Frankly, when I heard him say "shit" on the AFSCME discussion Saturday, I was taken aback. There is such a thing as decorum even when you are obviously horrified by events like the El Paso Walmart massacre. Democrats are held to a far higher standard, after all.
O'Rourke promised months ago he would knock it off with the Richard Nixon expletive deleteds, but clearly he is a politician and didn't keep his promises.
Over the weekend, a Wisconsin voter criticized the former Texas congressman for his use of the work "fuck," which he's done in front of his children and during his concession speech after narrowly losing his Senate race to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. “I am so fucking proud of you guys,” O’Rourke said of his supporters at the time in televised remarks that had network producers reaching for the bleep button.
While the comment may have elicited applause and hollers from the crowd in Texas, the voter urged O’Rourke to “clean up your language." A cowed O'Rourke responded, “Great point. And I don’t intend to use the F-word going forward. Point taken, and very strongly made. … We’re going to keep it clean.”
It didn't last:
After the unidentified reporter asked, “Is there anything in your mind that the president can do now to make this any better?” O’Rourke gave his unfiltered assessment of the question.Beto also tries to get the religious vote:
“What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals.” O’Rourke said. “I don’t know, like, members of the press, what the fuck?”
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke compared the rhetoric of President Trump to Nazi Germany Monday, before declaring, “Well, Jesus Christ, of course he’s racist.”
The GOP attack ads write themselves.
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