Bye Bye Beto! Robert Francis O'Rourke Drops Presidential Bid

 

EL PASO, TX – Beto is out.  

The upstart former congressman from El Paso ended his bid for the Democrat Party's nomination for President of the United States in a series of weak tweets Friday afternoon.  

O'Rourke consistently wound up on the bottom of polling with 20 or so contenders running for the liberal party's representative in the 2020 Presidential race. 

Dozens of people will be disappointed. 

Here is how the tall, lanky far west Texan bowed out on twitter: 

"Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively. In that spirit: I am announcing that my service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee. I am grateful to all the people who made up the heart and soul of this campaign. You were among the hundreds of thousands who made a donation, signed up to volunteer or spread the word about this campaign and our opportunity to help decide the election of our lifetime. Let us continue to fearlessly champion the issues and causes that brought us together. Whether it is ending the epidemic of gun violence or dismantling structural racism or successfully confronting climate change, we will continue to organize and mobilize and act."

O'Rourke got into the race for President after finishing dead last in his general election bid to unseat Texas Junior U.S. Senator Republican Ted Cruz.  

O'Rourke stopped in San Angelo on at least three occasions during his campaign for U.S. Senate.   

O'Rourke at the same time on the same day sent out a press release saying he was returning to the campaign trail in New Hampshire.  "Beto O’Rourke will return to Concord on November 8th to file for New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary and campaign across the state. Beto will be joined by local supporters at the New Hampshire State House for the filing event. 

In addition to filing for the First in the Nation Primary in Concord, Beto will speak at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ Politics & Eggs at Saint Anselm College in the morning on Friday.

Additional events and details will be announced in the coming days."

Beto's departure from the crowded field leaves fellow Texan Joaquin Castro and at least 17 other candidates in the hunt for the nomination.  

For now.  

 

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Beetle Bailey Beto loses every race he enters. I guess campaigning on gun confiscation, open borders, taxing churches and overall socialistic policies didn't excite donors. Funny, on my drives in to Angelo during the Senate race, I kept noticing Beto signs in rural yards. Are Tom Green county Democrats actually socialists? Or just stupid?

And Joaquin Castro has as much chance of winning the nomination as I do. That would be zilch, nada, jack squat, zero....

While traveling back from Washington with Kamala Harris, Beto blew a wheel on his skate board and hit a tree. The tree is O.K. but the board is toast. Beto and Harris a hitch hiking west at this hour.

this moron belonged to a "hacking organization" in the mid to late 80's, called Cult of The Dead Cow, though his "hacking" skills consisted of little more than pirating computer games and racking up long distance bills on stolen credit cards, to access bulletin boards on his father's 300-baud modem.

Before any of us were aware of his fantasy of being a Mexican, "Beto", or the "Psychedelic Warlord" (as he was known within his circle jerk) had expressed a much darker pipe dream of his in a short story, where he goes into detail about mowing down children in his car.

"...one day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles. I knew, however, that this happiness and sense of freedom were much too overwhelming for them. This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams. As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head. My dream was abruptly ended when I heard a loud banging on the front window. It was an old man, who was using his cane to awaken me. He might have been a witness to my act of love. I was not sure, nor did I care. It was simply ecstasy. As I drove home, I envisioned myself committing more of these "acts of love", and after a while, I had no trouble carrying them out. The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. I soon quit my job, and stayed at my house in an almost comatose state. My dreams grew longer and more vivid. They kept me alive and proved to be the only thing to live for. I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last. I was never really surprised at how I evaded the police. My dreams had taken over my life, and they guided me through the right path, and I never had need for fear of police. Or anything, for that matter."

Friday, "Beto" dropped out of the presidential race. Good riddance, asshole.

"Hell yes we're going to take your AR 15, your AK 47."
And the campaign contributions suddenly dried up.
Dumbass......

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