Two-woman ticket in Texas goes for history in 2014

[ElNono]

Christie was a gimmick just targeting a different crowd (re ed liberals who think he's a moderate because he hugged Obama).

But that's the votes they're going to have to scrape... when the good ole' base can't get you in office anymore, you need to hold your nose and start grabbing from the center...

Let me tell you something, I'm in Jersey, and the whole bridge thing is already over... people more worried about today's snow storm than that at this point...

[Findog]

Law degree from Texas Weslayan is compared to one from Harvard.

If you cant see this then I dont exactly know what. I mean hate on Davis for a number of things, but to say that a law degree from the two are essentially equal is either re ed or incredibly naive.

What I'm saying is that it's weird that Jeff Davis agreed to finance her taking three years away from their family to get a Harvard law degree. If I were her husband and she wanted me to pay for a law degree, I would tell her to enroll at Wesleyan. He essentially paid for her to raise herself to out of his league. It's no surprise at all that she cheated on him and filed for divorce the day after the final student loan payment was made. If he was skilled at pussy control, she'd be a partner at some firm in Ft. Worth right now and they'd still be together.

No a Harvard Law degree is eons above Texas Wesleyan.

[boutons_deux]

"If he was skilled at pussy control, she'd be a partner at some firm in Ft. Worth right now and they'd still be together"

... wishful thinking.

You have no idea how good or bad their relationship was, law school or not. If she was screwing around on him, that usually means she wasn't happy with him, and probably he wasn't happy with her.

[spursncowboys]

I wonder the same thing about the GOP at the national level... Christie, belly and all, it's probably the closest it's going to get...

There's no telling if any big donors were going to fund Christie.

[boutons_deux]

Christie was a gimmick just targeting a different crowd (re ed liberals who think he's a moderate because he hugged Obama).

liberals are the educated party. Repugs are the willfully ignorant assholes. Fat Bas 's NJ policies and his Wall St history convince nobody that he's a moderate. That's HIS lie

[Spurminator]

Yeah...and?

My sentiments exactly.

[ElNono]

There's no telling if any big donors were going to fund Christie.

He's in the northeast. Big donors aren't a problem, tbh. He does need to get the party to push his nomination past the primaries though (ie: like Mitt).

[boutons_deux]

There is nothing untrue in the Wendy Davis narrative. But there is something unfair.

Consider that she got loans and assistance and got into Harvard Law. Her husband helped. He knew her potential. He said as much in Slater's article. He introduced her to people. Wendy took her children with her to Boston but, undoubtedly, discovered it is hard to do Harvard Law and raise kids. They went home to their dad. She commuted as often as affordable to be with them. She got a by-god Harvard Law degree.

Quite a tale, eh? Reframe it around a man. And here's the interpretation:

Can you believe the sacrifices he made for his family, to get his degree, and lift them out of their situation? Lived in a mobile home a few months, lived with his mother, lived in a small, cheap apartment, went into debt, paid off his loans, endured long weekends to make sure he was involved in the raising of his children while reading the law, and managed to eventually become a Texas State Senator and run for governor. The marriage didn't survive but the couple separated amicably and continued to raise their children together and still have mutual respect. Who is this great man?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-mo...b_4641696.html

iow, the attacks on WD by the right-wing hate media and ST right-wingers are fundamentally sexist

[boutons_deux]

excellent right-wing/Repug reachout/rebranding/messaging effort!

10. Rush Limbaugh: "It seems, to boil it all down, that Wendy Davis would’ve ended up being really poor and des ute were it not for a man."

9. Abbott spokesperson Matt Hirsch: "She expects voters to indulge her fanciful narrative."
Greg Abbott campaign spokesperson Matt Hirsch, making comments that suggest Wendy Davis didn't live in a mobile home long enough for it to count.

8. Breitbart Headline: "Wendy Davis Feminism: Stand By Your Man Until the Bills Are Paid"

7. Eric Erickson: Lies About Drugs and a Court Order

From Think Progress:

"Erick Erickson of RedState even blasted out the headline “Wendy Davis’ Ex Asked a Court to Order Her Not to Use Drugs Before Seeing Her Kids,” a charge entirely based on boilerplate divorce settlement language barring a parent from using drugs or alcohol 24 hours before seeing their children.

The language was not unique to Wendy Davis and is used in paperwork for all divorce filings.


6. From Twitter: "Her message to woman on to make it in life....... Become a Gold Digger @WendyDavisTexas"

5. Limbaugh, again: She's willing to abandon the truth in her quest for "higher orifice"

4. Erickson, again: "So Abortion Barbie had a Sugar Daddy Ken."

3. Limbaugh, again: Davis is a "Genuine Head Case"

2. Don't even know what to say about this picture...


1. The Other McCain: "Let’s -Shame @WendyDavisTexas!"

Robert Stacy McCain @rsmccain
To be clear: My last tweet was not meant to imply @WendyDavisTexas is a cheap dishonest two-timing floozy. Obviously, she's not cheap.


From the site: "The point of mocking progressive celebrity women is not because such mockery will contribute to their electoral defeat. No, the purpose of deriding Democrat women is to inspire feminists to frothing rage over the alleged sexism of conservatives.

- See more at: http://progresstexas.org/blog/top-te....Il3d074D.dpuf

[boutons_deux]

I remember decades ago, the politician ALWAYS said he came from poor, his family was poor, preferably poor formers or other rural poor. Gave them down-home credibility, sympathy from all the other US poor people.

Now, if you come from poor, you and your parent(s) are losers, and esp if you're a woman.

[BradLohaus]

So did she dump her kid on the idiot sugar daddy or not?

[BradLohaus]

That's some last sentence. It's practically self-parody.

If all of the Republican coverage of Davis' past is full of such cringe-worthy vitriol, I doubt it's much of a concern to her campaign.

I'd bet there is some concern. As I said before, there are a lot of married women with kids left in TX that won't like Davis. In the mid 2020s it won't matter, but it will today.

[Winehole23]

It's damning only if they can find a quote of her saying it herself. Otherwise, it's only hearsay from a 3rd party.

Love the sig. Big Barbara Stanwyck fan, here.

[mrsmaalox]

Love the sig. Big Barbara Stanwyck fan, here.

Thanks! She's the greatest screen star ever imo, I love her

[Spurminator]

I'd bet there is some concern. As I said before, there are a lot of married women with kids left in TX that won't like Davis. In the mid 2020s it won't matter, but it will today.

I'd be surprised if very many of them weren't already predisposed to dislike whatever Democrat is running. But we'll see.

[boutons_deux]

So did she dump her kid on the idiot sugar daddy or not?

she took her kids to Harvard, but realized she couldn't manage, so they were sent back to daddy. She said she travelled often from Harvard to TX to visit them. The divorce was amicable, but slime-bag divorce lawyers always slime it up.

you right wingers swallow any slimey turds the right-wing media dumps on ya, even with out bacon on it.

[scott]

I think history will show tons of times when someone who ran and lost by a ridiculous amount of votes. Didn't the TX Dems try this before when they went "All Minority" ticket?

How about no more gimmicks and get some good candidates?

Are you implying that you can't have good candidates who are also "all minority"?

[scott]

What I'm saying is that it's weird that Jeff Davis agreed to finance her taking three years away from their family to get a Harvard law degree.

Not weird at all considering Jeff was a successful attorney who married an ambitious young lady. Do you think successful people get to where they are by sitting around and settling for Wesleyan when they can get into Harvard?

[boutons_deux]

"What I'm saying is that it's weird that Jeff Davis agreed to finance her taking three years away from their family to get a Harvard law degree."

she didn't spend 36 months non-stop at Harvard and separated from her kids. Probably back home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, exam study period, spring break, SUMMER, whatever. iow, pretty much like any other student getting away from campus as much a possible.

iow, probably not away from the kids more than a few weeks. and her kids weren't babies

"When the divorce settlement was finalized in 2005, Jeff Davis was granted parental custody, and the girls (Amber then 21 and Dru then 14) stayed with him,"

so one "kid" who stayed with her dad was ing 21, and the other was 14.

She also paid child support, I see no record of her being a "dead-beat mom".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Davis_(politician)

[boutons_deux]

[Spurminator]

Not weird at all considering Jeff was a successful attorney who married an ambitious young lady. Do you think successful people get to where they are by sitting around and settling for Wesleyan when they can get into Harvard?

She's s'posed to be raisin' the kids and cleanin' the house, not runnin' off for some fancy shmancy degree. It's the man's job to leave town for his career.

[ElNono]

She's s'posed to be raisin' the kids and cleanin' the house, not runnin' off for some fancy shmancy degree. It's the man's job to leave town for his career.

I still remember Mitt on one of his debates with Barry bringing up "we have to go back when the man was the breadwinner and the woman was raising children" (paraphrasing). smh moment.

[Findog]

Not weird at all considering Jeff was a successful attorney who married an ambitious young lady. Do you think successful people get to where they are by sitting around and settling for Wesleyan when they can get into Harvard?

You and Jeff Davis obviously have no idea how hypergamy works.

[Findog]

Ex-husband didn't just pay for her school.

[BradLohaus]

ROFL Findog FTW

she took her kids to Harvard, but realized she couldn't manage, so they were sent back to daddy.

Except not daddy in one case. Step daddy is obviously a sucker as Findog pointed out. But Wendy's priorities didn't factor that in. Is it worse when a woman does that? Yep, see nature for a reference.