Beto O’Rourke is from El Paso and he’s closed in at a three point difference.

Beto is young, lean, tall, and powerful easy on the eyes.  He’s smart, comfortable in his own skin, and goes for authentic instead of the stilted speech patterns of Ted Cruz, college debater.

Recently Cruz accused Beto of using a nickname so he sounds “more Hispanic.”  That’s a tad off-center coming from a man whose name is Rafael but goes by Ted. Beto is a common nickname for kids named Robert.

So, to counter Cruz, Beto challenged him to 6 debates, two of them in Spanish.  Cruz had to admit that he doesn’t speak Spanish very well but “I understand it all,” which is what people say when they don’t understand it worth a flip and the only Spanish they speak they learned from the menu at El Monterey.

I’m holding out some hope for this kid.  I saw him speak at the little town of Wharton, when 30 people showed up at 8:00 am in the freezing rain to stand under a covered but open pavilion to hear him speak and answer questions.  He gave the same speech later in the day to a crowd of 400 in Bryan.

He’s raised more money than Cruz even though he doesn’t accept PAC money.

I think there’s hope.

Brian Kemp is running for Governor of Georgia.  Since they wouldn’t let him kill something on teevee for a political ad, he did the next best thing.

I grew up in a household that owned a shotgun.  We lived in a rural area and you’ll notice that I said “a” shotgun, not an armory like Brian Kemp has.  I mean, it never entered our minds that we’ll have to fight a war against Armenia all on our own.  I think probably ole Brian worries about that a lot.

When time came for me to learn how to use the shotgun, my daddy told me the Number One Rule: you never point a shotgun at someone unless you’re fixing to pull the trigger.

I wish he’d have taught Brian that before Brian wants all of Georgia to begin pointing shotguns at people as a joke.

Damn fool.

I want you to meet Justice of the Peace Russ Casey from the Fort Worth area.  He’s a Republican.

Russ Casey

Casey was indicted for and pled guilty to tampering with a government document.  It seems that Casey forged signatures on his petition to secure a place on the November ballot. In short, he fixed an election.

Casey was sentenced to two years in jail, probated over five years. He went home that day and will never see the inside of a jail.

And then there’s Crystal Mason, in the same damn county as Casey. Mason was on probation for a tax fraud conviction.  Her mother pushed her to go vote on election day and she did.  Her name was not on the voter list, so she voted a provisional ballot, which was never counted.

Crystal Mason

The state said she should have known she couldn’t vote while on probation.

She will spend five damn years in prison.  Not probation, prison.

Also, in the same damn county, Rosa Maria Ortega is a green card holder from Mexico and has lived in Texas most of her life.  She voted in the 2014 Republican primary and received eight years in prison for it. In the same damn county.

Casey was the only one to walk away.  The newspaper added that Casey was no angel even outside of his recent conviction.

Casey, first elected in 2007, has a history of making headlines.

Last year, he was reprimanded for having an “improper sexual relationship” with a former clerk by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

It seems to me that there is something connected in all these cases.  But one walked free.  I wonder why?

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Okay, so you probably remember that whacky-lookin’ doctor, Dr. Harold Bornstein, who said that Trump was the healthiest president ever in the history of the damn world.

Well, he screwed up.  He’s now saying that after he told the media that he had prescribed Propecia for Trump – a drug used for enlarged prostate and hair growth – that Trump cut ties with him, and not in a polite way.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when Keith Schiller and another “large man” came to his office to collect the president’s records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump’s bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

He said they stayed for 20 or 30 minutes and were joined by Trump Organization Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten.  Schiller left Trump’s employment in September 2017.

There’s more.  In case you ever wondered how on god’s green earth that Bornstein could say that Trump was the healthiest president ever —

Asked how he could justify saying Trump would be the healthiest president ever, Bornstein said, “I like that sentence to be quite honest with you and all the rest of them are either sick or dead.”

Damn, the man should have been a politician.

As you know, Mueller’s questions to Trump were “leaked” and somebody read some of them to Trump.

Oh yeah he did.  He didn’t use the word “Collusion” because he didn’t know if it’s capitalized or not.  However, some of the questions ask about suspected collusion.  How would you ask about collusion while using the word collusion?  “Mr. Trump, did you commit raw naked chafing collusion?”

How ’bout this question?

1. “What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?”

There ya go – collusion.

Does Trump know that he’s supposed to answer these questions with complete sentences?

By the way, the Washington Post suggests that the leak was purposeful and it’s beginning to look like it came from someone close to the Trump legal team but not actually in it.

Just to remind us that Roy Moore jokes are always fresh and funny, he’s back in the news.

He’s filed a lawsuit alleging a “political conspiracy.”

The suit was jointly filed with his wife, Kayla, about an hour before the two held a news conference. It was Moore’s first public appearance since election night in December, when Moore, a Republican, was upset by Democrat Doug Jones. The defendants include three women who made accusations against Moore as well as two other people.

These harlots gathered up in a cabal to plot the downfall of Roy Moore.

Moore immediately began asking for donations to defray his legal expenses.

A female lawyer for one of the woman spoke from the pits of witchery:

“Mr. Moore said nothing new and is using this as another attempt to fleece money from his followers,” Cobia said, adding that Moore claims “to be broke despite” receiving about $200,000 a year in pension from Alabama.

And, just to add fun to the whole lawsuit thing, he also sued two other people who hurt his feelings.

The other two people named in the complaint — Richard Hagedorn and Debbie Wesson Gibson — are accused of “revealing their true political agenda to ignore the truth” through social media posts that looked to “discredit local politicians and Senate candidates.”

Can you even imagine anyone using social media to discredit someone else?  I mean, except for Trump.

Thanks to Phyllis for the heads up.