The campaign for Texas governor has a good-news, bad-news feel about it.

First, the bad news: The campaign has hit the low road early on.

Now, the good news: The end of this campaign is still a long ways off, meaning that it will arrive with the general election, not the primaries that are just a little more than a month away.

I refer to the parties’ presumptive nominees: Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis.

As the Texas Tribune’s Ross Ramsey points out, it’s becoming a war of words already, and the words have little to do so far with policy differences.

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/01/27/contest-governor-war-about-words/

Abbott and his team are taking Davis to task for some fuzziness in her personal story. Davis and her team are responding with cries of “sexism!” in Abbott’s criticism and some ill-chosen words about whether Abbott has ever “walked in my shoes.”

Davis’s personal story involves divorce and her struggles as a single mother. It turns out she hasn’t been quite as forthcoming about the details of her marriages and her economic struggles.

Meanwhile, the senator said something about Abbott having never “walked” in her shoes. Well, it turns out Abbott doesn’t walk at all, given that he has been crippled since his 20s when a tree fell on him as he was jogging in Houston.

Both sides are trading barbs and jabs and are calling each other all sorts of unkind names.

We’re still awaiting some serious talk about how they would govern Texas.

The primaries are all but decided already. Abbott and Davis will be the nominees. It’s time to start talking about education, about state spending priorities, about job growth, water management, energy development, the environment … you know, the kinds of policy matters that should concern Texans.

We’re waiting for the name-calling to cease.