Wendy Davis is Running

Date

Sep 26, 2013

Notes

The Associated Press is reporting that Wendy Davis will run for governor. This will not come as a surprise to most political observers. Davis could hardly turn her back on her party after raising expectations sky-high following her filibuster.

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WUSRPH

It may be a fun campaign, but it is certain to be a shame that she will be lost for the future after this….I hope she really, really understands that those nice, family-loving, Good Christians who are going to work her over are going to make what James Carville said about Bill Clinton’s “girl friends” seem like downright praise. It will be okay, of course, because she will have asked for it (they will think) because she ran against one of the GOP’s (God’s Own Party) own.
- St. Wendy
  
  Yes, and the saintly Democrats will treat Abbott with utmost respect and kid gloves. Oh please. I have seen so many “poor Wendy, those mean ole’ Republicans just hate women and are gonna treat her so unfairly, so we should vote for her to show the Republicans we don’t like their brutish behavior”. This is a sideshow and voters will see through this attempt to replicate the phony Obama “war on women” campaign. Maybe that kind of campiagn would work in Maryland, but not in Texas. Wendy will lose because she is a cultural liberal, having gone all in on late term abortion that the vast majority of Texans oppose and going on record as a supporter of legislation to ban gun shows at city owned properties. That’s not gonna fly in Texas. She is all wrong for Texas. This will be a cakewalk for Abbott. End of story.
  - WUSRPH
    
    Of course, Abbott will be attacked…but, with the exception of his hypocrisy on tort reform, most of it will be on the impact of his policies—more people without health care, less for schools, etc…..The GOP will hit Wendy on her policies and votes but, as they have already shown, they will go after he personal life as well…..All kinds of suggestions and hints, especially by social media….That’s the difference between attacks and slander….
    - Blue Dogs
      
      Like I said before, Perry ran the most NASTIEST statewide campaign ever back in 2002 when he accused Sanchez of helping Mexican drug lords killing an DEA agent and bankrolling drug money in his bank.
  - Texan
    
    So why are you so obsessed with her, including your moniker? You apparently seem somewhat threatened by her.
  - Blue Dogs
    
    Like I said before, Abbott 65-33.
- Blue Dogs
  
  Duh ? Davis is the sacrificial lamb for San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (D), who is plotting for 2018 to challenge Abbott.
- Texan
  
  “She will be lost for the future after this”? In what way? This is about more than a single election and a single candidate — its about presenting a competing vision for Texas, one different than what we’ve gotten from the tired ideas and stale cronies who have controlled our state for 20 years. A victory for Davis and Democrats is in advancing the ball, offering an affirmative agenda that informs a new generation of voters that there’s another path.
  - WUSRPH
    
    Close only counts in horse shoes and hand gernades. Spreading the word is nice, but the name of the game is called winning elections….What is at stake is the ability to influence public policy….Unless she has coat tails long enought to carry several more into the Texas House or Senate, the loss of her Senate seat (which is probable) makes it even harder for the Democrats to influence policy in 2015 and that much more likely that the GOP was pass some really bad stuff.
    - Texan
      
      I disagree, but time will tell. And it’s more than just “speading the word”. I think she has significant promise because she’s a much better communicator than previous Democratic nominees, and there’s really not been anyone able to articulate the party’s vision for a few cycles now. We’ll see.
      - WUSRPH
        
        In the meantime, when the Democrats get a nominee for SD 10, send him/her a check. Much is at risk in that race.
      - Jon
        
        Thirteen is the magic number. That’s the margin that Bill White lost to Rick Perry four years ago.
        
        If Davis does better than that while losing — especially if she can get the margin within single digits — than a loss doesn’t hurt her all that much. But if she ends up falling to Abbott by more than what White lost to Perry by in 2010, then her viability as a statewide candidate for one of the upper-level state spots is called into question (especially, if as noted above, Joaquin Castro decides to make a run for the job in 2018). And is she ends up falling to Abbott by a margin somewhere near Garry Mauro’s loss to George W. Bush in 1998, Davis will be lucky to get a job as a talking head at one of the cable networks after the election.
      - Texan
        
        But with Debra Medina now signalling a desire to jump in the race for governor as an independent, that may force Abbott to have to protect his right flank all the way through November, potentially split R voters between the two, and open the door for Davis with a plurality.
      - Blue Dogs
        
        Medina is running for Comptroller and I could see State Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy) winning that race.
      - Texan
        
        Why would Davis want a job as a talking head on a cable network? She’s a lawyer, will have no trouble finding work.
      - Jon
        
        Very few of the guest pundits on TV walk around with “Will Talk for Food” signs around their necks — they do it for the extra money aside from their jobs (many of which involve law firms) and the ability to keep their names in the limelight, and in the case of politicians that’s usually to maintain visibility (if not viability) to your donor base between elections.
      - Blue Dogs
        
        Castro is obviously positioning himself for 2018 to give Abbott a real run for his money due to his travels outside of SA.
      - Jon
        
        If you had Castro running for governor against Abbott and Pete Gallego running against Ted Cruz for Senate in 2018, it wouldn’t be a big shock to me.
      - Blue Dogs
        
        Gallego appears to be plotting for a statewide bid and going after Cruz in the 2018 Senate race would be fun.
    - Blue Dogs
      
      Speaking of 2014, how much you wanna bet Van De Putte gets pressured into jumping into the Lieutenant Governor’s race as the Democratic standard bearer while the GOPers have a runoff.
      - Texan
        
        Why would she “get pressured” to jump in? She’s made no secret of her desire to run statewide, and she has a safe seat, a free shot. The primary person pushing her to run is herself.
  - Blue Dogs
    
    Davis will NOT win this race in 2014 and her political career will be OVER.
    - Texan
      
      Why so bitter? You seem threatened by her. Why?
      - Blue Dogs
        
        Bitter ? Her problem is that she sold all her bets on being PRO-CHOICE, which is a big NO-NO in Texas when you’re running for statewide office. I’m staunchly Pro-Life and will always be like that until I die.
      - Texan
        
        Sounds like even Texas First Lady Anita Perry disagrees with you — women should have a choice, it’s their right. Maybe not such a no-no, especially considering it is a liberty issue, a Constitutionally-protected right.
John Bernard Books

Sen Windy Davis says she’s earned your vote because she supports your right to pack. One thing one can count on from democrats, they will tell any lie they think you want to hear in order to get elected. The really sad part of this scenario is there are democrat voters who will believe her.
Straight out of the LBJ playbook if you tell a lie enough low information democrats will believe you.
- Blue Dogs
  
  My prediction: Abbott will beat her in a landslide margin on Nov, 4, 2014:
  Abbott-65
  Davis-33
  - John Bernard Books
    
    BD stop being mean, let ’em dream a little.
    - Blue Dogs
      
      The TX Dems seem to get their pants wet over Davis running, and will be crying once Abbott destroys her in one of the largest landslides in state history: I would NOT be shocked if he carries 235 out of 254 counties.
      - Paschal_Dad
        
        If she carries the right 20 counties, she wins. I don’t think she will but the number of counties thing seems pretty meaningless. She will carry Dallas, Harris, Travis, Bexar and El Paso and she will probably do better in Tarrant than any Democrat has done in 20 years. The battleground will be the suburban counties, not 200 rural counties. Anyway, I don’t think it will be the drubbing you think it will be. I think she at least does better than Bill White did. She’s got 10x more charisma than him and Abbott has about 1/10th the charisma of Perry. She will also have more money than White.
      - Jed
        
        i predict a lot of suburban moms stay home in november, rather than have to talk to their husbands about their vote.
        the real culprits in the failure to elect more women are women.
      - John Bernard Books
        
        no she can’t
      - Blue Dogs
        
        White spent $25 million and still lost by 13 points to Perry in 2010 (55-42).
  - Vik Verma
    
    Bill White got 43% in a very unfavorable cycle for Democrats in 2010. I think Wendy Davis will get that at the least.
    
    Of course, it doesn’t matter what I or you think — that’s why we have elections.
    - Blue Dogs
      
      Vik, White got 42 percent: lost by THIRTEEN POINTS (Perry won 55-42) and White only carried 28 out of 254 counties.
WUSRPH

Is anyone but me having real trouble reacing the blog? When I try to I get thrown back to items from months ago. It started last night right after I gave JBB his assignment (nothing forthcoming on that, by the way). I have only been able to get thru when I am responding to a comment. Rebooting, readdressing, etc. does not seem to work.
- John Bernard Books
  
  you’re low priority deal with it.
  - WUSRPH
    
    JBB, if you are going to act like a child, we will treat you like one so we can and will ignore you. ….Go to your ROOM little boy…..
- allmaya
  
  Yes, WUSRPH, there are problems with the blog. Discussions from 2012 keep coming up on mine.
  - WUSRPH
    
    Thanks…I hate to see it happening to anyone, but I am glad it is not just my computer….
    - John Bernard Books
      
      I’m pretty sure its just you
Jon

Still think if she’s serious about getting elected, as opposed to being in the limelight of the national media and out-of-state Democratic donors, Wendy should have gone for the Lite Gov’s job — the field of Republicans there is either weaker, less-known or potentially more gaffe-prone than Abbott will be in the top race. But you don’t get the same high-profile coverage or raise the same amounts of cash from donors in New York or California running for the No. 2 spot (and most of the out-of-state types think the Lieutenant Governor has as little power as their lite govs, who have as much influence in Sacramento or Albany as Big Tex does in the halls of Austin).
- Blue Dogs
  
  Davis could have jumped in the Lieutenant Governor’s race, but she couldn’t resist the pressure from folks in talking her into going for the TX Governor’s Mansion.
  - grubber
    
    Without a strong candidate for the top spot, there is no chance of flipping anything statewide. Texas has the lowest turnout in the nation and a good candidate for Lt Gov isn’t going to change that. Davis’ odds to win Gov aren’t great but they are miles ahead of her chances for any lesser promotion.
    - Blue Dogs
      
      Odds that Van De Putte jumps in the LG’s race this week once Davis makes the official announcement ?
roadgeek

This is going to be entertaining.

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