Castro Contradicts His Past Statements On Border Enforcement

[liskddksil]

Link to tweet

[essadaw]

1. Why does this not surprise me

I’m not surprised he is a hypocrite— I just wished he hadn’t gift wrapped a soundbite for Trump. Trump’s campaign manager is already tweeting about how last night’s debates showed Democrats were for completely open borders. Didn’t mention Castro by name but rather trying to brand our whole party.

[Turin_C3PO]

7. Who gives a shit what Trump and bigoted, racist, Republicans think?

People who are bigoted are already voting for Trump. We don’t need to “win” their vote.

[SouthernProgressive]

9. Extremely bad form calling Castro a hypocrite.

Really bad form.

[liskddksil]

13. I'm just stating facts

If he wants to make snide remarks at Beto don't expect his supporters not to fight back.

[SouthernProgressive]

14. You are not stating facts. Far from it.

That is the shady part.

[liskddksil]

15. I posted real video from CSPAN of Julian Castro's own words nt

[SouthernProgressive]

16. Yes, you did.

Then made some extremely shady connections. Dishonest attacks like yours should not be allowed here. Your words don't match history, his views, his station at the time, or reality.

What's an even worse look is falsely attacking a democrat who is polling as low as Castro is. Kind of tells you where you are at. Beto had a bad night. I've supported candidates who have had bad nights. I didn't then go make up things in order to attack other candidates.

[liskddksil]

17. Nothing dishonest about stating facts. End of discussion nt.

[SouthernProgressive]

18. I agree that there is nothing dishonest about stating facts.

Little of what you are dabbling in are facts.

[Indygram]

2. Castro didn't do himself any favors with Texans last night

Political suicide. He'll never be elected to any office in Texas after that.

[DesertRat]

4. The polls show Castro as one of the winners of last night's debate

I wouldn't be surprised to see him getting the VP nomination.

[liskddksil]

6. There haven't been any scientific polls nt.

[cwydro]

3. Attacking Castro doesn't improve Beto's poor performance.

Kind of a bad look too.

[liskddksil]

5. Because Castro's policy which Warren also unfortuanately signed on to

is a general-election disaster in waiting gift-wrapped to Trump. Beto's policy is progressive but sensible and could win 60 votes in the Senate.

[Politicub]

11. Beto's description of his policy was incoherent

Castro supplied details. I could leave the debate and summarize Castro's POV in a sentence. That's not something I could do with Beto. About the best way I could describe Beto is he supports incremental changes to the legal code, but I couldn't tell you to what end.

Castro advocates making illegal border crossings a civil offense. That's easy to understand. You may not like the policy idea, and that's fine, but it was communicated in a clear and memorable way.

[liskddksil]

12. Was Pretty Clear To Me But We Also Have A Plan For That

https://betoorourke.com/immigration/

[Politicub]

19. He has a lot of fantastic ideas.

I hadn't read this yet... thanks for the link. I would vote for his plan. He needs to work on his delivery to make his proposals more memorable with fewer words, though. What I took from last night as a relative Beto-neophyte is that he likes to tell stories and tries to connect with people by showing empathy.

On the stump, storytelling and narratives can be used in abundance since there isn't a clock running. Storytelling does make things memorable. The debate stage is different. You can get across one anecdote, maybe two, but that's only an amuse-bouche. The entree -- the proposal -- is what people need to hear in such a way that it's memorable and separates Beto from the pack. Castro was excellent at this (who knew?) and I think that's why he's getting so much attention today. Bill Clinton excelled at the anecdote followed by impactful message style of storytelling.

Beto will learn quickly, no doubt. But it is a different way of communicating than he uses out in the field. I didn't see his debate performances in Texas, so maybe I'm off base.

[SouthernProgressive]

8. Why in the world do you think he would hold the same view today as Obama did?

That makes no sense.

The attacks on Castro this morning are really shady.

[Tipperary]

20. Interestingly, I never saw any of these posters

express a bad opinion of Castro before.

Apparently, they think they are distracting from Beto’s performance fail. All they are doing is drawing more attention to it. Kind of sad.

[SouthernProgressive]

22. "All they are doing is drawing more attention to it."

[kysrsoze]

10. I liked what Castro said earlier, but as the debate went on, he was pandering at times.

I thought he was wrong to take the stance he did, but I did like the emphasis by a few panelists on working to fix things in Central America, so people don't have such horrific conditions to escape from in the first place.

I found it surprising that none of the candidates even bothered to address immigration from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. People from all over the world want in too, and there are a lot of people who have overstayed on their visas and some have been deported as well.

There was also no mention of the issue of the indentured servitude inherent in the H1B process, and how many of those subjected to it have elected to return to their home countries. We're losing very good talent.

[Bettie]

21. A lot has changed in terms of immigration policy

and action since 2013.

Seems like a natural progression.

[BannonsLiver]

23. I don't get all the over the top buzz about Castro today

I mean he did fine but I’m not sure it was super memorable.