Do you remember the speech where vice president Biden called out one of the people on the stage and told him to stand up so the audience could cheer him? The point of the story, of course, is that the man in question was in a wheel chair and could not stand up. Biden kept telling him to stand until someone finally told him what was happening.
It seems that Texas Democrat candidate for governor Wendy Davis must have been taking lessons from Biden. Most folks know that Davis' campaign has been in free fall for the last two days since it was disclosed that she had lied about her life story. It turned out that Davis who had claimed that she had struggled as a single mother with small children to earn enough to get through law school had, in reality, married a man about 15 years her senior, who paid for her schooling and took care of the kids in Texas while Davis went off to school in Massachusetts on her own. In fact, on the day after Davis' husband made the last payment for the law school costs, she left him and the children. She even left her child from a prior marriage with this second husband.
As the story spread of her phony claims, Davis decided to attack her Republican opponent for going after her even though the story disclosing her lies was in a major Dallas paper which hadn't even spoken to the Republican. Davis' attack was silly enough, but then she issued a statement criticizing her opponent in which she said that he ought not to disparage her background until he spent a day "walking in her shoes." The Republican, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott is paralyzed from the waist down; he doesn't walk in anyone's shoes.
Davis is discovering that, just like in the old Morton Salt ads, "when it rains, it pours."
I wonder who the Democrats will nominate for governor now. It won't be Davis; she's toast.
It seems that Texas Democrat candidate for governor Wendy Davis must have been taking lessons from Biden. Most folks know that Davis' campaign has been in free fall for the last two days since it was disclosed that she had lied about her life story. It turned out that Davis who had claimed that she had struggled as a single mother with small children to earn enough to get through law school had, in reality, married a man about 15 years her senior, who paid for her schooling and took care of the kids in Texas while Davis went off to school in Massachusetts on her own. In fact, on the day after Davis' husband made the last payment for the law school costs, she left him and the children. She even left her child from a prior marriage with this second husband.
As the story spread of her phony claims, Davis decided to attack her Republican opponent for going after her even though the story disclosing her lies was in a major Dallas paper which hadn't even spoken to the Republican. Davis' attack was silly enough, but then she issued a statement criticizing her opponent in which she said that he ought not to disparage her background until he spent a day "walking in her shoes." The Republican, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott is paralyzed from the waist down; he doesn't walk in anyone's shoes.
Davis is discovering that, just like in the old Morton Salt ads, "when it rains, it pours."
I wonder who the Democrats will nominate for governor now. It won't be Davis; she's toast.
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