Posted on 01/29/2014 1:59:46 PM PST by Kaslin
All it took was five days for Texas gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis’s campaign to go from baffling to downright obscene, again showing that neither she nor those aiding the effort knew what they were getting into in the first place.
It wasn’t enough that revelations of a distorted biography emerged, the details of which included her leaving an older man just a day after he completed payments for her Harvard Law education. Nor that the candidate herself signed onto a missive doubling down. “You’re damn right it’s a true story,” she said.
Her sophomoric camp had to go farther. They accused the campaign of Greg Abbott, her likely Republican opponent, of making the attacks, and Davis herself declared that “anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.”
Abbott, the Lone Star State’s attorney general, has been in a wheelchair since 1984.
Then came an obscene, reviling video to top it all off - Project Veritas released footage of Davis supporters, staffers of the Super PAC Battleground Texas, mocking Abbott’s disability.
“First of all, he is not good looking. He doesn’t speak very well; he doesn’t have a good personality; and he’s in a wheelchair,” one mused.
Davis immediately disavowed the comments as “abhorrent,” yet it’s she who quipped who said he “hasn’t walked a mile in my shoes” just days earlier.
For those of us who’ve followed her effort from its onset, a filibuster in support of late-term abortions, it’s honestly not that surprising. Wendy Davis’s campaign has made inconsistency its trend of choice.
Prior to last week they pre-emptively announced a fundraising haul of over $12 million. Conveniently unmentioned was that “a Battleground Texas-affiliated committee” raised around $4 million of the figure while her actual coffers had the remaining $8 million.
It’s fuzzy math at best, a $4 million distortion at worst. After all, the Super PAC seeking to turn Texas blue can’t operate in coordination with her bid for governor.
But hey, she wanted to own their fundraising; may as well own their rhetoric about Abbott, too.
Weeks earlier than that Davis sought to pitch her plan for Texas education. She just couldn’t offer any figures for how much it’d cost.
Don’t fret! She declared her plan could take on ideas “as a ship takes on water.”
What an analogy for rolling out a plan that’ll impact millions of Texas children, educators, and its economy, which has thrived under a model Democrats disdain.
It may be the best way to define her campaign when it’s all over.
Amid the doubling down on biographical distortions, the one policy issue she sought to pivot towards was gun rights, touting her gun ownership and intentions of obtaining a concealed carry permit.
What an about face. Davis previously waged a bid to end gun shows at municipal buildings and is on the record calling for background checks, saying she’d sign such legislation as governor if it found its way to her desk.
It’s apparent that inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and an overall childish mindset dominate Wendy Davis’s campaign. The idea of her as the key to bringing purple to Texas is clearly a memory. For proof, you need only look to Texas media outlets and their coverage of the ongoing fallout.
“I'm very skeptical that the Davis campaign has the talent and the knowledge of state issues to take Abbott on,” wrote Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka, not a conservative bomb thrower by any stretch.
“Davis missed her chance, and now the Republicans are having a field day with it. As they should. This is Texas politics, not a ping pong match,” said Todd Robberson of The Dallas Morning News, the paper which broke the story of the chinks in her biographical armor.
All of which is to say that Texas Democrats have an amateur hour liberal running as their best hope at statewide relevancy, and they’re wasting millions of dollars on the effort. If anything, they should disown her after this week.
They won’t, though, and the rest of us are better served for their stubborn disconnect from reality.
Gregg Abbott has done nothing. When your opponent is busy cutting her own throat it is best to not interfere. I suspect Greg Abbott's only fear is that she will not be the Demonic-rat candidate.
KILLING YOUR BABY is the MOST OBSCENE ACT ANYONE CAN DO!!!
I’m inclined to agree. The expose in the Dallas Morning News (hardly a conservative publication) only quoted the ex-husband.
If Abbott had done this I think he would have waited until closer to the election. The fact that Wendy is playing the “the mean old cripple guy is beating up on me” card further reveals how far from primetime she is.
Wenchy Davis! I like it!
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What a prize this one is....! Wenchy indeed.
Help us out.
I expect the Dems will pull a Torricelli with Davis and push her to challenge Cornyn for Senate.
She would certainly be a good fit with Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, and Warren.
Visition?
oopsy
She’s a pretty Joe Biden.
The reporter who wrote the story in the Dallas Morning News said he didn’t speak with anyone in the Abbott camp.
She can’t even properly manage her family. She has minimal skills to govern over anything except getting her hair and nails done on schedule and shilling for her baby killing rights for femonazi females.
I don’t know why they would think that......abortion ain’t the thang in Texas!!!
Now abortion Barbie has her daughters working in tow to show support for her. If that is her tactic, those two daughters are fair game to rip into during the campaign. What’s good for the goose...... Mizz abortion is claiming that she DID NOT abandon her daughters.
Okay. Kinda like the bird except with an extra finger? I’ve learned something already today.
I still think Davis is a stronger candidate than the Republicans think. She represents “sexual license”, much like the original clintoid.
TX taxpayers have been funding abortion for years, and to my knowledge still do in some situations.
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