GOP Adviser Reminds Twitter That Calling Wendy Davis Stupid Is Stupid
LatestNot content to let Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott wade into the stupid pool without a spotter, political adviser David Carney, the mastermind who made Rick Perry seem like a perfectly acceptable politician to the Texas voting public, decided it’d be great to criticize Wendy Davis on Twitter. Because that didn’t at all backfire for Abbott when he did it back in August.
Davis, who became almost a liberal folk hero in an infamously Republican Texas after her epic filibuster of an abortion bill in the State Senate, is currently contemplating a gubernatorial run. If she decides to throw her filibuster sneakers into the ring, she’d face Abbott, the Texas Attorney General who was recently criticized for responding positively on Twitter to a tweet from one of his supporters referring to Davis as “retard Barbie.” Though it seemed that Abbott was soundly excoriated for his Twitter fuck-up, his team of advisers must have thought Abbott’s campaign could withstand some more idiocy, because on Thursday, Carney tweeted this: