Years soften Randall Terry, now in bid for state Senate

[DoYouEverWonder]

June 25, 2005

Randall Terry is back in the culture wars, but he says he's no longer the angry young man who gained fame and scorn as an anti-abortion protest leader in the 1980s and '90s.

The 21st century Terry, running for a state Senate seat in northeast Florida, is a "mellowed" man who has been through legal defeats, bankruptcy, divorce, remarriage, rejection by some of his former soulmates and a foray into country music.

He's still an unwavering foe of abortion who boasts that his Operation Rescue followers racked up more than 70,000 arrests at abortion-clinic protests and that his personal rap sheet includes getting booked more than 40 times.

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The Schiavo case put Terry back in the national spotlight as spokesman for Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, in their losing fight to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reattached.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/06/25/m1a_terry_0625.html


Christ, why do all the wackos move to Florida? It's bad enough that we have to live under two Bu$h's. Now we're going to have listen to this idiot for the next year and a half. Dear gawd, what did we do to deserve this?

[Warpy]

1. Religious freaks have taken over a couple of areas in Florida

One of them is in the panhandle and another is in the central part of the state, southeast of Orlando. I'm not talking about people who go to church four times a week and spend all day there and babble nonsense and call it speaking in tongues, I'm talking hard core theocons, Dominionists, completely anti American freaks.

I remember driving through the area in the center of the state with my elderly father, who said something along the lines of how we needed to look straight ahead as we went through the town because the people there were dangerously creepy. My father's a right winger and they scared him.

If Randall Terry runs in either of the districts containing the freaks, he's likely to win.

[wakeme2008]

2. In Stupid case, he is running again a very powerful Repug that has

serve his area well.

He is just a joke...

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. No longer the angry young man, Randall Terry has now matured

to become the angry white man.

[billyoc]

4. Yes, he's gotten soft,

in the head. :)