Run, Wendy, Run? She should stay a symbol

After her courageous filibuster, Texas state senator Wendy Davis has been suggested as a Democratic candidate to run against dangerous Governor Rick Perry.   She's thinking about it, according to this article.  She has name recognition now, and she stands for the right Democratic issues.

But according to this article, it would be a tough run against Perry.   He's got a big numbers advantage, he's been in the game for a long time, and  he has no qualms about saying bad things about other people, and then claiming that's not what he meant.  Texas is still predominantly a rural, Bible Belt, southern bastion of whitedom.   There are some eclectic and integrated urban pockets that have some Democrats, but over the whole state Republicans still have considerable advantages in numbers, and Perry is proving he knows what buttons to push to keep his base in line and on point.  Passing the abortion restriction bill will just keep his minions following him dutifully.

And while Perry is very far right, he's not been as audacious about it as Virginia governor candidate Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli, and that would probably mean that the big money supporters in Texas will be reliable supporters of Perry, which right now is not the case for Cuccinelli.

I'm thinking that Wendy Davis should try to stay where she is and act as a powerful symbol of what the Republicans are doing to oppress women's rights.   As has just been done in Ohio, where the Republicans have shown that they have no clothes, when they restricted access to contraception AND passed abortion clinic restrictions.  That's just plain scummy awful.

This is an example of how far the new laws in Ohio go:

Rape crisis clinics are also in jeopardy, thanks to passage of the new budget. If these clinics are caught counseling sexual assault victims about abortion, they could lose their public funding, Reuters reported.

The mind boggles.  But this is an excellent example of hard conservative Republicanism in action.