A year ago Beto O'Rourke came within an eyelash of unseating Ted Cruz from the Senate.
Even though he fell short, O'Rourke's political stock was rising.
One year later, O'Rourke would be lucky to sell enough penny stocks to buy a one way ticket to Palookaville.
Today, O'Rourke dropped out of the 2020 Democratic race.
You know your presidential race is going badly when fellow Democrats called upon him to run for the Senate a la John Hickenlooper.
Any chance O'Rourke had of unseating John Cornyn ended the moment he called for a mandatory gun buyback program following the El Paso massacre.
O'Rourke lost me when he bashed Benjamin Netanyahu on the campaign trail and likened climate change activists to American soldiers who stormed Normandy Beach on D-Day.
Where O'Rourke goes from here is anybody's guess. I can't see him running for office anytime soon. Perhaps he'll get a gig at the Kennedy School of Government and then get a reality show on MSNBC where he visits dental offices around the country. He might not become President much less a Senator, but I'm sure he'll never have to worry about his finances. Let's just say his fate is the least of my worries.
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