Last November, after his loss to Senator Ted Cruz, former Congressman and current presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke insisted that he would not run for president because of his concern about the time he would lose with his family, arguing that he and his wife had three young children to raise. O’Rourke said on CBS’ 60 Minutes, “I don’t wanna do it. I will not do it. Amy and I are raisin’ an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old. And we spent the better part of the last two years not with each other, missing birthdays and anniversaries and time together. And we—we—our—our family could not survive more of that. We, we need to be together.”
It’s mighty peculiar how O’Rourke’s position has changed in four months; along the way, he kept a blog while he traveled around the country, writing in mid-January, “Have been stuck lately. In and out of a funk. Maybe if I get moving, on the road, meet people, learn about what’s going on where they live, have some adventure, go where I don’t know and I’m not known, it’ll clear my head.”
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