So there's a lot of adulation coming out for Beto O'Rourke. But it's coming from all the Usual Suspects. Robert Wolf, an investment banker who helped Obama raise money, says "He's a game changer."

Whatever the fuck that means.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former communications director for President Barack Obama, (see a trend here?) said, "I have never seen a Senate candidate — including Obama in 2004 — inspire the sort of enthusiasm that Beto did in his race,”

Can't you tell how enthused I am. I bet you are really enthused too. We're all so enthused.

“We are big Beto fans,” the Clintonite think tank Third Way’s Matt Bennett told NBC during his Senate run.

Well, there you go then. What could be more exciting than another Turd Way candidate? Heart be still!

The prostituted journalists at Politico raved about him. No, I won't give them hits by linking to their rag, just take my word for it. They too were so enthused. But I will quote from them:

More established contenders such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have been traveling to early primary states and courting donors and activists for months. But they've been campaigning so brazenly that their eventual announcements have been sapped of much of their intrigue.

Yeah. They ignored Bernie Sanders. That's all you really need to know, but I might point out that they then denigrated the other candidates in their "enthusiasm" for Beto.

So do yourselves a favor and don't give Politico anymore hits than you absolutely have to, don't link to them, just ignore them and pretend they don't exist. You know, like they do with Bernie.

But back to Beto ObamaRourke. This guy signed a No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. Then turned around and collected dozens of large donations from oil and gas executives during his 2018 Senate campaign. $324,650 from mostly oil executives, to be precise. So yesterday Oil Change removed him from the list of people who had signed the pledge.

Cuz, you know, they weren't really that enthused by what he did.

Current Affairs actually took him to task. They too, were less than enthused.

While O’Rourke steadily avoided left-wing legislation, he went above and beyond to ally himself to the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. In 2015, Congress narrowly gave President Obama so-called “Fast Track” authority as it related to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This essentially greased the skids for Obama to accept and implement this agreement, which many labor, consumer, human rights, and environmental advocates worried would vastly expand the power of investors and corporations and undermine U.S. sovereignty.

And of course, it didn't take long for The Usual Suspects to take control of him:

O’Rourke was one of eight Members of Congress to oppose the Iron Dome funding, a group that was equally split along bipartisan lines. “I could not in good conscience vote for borrowing $225 million more to send to Israel, without debate and without discussion, in the midst of a war that has cost more than a thousand civilian lives already, too many of them children,” he wrote defending his vote. It was a defiant act, and for once, Congressman O’Rourke was willing to stand almost alone in the face of a powerful political force, America’s pro-Israel lobby.

But that bravery did not last long. Pro-Israel activists, including one of O’Rourke’s top donors, denounced him in the local press. Others reached out to him privately to encourage him to return to the pro-Israel consensus. And he returned quickly. He enthusiastically voted for all future aid to Israel, and courted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Over at Common Dreams they weren't exactly enthusiastic either.

"Beto O'Rourke's actual political record deserves scrutiny, and it's not what progressives might expect from the overheated adulation that has sent his presidential balloon aloft," Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, argued in a piece for Common Dreams on Tuesday. As evidence, Solomon cited O'Rourke's votes to deregulate banks and grant "fast track" authority to ram through the corporate-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We don't need another Obama. We certainly don't need another Clinton. We really don't need Beto O'Rourke.