Looks like Team Obama will make someone happy by appealing the DADT decision: The gay-obsessed, right-winger Tony Perkins. According to Perkins, appealing DADT will somehow be good for the Democrats in this year's elections:
Critics of the ruling include Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and a proponent of the don’t ask, don’t tell law, who accused Judge Phillips of “playing politics with our national defense.”Right. Because those voters who are angry about "activist judges and arrogant politicians" aren't motivated already. But, Perkins is only trying to be helpful.
In a statement, Mr. Perkins, a former Marine, said that “once again, an activist federal judge is using the military to advance a liberal social agenda,” and noted that there was still “strong opposition” to changing the law from military leaders.
Mr. Perkins predicted that the decision would have wide-ranging effects in the coming elections. “This move will only further the desire of voters to change Congress,” he said. “Americans are upset and want to change Congress and the face of government because of activist judges and arrogant politicians who will not listen to the convictions of most Americans and, as importantly, the Constitution’s limits on what the courts and Congress can and cannot do.”
And, I'm sure Perkins will be happy to offer strategy advice for the reelection campaign, too. I agree with Richard Socarides on the political implications:
Such a move would carry risks, said Richard Socarides, who was an adviser to President Bill Clinton on gay rights issues. “There will be an increasingly high price to pay politically for enforcing a law which 70 percent of the American people oppose and a core Democratic constituency abhors,” he said.
