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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s a listless rich kid that wasted away his youth and never accomplished anything and then says stupid garbage like “I’m just born to be in it”.  The cover art from his band’s CD is just cringe.

Beto is literally the living, breathing, walking embodiment of white privilege.

As an actual, honest to goodness Mexican in Texas I truly hate the nickname and I don’t for a second believe that a powerful, wealthy, connected white family from El Paso bestowed their precious son a Spanish nickname to differentiate from Grandpa Robert. I’d bet a mortgage payment that came from a Mexican nanny/house cleaner.  Families that send their kids to east coast boarding schools don’t nickname their boys with Spanish names.

I skip the section of the ballot when his name is listed as a candidate.

He’s the Democratic answer to George W. Bush. That’s not a compliment.

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I am not connected to Texas and try to avoid reading anything about him in national publications, so my view is about as uninformed as it gets. But if the knee-jerk opinion of someone who only sees his surface and 2-3 most famous sound bites is any use: I cannot STAND the guy. I’m a white yuppie liberal so thoroughly within his demographic, but I have just a visceral dislike of everything about him. I’ve never needed to explain it, but assume I’m picking up on something along the lines of these first two paragraphs.

(Whew, thank you for asking, OP. Clearly I needed to get that off my chest, because it’s an “emperor’s new clothes” situation that has been bugging me. If I had been a Texan in this election, I still would have voted for him. But I understood your question as more a personal reaction than a policy one.)[/quote]

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