Randall Terry, Obama spoiler? Wins 18% of the Democrat vote in Oklahoma, 15 counties
Let’s just say the November presidential election is close, perhaps as close as the 2000 election.
In such a case, Barack Obama would need every vote he can get.
Now let’s say there is a pro-life Democrat in the race, one with name recognition. You see his name, you think pro-life. And you know there are lots of pro-life Democrats out there, banished as they are to the wilderness – and pretty ticked about it.
Might not some of those pro-life Democrats decide to make a statement with their vote? Hey, here’s a voter who opposes infanticide and partial birth abortion. Here’s a voter who believes parents should be notified before their minor daughter aborts. Here’s a voter who is sick of being forced to fund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Well, an interesting thing happened in Oklahoma last night. Randall Terry got 18% of the Democrat primary vote for president and won 15 counties. According to the Wall Street Journal today:
President Barack Obama won Tuesday’s Oklahoma Democratic primary, but in a slight embarrassment, antigay, antiabortion campaigner Randall Terry swiped a delegate from him.
Mr. Terry, one of two challengers to Mr. Obama, garnered 18% of Tuesday’s vote, crossing the 15% bar for earning a delegate to the Democratic nominating convention this summer…. The voter turnout of 116,000 was the lightest in the state’s history for a Democratic primary.
“There are still Democrats who love innocent babies more than they love the party,” Mr. Terry, who founded the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, told the Tulsa World Tuesday night. Mr. Terry is on the presidential ballot in six states, with the next contest in New Jersey.
If Terry doesn’t release his delegates to vote for Obama, he could keep the incumbent president from unanimous renomination. That doesn’t change the substance of the 2012 race, but it’s still a little poke to Obama’s pride. In general, Terry’s success also demonstrates that pro-life Democrats are alive and well and appreciate the option to vote for someone who shares a fundamental view.
The possibilities – the irony – make me laugh out loud in my quiet, lonely office here. Can you imagine it?
Randall Terry needs donations! On that note, Terry garnered a big name to speak at a fundraiser for him on March 3 – Ann Coulter, who must also see the possibilities….
Terry tells me he robo-called 233,525 Oklahoma households. In an email he wrote:
The lessons here are simple:
1) If Christian voters see the ads, or hear the message – that Obama promotes the murder of babies, and is attacking the Church and religious liberty – a sizable numbers of Democrats are willing to abandon him.
2) If I can run these ads in the 6 swing states where I will be in the general election, I will cause many democrats to refuse to vote for Obama. The murdered babies could be the cause of Obama’s defeat in 2012.
Terry has some new ads out. View them here.
[Photo via WSJ]
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Incredible! LOL!
Good for Randall.So many in the Pro-Life movements critisize him,but he has brought the issue out in the open.He does what he believes and I think he does it well.I pray he continues to bring this important message to all and helps to surprise Obama.
A spoiler is a sitting US senator who directly challenges an incumbent president at his party’s nominating convention and receives over 1000 delegates (Ted Kennedy, 1980). But losing one delegate from some backwater counties in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson? That qualifies Randall Terry as a gnat, not a spoiler.
Joan – so nice to see you call some counties as backwater (** sarcasm alert **). Is there anything nice you can say about others, except that you love abortion and it’s supporters? Any Oklahoman-s out there who take exception to this name-calling? Just curious.
Obama care is holding the American people hostage by requiring that we goes against our consciences and support the contraceptive mandate which include abortion pills. People of conscience are fed up with licensing immoral sexual behavior that is causing health care costs that we can no longer afford. The sexual revolution over the last 40 years has produced sexually transmitted diseases that cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year to treat to say nothing about the post traumatic conditions suffered by those who have succumbed to the worst lie of all aka as abortion. American citizens need to be taught to take responsibility for their behavior.
Does Randall Terry have an economic policy? A foreign policy? A stance on healthcare? How about education?
He can’t expect to split the liberal vote over abortion in the current economy. The relationship between the United States and Israel is showing strain over Iran and Randall Terry doesn’t talk about the best course of action to avoid war. He also can’t split the liberal/Democratic vote when the alternative is Romney or Santorum. There are pro-life Democrats but chances are they won’t vote for Terry. When choosing a candidate, we weigh an host of policies, both foreign and domestic.
Randall Terry would absolutely make a terrible president. He would probably be no worse than Obama, but only because Obama has set the bar absolutely as low as it can possibly be set in numerous ways, even outside of abortion. Honestly, I love seeing Obama take a hit, but the thought that there is even a theoretical possibility of Terry in the White House does unpleasant things to my blood pressure.
Yes, Joy, as a matter of fact, I DO take exception to it, being a Native Oklahoman…
but that’s just typical Joan. She doesn’t deal in FACTS, she only deals in perceptions.
And as a matter of FACT..the majority of Oklahomans voted for Santorum ;)
joan says: March 7, 2012 at 3:33 pm
“That qualifies Randall Terry as a gnat, not a spoiler.”
Joan of inanity,
Yes. Exactly.
That one single pesky gnat that ruins the democRAT picninc.
The gad fly that hovers around your face and zeroes in on your eyes, your ears, your nose, your mouth and lands on your food, hydorplanes on the surface of your sweet tea.
Yes, I love the thought of it.
Now we just need some ants, hornets, chiggers, a skunk, poison ivy.
GOD help me.
I love the gnat!…if you have ever been to SE Georgia you know that a gnat there…a sand gnat is quite a bother and has a bite!! Also, I wonder if we could get Ron Paul to switch parties and run against our current president …that would REALLY split the vote!
I think Randall Terry and Newt should team up. What, five wives, disowning of kids – I think they would be the perfect “family values’ match!
Obama campaign releasing 17-minute documentary
By Rachel Weiner, Updated: Wednesday, March 7, 12:59 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/obama-campaign-releasing-17-minute-documentary/2012/03/07/gIQAYXYFxR_print.html
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Gee, I wonder if it will include any of the 90 rounds of golf mr. b o-jangles has played in his first 3 years, or 10 vacations toltaling 90 days.
Will TOTUS be listed in the credits?
Will they include footage of mr. b o-jangles bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia or any the numerous apologies he has made on behalf of the USA.
Will there be any mention of ‘Fast and Furious’?
Will b o ask the viewers if they are better off now than they were three years ago.
Will b o shine the spot light on the misery index?
Reminds of the time b o was campaigning in Oklahoma on a reservation. Everytime b o made promise to the assembled indigenous/aboriginal/natural born native amercians they responded with racuous ‘OOOOOMPAHHH!
Late as mr. b o-jangles was viewing the buffalo heard he had the driver stop the SUV to get out and get a closer look at the bison heard.
The guide cautioned b o not to step in the ‘OOOOMPAHHH’.
And you know there are lots of pro-life Democrats out there, banished as they are to the wilderness – and pretty ticked about it.
We are indeed! Thanks for recognizing us, Jill.
We actually just call ourselves INDIANS, Ken. ;)
What? I didn’t know you could insult Oklahomans…when did they become a public figure?
I guess that even some Democrats realize that if a candidate doesn’t support outright mass murder and genocide, he or she is automatically a superior human being and candidate to Obama, the tyrant who only knows whatever his TelePrompter tells him to say.
ninek says: March 8, 2012 at 2:47 am
“What? I didn’t know you could insult Oklahomans…”
[It is possible to insult an Okie but you have to avoid compound sentences and poly syllabic words and talk real slow.]
More stunning evidence that liberals/progressives do NOT have a ‘sense’ of humor of which they are aware.
Never mind that the joke indicates ‘indians’ are not fooled by the chicaneries of pale face or dark face politicians.
I have a hunch that most of the folks living on reservations would place more value on their tribal affiliation than their mailing address.
Both my great grandmothers were Cherokee. The single largest part of my DNA is Cherokee.
Should I apologize to myself first or to my great grandmothers?
If my intent was to insult Okies, I would have told a joke like this:
Did you know the toothbrush was invented in Oklahoma?
If it had been invented in Texas we would have referred to it as the ‘teethbrush’!
Did you hear about the Okie that won a 100 million dollars in the Texas Lottery?
Unfortunately he was killed in a poaching accident a few days later.
His wife will inherit the money…….but she won’t be able to touch it til she turns 14.
Will Rogers was both a Cherokee and an ‘Okie’ and he most definitetly had a sense of humor:
“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.”
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
“The income tax has made more liars out of Americans than golf.”
“If stupidity got us in this mess, why can’t it get us out?”
“Everybody says this here thing we’re involved in ain’t a real war. Congress says it ain’t a war. The President says it ain’t a war. ‘Course the guys over here getting shot at say it’s the best damned imitation they ever saw.”
“A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.”
ps: The term ‘indians’ is a mis-nomer. The early european explorers mistakenly believed they were in the ‘Indies’.
If there had been just one woman sailor amonst em, she would have had the good sense to ask for directions or the name of the place.
What is with all the Oklahoma hate? Only Okies or Oklahomans (for those proper residence who don’t like the term Okie) can make fun of our state. If you have not lived there then you have no idea what the people are really like. Many Oklahomans enjoy making fun of our state but if anyone else tries, they might get a shotgun to the face. Nah, just kidding. I wouldn’t do that but I know some some who might. Some Oklahomans take their state pride to the extreme. Many of us get quite irritated when people constantly play up the stereotyping. We Okies might play it up the stereotypes but I liken it to a sibling relationship. I can say a bunch of stuff about my brothers, I can hit them and be mean all I want to them but if someone else picks on them you better believe that I will be to their defense in no time. I’m sure many states feel the same way. I’m sure many people, no matter where they live get annoyed when some non-resident of their state starts making fun of them.
That being said, I also want to clarify something. Techinically Oklahoma doesn’t have any reservations. They used to. It used to be pretty much one big reservation. Nowadays, however Oklahoma does not have official reservations like they have in other states. What Oklahoma has now is tribal statistical areas. Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area is a statistical entity identified and delineated by federally recognized American Indian tribes in Oklahoma that formerly had a reservation but do not now. Osage is the exception to this. Maps will show a reservation for them, the Osage say they have a reservation but the state and federal government does not recognize it as a reservation. The Osage Nation has been fighting to get it acknowleged as a reservation but officially according to the government they do not have a rez.
I know that the statement about rezs in Ok was supposed to be funny but it’s one of those stereotypes that gets kind of old after awhile. One time maybe funny but after awhile many of us just want to scream. You would not believe how many times we have come across people who ask us in all seriousness if we live in teepees or if we have a real house. If it’s not that stereotype it’s the stereotype that we are all a bunch of uneducated country hicks. Yeah there are people like that but we also have some very bright, very well-educated people. We have lots of rural area but we have quite a bit of urbanized area too. Some of us talk slowly while others talk rapidly. Some of us have a twang to our voices while others have none. We have a variety of types of people and places just like every other state. We aren’t all cowboys or Indians. We aren’t all unrefined people from the sticks.
We aren’t all ultra-conservative Republican party voting people either. I am a registered republican but I have many friends who are democrats. I am register repub but I and many that I know won’t necessarily straight party vote. We vote for whatever candidate we feel will best be suited for the job whether that candidate be a democrat, republican or independent. Someone mentions OK not getting the democratic presidential vote in a long time. That is true but on city and statewide levels, we quite a few democrats in office.
Like I said earlier, I am sure many people who are residents of other states get annoyed with their state getting made fun of too. I say this because I want to clarify that I have not said all this because I have simply taken offense because people have made fun of my state. That’s part of it, but also get a bit annoyed at people stereotyping other states as well. If you live in a state then you have a right to stereotype that state but if you do not, you are liable just to annoy someone.