Tony Perkins’ Washington Update
If Texas’s Wendy Davis (D) is looking for supporters in her gubernatorial run, she can count out the disabled vote. The rabid pro-choicer isn’t exactly making inroads with the state’s undecideds after her supporters openly mocked Attorney General Greg Abbott’s paralysis in a shocking video caught on tape by James O’Keefe.
The footage shows Davis visiting her Battleground Texas offices where she thanked campaigners for their help.
“I really wonder how this is going to work out since he’s in a wheelchair since and most of the slogans are ‘Stand with Wendy,'” one staffer is seen saying in the video.
“First of all he’s not good looking, he doesn’t speak very well, he doesn’t have a good personality and he’s in a wheelchair,” another woman is heard saying as someone laughs loudly in the background.
For Davis, the scandal couldn’t come at a worse time. With this latest bombshell, the Left’s pro-abortion darling, who was already trying to dig herself out of the pile of lies she told about her background, isn’t exactly the picture of compassion and empathy the party is trying to paint her as.
Davis’s credibility was already suspect, as reporters called her out for inventing a more inspiring personal story than the facts suggest.
“My language should be tighter,” Davis lamented.
“I’m learning about using broader, looser language.”
Unfortunately for her campaign, that lesson has yet to sink in to the staff, whose comments about Abbott couldn’t have been more offensive.
Abbott was only 26 when a tree injured his back and made it impossible for him to walk. Since then, he’s used the tragedy as a motivation to defend the vulnerable — whether they’re in the womb or a wheelchair.
“Some people think it’s easy to write off the lives of the disabled or the different,” he’s said.
“But every day, God reminds us that all life has value, no matter what the form.”
If only Davis and her campaign understood that.