Abbott vs Goodhair on the campaign trail

[Gothmog]

I know Greg Abbott and he is a weak speaker. Greg was a toxic tort litigator who relied on beating victims with procedural tricks and not on winning verdicts in jury trials. Last week, Goodhair gave an enthusiastic speech that lacked substance but was well delivered. Greg is not capable of giving this type of speech and is a far weaker campaigner compared to Goodhair.

Juanita Jean had some fun discussing the reaction to Goodhair's CPAC performance http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/03/09/houston-sets-the-bar-loooooow/

Actual article in the Houston Chronicle.

Actual headline.



So if he speaks and doesn’t weewee in his pants or laugh hysterically at a ta-ta pun, he’s suddenly Cicero?

Dude, that right there is some of that “soft bigotry of low expectations."

Goodhair is an idiot but he can read a speech well. Greg lacks this ability and so far has been running a very weak campaign. The stupidity with Ted Nugent is just one example of the mistakes that Greg is making on the campaign trail. I am hoping that Greg continues this performance.

[Gothmog]

1. Greg is running a bad campaign

The author of this blog is one of our own DU members who I admire and agree with on this issue http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2014/03/all-bets-are-off.html

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“We are seeing something none of us has anticipated, and that is the Abbott campaign is on the defensive. First, they had the Ted Nugent experiment... which was supposed to be about the Second Amendment and ended up being about child predators. The second event was the Lily Ledbetter Act, which is about equal pay. They want to talk about process. But the message that is breaking through now anyway is about equal pay for women. If you have a series of additional issues like that that seem to put the Republicans on the wrong side of women, then all bets are off as to how this election will actually turn out.”

Republican women pinch-hitting for Abbott that are saying women are too busy to be concerned about their pay inequality -- or need to be better negotiators -- is just digging his hole deeper.

Abbott has always been a lousy lawyer and an even worse human being, but now it appears his vaunted political instincts are failing him. The ladies doing the talking for him this week must have been trained by Todd Akin, or maybe Ralph Reed. I am amazed that Abbott is making these kinds of mistakes because he's never, ever made them in his political career before. Like Noah and Charles, I didn't believe that Emerson College poll had enough of a track record to be legitimate, but if another one that does reports a similar tightening of the race, there will be a massive surge in momentum to Davis. Her press shop is now firing on all twelve cylinders, and that -- as much as Abbott's stumbling (is that insensitive to a man in a wheelchair?) -- has moved her campaign forward in the past week.

Abbott's failings in policy and tactics have been clear to those of us who follow these things closely for some time, and now they're getting more attention, such that the low-interest, low-data, low-participation voters might begin to take notice. None of this addresses the Democrats' historical turnout problem, but Battleground Texas keeps grinding away on that also.

Greg is running a bad campaign. Goodhair is an idiot but he ran smart campaigns and could give good speeches. Greg is making mistake after mistake. Greg always had the benefit of having Goodhair at the top of the ticket. It is saw but without Goodhair, the Abbott campaign is having some major issues

[DhhD]

2. Another issue is how education of children would be effected if a school district like Dallas

is taken over by business instead of being run by educators with the protections of Texas Education Codes and improvements by neighborhood parents and on campus educators.