Beto O’Rourke Tries Again

If it’s an even-numbered year you can count on Beto to run for somethin’. The 2018 loser (close, enticingly close) to Senator Rafael Edward Cruz of Canada and later Cancun, and the loser (non-starter, really) in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Beto has been registering as many Democrats as possible and dangling a 2022 run for governor of the Purple Star state that has frozen the field. Beto also is the one who made impassioned pleas to candidate Joe Biden to go big in Texas in 2020. Joe said “No” and IllegiTrump won the state with the same vote percentage he had in ‘16. Beto is trying to be the Stacey Abrams of Texas. T’ain’t gonna work. 

Beto is still mezmerized by 2018. He came oh so close and in his mind Texas is going to go purple yesterday. This is what Beto misses: Cruz is the only Republican in Texas who can be beaten by a Demo. He is the most hated man in D.C. and beloved nowhere, not even in Texas.  Lucifer is unique and he really was vulnerable. 

What possessed Beto to run for prez is beyond rational comprehension. 

And he’s not running against Cruz for governor, he’s running against Greg Abbott, an infinitely less infuriating personality with less duplicity than Cruz. Abbott’s popularity has taken a hit but Beto should have passed up his 2020 fix, passed on this run for guv and gone after a rematch against Lucifer in 2024. But Beto didn’t do either of those things. He ran—for president(?!?!)—in 2020 and is now running for governor in ‘22. He has set himself up to be a three-straight election loser. There’s no caselaw on this but political jurists have pretty clearly signaled that one L is no biggie, two becomes a prob, and at three, you’re approaching Harold Stassen territory. If he had not run  for president he could take a flier on 2022 and then, assuming he lost, madke his last stand in Armageddon in 2024. But he didn’t. And now his last stand is against Greg Abbott? Unforced error there, Beto. Foot fault. Mistake.