Posted on April
17, 2019
What Can He Say?
PC police place a gag on Beto O’Rourke
by
Daniel
Clark
If, for whatever reason, you were thinking of voting
for Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for president, you
can stop now. That’s because the
three-term Democrat former congressman has been virtually prohibited from
campaigning, by the onerous speech codes that people of his political
philosophy have imposed on our society.
Beto’s
problem, in a nutshell, is that his Hispanic-sounding nickname is misleading,
and that, being a straight white male, he doesn’t fill any of the checkboxes
that suffice for presidential qualifications as far as today’s Democrats are
concerned. Therefore, he must not become
his party’s nominee. So, how do liberals
shut down his candidacy, since there is apparently no video of him nuzzling
women 
in
extremely awkward situations, as there is with Joe Biden? Easy.
The liberal speech police, who can manage to find any words offensive,
have begun objecting to practically anything he says.
His first offense was from a line he had been using in
his stump speeches, praising his wife for raising their children, “sometimes
with my help.” He probably thought when
he said this that he was being totally politically correct, in that he was portraying
the typical liberal presentation of the nuclear family, in which the mother is
completely in charge, while the clueless dad has trouble locating his own
posterior with both hands. But no, he
had committed the offense of stereotyping gender roles by depicting his wife as
doing most of the child-rearing, and thus was compelled by the liberal code to
apologize, which he dutifully did.
“Not only will I not say that again,” he sniveled,
“but I’ll be more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our
marriage, and also the way in which I acknowledge the truth of the criticism
that I have enjoyed white privilege.”
You heard that right. He
confessed to having somehow wronged society by being white.
That made the next liberal attack against him all that
much easier. Beto
remarked about the presidential race that he was “born to be in it” – a
completely innocuous remark to any reasonable person, but not to liberal grievance-mongers. As far as they were concerned, this was an
expression of entitlement, that becoming president was his birthright as a
white man. Again, he apologized
This turnabout must come as a bit of a shock to the
young politician. During his race
against Ted Cruz last fall, O’Rourke was the most popular figure in his party,
basking in adulation, as well as a wildly disproportionate amount of financial
and other support from his party and its media sycophants. As far as liberals were concerned, he could
say no wrong. He appeared to be the next
Chosen One, whose bilingual tongue spun every word out of his mouth into
gold. Now that his opposition, rather
than being a very conservative Republican senator, is instead a field of more
demographically gifted socialist Democrats, every utterance has become an
outrage.
It’s
hard enough for a Republican to withstand frivolous accusations of bigotry, but
a liberal like O’Rourke is not even left with the option of exhibiting Trumpian defiance.
He has already conceded that liberal accusations of racism and sexism
are always valid, and the liberals who want him out of the race are capable of
finding everything racist and sexist, including algebra, the infield fly rule,
and the migratory pattern of the Canadian snow goose. Heck, he’s already begging their forgiveness
just for expressing his belief in his own candidacy.
There’s hardly anywhere O’Rourke can go from
here. He can’t appoint a campaign
“chief-of-staff” without being racist.
He can’t use the phrase “my fellow Americans” without being sexist. He can’t even refer to a “stump speech,”
because that would be offensive to the differently-abled. And if you think that’s a sick joke, you’re
wrong, because it’s not a joke at all.
Just you wait.
So how, exactly, is he supposed to mount a campaign
against the other presumptive candidates in the 2020 Democrat primary? If he favorably compares himself to Cory
Booker, he’s a racist. If he does the
same to Kirsten Gillibrand, he’s a sexist.
Kamala Harris? He’s both racist and sexist. Pete Buttigieg? He’s bigoted against the LGBTQIA-other Q-plus
sign-ampersand-schwa, and several-other-things “community.” Elizabeth Warren? He’s bigoted against trans-racial
people. Bernie Sanders? He’s an age-discriminating Commuphobe.
No matter how you slice it, Beto
O’Rourke cannot even seriously campaign for the Democrat presidential
nomination, let alone win it. So why
does he even try? Can it be that he’s
scoring liberal diversity points by being delusional?
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