Ha! I thought it was PJ, too! He’s definitely more in my consciousness than Beto is – I’ve heard him on Wait Wait and I even have a book he wrote way back that I thought was pretty funny at the time, A Parliament of Whores.
I just introduced my 13-year old niece to the original “Poltergeist.” I thought at first we were talking about Heather O’Rourke.
God, I need to quit mixing Ambien and Jim Beam.
Let’s suppose you’re right. What do you think his motives might be in wanting to sabotage his own party?
I don’t know what the hell hes thinking but it’s fantastic for the right, so keep it up, Francis.
I don’t know, maybe: Make sure they don’t win in 2020, so he can try again in 2024, as the darling of the Left.
I hope you remember this moment next time you’re tempted to mock liberals for their political fantasies.
I don’t think he’s engaging in deliberate sabotage, but he’s desperate. He doesn’t have his house seat any longer and doesn’t really have a path forward in TX. Buttigieg has picked up a lot of the moderate but not Biden vote that I’m sure Beto was hoping for. He kinda reminds me of this campaign’s Marco Rubio, not able to handle the national spotlight after being a state wide media darling.
I could see maybe a cabinet seat, but I’m not sure he’ll get one prestigious enough to help him further his political ambitions.
Oh, I don’t know. This seems a good bit more plausible to me than “President Pelosi”. YMMV.
He’s young enough that just about any posting in a Dem administration will add a line to his resume and won’t really hurt going forward.
Gosh, I wonder why it’d seem plausible to you. Wonder wonder wonder.
Speaking of plausibilities, had Paul Ryan been a strong, honest man, it could’ve been “President Ryan”. But he wasn’t, so it won’t be.
Beto is just staking out the centrist vote for 2036.
So he’s going to undermine his own party, just so he will be rewarded in the next election, by the same people he jacked up in the previous election. That’s your hypothesis?
My hypothesis is that he’s just not a very good candidate, and upon realizing he’s not going to win, he’s making stupid mistakes in a last ditch attempt to garner attention to a dying campaign.
But lets just roll with ‘deliberate election sabotage’; it’s so much more intriguing.
But he’s getting THREE PERCENT! Answer for that, libs!!
Beto has also sabotaged his chances in Texas in the future as well, which is cool.
Beto is responsible for the Texas Lunch. Damn him to hell.
It’s certainly a plausible one. Probably the most likely. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
We wouldn’t even be mentioning Beto’s name had he not run against Ted Cruz, and in a more normal era, we wouldn’t even be talking about Senator Ted Cruz. Fringe politics begets fringe politics.
Honest question: what makes Beto a fringe politician? (Other than his “I know Im gone, better go out with a bang!” stunt with guns recently)