It’s fun to consider that impossibly well-funded presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke could be a Bush.
Looks like Jeb! Looks like a young GHWB. His dad had Barbara Bush’s bulging eyes.
He says he was born for this.
He is a substance-less loser from West Texas with alcohol related run ins with the law.
Married a gal from West Texas who was unquestionably his better.
Drug rumors even Presidents Trump and Jr. appear to be tangentially alluding too recently.
Plucked from obscurity by powerful men to fill a role. Widely considered unsophisticated and more than a little dumb.
Sound familiar?
I don’t think he’s a Bush. But it is fun to imagine.
Beto’s mom doesn’t look like a Bish at all. Either side.
George W. and Jeb might be plausible for age but Beto looks undeniably like his dad when he was a kid. And Jeb never had it in him.
Of course any two points form a line.
If you spend any time digging there are some beautiful coincidences.
One is the oft-told romantic story of a 17-year old GHWB meeting 16-year old Barbara Pierce at a Christmas dance in 1941 days after Pearl Harbor.
Know who was born exactly nine months later in West Texas (El Paso)?
Beto’s dad Patrick O'Rourke.
And after GHWB joined the military, served with distinction, and graduated from Yale, know where he and Barabara set up housekeeping at while he worked for a C_A front company?
West Texas. Odessa and Midland.
Fun stuff, but I don’t think he’s a Bush.
And yeah, wow, he does look like one though. That exact grimace like Jeb. The same full smile as GHWB in his 20s. Same nose too.
Beto was pushed into running for Senate in Texas immediately after the 2016 presidential election. Remember that was supposed to be Jeb’s turn.
Trumpeted how many mainline Republican Bush family major donors were crossing over to fund his campaign. Peeps have forgotten.
And then El Paso is the most drug cartel controlled large city in North America. It’s all a bit surreal with possibilities.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/18/barbara-george-bush-met-christmas-dance-storybook-meeting-love-story/526767002/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143252563/pat-francis-o_rourke