Anti-abortion activist says he would defeat Obama in Kansas

[proud2BlibKansan]

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry said he’ll go to court to try to get his name on the ballot in the Kansas Democratic presidential caucus, a day after the state party determined he didn’t meet the qualifications.

Terry, who is running a quixotic campaign against President Obama with the stated goal of weakening the president in the November election, said keeping him off the ballot is a violation of the Constitution.

“The Supreme Court has already ruled you cannot have a litmus test of who can be a candidate and who can be a voter in a primary,” Terry said. “This is like Obama’s pretending he’s Fidel Castro, ‘I won the election and now I’m the only one you can vote for.’ ”

Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is well-known in Kansas as a leader of the mammoth “Summer of Mercy” protests in Wichita in 1991.

Those demonstrations set Kansas on the long path to now having some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on abortion.


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/22/3507613/abortion-foe-says-he-would-defeat.html#storylink=cpy

[Arkana]

1. Screw Randall Terry.

Him and all his fetus-sign-waving lackeys.

[RC]

2. There really needs a sanity test for public office.

[wandy]

3. Ahhhhh. Hope I'm not the first to tell you this but Randall Terry is seriously deranged. n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

4. The Democrats in Oklahoma kept him

off the ballot. I think they'll be able to keep him off in Kansas, too. Of course, it will cost money there by weakening the ability to support local candidates. I hope the national party fills in the gap.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. He is not on the ballot in Kansas

The state party declared Terry ineligible.

[BlueToTheBone]

7. Good Fight!

Now to keep the courts from overturning the party.

[geardaddy]

6. So, he wants to be president of Kansas?

[gratuitous]

8. Well, after costing Obama six votes in Kansas

I'm sure the president's campaign would be mortally wounded.

I say let this nincompoop on the Democratic primary ballot, right after the state party passes a new rule that says all candidates have to pay $100,000 for the privilege of appearing on the ballot, the money to be refunded to the winner of the primary.

[hfojvt]

9. I don't see how he can be right about that Supreme Court ruling

Many, many states have closed primarys. Thus, they have a litmus test about who can vote in a primary.

With the Kansas system, the potential is there, since we do same day registrations, for a bunch of Republicans to switch their registration for one day so they can caucus for Terry, especially since the Republicans are not having their caucus primary on the same day. Since we don't really have a contest, actual Democratic turnout is likely to be small. So a bunch of those dirty tricksters could give Terry a victory in Kansas.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Exactly

I worry about these assholes invading our caucuses.