Guest Post by The Zman
Beto O’Rourke, the Irish playboy who tried passing himself off as a Mexican in his run against Ted Cruz in 2018, has declared for President. The boomers in the Progressive commentariat are rushing to their fainting couches, as they are sure he is the Hispanic-ish John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, depending upon which end of the 60’s they remember best. Watching a geriatric old fool like Chris Mathews fawn over O’Rourke is a reminder why the Germans gave the world the word fremdschämen.
It’s a good reminder that the Left is more burdened with yesterday men than right-side of the political divide. Even the cuckiest conservative is not comparing a guy like Ben Sasse to Reagan, Goldwater or Eisenhower. Progressive boomers still have a bust of JFK in their house and talk about where they were when he was shot. They are a walking, talking museum displays of a bygone era. That’s why they are gushing over O’Rourke. He’s the last white man of any standing in the Democrat Party.
The funny thing is though, the comparison between O’Rourke and the Kennedy brothers is useful in understanding the current age. John F. Kennedy was, despite lots of revisionism, a man’s man who lived a full live. He served in the war, liked adventure, enjoyed a drink under extreme social pressure and liked women. He was like an Irish version of Theodore Roosevelt. RFK never saw action, but he served and like his brother, he was a man who lived to the fullest. Whatever you may think of their politics or ethics, they were men.
Beto O’Rourke, in contrast, is a bum. His family never had Kennedy money, but they were well-enough-off to send him to a boarding school in Virginia. According to his bio, he was a slacker with a taste for murder porn. He headed off to Columbia to major in English, as that required the least amount of effort. After college, he remained a bum, drinking and working as a live-in caretaker and art mover. Then he got a job working for an ISP, after which is family apparently set him up in his own business in Texas.
That’s hardly a heroic back story. His father was deep into Texas politics, so he got him into the business. His first office was a spot on the El Paso City Council then after a few years he upgraded to the US House of Representatives. Like most of this generation’s political class, Beto O’Rourke ran for office because he was unqualified to do anything useful in the private sector. Rather than go on welfare or resort to a life of crime, he rents himself out as a spokesmodel for whatever political interests will hire him.
The difference between art and ornamentation is that art seeks to imitate life, while ornamentation seeks to decorate life. The great artist works to capture the spirit of his age or if he is really ambitious, the spirit of God. It’s an effort to reach for that which is unattainable, representing the same yearning in the culture of the artist. The guy making pretty pictures, on the other hand, is not trying to capture anything. His sole purpose, his reason to exist, is to make something someone thinks will look cool in the den.
That same comparison works for Kennedy and his brother’s doppelganger, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke. Again, whatever you may think of their politics, the Kennedy brothers had a reason to reach for the top. They were young men in a young culture, seeking the absolute limit of itself. They were the expression of a triumphant and confident America, breathing in life as it stood atop the world it had just conquered. The Kennedy brothers represented that culture. They were Faustian men.
O’Rourke, in contrast, represents a dying culture of old men, whose best days are long in the past, but still trying to maintain appearances. Unlike those young men from the young culture trying to live life to the fullest, Beto has always been an old man, just trying to avoid doing anything that requires risk or effort. If the Kennedy boys were the marble statue of the idealized man of their age, Beto is the decorative codpiece that a feminist uses in her installation art, which will be thrown away when the exhibit closes.
This decorative quality probably explains the soy face so common with the Gen-X politician on both sides of the political class. The old guys can still work up a good snarl or even a confident smile on occasion. Guys like Beto O’Rourke and Ben Sasse always look like they just got wind of a bad smell. They have the look, because for them, life is never going to be a great adventure full of risk taking. Instead, their lives are an inconvenience, something they just tolerate, because they lack the courage to swallow their gun.
That said, Beto is the last white man of the Left. The Democratic field is women and non-whites. If Biden runs he’ll be the second white man in the field, a nice bookend to O’Rourke. On the one end you have an old man inspired into politics by a culture that was full of life. At the other end, you have a man who got into politics because he needed work and his dad had some connections. One is a vague memory of the confident young man with swagger, while the other, the younger one, is the old man in the winter of his life.
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Bozo O’Dork, just another Modern Howdy Doody. And Creepy Pedo Uncle Joe, great bookends and examples of what a slow motion train wreck disaster the Democrats have become.
That’s actually kinda funny and apt.
Whuffing the stickiest of bud is all I excel at but vote for me anyway cause I’m real dam cool. Dig me. Love, Beto
Grinning queerbait spaz on a skateboard. Queerbeto for president!
Don’t bogart that joint, my friend….
And all of those physical traits mean what, exactly? Don’t really need physiognomy to determine that he’s a douche.
Sorry just another brown piece of shit in the Demoncratic pile. This guy could not win in a paper bag full of air, giving blow jobs to every Mexican male and lick every brown pussy in the country. All of which he will do if possible.
They do look like faggots, don’t they? If they won’t be ashamed for themselves, God may bless you with the grace to be ashamed for them. It is a gift, you know.
Nice little hit piece speaks nothing about O’Rourke’s liberal policies. He sneers at the inevitable comparison to JFK, saying Democrats are stuck in the 60’s. (That reminds me of a certain retrogressive zealot who would take the USA back to the white bread 50’s) He calls Beto a playboy and then goes on to describe the ultra-playboy president with Ray Bans in fawning terms. Zman is projecting like a fucking soyboy, I guess he regrets not being there when JFK was shot. I almost expected him to use Lloyd Bentsen’s withering line – I knew JFK, JFK was my friend, Beto is no JFK.
the norteno coming in for his downvotes.
Beto is another central casting actor “Know Nothing” hired to play his role in the leftist revolution. He is reasonably interesting to the equally moronic 35% of Americans that suck the government teat and blame anybody but themselves for the shitty quality of their lives. He came much closer to defeating Ted Cruz than most would have thought he would. Not likely to be the candidate for the Dems but he will be a top 3-4 contender.
Those who would elect Beto are proof that the free shit army is huge and growing geometrically. Cruz almost lost to this idiot last election. That means that Cruz had better get out there and campaign like a mofo. Beto has managed to garner over six million and counting. Question one has to ask is, who is so anxious to part with their money and is money laundering part of campaign donations?
He’s clearly running for VP not President. Because, the goal of every politician is to get a promotion and he failed to get one on his own last time. He’s hoping to ride someone’s coattails this time.