{"id":6,"date":"2013-06-30T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/30\/have-to-admit-it-sen-davis-may-be-flash-in-pan"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:52:00","slug":"have-to-admit-it-sen-davis-may-be-flash-in-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Have to admit it: Sen. Davis may be flash in pan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>For those who have stars in their eyes over state Sen. Wendy Davis\u2019s boffo filibuster performance in the Texas Legislature this past week, they need to read Ross Ramsey\u2019s excellent analysis in the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/29\/davis-opportunity-knocks-inopportune-time\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/29\/davis-opportunity-knocks-inopportune-time\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/29\/davis-opportunity-knocks-inopportune-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line, according to Ramsey, is that if Davis has thoughts of running next year for Texas governor, she needs to forget about it. She will lose.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who stole the show at the end of the Legislature\u2019s special session last week, made the talk-show circuit this morning. Everyone wants to know if she once more can filibuster the anti-abortion bill that drew such attention this past week. The media love her. And why not? She\u2019s, um, \u201ctelegenic\u201d \u2013 which is code for good-looking \u2013 smart (Harvard Law grad), articulate and she has a compelling life story. She\u2019s quite qualified to discuss abortion rights, as she once was a single mother who <em>chose<\/em> to give birth to her child while she was unwed.<\/p>\n<p>However, Davis is facing some fierce partisan headwinds if she has any thoughts of challenging whoever the Texas Republican Party nominates next year for governor. My hunch continues to be that Rick Perry will not seek re-election next year and that Attorney General Greg Abbott is a shoo-in for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott is loaded with cash and he has something, Ramsey reports, that Davis wouldn\u2019t have: a political party infrastructure equipped to run a winning statewide race. Despite all the brave talk among Democrats and their infatuation with Davis, the Texas Democratic Party is in sorry shape. The party hasn\u2019t won a statewide race since 1994 and, near as I can tell, is still in the dumps over its inability to make any headway in this Republican state.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wishing the best for Davis. I think she\u2019s got a bright future in Texas politics. The one thing she has going for her is that she\u2019s still young enough \u2013 at 50 \u2013 to make a name for herself, even as a Texas Democrat. She has to start, though, with rebuilding her party.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have stars in their eyes over state Sen. Wendy Davis\u2019s boffo filibuster performance in the Texas Legislature this past week, they need to read Ross Ramsey\u2019s excellent analysis in the Texas Tribune. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/29\/davis-opportunity-knocks-inopportune-time\/ The bottom line, according to Ramsey, is that if Davis has thoughts of running next year for Texas governor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have to admit it: Sen. Davis may be flash in pan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}