Andrew Stiles is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon.
Beto O’Rourke is having a bad week. He’s fading in the polls, and is approaching “statistically insignificant” territory in the most recent survey of New Hampshire primary voters. His stump speech was panned by an 8th grade civics class in Iowa. THE POLITICO reported on his struggles to “organize a viable campaign.”
The latest bit of bad news for Beto comes in the form a Monmouth poll of New Hampshire primary voters.
HORLIVKA, Donetsk People’s Republic—On an afternoon in January, I crouched behind what was left of a rotting horse, digging around in my pockets for chewing gum and amphetamines. I found the letter instead. As much as I’d wanted to after reading it, I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away. Inside the internationally postmarked envelope was the official letterhead of a Prague-based private detective working on behalf of a powerful American oligarch, Neera Tanden. The subject: “Bernie Sanders.” My love of a lifetime long past. My Bernychka.
In the two years since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, the United States of America has achieved unsurpassed greatness in almost every imaginable category. The economy is surging. Tiger Woods is a Masters champion again, after ending his “Obama drought” on the PGA Tour. Mankind continues to enjoy unprecedented dominance over Earth’s inferior species. And now, thanks to booming sales, Chick-fil-A has become the third-largest restaurant chain in the United States, behind Starbucks and McDonalds.
Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman and failed Senate candidate who for some reason decided to run for president, didn’t have the most compelling campaign launch when he announced his candidacy in March.
President Donald J. Trump promised to Make American Great Again, and he has. We’re winning again, and not just as a country, but as a species. Mankind—aka “the human race,” in the politically correct parlance of the failed Obama era—continues to enjoy unprecedented dominance of Planet Earth under President Trump’s courageous leadership.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is a wealthy partisan hack who, like most partisan hacks, is unable to resist the allure of Twitter. When a steaming hot take enters his brain, Krugman is rarely dissuaded from sharing it with the world. He types it in the little white box. He presses the “Tweet” button.
Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman and failed Senate candidate who abandoned a promising career as a whimsical travel blogger to run for president, occasionally sprinkles his stump speech with jokes to lighten the mood.
Beto O’Rourke had a turtle problem. The former congressman and failed Senate candidate reportedly left the campaign trail in late April to address a “family crisis” in the form of a missing turtle, aka “Baby Gus.” The family dog, Artemis, was ominously fingered as the chief suspect in the turtle’s disappearance.
“They wanted to know what Trump was up to with the Russians — which of course is nonsense. This whole thing was a complete setup.” — GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, “HANNITY” Two years of witch hunting. Eighteen Trump-hating angry Democrats. Forty-nine FBI agents. Five hundred interviews. Thirty-five million dollars. Four hundred pages of total exoneration. Until we reckon …
