Randall Terry Plans To Mount A Primary Campaign Against Obama, Because Why Not?

If you happened to be wondering whether or not President Barack Obama would get a primary challenge in 2012, wonder no more! For today it has been announced that Operation Rescue founder and anti-abortion performance artist Randall Terry will run for president, as a Democrat, to challenge Obama. As Kevin Derby reports for the Sunshine State News:

"My constituency is the millions of pro-life advocates who want to make child-killing illegal from conception until birth," said Terry on Tuesday. "My base is those who know that we must show Americans the victims of abortion, in order to restore the full protection of law to unborn babies."

Terry, who has backed graphic ads of abortion procedures before, hopes to run ads during the 2012 NFL playoff games, including the Super Bowl.

Of late, Terry has helped to advance the discourse by hanging Lindsey Graham in effigy, and crooning "Only You (And You Alone)" by the Platters in protest of Elena Kagan. Jack Stuef at Wonkette has much more to suggest that Terry might not prevail in a primary contest with Obama, let alone draw FireDogLake's coveted endorsement. Terry himself is not bullish on his prospects, saying, "Will I defeat Mr. Obama? I'm not delusional."

My own up close and personal experience with Terry took place in August of 2009, when I went with the Washington Times' Liz Glover to my high school's "Health Care Reform Town Hall," because I couldn't take her to my high school prom. Wonkette's Jim Newell chaperoned us so that we could not "grind" to the "sexy beats" that Rep. Jim Moran was laying down about the terrible things people were saying about health care reform on the internet. There, Randall Terry revealed himself to be the Prom King Of Yelling At Howard Dean About Abortion. All in all, it was the most fun I ever had at my high school.

Terry will apparently make his formal announcement Thursday, in front of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., in the hopes that "blood libel" is still trending on Google.

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Comments

[who38]

05:21 PM on 01/24/2011

Please run, Randy.  Expose yourself to public scrutiny.

[FatimaMi]

09:15 AM on 01/23/2011

see the ads Terry plans to post for his campaign at www.terryforpresident.com

[Jim Metzler]

12:55 PM on 01/20/2011

Terry won't win the Democratic primary, but he will get some protest votes from pro-life Dems and those who don't like Obama. But he may have a bigger impact on the Republican side in states with open primaries. If enough pro-life Republicans choose to vote for Terry in the Democratic primary, the Republicans may end up nominating a more moderate candidate.

[Rags2Rags]

10:54 AM on 01/20/2011

Obama has done nothing to turn the economy around and it's about time a Democrat feels the way I do about abortion.

Terry in 2012!!!

[who38]

05:22 PM on 01/24/2011

Is your name on the fetal transplant recipient list?

[theocrat]

09:22 PM on 01/19/2011

Well, the Republicans have never lifted a finger to stop abortions despite being in control for most of the last 30 years, so why not switch parties?

[who38]

05:22 PM on 01/24/2011

Good point.

[theocrat]

07:23 PM on 01/25/2011

Thanks. Fanned!

[jbvbwysu]

05:45 PM on 01/19/2011

Obama cl0bbered Alan Keyes once. He can do it again, no sweat.

[Paul Andrews]

03:56 AM on 01/20/2011

different day, OBAMA has been exposed as a total failure

[jbvbwysu]

10:21 AM on 01/20/2011

Whatever you're sm0king must be some pretty good stuff. Feel free to pass some my way!

[4evryoung]

04:39 PM on 01/19/2011

He won't get by the Iowa caucus. He's a fraud.

[Andythelawyer]

04:31 PM on 01/19/2011

Hey Randall -- Fetuses can't vote.

[james cambridge]

03:32 PM on 01/19/2011

I have a feeling that the money will dry up fast and he's going to have to ABORT his campaign.

I'll be here all night folks!!

[PWM]

03:28 PM on 01/19/2011

Terry Quotes


"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you... I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism." August 16, 1993.
"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d better flee, because we will find you, we will try you and we will execute you." ["reportedly said of doctors who perform abortions"]

[MaryJane]

03:46 PM on 01/19/2011

Yep, a piece of work all right. He has that winning spirit.

[Minimax]

02:51 PM on 01/19/2011

Fanned.

[A Meat Beetle]

02:41 PM on 01/19/2011

Mr. Terry has put on quite a bit of weight in recent years. Isn't gluttony a sin or something?

[MaryJane]

03:48 PM on 01/19/2011

and sloth. He looks like a one-toed sloth...maybe a toad-sloth.

[GreenKate]

11:39 PM on 01/19/2011

hysterical pregnancy probably

[1johnf]

02:18 PM on 01/19/2011

I recommend taking a warm bath instead. It will relax you more and one should only play with himself in private--the rest of us don't want to watch.

[Minimax]

02:51 PM on 01/19/2011

Fanned.

[reverence]

02:13 PM on 01/19/2011

Talk about someone who needs mental health care/

[stageplay]

02:12 PM on 01/19/2011

This man is not a Democrat, so any Democrat that would vote for him in a Democratic primary may as well become a Republican.