Posted on 11/03/2014 6:40:34 PM PST by Morgana
The abortion lobby glommed on to Wendy Davis as soon as she conducted her now-infamous 11-hour filibuster. Davis was doing everything she could to make sure that late-term abortion became legal, and abortion activists were thrilled. It seemed inevitable that she would run for higher office after that. Pro-abortion groups like Battleground Texas swore that Davis was just the person to turn Texas blue and make it a pro-abortion haven like New York or California. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, has thrown her weight behind Davis as well, bussing in supporters and funneling money into the Davis campaign.
Unfortunately for Cecile Richards & Co., Davis’ campaign has been a complete and total failure. The latest setback is especially devastating — while Davis has consistently been trailing pro-life candidate Greg Abbott in the polls, she’s now down by double digits… among women. Abbott leads Davis 49/37 with women voters, which is devastating for the abortion lobby.
This isn’t entirely surprising when you consider the terrible campaign Wendy Davis has run. She slammed Greg Abbott on rape, but completely ignores the many times that Planned Parenthood has aided and abetted the rape of minor children — and accepts their money to boot. Most recently, she released a despicable ad attacking Greg Abbott’s disability.
It was her standing in pink sneakers with a catheter inserted, talking about abortion for 11 hours that made her famous. That is what catapulted her onto the national stage. Yet so few people wanted to celebrate the anniversary of her iconic filibuster that she had to give tickets away.
There’s a reason that the Wendy Davis campaign went silent on abortion. Her filibuster endeared her to the pro-abortion extremists, but to regular people? Not so much. Polls shows that most women supported the bill that Davis fought so hard against.
Davis got so angry about women not agreeing with her on abortion that she called them as “too dumb to understand.” She received significant support from pro abortion groups like NARAL, Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood, and people outside of Texas. Her campaign should serve as a lesson to the rabid abortion activists who shriek about pro-lifers being “anti-woman”: women are not single-issue voters, and they are not slaves to abortion.
A Gallup poll shows that Americans are evenly split on abortion, with 50% of women identifying as “pro-choice” versus 41% identifying as “pro-life”. Yes, a small majority does approve of abortion. But a large number of American women also identify as pro-life. It is offensive to treat women as a solitary voting block that walks in lockstep on such a contentious issue. The fact that so few women support Wendy Davis, the abortion extremist superstar, says it all.
Not all women support abortion, nor do all women agree with unlimited, taxpayer-funded abortion available through all nine months of pregnancy. It’s time for the abortion lobby to stop exploiting us and pretending they speak on our behalf.
Really. Just because she had two abortions that she never told her husband about she thinks that everyone should be alright with that and endorse her for it. Give me an everliving break.
The phone has been ringing off the wall with Davis calls. It’s easier to answer and hang up than having to listen to it ring a dozen times every few minutes.
Now that there’s a shame really. I was sooooo looking forward to all those dead kids glorifying the Democrats. I mean thats what babies are for afterall. Human sacrifice to the gods of political power.
Damn those pro lifers.
Wendy Davis is as memorable as a missed comma in a 4th grader’s creative writing assignment.
People keep forgetting the debate where she castigated him for not breaking state law in settlement disputes, a state law Abbot pointed out that she had voted for.
What was that comment about lipstick on a pig.....?
In this case you’d be insulting the pig!
and the lipstick.
The liberal viewpoint in a nutshell.
Just one more day and I will never have to hear her napoleon dynamite-esc “trailerpark valley girl” accent again.
Almost as grating to the ear as listening to Hillary speak.
She was my Senator and I won’t miss her.
True. This woman repulses me almost as much as those who support her.
There’s a poll tomorrow that’s going to show that women are not slaves to Abortion Barbie’s BS too.
Can we ship her back to Rhodent Island Nov. 5th from whence she slithered away from?
Cannot stand to hear her speak and you are right on about the type of grating accent she has. Trying not to sound Texan or southern makes her sound plastic.
She was interviewed by Houston TV today and actually said “A vote for me is a vote for the children”.
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