Robert Francis (AKA Beto) O'Rourke has announced he's running for governor of Texas. Democrats generally view him as a strong candidate because of his showing in the last senatorial race in which he trailed by a lesser percentage than Democrat candidates in other statewide races. Those statistics, however, are deceiving since there was a third-party libertarian in the race who siphoned off two or three% of the Republican senatorial vote.The Democrats' Irish (with the childhood Hispanic nickname “Beto” courtesy of his nanny) candidate, furthermore, has several strikes against him, which he did not have in his last race. He has ...