Ben and Maggie report on the arrival of liberal "Perry panic" (noun), an intense fear of and opposition to the Texas governor's presidential campaign:
The epidemic of lefty angst isn?t just a matter of specific Perry policies though; it goes to the heart of the liberal worldview. His smashing debut on the presidential stage suggests that the victory of an urban liberal Democrat, Barack Obama, wasn?t a step toward a more progressive nation, but just a leftward swing of an increasingly wild pendulum, now poised to rocket to the right.
?His entry in the race is a signal and a wake-up call,? the Rev. Al Sharpton told POLITICO.
Continue ReadingPerry, Sharpton said, ?is looking to go to the O.K. Corral and start shooting?. Rather than the left get caught sleeping, we better load up, because he is bringing it.?
For Democrats, the pre-Perry GOP primary process was hardly for the faint of heart, as the other candidates have jockeyed to show who dislikes Obama the most. But even as the primary is fought on conservative turf, liberal leaders say they and their constituents see Perry as far worse than your average, hated Republican, and indeed as bad ? if not worse ? than his hated predecessor in Austin, George W. Bush. And progressives who might have had a hard time getting worked up about Mitt Romney find themselves struggling for superlatives with which to express their fear of a President Perry.
?His work as governor is unparalleled in its frontal assault on women,? said Siobhan Bennett, the president of the Women?s Campaign Forum, citing statistics on women living in poverty and without health care in Texas, and Perry?s active opposition to abortion. ?He has gone farther out on a limb legislatively in his capacity as governor and has been expressly anti-woman in the legislation he has done.?
?He is beyond what we expect from conservative Republicans on the gun issue,? said Dennis Henigan, the acting president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who cited Perry?s support for gun rights on college campuses and said it was a sharp contrast with Romney?s ?moderate? record. Perry?s rise, he said, had already become ?a strong mobilizing force? for gun control activists, whose agenda has been largely ignored by the Obama administration.
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