What It Really Means When the Right Attacks Wendy Davis' Bio

[okaawhatever]

A gang of men in Texas are trying to burn State Sen. Wendy Davis on a proverbial stake. Almost as soon as the Davis campaign announced that, over the final six months of 2013, they had raised more money that her opponent, the knives came out. As Texans are beginning to unite around Wendy, Greg Abbott and his out-of-touch operatives are scared and relying on the oldest playbook in the world: Tear the woman apart by examining her personal life and saying she isn't perfect enough.

Sen. Wendy Davis made her way from being a young single mother, working several jobs, and living in a trailer to the success story we know today. That powerful narrative is an indisputable truth, a truth that scares Republicans to their very core.

Since Abbott and company know that Wendy's values and policies match the values shared by a majority of Texans, they can't attack her on substance. Instead, they want to say that she didn't live in a trailer long enough for it to "count." They want you to know that her teenage marriage wasn't legally over until she was 21, so the fact that she was struggling as a young mother in the collapse of a failed marriage when she was 19 is not "good enough."

Folks who likely have never had to live off ramen -- or make a frozen pizza last for several meals, as Davis did -- want to say that Sen. Davis did not struggle long enough for her struggle to be important.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tanene-allison/wendy-davis_b_4633703.html?utm_campaign=EL_women&utm_medium=Argyle%2BSocial&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2014-01-21-16-44-31

[libdem4life]

1. Fortunately, they are dying off. Civilized culture has passed them by.

[Skittles]

2. they're desperate with their "REAL WENDY" trash

I hope it backfires on them BIGTIME

[niyad]

3. the comments at the end of that article are disgusting and disheartening, to say the least.

the sheer ugliness of some of the commentary is sickening.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Tell me again how sensitive Republicans are when it comes to women's issues.

The only woman's issue they are truly concerned about is how to control them. Anyone who challenges their narrative has to be discredited by any means necessary.

[sheshe2]

5. From your link, okaywhatever.

"Wendy Davis has repeatedly shown that she stands up against those who don't think she deserves to succeed. This time, though, those who are trying to cut down Davis are attacking the experience of all Texas women who have struggled. Someone better tip them off to the whole concept behind "Don't mess with Texas women." The more you attack us, the stronger we all fight back. And no form of attack can stop Wendy Davis from fighting for a better future for all Texans."

Wendy Davis 2014!

[nikto]

6. This is the best response to all criticism of Wendy Davis...

Show me the crimes, as in:



Chris Christie


Bob McDonnell












That oughta' shut 'em up.

[riversedge]

7. nothing shuts them up.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Benghazi!!!!!

Well, it's what they do.

[nikto]

10. BUSH-Ghazi!

2001-2007--11 Embassy attacks, 52 dead.

[hamsterjill]

9. Their fear is showing!

And I am loving watching them fall apart at the seams!

Go, Wendy, Go!!!!

[DFW]

11. What it really means is that they are TERRIFIED

Wendy is smart and charismatic, and that strikes fear into the dark hearts of our Texas Republicans. Imagine Wendy Davis trying to undo all of DeLay's gerrymandering. A comet striking the earth and killing off all but worms and cockroaches worries them less, because so many Texas Republicans would survive.