing up an issue he would prefer to avoid — the border.
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