More Than One Conflict Between Wendy Davis’s Sworn Testimony and Her Actual Life

"..........The Texas Tribune reported last year that Davis actually “walked away from the mobile home mortgage and moved back in with her mother.”

In 2003, when filing for divorce, Davis’s then husband requested a temporary restraining order against her, had the court order her not to do drugs or drink alcohol within twenty-four hours of contact with her children, and her own daughter requested her father be her conservator. In fact, the Court awarded custody of the children to Mr. Davis and required Wendy Davis pay child support.

Now we also know that Wendy Davis manufactured a good bit of her biography for political ends.

What else is out there and how the heck did the Democrats pin their hopes on this disaster?

Per Wiki:

Before the 2000 presidential election, the traditional color-coding scheme was “Blue for Republican, Red for Democrat,”[2] in line with historical European associations (red was used for left-leaning parties).[3]

Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, have used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists who preceded them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was “Blue”.[2]

Even earlier, in the 1888 presidential election, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color Cleveland perceived to represent the Union and “Lincoln’s Party”, and red for the Democrats.[5] The parties themselves had no official colors, with candidates variously using either or both of the national color palette of red and blue (white being unsuitable for printed materials).

Time magazine assigned red to the Democrats and blue to the Republicans in its election graphics in every election from 1988 to 2000. The Washington Post’s election graphics for the 2000 election were Republican-blue, Democrat-red.[3]

*There are two general reasons why blue for Republican and Red for Democrat make the most sense: connotation and practice.

First, there has been a generally understood meaning to
the two colors inasmuch as they relate to politics. That is, the cooler color blue more closely represented the rational thinker and cold-hearted and the hotter red more closely represented the passionate and hot-blooded. This would translate into blue for Republicans and red for
Democrats. Put another way, red was also the color most associated with socialism and the party of the Democrats was clearly the more socialistic of the two major parties.

The second reason why blue for Republicans makes sense is that traditional political mapmakers have used blue for the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists before that, throughout the 20th century. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was “Blue”.

Footnotes:

2. *Polidata: POLIDATA® Political Data Analysis DATABASE DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS AND PUBLICATION;
POLITICAL AND CENSUS DATA; REDISTRICTING SUPPORT, RED STATE BLUES Did I Miss That Memo?
May 27, 2004 CLARK BENSEN http://www.polidata.org/elections/red_states_blues_de27a.pdf

3. Farhi, Paul (November 2, 2004). “Elephants Are Red, Donkeys Are Blue”. Washington Post. p. C01.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17079-2004Nov1.html

5. The Political Game: The Red and Blue State Phenomenon http://politicalgame.blogspot.com/2005/01/red-and-blue-state-phenomenon.html

Is Red & Blue as politically incorrect as calling urban areas “Black” areas and rural areas “White?”

Not sure which FNC program...think it was Megan Kelly’s but I was working as the shows flew by me...last night had a panel with a female Dem panelist who tried to argue the point that it didn’t really matter that Davis’s bio is not for real. I could hear echos of Hillary’s “What difference does it make?”

Poor Wendy, she’s in for it now.

(Kidding, she is deserving of what she gets...)

But always, these people frame everything through the “victim” lense.

So either she will drop out or she will have help from consultants to try to continually twist everything around to make her a perpetual victim, and all she’s trying to do is “help the little people the Republicans have hurt”.

The latest:

......”Meanwhile, another potential question about Davis’ past comes from the Facebook page of her mother, Ginger Cornstubble, which references attending Muleshoe High School in West Texas. That contradicts a 2012 suggestion by Davis that her mother had just a sixth grade education.

But in her statement, Davis said her mother “had attended school only into the ninth grade.”.....

http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Wendy-Davis-story-may-have-misstated-details-5159354.php?cmpid=hpts

Drip...drip...drip...

I love Muleshoe.

Been there, long ago.

Love the name, and the statue to a mule.

Love the people.

I have sat in football stadiums during high school playoffs surrounded by Muleshoe supporters, cheering them on against various opponents, and the people that swarmed out of Muleshoe onto the highways to reach those games are salt of the earth people.

Even when Muleshoe beat the team closer to my home that I was truly for, I couldn’t be mad.

I know that’s a total aside to the story...
:)

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