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RandySF

(58,799 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2014, 12:30 AM Jan 2014

Fox News regular Eric Erickson calls Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie"

A week after Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis' gubernatorial campaign trumpeted "record strength" in its first fundraising report, her conservative opponents have launched a series of gendered attacks on the Democrat's personal history.

In response to a Dallas Morning News article on Sunday that called into question a few specific details of Davis' personal life -- including when she became a single mother, how long she lived in a trailer with her daughter and who paid for her law school degree -- conservative pundits were quick to call Davis a liar.

"So Abortion Barbie had a Sugar Daddy Ken," tweeted Fox News pundit Erick Erickson, referring to Davis' famous filibuster of an anti-abortion bill in the Texas state Senate last year and to her second husband. "[Not] exactly the bio she claimed."

Radio host Rush Limbaugh called Davis "fake" and a "genuine head case," while the campaign of Davis' Republican opponent, Texas state Attorney General Greg Abbott, warned voters not to "indulge her fanciful narrative."

The discrepancies pointed out by The Dallas Morning News in Davis' tale of past hardships were relatively minor. Davis has said she was a divorced single mother at 19, when she was only separated at 19. Her divorce did not become final until she was 21. She has told stories about the difficulty of living in a trailer with her daughter, but the article noted they lived in that mobile home for just a few months. Davis mentioned in 2012 that her mother had a sixth-grade education; in fact, her mother has a ninth-grade education.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/wendy-davis-sexism_n_4638465.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&utm_hp_ref=politics

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Fox News regular Eric Erickson calls Wendy Davis "Abortion Barbie" (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2014 OP
A large number of Greg Abbott's supporters use this name Gothmog Jan 2014 #1
She'll rise above it. Boomerproud Jan 2014 #2
What's he calling Leticia? Coyotl Jan 2014 #3
Don't like to use profanity on DU. Laffy Kat Jan 2014 #4

Gothmog

(145,176 posts)
1. A large number of Greg Abbott's supporters use this name
Wed Jan 22, 2014, 12:34 AM
Jan 2014

If you want to be disgusted search the hashtag #abortionbarbie on twitter

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