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Anti-abortion Democrat running against Obama
James Q. Lynch Oct. 27, 2011 2:06 pm
There are other issues, but for Randall Terry it all comes back to stopping abortion.
In campaign stops in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo Thursday, the anti-abortion activist talked about other issues - entitlements and foreign policy, but only to relate them back to ending abortion.
“I know that for most of you I'm a one-dimensional candidate,” he said, switching to an English accent, “just the pro-life lunatic.”
In the end, he explains, “in the hierarchy of good and evil, the defense of human life is the No. 1 issue.”
Voting for a President Obama or any pro-choice candidate is “formal cooperation with evil,” Terry said at a news conference in front of Cedar Rapids City Hall, the former federal courthouse.
So Terry is running in the Iowa Democratic precinct caucuses not because he thinks he can win. His campaign will rely on anti-abortion television ads showing dead babes. The ads will hit Christian voters with a “theological and ethical a sledgehammer to the chest” to cause a “crisis of conscience.”
Randall Terry addresses members of the media in front of the former federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids while on an RV tour across Eastern Iowa on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Terry is running in the Democratic presidential primary against incumbent President Barack Obama. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

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