Opinion: Is Beto O’Rourke a savior or slacker?
Former congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks on March 9 in Austin. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 18 at 10:30 AM To a lot of women, and maybe some men as well, Beto O’Rourke can seem clueless if not self-absorbed. He has made a series of textbook “white privilege” utterances. “I’m just born to be in it,” he told Vanity Fair about his presidential campaign bona fides.
“Jack Kerouac-style, he roams around, jobless to find himself and figure out if he wants to lead the free world,” Nia-Malika Henderson wrote at CNN in January, during what she called Beto O’Rourke’s “excellent adventure.” “This is a luxury no woman or even minority in politics could ever have.” Consider: Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a national expert in financial regulation, is the author of multiple books and originally proposed the federal consumer protection agency. She’s in her second term in the Senate and seems to feel obliged to roll out a detailed, well-researched plan on a different policy topic every few weeks.
And when he recognizes the advantages he’s had, he often juxtaposes self-awareness with jaw-dropping self-regard. “I also happen to be the only candidate from the United States-Mexico border at a time that that dominates so much of our national conversation and legislative efforts and the things that the president talks about,” he told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.
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