Ted Cruz is a Pussy

[HouseDivided]

It doesn't. But if a guy was trying to fake his heritage, you'd think he'd start by changing his last name from O'Rourke.

He was a little kid in El Paso. Not a reach to think that he would have a nickname like Beto.

But Dowdy and shit....

In the age of Fauxcahontas, you question everything.

[defixione]

Except Trump?

[Shirley]

I'm sure that's exactly what Senor Beto wants you all of you to believe. Kinda like how Dowdy landed under withering sniper fire in Bosnia.

Just admit you were wrong. Good Lord.

Irish kid just happens to have a Mexican nickname. Right.

Psych obviously knows next to nothing about Beto, yet seems determined to demonstrate his ignorance, proudly.


Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (/ˈbɛtoʊ/; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district since 2013. He is the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2018 Texas U.S. Senate race, running against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

A native of El Paso, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2012 by defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary that year. The district includes most of El Paso County. Prior to his election to Congress, O'Rourke was on the El Paso City Council from June 2005 to June 2011.

Early life and education
O'Rourke is a fourth-generation Irish American,[1] born at Hotel Dieu Hospital[2][3] in El Paso, the son of El Paso County Judge[a] Pat Francis O'Rourke and high-end furniture store owner Melissa Martha (Williams), a stepdaughter of Fred Korth, who was the Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy,[4][5][6][7] His family always called him "Beto", a common Spanish nickname for Roberto, Gilberto, and Alberto, initially to distinguish him from his namesake grandfather.[8][9] His father was a political associate of former Texas Governor Mark White[10] and served as the state chairman of Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign.[11] Judge O'Rourke was killed in July 2001, at the age of fifty-eight, when he was struck from behind by a car while riding his bicycle over the New Mexico state line.[10]

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[HouseDivided]

Yup. And Elizabeth Warren “always knew”she was Native American. Whatever.

[Shirley]

Yup. And Elizabeth Warren “always knew”she was Native American. Whatever.

When did she claim to be "Native American"?

The Houston Chronicle Endorses Beto O'Rourke

Ted Cruz — a candidate the Chronicle endorsed in 2012, by the way — is the junior senator from Texas in name only. Exhibiting little interest in addressing the needs of his fellow Texans during his six years in office, he has kept his eyes on a higher prize. He's been running for president since he took the oath of office — more likely since he picked up his class schedule as a 15-year-old ninth-grader at Houston's Second Baptist High School more than three decades ago. For Cruz, public office is a private quest; the needs of his constituents are secondary.

It was the rookie Cruz, riding high after a double-digit win in 2012, who brazenly took the lead in a 2013 federal government shutdown, an exercise in self-aggrandizement that he hoped would lead to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Cruz, instead, undercut the economy, cost taxpayers an estimated $2 billion (and inflicted his reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham" on an unamused nation). Maybe the senator succeeded in cementing in his obstructionist tea party bona fides, but we don't recall Texans clamoring for such an ill-considered, self-serving stunt.

Cruz's very first vote as senator was a "nay" on the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, a bill authorizing $60 billion for relief agencies working to address the needs of Hurricane Sandy victims. More than a few of Cruz's congressional colleagues reminded him of that vote when he came seeking support for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

...There's one more reason O'Rourke should represent Texas in the U.S. Senate: He would help to serve as a check on a president who is a danger to the republic. Cruz is unwilling to take on that responsibility. Indeed, the man who delighted in calling the Texas senator "Lyin' Ted" all through the 2016 presidential campaign, who insulted Cruz's wife and his father, is bringing his traveling campaign medicine show to Houston next week to buoy the Cruz campaign. The hyperbole, the hypocrisy and the rancorous hot air just might blow the roof off the Toyota Center.

While the bloviations emanate from the arena next week, imagine how refreshing it would be to have a U.S. senator who not only knows the issues but respects the opposition, who takes firm positions but reaches out to those who disagree, who expects to make government work for Texas and the nation. Beto O'Rourke, we believe, is that senator.

[DCHawk1]

I missed the bit about trying to flee the scene of a DUI. Is that in any of these profiles?


Cuz...I mean that DOES make him Kennedy-esque...

[HouseDivided]

I missed the bit about trying to flee the scene of a DUI. Is that in any of these profiles?


Cuz...I mean that DOES make him Kennedy-esque...

In all fairness, he didn’t leave an innocent girl at the bottom of a lake. So, he’s got that going for him, which is nice.

[Shirley]

[seahawk]

https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/ ... e-ted-cruz.

Beto wearing a sweater that says "beto" back when he was a toddler. His family was planning that he would run for Senate when this photo was taken?

Ted Cruz is actually Rafael Edward Cruz--what's the deal about nicknames? Cruz rejected his family nickname as it sounded too hispanic to folks like Psych.

[Shirley]

[imzcount]

Working well!

[Shirley]

[seahawk]

Yup. And Elizabeth Warren “always knew”she was Native American. Whatever.

The Houston Chronicle Endorses Beto O'Rourke


While the bloviations emanate from the arena next week, imagine how refreshing it would be to have a U.S. senator who not only knows the issues but respects the opposition, who takes firm positions but reaches out to those who disagree, who expects to make government work for Texas and the nation. Beto O'Rourke, we believe, is that senator.[/b]

Oh, come on, Feral, the Houston Chronicle endorsed Beto, big deal, it's Houston. But The Dallas Morning News, the ultimate voice of Republican Texas endorsing Beto O'Rourke, that's Big News!

[Shirley]

Wow. I've never cared that much for Triumph, but, wow.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Mocks Ted Cruz to His Face: Trump ‘Neutered’ You

But the real fireworks came when Triumph confronted Cruz after one of his rallies as a security guard nervously tried to keep distance between man and puppet. “Ted, is it true you will defend the Constitution at all costs except for when Donald Trump calls it ugly on Twitter?” he asked, referencing the time Trump tweeted a meme making fun of Cruz’s wife’s looks.

[HouseDivided]

Ted will soundly beat Beto the Fake Mexican today.

[dolomite]

Just admit you were wrong. Good Lord.

Irish kid just happens to have a Mexican nickname. Right.

What difference at this point does it make?

fyp
https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary ... 54&bih=625

[Deleted User 62]

Irish kid just happens to have a Mexican nickname. Right.

What difference at this point does it make?

fyp
https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary ... 54&bih=625

Thanks for pointing out the irrelevance.

Your service is appreciated.

[dolomite]

If Cruz is a pussy, then what does that make Beto, other than a loser?

[DCHawk1]

thE nEXt preSiDENt oF tHE unItEd StaTEs!

[ousdahl]

Cruz got demolished by everyone but the whites.