...While standing (click here) during the filibuster, Davis wore pink running shoes. It was unclear whether the color was chosen because anti-abortion Republican feminists have been referred to as "pink elephants." In 2010, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke of a "stampede of pink elephants," promising a movement of GOP women against abortion...
Hardline Right Wing politics has gotten harder since 2008. Their rhetoric is going to be based in bibles and not law because they want numbers in every legislature in the country, but, especially national legislature. The Right Wing wants to win and in order to win they need numbers to carry out the religious agenda of those willing to vote for it.
Perry was front and center during the past presidential debates. Texas has a burden of being the anchor of the Right Wing. Individual rights are nothing to the folks involved in these laws. Perry wants to get into the national race again and it would be egg on his face if Texas even allowed abortion. This isn't about anti-abortion, it is about the potential presidential possibilities of Rick Perry.
