“There’s always the chance that Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke won’t debate Senator Cruz because he got into a hazy situation…” the Texas GOP’s official account tweeted Tuesday night.

The tweet featured a booking photo of a bleary-eyed O’Rourke, from the time of his arrest for driving while intoxicated in 1998, with the text “Sorry, Can’t debate. Had a little too much to drink.”

Cruz, known as a shrewd debater, had challenged O’Rourke to a series of five verbal duels, with the first due to take place in Dallas this Friday. O’Rourke said that the Friday date was “not going to happen,” but promised to go head-to-head with Cruz before the election.

The GOP roasted O’Rourke in response, posting a picture of the candidate holding a skateboard with a caption: “Sorry, I’m going to have to skate on the debate Friday.” The party also dug up a ‘blunder years’ picture of O’Rourke from his days playing with punk band Foss in the 1990s, in which he poses in grungy black garb.

“Sorry, can’t debate,’ a caption reads. “We have a gig.”

Democrats and liberals panned the GOP tweets, in particular their making fun of O’Rourke’s punk rock days. “This is easily the best 18-25 demo-targeted ad *for* O'Rourke's campaign I've seen so far,” said one.