Posted on 11/05/2014 12:10:08 PM PST by right-wing agnostic
This was a year when the War on Women messaging — previously employed so successfully by the Democrats — failed to yield the desired results. Most of the discussions about that failure have focused on Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado. Udall’s obsessive focus on the “War on Women” playbook became so annoying that journalists and even his own supporters dubbed him “Mark Uterus.”
But it is absolutely unfair that Udall be tarred with all the failures of the War on Women messaging. No one better encapsulates the Democratic playbook than Wendy Davis, who ran for governor of Texas.
Her campaign was launched in vintage War on Women style. By filibustering a popular late-term abortion ban in Texas, she immediately gained the support of many in the mainstream media. They feted her with free in-kind advertising in the form of puffy profile pieces, cover stories, and other effusive coverage.
Sarah Kliff, who famously dismissed the Kermit Gosnell story as nothing more than “local crime” and therefore unworthy of coverage, covered Davis extensively while at the Washington Post and later when she moved to Vox. For instance, she tweeted this on the night of Davis’ filibuster:
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The problem with their war on women meme is that ladies give birth to sons as well as daughter. As mothers we can see when the deck is being stacked against our sons just as clearly as when they are stacked against our girls. In today’s atmosphere they are being stacked against our sons. We will not tolerate this.
They led with their who-ha’s. What did they expect?
Wendy Davis led and Sandra Fluke followed. Neither of them have a clue.
Sandra Fluke lost by 21 points in California also.
A tough night for the WoW crowd, LOL.
Meanwhile, Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez easily won re-election.
Amen and Amen!
Let's just say Wendy is in search of new Sugar-Daddy today.
Lost the governorship plus her state senate seat.
How sweet!
Was there ever a more patently untrue meme? By every standard women are doing better than men today. They get better grades, graduate from high school and college at higher rates, and run the education system. Boys are treated as dangerous sociopaths or suffering from ADD for simply acting like boys. If anything there is a war on boys.
I am watching friends (from outside TX) all commenting on an image Davis shared today...lamenting how much voters will regret this and how she should run nationally. Delusional idiots. She lost by 20 freaking points, people.
And the youngest woman (Elise Stefanik, age 30) and the first black woman (Mia Love) elected to Congress are both REPUBLICANS.
If David Dewhurst had been doing his job, the world would have never heard of Wendy Davis.
POS, Dewhurst go away.
Take Richard with you.
What the HELL was the percentage breakdown????
The female nutcase vote just ain’t that big.
I’m a mother of daughters, and I agree with you completely. I really feel for parents of boys; there is zero support (on a cultural basis) for anything “traditionally male.”
Hey, it probably would be a good Idea if she ran. Whomever she runs against will win bigtime.
So yeah, talk her up. Encourage them to run her.
Beating her was one fine moment.
Wow. That’s just charming. And they LOST, you say? A shock.
You got that right. It is sweet justice the hoo-ha queens got squashed like bugs.
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