Did Beto O'Rourke, the vacuous Democratic prettyboy who almost beat Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race give the latter a scare? Look, Ted Cruz is sporting a beard, and boy does it look good: Image credit: ABC13 Houston, screengrab Now that is stylin.' Here are some more views: Image credit: C-SPAN2 screengrab Image credit: The Schneider Show screengrab, taking a screengrab from The Cut Talk about beating Beto at his own game. The latter came rather uncomfortably close to beating Cruz in the last midterm, 50.9%-48.3%, in the solid red state of Texas. O'Rourke didn't do that based on his ideas, given that those are basically socialist ones, but on his Kennedyesque tousled good looks, riding a skateboard, channeling ersatz Latinitude (ironically, against a real Latino), and exuding cool. For Democrats in the last 20 years, 'cool' has been what wins presidential elections for them. We all know who the king of cool is among Democrats:...(Read Full Post)