WENDY DAVIS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS? YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!

TEXAS STATE SENATOR WENDY DAVIS

Looking at the bio of pulchritudinous Democratic state senator Wendy Davis from Fort Worth, one cannot fail to be impressed.  Growing up with a single mom raising four children with no child support, life was tough. Married at 18 and a single mom herself at 19, Davis's climb from poverty took her to Tarrant County College and TCU, where her academic record was a sterling one. Complementing her grades and aspirations for success with an especially charismatic personality, Davis went on to distinguish herself at Harvard Law and returned to her native state to enter practice.

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Elected to five terms on the Ft. Worth City Commission, Davis showed early on that her emphasis would be economic development and the revitalization of neighborhoods.  As a newcomer to state senatorial politics, Davis was initially elected in 2008; and,  in 2009, Texas Monthly named her as the legislature's "Rookie of the Year."  During her career in the Senate, Davis has served on  several senatorial committees, most notably on Open Government, Economic Development, Transportation,  Education, and  Veterans Affairs and Military Installations. Despite her involvement in the senate, Ms. Davis did not gain statewide attention until her recent filibuster against legislation that would limit abortions to a timeline of 20 weeks and require abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges while being in close proximity to hospitals granting the privileges.


Democrats in Texas are in bad shape.  With no statewide offices to their credit in almost 20 years and a state legislature in which Republicans enjoy almost total dominance, Texas Democrats tend to base their hopes for the future on a watershed demographic shift.  Despite that, Democrat prevalence is now limited to the hinterlands of corruption in south Texas and to reliably Democratic areas in and around Austin, Houston and San Antonio.  The looked for demographic shift may, in turn, be a pipe dream for the present, as Hispanics in Texas have a lamentable record of low voter participation.Further shooting themselves in the foot, Democrats chose a discredited politico from totally corrupt Cameron County to lead their party.

Would-be political analysts on the left should also keep in mind that, although Governor Perry has announced his intention not to  run for reelection  in 2014, Republicans have a very attractive alternative in Attorney General Greg Abbott.  Coupled with that is a Republican Party which is definitely of a rightward shade and enjoying the support of millions of Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists, who view a 20- week abortion limit as more than a little too liberal.  To those voters who focus on the 50 million abortions performed since Roe v. Wade, the issue is seen in light of a war on babies, rather than one on women.  Then, too, the ill-mannered comportment of the thousands of boisterous and unkempt looking demonstrators descending on the capitol and its galleries will not be a feather in Wendy Davis's cap in terms of  statewide appeal.  Sorry, Wendy, Austin may be weird, but Texas is not.