We’d drag out the breaking news banner and rush this out if we thought it was actually news to anyone paying even the slightest attention: Beto O’Rourke is running for president in 2020. Guess he finally found himself on that road trip.
BREAKING: @BetoORourke announces he’s running for President #Election2020 #fox44tx @KWKTFOX44 pic.twitter.com/3Desiez5NJ
— Leslie Rangel (@LeslieRangelTV) March 13, 2019
As Twitchy reported, Vanity Fair teed-up O’Rourke’s campaign with a fawning cover story and Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, but Logan Dobson has posted a great thread compiling some of the media’s greatest hits when it comes to covering the guy who lost to Ted Cruz.
With Beto's Presidential announcement imminent, let's do a review of some of the more eyeroll-inducing "Beto Doing Things" lines from 2018's thousands of Beto Profiles
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"The news reports had gone from bad to catastrophic, with the National Weather Service declaring, “This event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown.” And Beto O’Rourke was headed toward the storm."https://t.co/4p2mHkBjfl
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Beto O’Rourke is a prolific, prodigious sweater. We’re talking shirt-soaking, chin-dripping sweat, most visible as he takes questions from the audiences that have gathered to see him across Texas."https://t.co/Zkd1HiwFFM
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
Speaking of sweating, we’re just going to interject here with Vanity Fair’s previous profile of O’Rourke, confirming that yes, he does sweat a lot.
There … is… another … Beto … profile. And, I kid you not, there is a sentence about him sweating in the first paragraph. https://t.co/BXdOUWzT69
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) August 30, 2018
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In case you missed it, David Rutz put together a list of all the essential bullet points that had to be in any O’Rourke profile: He’s like a Kennedy! He sweats! He was in a punk band! He’s a longshot! He’s charismatic!
"Beto O’Rourke was trying hard to play it cool, but finally, he just couldn’t resist.
“I have to show you this,” the Democratic congressman from El Paso, Texas, said, reaching into his pocket to grab his iPhone…"https://t.co/12xOBt68lb
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Beto O’Rourke, an occasional member of Los Diablitos de El Paso sandlot baseball team, looked pathetic in his first two at-bats last Sunday at the Long Time, a diamond in Austin, Texas. Both were strikeouts. The first one was on three pitches."https://t.co/l13uwHDQ2W
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Standing in the shade with me near his campaign minivan after the event, O'Rourke acknowledges the tough road ahead—while noting that much good has already been done." https://t.co/jNEaQC72Y5
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Just after he was elected to Congress in 2012, Beto O’Rourke was in a bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with several other newly elected pals…"https://t.co/XjZhnGUHjk
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
There’s that “Kennedyesque” we were waiting for.
Can you believe all of this ink about a guy who couldn’t decide if he should run for president so he just got in his car and drove around while keeping a dopey travel blog?
"Operating on two hours’ sleep, Beto O’Rourke was 20 hours into his day and looked it. His white shirt and gray slacks were an accordion of wrinkles. His hair, flecked with gray, drooped on his forehead and small dark rings had formed under his eyes."https://t.co/I9sV8NeOMa
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Beto O’Rourke has long believed that the closer you get to the Mexican border, the less you fear it."https://t.co/T2RoOHeBJB
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"Late in the afternoon of the last Friday in May, as the temperature soared over 100F (38C), the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas was going door to door."https://t.co/bKVC7KnZhh
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
"The gas tank hit empty, and Beto O’Rourke pulled off the highway, knowing he was being watched.
“We gotta give them something, just so they know we’re alive,” he’d said earlier."https://t.co/USK9cKEhSv
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
The candidate liberals are swooning over? You don’t say.
finally, the ALL TIME GOAT:
"On a dusty road in southwestern Texas, Beto O’Rourke leans out the window of the Ford Expedition he’s driving and mutters, “You gonna let me pass you, state police?” He speeds ahead of the cruiser while chewing an empanada."https://t.co/TrqUDIULmb
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 13, 2019
Hold on.
*fans mesquite smoke across your timeline*
Ok, go ahead.
— JPS (@JasonPStarling) March 13, 2019
He isn't going to win….get over it
— PrimalRage7 (@primalrage7) March 13, 2019
He couldn’t even win Texas! #LOSER
— Rick Denu (@rick_denu) March 13, 2019
It’s a slobbering love affair. Gross.
— Ariel ? (@belle_vivant1) March 13, 2019
You're being unfair to @BetoORourke.
He's like JFK….just without JFK's intelligence, personality, charisma, veteran's record, clear and well calculated vision, and sharp street smart cutting edge.P.S. That was really the Democrat party at one time. pic.twitter.com/UnEB0CgLmX
— CaliforniaWeed (@californiaweed) March 13, 2019
His name is Robert.
— Scott Peters (@IndyScott485) March 13, 2019
Related:
‘He has an aura’: Vanity Fair gives Beto O’Rourke the full nausea-inducing glamor treatment https://t.co/YOw0akeHWY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 13, 2019
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