While the bloviations emanate from the arena next week, imagine how refreshing it would be to have a U.S. senator who not only knows the issues but respects the opposition, who takes firm positions but reaches out to those who disagree, who expects to make government work for Texas and the nation. Beto O'Rourke, we believe, is that senator.
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'Fantastic' Beto O'Rourke gets endorsement from former Mexican President Vicente Fox
Fox, who served as Mexico's president from 2000 to 2006, has openly voiced his discontent for Trump and his immigration policies -- including the hotly debated wall along the southern border. "I've been an opponent and resistant (of Trump) because I feel as part of this nation -- I am part of this nation -- and I don't like what I'm seeing," Fox said during a speech at Northwestern University on Tuesday night, according to the Chicago Tribune. The former Mexican president praised O'Rourke as compassionate and intelligent who understands Americans, "but you also understand we are human beings."
"You are the enlightenment for Texas and I hope every single Mexican, Latin, every Hispanic in that great state of Texas is going to vote for you," Fox said. "You deserve it because you are going to respond to the hope and expectations of Texas, understanding what they need and understanding what America needs."
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Speaking of foreign policy attitude differences, after a ten month gradual comprehension process of understanding how Beto's mind works in his overall approached of structured compassion and exercised intelligence vs. Cruz's same old conservative xenophobic conservative rants and the crude, vulgar, misleading bad grammared repartees of his cohorts at the top level of Texas governments, I ran across this revealing piece in the Denton TX Record-Chronicle:
In Houston on Saturday, Cruz said O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso benefits from a border barrier. But O'Rourke inexplicably wants to thwart Trump's desire to build a more imposing wall, Cruz said.The first-term senator ridiculed O'Rourke's immigration stance by noting that thousands of Hondurans are fleeing their home country in a caravan, which has arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border. "There's a caravan right now marching north," Cruz told about 800 supporters.
"I'm just waiting to see Beto O'Rourke come down and start leading the caravan," he said with a smile.
Picking up on an attack Cruz launched in San Antonio on Tuesday night, at the rivals' second televised debate, Cruz attributed El Paso's acceptable level of crime to border barriers. He said the barriers shield O'Rourke's hometown from mayhem in nearby Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Last year, it had 3,000 murders, he said. The El Paso Times reports that there were 773 murders last year in Ciudad Juarez and that there were 3,000 in 2010."Three thousand murders on the other side of the wall, the wall in between them and the relatively safe city of El Paso, and what does O'Rourke say? 'We need to tear down that wall,'" Cruz said. "I've got to say there are a bunch of Texans saying that boy don't think right."
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry attacked O'Rourke for supporting NFL players who have taken a knee during the national anthem to protest police treatment of minorities.
"Man, he must be praying at the Pelosi altar. He's praying at the Schumer altar," Perry said, referring to Democratic congressional leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. "That don't play in Texas."
On foreign policy, O'Rourke played offense on an issue bedeviling the White House.
Saudi Arabia should be held accountable for what he termed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he said. Trump must punish the Saudi regime and in general get tough with murderous dictators, O'Rourke said in an interview in The Colony.
"Saudi Arabia must be held accountable," he said. "There must be a consequence. We must stop rewarding their bad behavior, whether it's what they've just done in the murder of a journalist, or their export of those who are spreading a hateful ideology, their indiscriminate bombing civilians in Yemen."
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