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Shell_Seas

(3,471 posts) Tue Aug 16, 2022, 07:59 AM Aug 2022

Call Me A Betocrat: A Campaign, Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen.

The closest thing we can describe Beto's campaign is Obama's 2008 run, but with Texas flavor.

https://livingbluetx.com/2022/08/call-me-a-betocrat/

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Call Me A Betocrat: A Campaign, Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen. (Original Post) Shell_Seas Aug 2022 OP

obama 08, plus swearing. mopinko Aug 2022 #1

This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2022 #2

I just saw an Ad by Abbott and it was pretty lame.... flying_wahini Aug 2022 #3

mopinko

(71,913 posts)

1. obama 08, plus swearing.

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Aug 16, 2022, 08:08 AM

Aug 2022

he's allowed to get pissed, he's white.
i have to wonder how different it would all be if o had been allowed a little hellfire.

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,158 posts)

2. This makes me smile

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:48 PM

Aug 2022

Link to tweet

flying_wahini

(8,043 posts)

3. I just saw an Ad by Abbott and it was pretty lame....

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Aug 16, 2022, 06:41 PM

Aug 2022

It talked about his overcoming his accident. Wheelchair featured prominently.
No policy or anything too chewy. No mention of guns or weather or grid or anything.

Just pablum like Repugs like it.

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