7.01.2013

Oh, Mister Perry

And I say Mister Perry because the man doesn't act like a Governor. Or, at least, how a Governor should act.

You would think that Mister Perry could have bowed gracefully out of his whole debacle with SB5. Instead, he couldn't even manage to keep from spewing misogynistic language. When asked about Senator Wendy Davis, the woman who filibustered the bill that would have closed down 37 out of 42 abortion clinics in Texas, he could not  simply acknowledge her determination. He couldn't even refrain from comment. Instead he said:

"Even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other day was born into difficult circumstances. She was the daughter of a single woman, she was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas senate. It is just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters."

I don't understand what "moral" high ground Perry can stand from. I don't see how he finds it fitting or appropriate to make such remarks toward Senator Davis.  I wonder what he would have said to Davis if she was a man.

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