{"id":33915,"date":"2018-11-30T01:06:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33915"},"modified":"2018-11-30T01:06:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T01:06:21","slug":"i-robert-francis-beto-orourke-do-solemnly-swear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33915","title":{"rendered":"I, Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke, do solemnly swear . . . ‘"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roll that around in your mouth a time or three, maybe four.<\/p>\n

Might it be what we hear in Jan. 20, 2021 at the next presidential inauguration? Some progressive pundits and pols are hoping it happens. I remain dubious, but perhaps a little less so than I was immediately after Beto O’Rourke lost his bid to become the next U.S. senator from Texas.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke came within a couple of percentage points of upsetting Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. For a Democrat to come within a whisker of beating a GOP Texas politician has many on the left still all agog.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke has changed his tune<\/a>. He said the Senate race was 100 percent on his mind. He now says he is not ruling out anything. That he might be a presidential candidate in 2020. He’s going to take some time with his wife, Amy, and the three kids he featured prominently in his 2018 Senate campaign to ponder his future.<\/p>\n

O’Rourke’s congressional term ends in early January. He’ll return home to El Paso and give thought to running for the highest office in America.<\/p>\n

My desire for the Democratic Party remains for it to find a candidate lurking in the tall grass that no one has heard of. Beto no longer fits that description. He became a national phenomenon with his narrow loss to the Cruz Missile.<\/p>\n

He’ll keep fighting Donald Trump’s desire to build a wall along our southern border; he’ll fight for comprehensive immigration reform. He said he plans to stay in the game. He plans to have his voice heard.<\/p>\n

He might want to parlay his immense national political star status into a legitimate campaign for the presidency. My hope is that is he stays on the sidelines for 2020. However, in case<\/em> he decides to take the plunge into extremely deep political water . . . well, I’m all in.<\/p>\n\n

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Roll that around in your mouth a time or three, maybe four. Might it be what we hear in Jan. 20, 2021 at the next presidential inauguration? Some progressive pundits and pols are hoping it happens. I remain dubious, but perhaps a little less so than I was immediately after Beto O’Rourke lost his bid … Continue reading I, Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke, do solemnly swear . . . ‘<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,18],"tags":[7490,7225,7043,1424,4537,4784,5051],"class_list":["post-33915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-2018-election","tag-2020-election","tag-beto-orourke","tag-donald-trump","tag-ted-cruz","tag-the-wall","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33917,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33915\/revisions\/33917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}