("O'Rourke Condemns Dehumanizing Stunts")
If you haven't noticed, Republicans speak in exclamation points. From the governors of Texas and Florida to the former President, messaging does not come in nuance or subtle distinction. It appears in existential threats, in hyperbole and dire forecasts. In Fox News and Alex Jones. The intention is to capture your attention, no matter the means to the end.
And while Beto O'Rourke hopes that the shenanigans of Greg Abbott will prove insufficient defense against the reality of the Dobbs decision, we well know how easily the public eye is diverted (see James Comey and Hillary Clinton's emails).
Beto O'Rourke, fully comprehends the extreme difficulty of scoring political points as a Democrat in Texas. See his AR-15 declaration and the political poo this caused there - or his unsuccessful effort to unseat a master of the ludicrous, Mr. Green Eggs and Ham himself. Merely railing against the moral bankruptcy of a Republican opponent is not a winning strategy in the Lone Star State.
Without his own exclamation point, I fear this could well be Mr. O'Rourke's Alamo.
I wonder what Mr. Comey is up to these days.
1 comment:
You are so right. The only way to answer a dumb Republican "exclamation point" pretend-strategy is to steal a line from West Wing's President Bartlett: "What's Next?" What's next after you ship refugees to Martha's Vineyard? (I never liked the word "Migrant" or "Alien". Geese migrate. Aliens are from outer space. These poor souls are refugees, and they have no "what's next". That should be the Democratic Party's mantra, said with righteous fury: What's Next? What's Next?--RE
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