The “Tremendously Ambitious” Wendy Davis
January 21, 2014
ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:
The almost hilariously over-the-top narcissism in the way Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis speaks about herself, and the passivity of her ‘husband’ who paid her way through Harvard Law School and was then left holding the bag with two children to take care of – she left him quite literally the next day after the tuition loan was paid off – is a scathing indictment of the qualities liberal women admire and seek to cultivate in themselves, and how liberal men have been conditioned to accept that their role in life is to enable supposedly self-empowered women who in reality use men to achieve their ambitions.
Davis is being challenged for discrepancies in her life story. In the article at The Dallas News, a political colleague of hers is quoted as saying:
“She’s going to find a way, and she’s going to figure out a way to spin herself in a way that grabs at the heart strings. A lot of it isn’t true about her, but that’s just us who knew her. But she’d be a good governor.”
Truth doesn’t matter. The narrative is what matters. ‘But she’d be a good governor’ and advance the liberal agenda, and that’s what counts.
When married for the second time, Davis left her two daughters, who were eight and two at the time, to go to Harvard Law School. She filed for divorce the day after the bills were paid, according to her ex-husband Jeff Davis. Davis said to her husband when agreeing to give him full custody of the children, “I think you’re right; you’ll make a good, nurturing father. While I’ve been a good mother, it’s not a good time for me right now.”
It wasn’t a good time for her, then. And it isn’t a good time for her now, ever. The utter shamelessness of this woman’s pursuit of temporal power is truly breathtaking. And this is in Texas, mind you.
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Mrs. M. writes:
As a seventh-generation Texan, it is with regret that I tell you the state of Texas isn’t what it used to be. Ms. Davis and her candidacy is the latest example. She made national headlines during her filibuster for abortion rights in the state with her pink sneakers. The article in Sunday’s paper was eye-opening to say the least. I want to emphasize one point: when Ms. Davis divorced her second husband after the bills were paid, he took custody of both of her daughters. The elder daughter was from her first marriage; this man took custody of another man’s daughter in the settlement! She clearly found her children a hindrance to her life.
Laura writes:
She may have convinced herself that she was a good mother because by furthering her career, she would be earning money that would help her daughters in the future. And her daughters may indeed benefit in that way. Many people justify all kinds of child neglect on the ground that they will pay for their child’s college education. But actually, she seems too ruthless to care.
Laura adds:
She is also the product of divorce herself.