{"id":41367,"date":"2014-01-26T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41367"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:37:06","slug":"doakes-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41367","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday: I Cried Because I Had No Shoes&#8230;No, Wait&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Wendy Davis is running for Governor of Texas.\u00a0 She\u2019s been trying to play the victim card \u2013 grew up poor, lived in a trailer house, worked her way through college and law school, husband left her \u2013 but it\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out she lived in a trailer for about three months, her husband put her through college and Harvard Law School and she divorced him (and he got custody of the kids in a state like Texas, which tells you a lot about her).<\/p>\n<p>Latest thing \u2013 she complains that her opponent doesn\u2019t understand what it\u2019s like to overcome adversity.\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t walked a mile in her shoes.\u00a0 And now that she\u2019s a candidate, he\u2019s running scared.<\/p>\n<p>The guy\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/01\/22\/latest-wendy-davis-strategy-remind-voters-that-her-opponent-is-a-paraplegic\/#%21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a wheelchair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of the other runners complaining that Oscar Pistorius had an unfair advantage because his<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Pistorius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aluminum legs<\/a>\u00a0didn\u2019t tire. \u00a0Excuse Me, The Man Has No Blinking Legs! \u00a0And YOU think YOU are the victim here?\u00a0 Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>For Harvard-lawyer Wendy Davis to play the Victim card against a man in a wheelchair, leaves me with just one question:\u00a0 Why do Democrats hate cripples?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0In a year when the two most prominent Harvard Law grads are Ryan &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; Winkler and Wendy &#8220;Abortion Barbie&#8221; Davis, I think HarvLaw needs to work on its PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Wendy Davis is running for Governor of Texas.\u00a0 She\u2019s been trying to play the victim card \u2013 grew up poor, lived in a trailer house, worked her way through college and law school, husband left her \u2013 but it\u2019s not working. Turns out she lived in a trailer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,44],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-41367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-pc","category-stupid","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41367"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75376,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions\/75376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}