In a comment on my recent post More Beto On the ‘Medium” Website. It’s Gonna Happen. Watch (http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2019/1/19/123838/716) The Voice In The Wilderness wrote:
He talks pretty. What has he done?
My response follows.
Read on:
Voice, I am not yet totally sure about what O’Rourke has or has not “done” in a political or governmental sense, nor am I sure about what he would do…or how well he might do it, no matter what it might be…as president.
However, I am damned sure about the contours of his life in general so far, and I am also damned sure that his current outside-the-political-and-media-box approach…coupled with the fact that he has traveled in intimate contact with the working classes of all races and the young for much of his life and is not shy about saying so with easily available proof (names, dates, places and photos galore) and possessing a natural speaking/writing grace that is simply a genetic kind of gift…is going to make big waves in Democratic politics. I personally think that he is the single potential Dem candidate who is simultaneously capable of reaching:
1-Habitual non-voters…especially those who withhold their vote because they think that the entire system is Deep State-rigged. This is…in my experience…a much greater percentage of the non-voting electorate than polls, the media and almost all professional pols realize. Professional politicians and the media …I include big-time polling here…have lived in their personal political mirages so long that they haven’t had any true, personal, non-political contact with real people other than as subordinates and service-givers for decades!!! This guy not only goes out and seeks that kind of contact…the same seat-of-the-pants sort of contact that informed my own dire predictions of Trump’s win more than a year before he actually pulled it off, contact in small town restaurants and bars, contact while out running (or walking, in my own case…and playing in music clubs and venues) unencumbered by Secret Service agents or other bodyguards.
2-Working class and middle class white voters, many of whom have been holding their noses while they support Trump.
3-Hispanic voters…in droves!!!
4-Young voters.
5-Female voters in general.
Why?
How?
Because he is authentically who he is, that’s why!!! There is no stench of the backroom deal about him, no…or apparently very little, at least so far…backstabbing, no swamp smell coming off of him. This is why he almost beat Cruz in Texas, and it is also why I believe that he will be able to beat most of the potential Dem candidates and all of the available RatPublican candidates in 2020.
Will it happen?
I dunno.
The forces currently allied against him are very powerful.
We shall see.
Won’t we.
Let us pray that it does, because as far as I can see if it does not happen we will continue to be preyed upon!!!
Another Scylla and Charybdis (s)election?
I fear for the country.
For real!!!
Later…
AG
Oh, I’ll concede he has a chance to get elected, even though the morons in the South insist that shit really is chocolate pudding and order up a second helping every time.
My question could be restated “Will he be any different from Carter,Clinton, Obama, Ms. Rodham, Biden, Schumer, Durbin, Emanuel, … or does he just talk pretty like Obama?”
You ask:
I dunno, Voice.
Have “Carter, Clinton, Obama, Ms. Rodham, Biden, Schumer, Durbin, Emanuel” etc. ever gone out there with apparently absolutely no “professional political operatives”” surrounding them and spoken openly and honestly about what they have seen, what they have discovered…and have been told from the horses’ mouths…about working class America?
Not in my lifetime they haven’t!!!
Yours?
AG
Just saying that after many disappointments including Dean and Sanders and now Pritzker, I’m saying “Show me first”.
Maybe he is real. Maybe the Prize Patrol is going to show up at my door with a check for a million dollars.
More likely it’s going to be a village with a notice that my mailbox letters aren’t regulation height or my car’s bumper is extending three inches across the sidewalk.
one thing he’s done is lose a statewide election.
do you think he can win Texas running for President when he couldn’t win for senate against the hated Ted Cruz?
You ask:
Short answer:
Yes.
I do.
But only if he stays real.
AG
What has he done? Better question: What would he help us do?
What would he help us do? (With a big question mark about who exactly “us” is, of course…the neocentrist/neoliberal/DNC/MSDNC “us” or the “us” that simply includes to well-meaning U.S. citizens?)
He would help “us”…any way you want to cut that term… to once again involve a great number of the 30%-40% habitual non-voting electorate in the electoral process. He would bring in the youth vote and many Trump voters who are disgusted by Trump’s persona and actions. His rapport with Hispanic voters is already well-established. His stable marriage and obviously ongoing love affair with his wife and children would reach a whole lot of women, and eventually…especially with a well-chosen running mate…the black vote would come too.
That’s what he would do. Booman recently titled a post “Dems Need a Landslide.” I agree. And O’Rourke is the one to do that. The only, as far as I have seen so far.
However, when you start to see the DNC and its satellite media begin to diss him…it’s already started, actually (see below)…you will understand that they do not really want that sort of success. Not if it comes at the expense of their cozy monetary relationships with the .01%-owned corporate establishment.
That’s my take, anyway.
Your results may differ, as may the results of the primaries and election.
We do keep trying, though.
Don’t we.
Later…
AG
P.S. A couple recent WAPO headlines about O’Rourke follow. (Only the headlines…copied from Google News…because I refuse to give that Amazon/CIA DNC mouthpiece a dime of my money!!!):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/22/beto-needs-get-off-road
2 days ago – Beto O’Rourke is an impressive politician in many ways. Eloquent and inclusive, he brought much-needed optimism and idealism to the U.S. …
Beto O’Rourke is blogging about the fog and … – Washington Post
https:/www.washingtonpost.com…/beto-orourke-is-blogging-about-fog-blackberry-cob…
2 days ago – If Beto O’Rourke doesn’t end up running for president in 2020, he could always try writing a travel memoir in the style of John Steinbeck or Jack …
Classic mockery/non-personing from the media experts. A cursory search will bring you dozens more from all over the mass media. Have at it.