What sort of 19 year old man is disgusted by hot babes?!

Ohhhh. Right.

Never mind.

There are sincerely troubling events in his background, ones about which he still wants to quibble.

“Meanwhile, I find him to be a pussy for apologizing -- and it suggests he's yet another sellout going for elected office. Yawn.”

Hint... they are all * sell outs* in the end, whatever that means. The nature of politics is you vote with your party. No going it alone exept when they give you a pass to placate your constituency.

So in the end, which poltical parties policies do you prefer?

I don't hold this against 'Beto'. And I don't know anyone who does. Maybe I don't know enough people. But I do hold his policies against him. And almost as significant (though it probably shouldn't be) I hold his annoying and stupid telemarketing style campaign against him. He's certainly left a lot of us with the view electing him is like electing those police fund scammers. He uses the same pitch lines. 'Hello is Donald there? Oh, well the maybe you can help me ...' I don't know who convinced him that Americans love and respect telemarketers. At this point I wouldn't be surprised to hear he has some money problems and if I just send him my bank account numbers he'll put million in there for me.

I read this as a form of deflection. He is picking something minor and innocuous and then claiming this is what people are complaining about. They aren't. But Beto is trying to paint his opponents as prudes and nuts so when they bring up bigger issues no one will listen to them. Think of Billy Joel's song only the good die young.

"You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain't too pretty, we ain't too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
But that never hurt no one"
... ignore the gang rapes happening in the alleyway. Sweep those under the rug. Everyone is just complaining because we are 'laughing a bit too loud'.

I know people who are going to vote for Beto. And I can respect their reasons. A few like his polices and while I disagree with them I can respect their choice. For the majority, Ted Cruz is an asshole. You really can't argue with that. The man is incredibly abrasive. So I can understand those views too.

Personally, I don't see Beto's chances as that good. Texas is a pretty red state. And especially with how the Kavanaugh stuff went down there is an incredibly strong anti-Democrat mood going on around here. But maybe Texans like telemarketers more than I think.

Moments like this make me determined to refuse to validate the outrage mobs. I don't consider this to be an indictment on O'Rourke so much as on the producers/directors who cast these women.

Assuming O'Rourke's assessment is at least fair, then perhaps the fault lies with whoever did the casting, considering only the size of the breasts as criteria, with talent being a secondary concern (or not a concern at all).

Is that O'Rourke's fault?

I'm convinced that the only acceptable response to those who look to find some damning piece of evidence to tar you with some sort of -ist label is "Get fucked."

You cannot apologize, you cannot atone and you cannot mend your ways from some bias you have, because the outrage mobs do not believe in forgiveness. Once you are labelled with some sort of -ist or -phobe at the end of some root word, you could dedicate your entire life to atoning those you (supposedly) wronged. But Taylor Swift will get together with Jake Gyllenhaal before the professional grievance mongers will take the stigmatizing label away from you.

In that respect, they're very much like traditional Christians. Once God sends you to hell, you will never be forgiven. You could spend billions upon billions of years, suffering unspeakable agony, and you will never get any closer to the end of your sentence.

One wonders if that even qualifies as punishment. When you punish a child, it's temporary, and they are given the opportunity (unless you're a horrible parent) to show they've reformed.

When God consigns you to hell, it doesn't matter whether you've seen the error of your ways; you won't be forgiven.

But I digress. The outrage mobs will never forgive you, regardless, so just tell them to get fucked. At least then, you will gain a measure of respect from the other side. Grovel to grievance mongers, and they will continue to despise you, and the other side will also despise you for groveling.

Meanwhile, I find him to be a pussy for apologizing -- and it suggests he's yet another sellout going for elected office.

He's running as a progressive Democrat. Of course he sold out. He has to, as they're the neo-puritans.

Personally, I don't see Beto's chances as that good.

He wants to take your guns. In Texas. Let that sink in.

I don't consider this to be an indictment on O'Rourke so much as on the producers/directors who cast these women.

Was Harvey Weinstein involved?

I see Beto apologized. Where are the groups that were going after him over this?

#MeToo is now a modern incarnation of the Ladies Temperance and Chastity Brigades.

"#MeToo is now a modern incarnation of the Ladies Temperance and Chastity Brigades."

Like most of the other 20th- and 21st-century civil rights movements, that's pretty much what it was from the start. All that stuff about improving conditions for women was just a recruiting slogan.

Naw Cousin Dave. #MeToo was just a fight between two groups in the Democrat party. That broke the wall of silence on all this bad behavior. The fight is over so no one cares about their bad behavior anymore. From the very beginning it was just slogans.

I've asked around and I looked online, but I can't find anyone who was outraged about this Beto stuff. No one even knew about it. So why is he apologizing? This looks less like an apology and more like a publicity stunt to me.