The Incredible Self-Confidence Of Robert ‘Beto’ Francis O’Rourke

The audacious confidence of Democrat Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke is something to behold. As a failed Senate and presidential candidate who has never won a statewide race, his hope to become the next governor of Texas is a longshot, but that’s not deterring him from an attempt at failing upward.

Maybe O’Rourke’s hubris shouldn’t come as a surprise after he essentially claimed he was “born” to be president in 2019, but that’s only one of his problems. At a time more than half of Texas disapproves of Democratic President Joe Biden and Democrats are already bracing for 2022 midterm beat down, O’Rourke’s own party serves as a major obstacle, but not more than O’Rourke himself.

O’Rourke ran a competitive and energetic race against Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018. He went from a no-name congressman to capturing moderate voters and even flipped some historically red counties in Texas (even if it was thanks to an abundance of favorable media attention). This time around, he enters the gubernatorial race a much weaker candidate after recently running a clown show of a presidential campaign in which he endorsed far-left agenda items like enthusiastically promising to take away Americans’ guns.

“Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” O’Rourke declared from the presidential debate stage in Houston. He dropped out before the Iowa primary.