Why do I get the feeling Jezebel wouldn’t be jumping to the defense of a conservative woman who lied about her life story and got caught?

Via Jezebel:

Texas gubernatorial candidate and pro-choice It Girl Wendy Davis announced just last week that she’d raised over $12 million dollars over the second half of 2013. And, on Sunday, like clockwork, a Dallas paper ran a barbecued garbage “expose” that slammed her for being a bad mother. Texas-style sexism really sticks to the ribs, doesn’t it? […]

Davis responded by clarifying some of the details of her backstory and saying that she should be more careful with conveying details now that she’s under the public microscope. And, you know, from as objective a standpoint I can muster, lying about personal details in your past when you’re running for elected office is both weird and sloppy. But, like, nowhere near warranting the kind of slobbering response it got from the right. In fact, in a state as red (turning purple-ish, but still red) as Texas, why are conservatives even wasting their time drawing attention to Wendy Davis in such a sexist, shitty way when all the overreaction does is remind people that Davis’s opponent, Greg Abbott, is of a party of petty, sexist bigots? It’s like using a gun you keep in your house for self-defense to accidentally shoot yourself in the leg while horsing around.