Really, Texas? Don’t go for this fool.
Via Free Beacon:
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke played “coy” when asked by a BBC reporter if he supported common ownership of the means of production, a common definition for socialism.
BBC News reporter James Cook wrote a profile of O’Rourke—the sheer amount of profiles on O’Rourke has even been lampooned by The Onion—and noted Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has cast his election fight with him as a battle “between socialism and the American free enterprise system.”
Cook, writing in first person, said he told Cruz that O’Rourke hasn’t officially advocated such a position, but the first-term senator had a ready retort:
When I point out to Mr Cruz that his opponent hasn’t actually advocated state ownership of the means of production – a widely accepted definition of socialism – the senator shoots back “he supports socialised medicine”.