Posted on 01/25/2014 4:39:20 PM PST by Kolath
All is fair in politics, and no one gets a pass.
There is a growing attempt to paint Wendy Davis as the victim of a double standard, in which a woman is treated more harshly than conservative men as to family failings and career ambition.
Kirsten Powers articulated that view in her post at The Daily Beast, The Right Subjects Wendy Davis to Litmus Tests No Male Would Ever Face (interestingly, the title shows up in search engines as “Wendy Davis the Piñata Parent,” not sure if that was the original title):
It seems that Wendy Davis needs to learn her place….
It’s fair to criticize Davis for her misleading bio that implied she had been a single mother during law school. Instead, a misogynistic mob is determined to punish her for her parenting choices….
Where were the headlines claiming the unfitness of male Republican candidates who ditched wives with whom they had children (think Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani)? Or are we to understand that conservatives believe that cheating on a spouse and getting divorced is not relevant, but giving your husband full custody of a child is?
Similarly, Politico Magazine has a lead article playing up the “Wendy as victim of sexism” defense. In The Most Judged Woman in America, the sub-title tells the story:
Wendy Davis did make a mistake. She thought that we were ready for a single mother.
Just Google “Wendy Davis Sexism” and you will see that these two examples above are not exceptions, they are part of a pattern of defending Davis.
There is no double standard. Both Newt Gingrich and John McCain were seriously attacked because of their treatment of first wives and kids, as I shared with Powers in a Twitter exchange:
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
The lefties are brainwashed. All koolaid drinkers.
The Force is strong in Powers and Davis. The Dark Force!
Most judged woman in America? Ever heard of Sarah Palin?
***Over 500k in legal bills from bogus ethics complaints.
***MSM going over her 25,000 emails.
***Blood Libel after the Giffords shooting.
***The hit piece known as HBO’s “Game Change”.
***The hit piece book from writer Joe McGuiness.
***Debates on whether Trig was her son or not.
The issue isn’t that she’s a serial adulterer, but that she came up with a cockamamie Horatio Alger story that was untrue. Now she wants to hold on to the Horatio Alger angle while attacking her opponent as some kind of Rottweiler instead of being apologetic about her lies. This is the definition of shameless.
Let’s not forget libs burning down her church while there were CHILDREN INSIDE preparing for Christmas festivities
I’m sure these Davis supporters denounced the treatment Gov Palin got/s
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Her lieberal sins are forgiven by the blood of innocent aborted babies in the DemonRats religion-free supremacy of arrogance. Their lives are such a Wendy Davis.
To whit: "I filibustered FOR infanticide, I AM A BABY KILLER, but HEY! NOW I'm PRO LIFE! doncha know?"
(how stupid does this K*** think we are?
My girl S. Palin will in fact and in deed, tear this dumb bung a new one.
Libtards are SOOO not ready for the Palin Punchout.
Indeed, every single person who even crossed paths with Palin, no matter how minimally, from her kindergarten days to college years to her mayorship, was interviewed by the mainstream media, salivating for any kind of dirt.
And when nothing remotely negative showed up, the bloggers and bottom-feeders just started making things up! I still laugh when other Repubs or Dems complain about their treatment! Nothing comes close to what was done to Palin.
I believe Obama won his Illinois Senate seat when he had a friendly judge open his opponent’s divorce records and then leaked what he found to the media.
Those records included infidelity.
How much do you want a bet that if I went and dug up that case I’d find the liberal judge involved giving us some condescending lecture about the “public’s right to know”?
If journalists actually did their job in 2014, they could save themselves a lot of embarrassment.
On a side note, when I read, “Wendy Davis the Piñata Parent” I remembered Rhia Perlman’s joke as Carla, in Taxi.
‘I’ve been poked more times than a Pinata”.
And after all, Wendy Davis would have found a way to deal with that.
it’s all about me me me me me me me me
Whose sleuthing down the tweets of Dems cities, lying to everybody she meets, whose angling down to pimp for her lefties, everyone knows its Wendy.
Are you reading this Doug from Upland?
Do any Texans know how the polls are running regarding Davis? Does she ave a good chance to get elected?
Abandoning her DAUGHTERS and carrying water for those who want to kill off small kids makes her a monster in the ‘Rat War on Children.
Any conservatives here thought Kirsten Powers turned the corner and was coming out of the conservative closet? ROFL. She’s still a lefty toadie.
I could play her the song “Cry Me A River” sung by at least 10 different girls
RATS get nasty when they get caught in their lies. She was a poor single mother living in a trailer, then suddenly became a divorcee whose husband was paying her way through Harvard Law.
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