Wendy Davis’s Journey to MSNBC is One Step Closer to Completion

Townhall.com ^ | October 6, 2013 | Brandon Howell

[Kaslin]

The Left’s latest political celebrity has made it official, with Texas state Senator Wendy Davis kicking off a bid for governor owing its genesis to a filibuster of legislation banning restricting abortion after 20 weeks.

That fact alone serves to undermine any rationale for her viability.

Yet that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Davis, who pivoted from abortion to gun control prior to her formal announcement.

Weeks ago, an interview with The Texas Tribune found her reaffirming past support for tighter gun restrictions on firearms sales between individual as well as prohibiting gun shows on county party. Though claiming it won’t be a priority, she made clear it was “still the right thing” and would sign into law any bill on the topic that came to her desk.

As an unexpected irony, the city of Austin attempted similar restrictions earlier this year, found themselves met by Attorney General Greg Abbott’s threat of a “double-barreled lawsuit,” and subsequently balked.

Abbott is the near-consensus GOP nominee for next year’s election, enabling contrast with his Democratic opponent before the opening bell of Round 1.

Absent yesterday’s proceedings was mention of either topic, both issues that have already served to alienate Davis from key constituencies in deep-red Texas. Instead, education, transparency, and the expected red state Democratic tact of stressing non-partisanship found their way into the rhetoric.

Yet does anyone think the reasoning behind Leftward pushes, both nationally and in-state, for her candidacy will be so easily swept under the rug now that its primetime?

To boot, Davis’s own alleged ethical misgivings already find themselves called into question, painting a picture of hypocrisy on the campaign’s second day.

Beyond apparent confusion about which state she’s running in, the political reality of Texas is that a path to victory simply isn’t there.

The state’s not given a Democratic presidential nominee its electoral votes since 1976, nor a gubernatorial candidate the keys to the mansion since 1990. Just last year Ted Cruz rolled to election on the same ballot with Mitt Romney, who captured 57 percent of the Lone Star State’s vote.

Davis’s own Senate district was carried by the GOP nominee, which could prompt casting the decision to run statewide as an out, lest a re-election bid found itself upended by her filibuster antics.

President Obama’s unfavorable numbers have consistently hovered around 60 percent, making certain efforts by Davis at eschewing party labeling even more difficult.

Moreover, Texas bucks demographic trends national forces so often point to as means of the Left’s would-be resurgence. Polling data from 2010 saw only 18 percent of Latino respondents describe themselves as liberal, compared to 54 percent conservative in some form.

Abbott himself netted 38, 42, and 48 percent of the vote in traditionally Democratic, heavily Latino counties running along the state’s southern border, providing further indication the state isn’t beholden to national norms.

The kind of wholesale state swing Democrats need isn’t coming overnight, nor in midterm cycles traditionally fueled by lower turnout.

Nor will it come from tapping a candidate whose issue positing makes her a better fit for California or Vermont than a state beaming with pride at the success of its conservative economic model.

For Wendy Davis, the journey from state senator to MSNBC contributor is just one step closer to completion.

[freekitty]

Wendy needs to take her pink tennies and go some place else.

[Paine in the Neck]

Abortion Barbie - because Klaus Barbie was already taken

(stolen from another poster on another site I can’t find my way back to to credit)

[Blackirish]

“Abortion Barbie” is running on gun control and late term abortions in Texas.

[Blackirish]

Red State blog . Use Alynskis tactics against her. Mock and isolate the target.

[Old Sarge]

Texas. The state that gave us Sheila Jackson, Ma Richards, and LBJ.

Yeah, she’s got a good chance of winning.

[FreeperCell]

Theoretically we have won the war. We just need to wait until it plays itself out.

[Blackirish]

So still no mercy. Wendy Davis should be known as “Abortion Barbie” until the day she dies.

[unixfox]

Can’t wait to see this phony bitch get her ass handed to her.

[PLD]

Wendy Davis before surgery- after surgery- Somehow, during the past two decades she has been transformed from a frumpy, pleasant looking but plain-faced, flat-chested brunette with thick, messy hair, into a buxom blonde with excellent facial features and sleek, long, perfectly coiffed hair, like she stepped straight out of Vogue. For someone who in the early 1990s was a feminist activist in law school, and who is currently posing as a champion of women’s rights, standing up to men who seek to dictate the way women should live, she seems to have devoted an unusual amount of attention to her physical appearance. Senator Davis entered Harvard Law School in 1990 at age 27, the same age President Obama was when he entered (two years earlier). After her 12+ hour filibuster of SB5 on the floor of the Texas Senate Tuesday night, State Senator Wendy Davis rose to "stardom," being labeled a hero by Planned Parenthood and the political left and given fawning interviews on cable news shows asking when she plans to run for higher office. But something important has been left out of the discussion here: what did the "courageous" Wendy Davis protect? In fact, she fought for abortion -- the "right" to kill a baby in the womb in the 5th month of pregnancy, a baby scientifically proven to feel pain at that stage. With more than 60% of Texans agreeing that abortion should be banned at 20 weeks, the majority clearly does not. http://realwendydavis.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/superhero_or_superfake/

[PLD]

http://realwendydavis.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/superhero_or_superfake/

[nascarnation]

This is a great development.
She’ll be national progressive “money suck” in a losing effort.
I just hope she makes it past the primary.

[Regulator]

a baby scientifically proven to feel pain at that stage

What does the ability to feel pain have to do with it?

If you anesthetize a person and then murder them, does that make it OK?

[M Kehoe]

Dear Wendy Davis, G-d is watching.

5.56mm

[Rusty0604]

A tweet from the teachers union president:

“Go #Wendy Go..Such awesome news 4 Texas + 4 everyone who cares abt families & children..#WendyDavis 1st filibuster was too support children
—
Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) October 03, 2013”

So Wendy’s pro-abortion filibuster was for the children!

[EQAndyBuzz]

My lefty next door neighbor mentioned to me yesterday to vote for Wendy Davis. So I asked her why would someone vote for a candidate tha favors killing women to further an ideology?

She looks at me like I have three heads. So I go for the jugular. “you are voting for a candidate who favors filthy facilities to perform abortions, seriously putting the mothers life in danger. Plus she openly supports killing a baby at full term. You approve of this? Do you even know who Wendy Davis is other then she has a “D” next to her name?”

Then, just to make it interesting, since her husband is also a lib, but he owns more guns then he needs and less guns then he wants, I throw this in. “Nicky has a few guns lying around I see.” just then Nicky comes downstairs. I say hello and then, “Wendy Davis wants to take away Nicky’s guns. She is for gun control and makes no bones about people shouldn’t have to defend themselves since that is why we have police.”

I walked out smiling. I hear Nicky say, “you didn’t mention that.”

[freekitty]

I believe she is sometimes comparing herself to Ma Richards who seemed to be a lush most of the time. Her Texas drawl was always a slur rather than a drawl. We all know LBJ. Sheila “I can’t cross the street without sitting my big fat behind in the backseat of a Mercedes” Jackson Lee is self exclamatory.

[Cen-Tejas]

.....a few facts about Wendy that some Texans may not know:

1. She was born in Rhode Island, one of the most liberal state in the U.S.
2. She’s a lawyer (to some of us, that’s enough reason to vote against her all by itself)
3. She’s a Harvard Law Grad.

Basically, her politics are rooted in northeaster liberalism.

[PLD]

The point is she is a murderer just like the rest of the filthy democrats..I believe these little babies feel pain from the beginning.. Anyone that can murder a baby is pure evil.

We here in Texas have to make sure this evil cow never gets close to the governors mansion..The dirty democrats will do all they can to see her elected and that includes cheating like they always have..

[upchuck]

Thanks for preserving the links. Wish more FReepers would do that.

My bet is that Ms. Davis fails. Maybe she needs to move to a blue state.