Until a month or so, Robert Frances “Beto” O’Rourke was the Democrat media darling; the young, vibrant upstart who thrilled audiences, generated huge campaign donations, and would blow Donald Trump away in 2020.
Then Peter Buttigieg came along – every bid as leftward as O’Rourke, and gay too.
Bye-bye O’Rourke. The media adoration moved to Buttigieg, coverage of his campaign dropped through a trap door and his poll numbers quickly followed suit. Now he’s barely in et cetera territory.
What to do, what to do….
Well, this is his latest attempt to regain relevancy, via Emily Tillett and Tim Perry’s article for CBS News:
Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke says he’d put former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in charge of combating voter suppression if elected president. Speaking to supporters in Fort Worth on Friday, O’Rourke said he had a conversation on the subject with the rising star in the Democratic Party.
“I called her to thank her for all the work that she’s doing on voting rights. And making sure that every person in this country can vote. And that every vote counts in this country,” O’Rourke said. “We talked about how in our states of the former Confederacy, really ever since the end of reconstruction, we have drawn people out of their ability to participate in this Democracy.”
While he didn’t go into specifics about the details of the role, O’Rourke told the Texas crowd the country is in need of a “new voting rights act” and Abrams would play a part in that.
Well, there you go. Resurrection is at hand.
O’Rourke, last year’s loser in his bid for the U.S. Senate from Texas pledges to put last year’s bitter, angry loser for the Governor’s race in Georgia (“I refuse to concede”) in charge of making sure that everybody can vote.
The fact that, since both O’Rourke and Abrams are against Voter ID and for giving illegal aliens the means of identification (i.e. drivers’ licenses) they can use to vote illegally? Just a coincidence, I guess.
Is this going to improve O’Rourke’s prospects for the Democrat presidential nomination? Probably not. But, like they used to (maybe still do) say about chicken soup: it may not help, but it can’t hurt.
Oh, one other thing.
At the beginning of this blog I pointed out that O’Rourke lost his “media darling” mantel to Peter Buttigieg, because Peter Buttigieg, by being gay, one-upped him in the “identity politics” sweepstakes.
Isn’t that what Barack Obama, by being Black, did to Hillary Clinton in 2008?
Just asking…..
