Opinion: Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign is a youthful folly
By Kathleen Parker Kathleen Parker Columnist covering politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist March 15 at 6:38 PM It must be a grown-up thing, but every time I see Beto O’Rourke, I want to fix him a hamburger. He’s precious.Call it maternal instinct; call it age. But, let’s call the Texas Democrat’s nascent presidential campaign what it is: a youthful folly. If only the media machine weren’t already doing its dangedest to advance a narrative primarily of its own making.
Don’t get me wrong, the boyish man whose mannerisms and speech patterns ricochet between Robert F. Kennedy and Barack Obama is — have I said this? — precious, the preferred fallback term when, upon peering into a bassinet at someone’s new baby, there’s nothing else to say. For a reason, Beto metaphors and similes are found in the nursery.
None of this is to say he isn’t perfectly qualified to be president of the United States. O’Rourke, after all, served three terms in Congress and barely lost his Senate bid last year to Republican Ted Cruz. Previously, he served as an El Paso city councilman and, otherwise, has worked for a start-up Internet service provider, been a nanny, art mover, proofreader and, when time allowed, a writer of short stories and, briefly, the publisher of an alternative weekly.
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