Oooo, watch out GOP! The evil commie Marxist Kenyan socialist liberal gay agenda is contagious! Get inoculated before it’s too late, and hide the kids!

Via Roll Call:

Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s potential to become the first openly gay Senator escalates the already sizable implications of the state’s open-seat race. When she jumps in, Baldwin will have a national fundraising network ready to mobilize. [...]

EMILY’s List is expected to jump on board as well when Baldwin makes her candidacy official. The group, which works to elect women who support abortion rights, helped raise about a quarter of Baldwin’s $1.5 million in contributions in her first bid for Congress in 1998.

The Human Rights Campaign has more than a million members and supporters nationwide, and it already has a fundraising portal for Baldwin set up on its website.

Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund spokesman Denis Dison said that the LGBT community nationwide will be enthusiastically supporting her. They’re not the only ones.

What’s unclear is whether that financial support will keep other potential Democratic contenders out of the race. Rep. Ron Kind and former Sen. Russ Feingold have said recently that they will make a decision on the race by the end of the summer.

Baldwin is expected to announce this summer. As of the end of March, she had $709,000 in the bank. Tommy Thompson (R) will most likely run, so the Dems need a strong candidate who can beat him. And until the recall elections are over (Wisconsinites are voting today), the contenders are not saying all that much. The outcome will have an effect, and for the time being, that’s pulling attention from the prospective candidates.

Katie Belanger, executive director of the LGBT advocacy group Fair Wisconsin and a former Baldwin campaign finance director said that Baldwin’s appeal extends beyond liberal voters, saying that ““She has some very rural and socially conservative parts of her district that now vote overwhelmingly for her.”

This is all good news, and Dems need to continue to support progressive congressional candidates if they want to get anything done, because clearly, what we have going on now is completely dysfunctional.