Media has a crush on Beto O'Rourke despite the obvious flaws in his campaign against Ted Cruz

Politico:
The winds of swoonery blasted through Texas this year and traveled halfway across the country to dust the Eastern media establishment with love eternal for senatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. Not since the press corps fell in love with Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign has such a sirocco of worshipful candidate profiles and commentaries appeared in the national press.

“Is Beto O’Rourke the Left’s Obama-like Answer to Trump in 2020?” asked Vanity Fair. “Beto O’Rourke Could Be the Democrat Texas Has Been Waiting For,” offered BuzzFeed. Still more positive Beto coverage sprinkled the pages of Yahoo News, Time, GQ, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, the New York Times, Politico and Esquire as they worked off the same template. The Washington Post indulged Betomania with a feature, another feature, a column and the sort of ancillary coverage it ordinarily gives the Washington Redskins.
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Much of this adoration is because he is not Ted Cruz.  The media and the left hate Cruz and some in the GOP do too because he insists on keeping the campaign promises he and other Republicans made. 

They are flabbergasted that he really meant it when he said he wanted to repeal Obamacare.  McCain was especially upset even though he also campaigned on repealing only to go back on his promise when he could have kept it. 

Cruz is also wickedly smart and can make his case in any debate.  That also bothers those who are reluctant to deal with the faults of Obamacare and other issues.  Those in the media who have been showering O'Rourke with praise for his positions are as out of touch with Texas as he is.

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