Posted on 08/26/2011 8:57:02 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rick Perry, the Republicans’ Messiah? By Kathleen Parker, Friday, August 26.
Rick Perry’s rapid lead over previous Republican front-runner Mitt Romney was predictable. But it is not a good sign for Republicans hoping to reclaim the White House and further highlights the crucial battle within GOP circles: Who is the godliest of us all?
That’s the mirror-mirror question for Republicans. Forget charisma, charm, intelligence, knowledge and that nuisance, “foreign policy experience.” The race of the moment concerns which candidate is the truest believer.
Rick Perry's meltdown on global warming
This was always a tough hurdle for Romney, whose Mormonism is reflexively distrusted by Southern evangelicals. Even so, in the absence of a better candidate, Romney had a fighting chance to win his party’s support. Then came Perry.
Talk about a perfect-storm, composite candidate. Combine Elmer Gantry’s nose for converts, Ronald Reagan’s folksy confidence and Sarah Palin’s disdain for the elites — and that dog hunts.
Perry doesn’t just believe, he evangelizes. He summons prayer meetings. He reads scripture while callers are on hold. Not incidentally, he’s a successful governor. Perhaps most important, he’s a wall-scaling fundraiser whose instincts make him a force of nature in the political landscape.
If you’re Romney, Perry is a nightmare that’s still there in the morning. If you’re Barack Obama, maybe not so much?
Perry’s political instincts were in evidence when he timed his entrance into the race just as everybody else was trying to grab straws in the Iowa poll. If life is high school in adult relief, Perry is the guy who shows up in a truck with a winch and pulls the car out of the ditch while those other guys are looking for a jack.
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No, just another potential nominee amongst many.
I would rather be on the side of someone with Godly morals than with a Godless skank who was nothing more than a lousy community organizer that had no experience at all.
I’m surprised this libtard could get off her knees long enough to type.
what the hell?
Kathleen Parker is losing her touch here.
She forgets that what lib columnists do at this juncture is try to provoke us religulous wingnuts into a denominational brawl over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and whether J.C. is God and do the snake-handlers believe in the Trinity and all that good stuff.
Instead, she just lifts up her tail and contemptuously poops on all of us evenly.
Bad move. Gratuitous insults won’t advance her cause any.
P.S. and not believing in Global Warming is not the same as not believing in the theory of evolution.
This woman is a prostitute that will do anything to get her dim mind back on TV. There is no evidence at all that Perry is the troglodyte that she paints him as. That is the elitist meme. Global warming has been proven a hoax outright, yet Parker still clings to it like the gospel. Who is the one here discounting reason to ridged conformity to the Green religion?
The Whore and her John.
I did. All I see are conspiracy kook websites pushing some convoluted one world order BS.
I choose never again to read a column by any of the people that chose McCain for us then abandoned him to chase after their Messiah in the other party. This list includes Kathleeen Parker, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks.....
I don’t care about all this “Messiah” foolishness. I just want a American in charge.
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and here I thought the liberals claimed it wasn’t OK, or fair, or legal, to mix politics and religion.
Anyone who uses the word *messiah* when writing or speaking about politics is way over the edge already...unless they are quoting scripture. But to assign a label like that to ANY politician tells me they have already lost whatever credibility they ever thought they had.
That’s just offensive.
True. Yet I would also mention that they are both the 'same' in that both are just used as 'labels' to stir up an argument amongst the masses, thereby dividing the nation, and the power of the people.
Thou shalt not use my name in a non-Texas accent
Can Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker please just have sex and die for crying out loud?! No, really!
Their rants are truly infantile!
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