Beto O’Rourke has nothing smart to say

Published January 16, 2019 11:45pm ET



In a series of public word vomits over the past few days, media darling and unemployed, failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has sounded more like a college literature major getting stoned for the first time than a serious contender to become the leader of the free world.

The liberal wunderkind’s solution to solving the Syria crisis? “A debate, a discussion, a national conversation about why we’re there, why we fight, why we sacrifice the lives of American service members, why we’re willing to take the lives of others.”

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