Dallas News editorial writer slaps Wendy Davis on the wrist for deigning to respond to question about Bristol Palin's tweet.

Courtesy of Dallas News:  

Wendy Davis needs to remember one important thing: She is running for governor of Texas, and for now, her focus needs to be on the Democratic primary. Period. Which means she doesn’t have to answer to Rush Limbaugh or any other GOP commentator on the national stage. She is not vying for Rush’s vote, nor is she going to win over the kinds of Texas voters who listen regularly to Rush Limbaugh. So who cares what he thinks? 

Doubly so for Bristol Palin. The daughter of embarrassingly disastrous GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has zero political insights that are worth anyone’s time. None. Her only claim to fame is that she emerged pregnant and unmarried just as her mom was chosen as John McCain’s running mate. Bristol got her own reality show, which also was a disaster. She was on Dancing with the Stars. 

But because Bristol blogged last week about Wendy Davis, drawing comparisons between their incomparable experiences with single motherhood, Bristol has managed to draw Wendy Davis onto today’s front page of The New York Times. (Bristol’s blog item came up in a video interview, and Davis responded to the interviewer’s question, thereby giving Bristol undeserved traction.) Once again, the nation is talking about Davis’s imprecise personal history. And yet, nobody seems to have anything new or insightful to say. It’s all the same rehash.

It is clear that while the writer has great confidence in Wendy Davis his opinion of Bristol could not be much lower.  

Bristol Palin embarrasses herself with blog items like the one she wrote. They’re not eloquent. They’re crass. And they reflect Bristol’s very tendency to rewrite and hype-up her personal, inaccurate history in the same way that she condemns Wendy Davis for. For example, Bristol writes: “Gosh, children are sooo inconvenient, huh? I’m glad my mother didn’t put motherhood on the shelf when she was elected to City Council, then became our mayor, then Governor.” 

Well, actually, Bristol’s mom did put motherhood on a shelf, according to Bristol’s own recollection. Perhaps she’s forgotten her interview with Harper’s Bazaar in 2010, in which she acknowledged that her parents didn’t engage in the most fundamental conversation you can have with a teenager. ”It’s not like we sat down and were like, ‘All right, here’s the birds and the bees.’” Bristol said. “Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn’t doing anything. And it was a shock for us all.” Her mom, who certainly has engaged on the national scene about abstinence, never quite got that important message across to her own child. 

As the father of Bristol’s child, Levi Johnston, explained in Vanity Fair after having lived with the family: “The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.”

Looks like somebody did his research. 

I wonder how much lower his opinion would be if he knew that the non-eloquent, "crass," blog posts that he refers to are actually written for the embarrassingly undereducated former abstinence only spokesperson?

Well probably about as low as all of OURS is of her.

He of course makes a very good point, and one that I made after I first heard that Davis responded to Mama's little baby factory, and that is that Wendy Davis is on the verge of a very significant political victory, and responding to the idiots on the Right only distracts her from that destiny.