Posted on 10/13/2014 4:42:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Wendy Davis learned nothing from the overwhelming backlash she faced from both the left and the right over her wheelchair ad last week.
In what may have been one of the most slimy campaign ads ever to air, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis attacked pro-life candidate Greg Abbott by running an ad with an empty wheelchair that takes a shot at Abbott, who is confined to one.
Davis is the pro-abortion candidate for governor in Texas whose sole claim to fame is having filibustered against a bill to ban late-term abortions. Not content to speak out against protecting unborn babies after viability, the Davis campaign mocked her pro-life opponent, Greg Abbott, for being paralyzed.
Now, Davis is defending the ad:
Davis held a press conference on Monday, flanked by several people in wheelchairs. She defended her controversial ad, calling Mr. Abbott a hypocrite.
“After receiving justice in the form of millions of dollars from a lawsuit, Greg Abbott has built a career kicking the ladder down behind him and denying to others the very same justice that he both deserved and received,” the Texas state senator said at her Fort Worth field office, Politico reported. “We need to call this what it is — hypocrisy. But there is example after example of it, harming the people that he is supposed to be fighting for.”
Davis‘ top adviser also defended the ad, arguing that Mr. Abbott had “prominently featured himself in the wheelchair in his ads.”
“This ad is not about Greg Abbott in a wheelchair,” Davis‘ pollster Joel Benenson said Sunday, Politico reported. “This ad is about Greg Abbott’s behavior and action with other victims after he had his opportunity and rightly sought justice and received a substantial amount of money.”
Abbott spokeswoman Amelia Chasse told The Texas Tribune, “No amount of desperate spin can rescue Sen. Davis from the rightful criticism she has received over her offensive decision to air this spot.”
But Katie Pavlich at TownHall thinks Davis is using the disabled as props:
After extensive backlash and outrage by the left and the right over the weekend, including the far-left media outlet Mother Jones, Team Wendy is digging deeper and doubling down with human props.
Absolutely shameless. I for one am looking forward to watching Davis lose on election day.
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Disgusting Barbie has gone over the edge. She’s a loon.
It seems to me she is calling him a hypocrite, not criticizing him for being disabled. She says he made and was awarded a huge amount in the multimillions for his disability and then made it more difficult for others to do the same.
Similar to passing the bar exam and then toughening the standards for others.
Or do you people not listen to her ad?
I don’t like her either, but this particular criticism is unwarranted.
What’s her next ad? All the paralyzed should have been aborted?
She’s just low class scum.
What a totally disgusting c**t!
I guess she wants to lose in a really bad way...
No, it’s attacking someone in a wheelchair. No class whatsoever.
No, it’s not
I agree. But you won’t find much in the way of a sympathetic ear around here for that kind of talk.
You mean for commonsense?
Ping.
I don’t give a flip where she was trying to go with her offensive ad. It’s a scary place to try and think like a warped liberal.
I like how they all made their own signs.
Winnifred is a political whore. She will get her baby killing politics ended on election night. She is despicable — Adios winny.
Methinks she must unfortunately be gaining some traction with this meme since Abbots campaign spots have turned into attack ads on Miss Davis' character.
Personally I can't blame Abbot for waiting until now to do this, since he would have been critisized for attacking her too early.
So Gregg Abbott is out of a wheelchair?
He really did try to stop people from getting due compensation? Or not?
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