Campaign Bits

-- Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has said that living near where a person works is a luxury that we have currently limited to the rich, and that he will change housing policy to help fix that. People, he said, have a right to live near their jobs. You would think this might be kind of a catchy idea, since he is essentially campaigning against rush hour, but it would sound a lot better coming from someone who had a job right now.

-- Jon Ossoff 2017: "I am the definition of an unqualified candidate running for office in a race that normally would be inconsequential except that national media hope to use it as a stick with which to hit President Trump. It's practically impossible to find a candidate as manufactured as I am.

Beto O'Rourke 2018: "Hold my beer."

Beto O'Rourke 2019: "Hold this beer too."

Jon Ossoff 2019: "No, you hold my beer."

-- National Review political correspondent Jim Geraghty raises the possibility that a three-hour debate might not be the fairest format for some of the more...experienced...candidates in the field, as it could tax their resources. Mr. Geraghty overlooks the fact that three hours of the current Democratic field would tax anyone's resources, experienced or not.

-- Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax sued CBS for interviewing two women who allege he sexually assaulted them. Lt. Gov. Fairfax is still only the lieutenant governor even though Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has never explained how a picture of someone in blackface ended up in his medical school yearbook and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has admitted to donning the insulting makeup and persona during his own college years. The three men are the only statewide elected officials in Virginia, which leaves the fourth in line for the governor's seat the speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox. Cox is ineligible for the office, as he has confessed to something even worse than wearing blackface, sexual assault or being lied about in the eyes of the Virginia Democratic Party: He's a Republican.