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10/20/2014

Wendy Davis: Desperation Is So Ugly

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:28 pm



[guest post by Dana]

While we’ve already ascertained that Wendy Davis has no shame, she nonetheless continues to surprise. With her hometown newspaper now endorsing her opponent, Davis (who continues to trail Greg Abbott) pulled out all the stops today, and did what desperate politicians on the left do — she played the race card:

What set this in motion was a reasonable and sound response from Greg Abbott to the editorial board of the San Antonio Express-News on Sunday as they attempted to equalize current legal proceedings over gay marriage to the historical debates over interracial marriage:

“Right now, if there was a ban on interracial marriage, that’s already been ruled unconstitutional,” Abbott pointed out. “And all I can do is deal with the issues that are before me … The job of an attorney general is to represent and defend in court the laws of their client, which is the state Legislature, unless and until a court strikes it down.”

When I said I wasn’t clear if he was saying he would have defended a ban on interracial marriage, he said, “Actually, the reason why you’re uncertain about it is because I didn’t answer the question. And I can’t go back and answer some hypothetical question like that.”

Asked about the similarities some see between the ban on gay marriage and past prohibitions on interracial marriage, Abbott said, “Well, the Supreme Court has disagreed with that” by holding that sexual orientation isn’t due protected-class status in the way that race is.

(Meanwhile, Greg Abbott’s wife Cecilia Phalen Abbott — a San Antonio native and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants who could make history in the process by becoming the first Latina first lady — offered no comment.)

–Dana

30 Responses to “Wendy Davis: Desperation Is So Ugly”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (8e74ce)

  2. On several sites I’ve seen conjecture that Wendy has faced facts, given up, and is now just auditioning/paving the way for her next gig–either on MSNBC TV or the college lecture circuit. She’s certainly not playing to Texas undecided voters any more. That’s clear.

    elissa (9fc29a)

  3. Has Wendy Davis said whether or not she would seize all property and assets of anyone in Texas who does not pay her homage as Queen?

    malclave (4f3ec1)

  4. On several sites I’ve seen conjecture that Wendy has faced facts, given up, and is now just auditioning/paving the way for her next gig–either on MSNBC TV or the college lecture circuit.

    I wonder whom she’ll find to support her while she gets her legs under her … err, gets off her back … err, back on her feet … err, spreads her, err what’s the word, wings!, wings!, in her new job.

    nk (dbc370)

  5. Uglier still: Vote for Kay Hagan or this black man will get lynched!

    Kevin M (b357ee)

  6. The answer to speech is more speech. I would distribute fliers in the same church’s parking lot that said “If Kay Hagan wins, Congress will force this church to perform gay marriages”.

    nk (dbc370)

  7. From the link:

    State Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic nominee for governor, sees the ban on gay marriage as being the same as previous interracial marriage bans.

    Wendy Davis interview with the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.

    “I do,” she said in her meeting with the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board. “I think it’s a very fair comparison in that the time has … come for us to move forward in understanding that we’ve been kind of stuck in the same place that our country was stuck when it had the ban on interracial marriage. And I’m pleased to see the rapid advancement that is happening around the country in us accepting that and moving forward in a more productive way.”

    Dana (8e74ce)

  8. good one, nk. What picture would you use?

    Kevin M (b357ee)

  9. A pic of Mooch and TFG should suffice.

    Gazzer (cb9ee2)

  10. And that brings up an interesting gotcha question (San Antonio Express-News take note): “Candidate X, would you attend a church that refuses to perform same-sex weddings?”

    Kevin M (b357ee)

  11. I’d have to think about it, Kevin. Maybe a black man in a minister’s collar in handcuffs frog marched by two white guys in DHS uniforms?

    nk (dbc370)

  12. God bless Wendy Davis.

    ThOR (130453)

  13. She’s the gift that keeps on giving.

    ThOR (130453)

  14. Bless her heart…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  15. This should abort her budding career once and for all!

    Patricia (5fc097)

  16. Texas early voting started this morning. I have to thank Sen. Davis for getting every conservative motivated to head out to the polls. It was such a pleasure voting this year.

    God bless Wendy Davis.

    ThOR (130453) —

    LOL. Basically.

    I am perplexed by this ad campaign. I imagine many downticket D candidates cringe by instinct when they hear her name at this point.

    As for Davis pulling stunts to burnish her bona fides for a career in media, I would love that, sincerely, for the comedy value. Her public speaking skills make Rick Perry look like Luciano Pavarotti.

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This campaign is lost and making decisions emotionally. The democratic party in Texas is badly divided, with an old guard dependent on the national party that doesn’t understand Texas. Until they get that worked out, they won’t pull it together. Davis was the best candidate they could come up with, and she’s the one responsible for the decisions made by this awkward and angry campaign. The democrats in Texas aren’t unlike the GOP as national effort in some ways. To be successful, democrats would need to have some principles that the party’s establishment find threatening, so the ultimate result is a mess. The only thing they can all agree on is to boogeyman the other party, which comes across poorly. They certainly couldn’t run Davis on the issues she holds closest… they would be down 20 points if they had.

    I’ve got high hopes for Governor Abbott.

    Dustin (801032)

  17. Has any major candidate ever been summed up so completely in two words: Abortion Barbie?

    JVW (60ca93)

  18. I have relatives is South Texas – conservative Democrats. I rarely speak with them about politicas, but I can’t imagine they feel anything but disgust for this tawdry woman. Does she really have a following outside the state’s most urbane quarters? I’d be curious to hear how Texans view Davis’ antics.

    ThOR (130453)

  19. ThOR, I’m in the Austin area, so I do know plenty of democrats. Most of them love Davis, particularly on social issues that I know put her out of step with most of the state.

    Of course, they are frustrated by how the world around them is pretty lefty, but the state itself is not, so they get their hopes up that all that needs to happen is for an effective, brave spokesperson to emerge to enlighten the rest of us. Davis’s filibuster gave them false hope she not only had the ability, but the spine, to make the case. Turns out that was not so, and on both counts. Davis hasn’t even tried to make the case on the hot button issues. I would respect her more if she lost the race because her earnestly argued ideals were rejected. This mud slinging nonsense is a waste of everyone’s time.

    I believe a large portion of Davis’s financial support isn’t even from Texas (for example she held fundraisers in Hollywood).

    I don’t know many democrats from outside cities, now that I think about it.

    Dustin (801032)

  20. Oh, come on. Who didn’t know she was a lady of negotiable affection?

    All of my love, all of my love
    If you put me through law school
    All of my love, all of my love
    To you till I graduate, dear

    Wendita should not have power over the freedoms and property of other people.

    nk (dbc370)

  21. my Twitter comment on this:

    red seewun @redc1c4 · 12h 12 hours ago

    @WendyDavisTexas no matter how U dress up your desperation, it still sounds desperate #AbortionBarbie. #Classy #WhiteTrash #NotMyTexas #tcot

    redc1c4 (4db2c8)

  22. I hesitate to classify Abortion Barbie as white trash. I know white trash, and to some degree I come from white trash, and Wendy Davis ain’t it. She’s more like every halfwit wannabe who secretly wishes she lived in New York City so she could affect the level of sophistication that she thinks she has earned. The good folks of white trash always have struck me as being secure in who they are.

    JVW (60ca93)

  23. that hash tag was to incite her supporters, if they saw the tweet.

    alas, no nibbles.

    redc1c4 (4db2c8)

  24. There is a huge credibility chasm between Davis and the previous Dem gubernatorial nominee, former Houston mayor Bill White, who lost to Rick Perry by 55% to 42% in 2010. I think Abbott is a better candidate than Perry, and White was a much better candidate than Davis. My sense is that conservative Texans are eager to cast protest votes just for the satisfaction of it, and to poke a thumb at Obama — not because any state-wide race is close.

    Consequently: I predict that Davis will lose by an historic margin.

    Beldar (fa637a)

  25. Bill White pulled 2.1 million votes in 2010, compared to Perry’s 2.7 million votes. I will be surprised if Davis gets anything remotely close to White’s total.

    Beldar (fa637a)

  26. Abbott is a better candidate than Perry, and White was a much better candidate than Davis

    True and true. Davis being qualified to govern the world’s 13th largest economy is crazy. I wonder if she’s contemplated what that entails.

    But the state party is different now. It’s about fundamentally transforming the state, instead of the party democratically representing us so well we vote for them. Davis’s filibuster wasn’t intended to represent Fort Worth, it was protesting the attitudes of a red state to please the elites.

    As far as credibility goes, I cannot recall Sen. Davis ever even attempting to tell me how she is qualified for the office she seeks. The closest she came was complaining about how hard she had it when she went to Harvard.

    Dustin (801032)

  27. This had to mark the first time a Gubernatorial campaign used the word dildo in a press release.

    JD (20d336)

  28. ==This had to mark the first time a Gubernatorial campaign used the word dildo in a press release.==

    Heh. But if there was ever another time, Sammeh will find it, JD.

    elissa (b9ffea)

  29. Elissa – of that, there is no doubt.

    JD (20d336)


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