# Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 5, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685 "2013-07-05T02:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/61 "2013-09-27T18:35:46Z")
Ugh… Texas is becoming more red. And is better off than most of country. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/62 "2013-09-27T18:45:43Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#): > > Ugh… Texas is becoming more red. And is better off than most of country. What a shock. Your sentence makes two claims, neither of which is true. Thanks for contributing to the conversation. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/63 "2013-09-27T20:31:32Z")
As a liberal guy from the pacific northwest who is proud to call Texas his home now (and Houston at that, can you believe it?), I too cannot wait for the day Texas turns blue again, at any state elected level. I’m excited she’s running. If she gets the nom, I’ll be voting for her (I’ll be voting for any Democrat of course, even a convicted felon if that’s who is on the ballot). But if Bill White couldn’t even get close to winning, Wendy Davis has literally a snowball’s chance in hell. The only chance she has, I’d say, would be if every Republican dropped dead in Texas a day or two before the election. And even then, I’d wonder if she could pull off a win here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/64 "2013-09-27T20:38:59Z")
Now, Universe, I know I haven’t been a very good pantheist, but if I could just have this one sign… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/65 "2014-01-27T19:08:29Z")
It’s starting to look like Wendy Davis really **scares** the Pubs for some reason. [They have been working to smear her](http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/22/wendy-davis-ex-husband-admirably-refuses-play-gops-gotcha-game.html) [for months now](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/06/ericksons-latest-wendy-davis-smear-in-1996-she/196771). And now [this](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/25/tea-party-republican-spews-vile-sexist-twitter-attacks-at-wendy-davis/). > [@](#): > > Kincannon has enlarged upon early Republican attacks on Davis, insinuating that because she supports a woman’s right to choose, she must be a promiscuous, man-eating tramp. Calling her a “coke whore” and insinuating that she cheated on her then-husband, Kincannon wrote, at one point, “I don’t care if folks attack Wendy Davis unfairly. I just want her attacked.” > > He has tweeted, variously: > > \*- I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a whore as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic whores in my travels. > > - I suspect Texas voters care that Wendy Davis was potentially\* going to Harvard coke parties instead of caring for her children. > > - Make Wendy Davis worry that somebody will dig up a Harvard classmate that she did coke with. Torture her until she begs for it to stop. > > - Wendy Davis has an abortion fetish and did in fact abandon her children. > > - Make Wendy Davis wish she’d never been born. #InsertAbortionJokeHere\* ---
**Author:** ![Karrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@Karrius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karrius)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/66 "2014-01-27T19:15:01Z")
And even Bristol Palin has come out to accusing Wendy Davis of being a prostitute. Which leads me to ask - why does constantly calling women misogynistic slurs and claiming they’re prostitutes work so well with the Republican base? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/67 "2014-01-27T19:30:16Z")
Democrats can’t afford hookers, and are thereby woefully ignorant of their character flaws? Irrelevant fun fact: When the Pubbies were convening in St. Paul, MN (the subconscious of the Twin Cities), they gathered to party down at a local bar, and danced to the rhythmic stylings of a local rock band named Hookers and Blow. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/68 "2014-01-27T20:36:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > And Wendy? Keep in mind, if they think you have no chance, they will be gentlemen, they will pat you on your pretty little head and compliment you on your shoes. > > But if you worry them, if they are afraid of you, they will fight dirty. If there is anything remotely embarrassing, sordid or sleazy in your life, they will find it. They will find 50 people who will swear they saw you in your office reading _Fifty Shades of Grey_ and rubbing one out. Another fifty will swear they know you from college, shooting marijuana and smoking LSD with your Maoist Study Group. You are a slut, a nympho, a ZZ Top groupy and a radical lesbian separatist. And a Unitarian atheist, which is the worst kind. Nailed it. Got any stock tips? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/69 "2014-01-28T06:14:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a whore as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic whores in my travels. I wish he’d explain that quote. How did the gentleman happen to meet all of these whores in his travels? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/70 "2014-01-28T15:05:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I wish he’d explain that quote. How did the gentleman happen to meet all of these whores in his travels? They were **epic** whores. For instance, Handjob Hannah was on a quest to recover the Crown Jewels of Katmandu . . . ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/71 "2014-01-28T15:50:39Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Wow, I didn’t know that the NY boroughs and Louisiana parishes were once all independent republics with actual presidents. Can you provide a cite for that? I think he was referring to the current practice of naming the heads of parishes and boroughs “presidents”. ETA: oh, look, this thread has two pages. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/72 "2014-01-28T16:03:48Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Nailed it. Got any stock tips? Yeah, that was kind of scary. And sad. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/73 "2014-01-28T16:06:04Z")
Well, they didn’t bring up the ZZ Top thing. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/74 "2014-01-28T17:09:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, they didn’t bring up the ZZ Top thing. [Even Evil Has Standards.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvenEvilHasStandards) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/75 "2014-01-28T20:22:27Z")
Wendy Davis isn’t going to be elected anything. Enjoy speculating all you like, but Greg Abbott will trounce her. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/76 "2014-01-28T20:40:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > But if you worry them, if they are afraid of you, they will fight dirty. If there is anything remotely embarrassing, sordid or sleazy in your life, they will find it. They will find 50 people who will swear they saw you in your office reading _Fifty Shades of Grey_ and rubbing one out. Another fifty will swear they know you from college, shooting marijuana and smoking LSD with your Maoist Study Group. You are a slut, a nympho, a ZZ Top groupy and a radical lesbian separatist. And a Unitarian atheist, which is the worst kind. I think you might have strong grounds to sue for copyright infringement. It’s like they just lifted this quote and ran with it as their official game plan against Davis. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/77 "2014-01-28T20:56:36Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Wendy Davis isn’t going to be elected anything. Enjoy speculating all you like, but Greg Abbott will trounce her. Any particular reason, other than, you know, Republican in Texas? ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/78 "2014-01-28T21:06:34Z")
I’ll vote for her. Todd Kincannon, former head of the South Carolina GOP, is having a Twitter meltdown about her today calling her a “whore,” saying “I don’t care if folks attack Wendy Davis unfairly. I just want her attacked” and saying she should have been aborted. They aren’t scared at all. [http://aattp.org/vile-teapublican-todd-kincannon-has-wendy-davis-meltdown-on-twitter/](http://aattp.org/vile-teapublican-todd-kincannon-has-wendy-davis-meltdown-on-twitter/) ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/79 "2014-01-28T22:08:02Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Wendy Davis isn’t going to be elected anything. Enjoy speculating all you like, but Greg Abbott will trounce her. You’re probably right, but I suspect she’ll bring more Democrats to the voting booth, which should cause more votes for Democrats to be cast. This could lead to a few positions switching from R to D. So even if she doesn’t win, her momentum could effect some change in the political landscape. I really have to laugh at the way the R’s are attacking her. Personal attacks like those make me want to support her even more. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/80 "2014-01-28T22:13:16Z")
No Democrat has one statewide elective office in Texas for a long time now, and I don’t think that’s going to change for quite a while. As I said a few months ago, Bill White couldn’t manage to pull it off and he was quite a moderate. Abortion is _such_ a huge issue in this state, there’s no chance Davis wins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685.md?page=5)