Is America Ready for a Christian President?

The American Thinker ^ | September 24, 2011 | Christopher Chantrill

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

July 30, 2011Gov. Rick Perry has already engaged and won battles against:

Big Education!

Big Law Suit Abuse!

Big EPA green regulations!

Perry Doctrine: "We Stand with our Allies"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Did Perry Blow It on Social Security? (Marco Rubio and Ron Johnson certainly didn't)There is a brand of Republican who looks at President Obama’s vulnerability on the economy and says, “Go for it!” They argue that the overriding issue of the campaign should be jobs — and that everything else should be a distant second.

There is another kind of Republican who sees the election of 2012 as a tipping point for the nation — a do-or-die moment when we will either pull back from the precipice of debt and national decline or fall off the edge. This second brand of Republican is hoping that a candidate will emerge who can lay before the American people the nature of the challenge we face in a direct and forthright way. If a campaign is run and won on the need to reform our obese government, the new president will have a mandate to take the necessary steps once in office.

After Wednesday’s Republican debate, it seems that Mitt Romney represents the first group, and Rick Perry stands for the second. ………………”

Rick Perry’s Air War (with the EPA)...........>>>Texas alone opted for the unfriendly approach. It’s the only state that did not issue a plan for compliance—and Perry has made it clear that Texas has no intention of complying. The move was a blatant slap to the Obama administration—and once again gave Perry the national spotlight. Defying the climate rules offered him the perfect opportunity to loudly decry the science of global warming—which in his book Fed Up! he calls a “contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”—and to slam EPA as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind-set” that has “targeted Texas.” Such rhetoric is viral catnip to the tea party voters who could help catapult Perry to the 2012 presidential nomination.<<<..............

Metro - Carolyn and Ron Agnew, center, of Pflugerville, wait for Governor Rick Perry's arrival during the Rick Perry Welcome Home Rally at Abel's on the Lake in Austin on Saturday, August 20, 2011. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence ………>>>When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan jabbed Mr. Perry on public schools in mid-August, it was only the latest skirmish between the governor and the Obama administration since late 2009, when Mr. Perry announced that the state would not sign on to common core-curriculum standards.<<<...

The Left is signaling that they hope a President Perry will fix education and get the inner cities out from under the impossible mess they've created.

Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?

Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.

And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.

That’s a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors. …..”

[normy]

Perry is not for amnesty either.

I know Perry didn't get this across and I believe his "heartless" comment was directed more at MItt that Americans in general but hey, he said it.

In Texas we have a 1200 mile border with Mexico, but that border is your border too, it's the American border. Texas taxpayers,used 400 million of our tax dollars, not your tax dollars, not Santorums or Bachmann's, not Pennsylvania or Minnesota's, but our tax dollars to help secure the American border under Perry. Perry has poured OUR resources, not yours, OURS to secure the border OUR Federal Government will not secure.

Now we gladly do it but to trash Perry as being open borders is simply not true. So the fact TExans spent 400 million of their own dollars, alloted by Perry and the Legislature to secure YOUR border.

While doing this, the Federal GOvernment will not allow Texas to deport anyone so if people get in over the vast 1200 mile border, they either go into the shadows, show up at the emergency room for health care and still attend Texas public schools that WE have to pay for.

The Texas Legislature (and Perry couldn't have even vetoed that bill) decided that if you are a child of an illegal (not just some guy who jumped the border) and you have graduated highschool in Texas and have been here for 3 years and are working toward your citizenship, you get in state tuition. That is our decision as Texans. You don't have to deal with that problem. We do. It's both our border but I just pay to defend it and deal with not having enough resources to do so.

[Dudoight]

I am with you on Perry. His performance at the debate did not deter my support. We have a president who is rhetorically slick. What does that tell you? is that what the GOP wants?

I like Perry’s heart and mind. They are in the right place.

[casinva]

For anyone with eyes to see, there is a moral movement now spontaneously arising in America to fight the injustice of the authoritarian welfare state

This moral movement is also a Constitutional Restoration movement.

From FED UP!
One Fight to Save America From Washington
By Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
2010

For too long the silent majority has sat idly by, allowing the political establishment to wage an assault not just on the Constitutional and the fundamental American principle of limited government but on the very idea that it is a government closest to the people that best guarantees the blessings of liberty. (page 13)

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But the endless arogance in Washington demonstrates a total disrespect for the Constitution and for the limits on federal power that the Constitution requires. By forsaking the very framework of government given to us by the Founders, we have allowed government to control us instead of controlling the government ourselves. The American people are increasingly aware of this and find it maddening. (page 12)

End of excerpt
From FED Up!, by Governor Rick Perry

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"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."
--Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

[AnalogReigns]

I disagree with the language of "a Christian President," as, as stated above, W. Bush is certainly evangelical--even if from a privileged NE family. He's just a big-government assuming moderate...who didn't get the wave behind the Tea Party movement, Palin, conservative-libertarianism, et al.

Christian CONSTITUTIONALIST may be a better term...as that is what the Tea Party movement, Palin, Bachman and Perry....and contemporary Conservatism is all about--returning to constitutional governance, away from the inevitable tyranny inherent in the most benevolent welfare state, without the nonsense of an apology in "compassionate" conservatism.