Posted on 07/05/2011 5:17:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In early June, TIME has learned, a group of prominent figures on the Christian Right held a conference call to discuss their dissatisfaction with the current GOP presidential field, and agreed that Rick Perry would be their preferred candidate if he entered the race. Among those on the call were Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; David Barton, the Texas activist and go-to historian for the Christian Right; and John Hagee, the controversial San Antonio pastor whose endorsement John McCain rejected in 2008.
Religious conservatives have often played a substantial role in choosing past Republican nominees, but leaders on the Christian Right have been conspicuously quiet so far in this campaign season. Privately, however, they are enthusiastic about Perry and are encouraging the Texas governor to throw his ten-gallon hat in the ring.
Perry’s favor with the Christian Right is relatively new, and he is their candidate of choice as much by default as anything. Many leaders had hoped that Mike Huckabee would make a second run for the nomination and give them a fellow religious conservative (and a Southerner) to support. When Huckabee chose to sit out the race and Haley Barbour stepped aside as well, some Christian Right bigwigs considered throwing their support behind Newt Gingrich.
The former Speaker has made religious freedom for Christians his signature issue over the past few years. And more importantly, Gingrich needs religious conservatives more than they need him — he might feel indebted to that constituency if he won, the thinking went. But as Gingrich’s campaign operation seems to have shrunk to a few interns and wife Callista’s Twitter feed, alarmed Christian Right leaders have sought to find a new–preferably electable–candidate to carry the social conservative banner.
What’s wrong with the existing crop of candidates?.....
...come on down, Rick Perry!.....
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/texas-politics/2011/05/perry-signs-eminent-domain-bill/
I see you're not writing a book, you're only telling half the story.
Why not tell about the recently signed voter ID bill or the proof of citizenship to get a renewed or new Texas DL bill or the tort reform bill?
Or are you only interested in the negative?
Brilliant article, thank you!
I don’t want any more Palin threads. She overexposed as it is.
Perry *lives* his religion.
You are the only one using the term “hides behind.” Appears to be projection on your part. What are you hiding by all of your obsessive anti-Perry posts?
Ramos and Compeon was a FEDERAL issue, it had nothing to do with Gov. Perry.
“If we should vote next week on whether to begin producing cheese in a factory on the moon, I almost certainly would oppose it...On the other hand, if the government decided to institute the policy, it would be my objective to see that a Texas contractor builds this celestial cheese plant, that the milk comes from Texas cows, and that the Earth distribution center is located in Texas.” - Phil Gramm
Texas pays more in taxes than is returned from DC. We fought the stimulus, but when the Dems passed the Bill, we took what we could when the requirements did not contradict our conservative values.
Again: “If we should vote next week on whether to begin producing cheese in a factory on the moon, I almost certainly would oppose it...On the other hand, if the government decided to institute the policy, it would be my objective to see that a Texas contractor builds this celestial cheese plant, that the milk comes from Texas cows, and that the Earth distribution center is located in Texas.” - Phil Gramm
Because of Perry’s strong leadership, we did not take the unemployment carrot and refused to lie to take education money that Lloyd Doggett tied up in loopholes that would have been against Texas’ Constitution.
Interesting rundown of the ratios of taxes paid vs spent by state. (as of 2006)
http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr139.pdf
Why didn’t you READ the post about Rove?
Yes, as the Governor says, the way to be a successful State Government is not to spend all the money. Our tax burden is low, even in Houston.
http://www.RetirementLiving.com/tax_burden_3fam_2009.pdf
What would you do with an 18 year old who went to Texas’ school and excelled enough to be admitted to college?
Your tax burden was low before Perry which is really the whole point. He deserves some credit but he’s hardly the savior some want to make him out to be.
You continue to spout those lies, after being shown that they are false. Once again, http://www.ontheissues.org/rick_perry.htm
Our Governor fought in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 to keep those taxes low, slashing spending.
I’m still praying that the Lord will bless you with shame for your past false accusations.
Don’t forget that Steve Hotze and Norm Adams came out against sanctuary cities http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/falkenberg/7605366.html
I fully understand that Ramos and Compean was a federal case. But the case was such an extreme miscarriage of justice that I can’t imagine a governor refusing to speak out in defense of truth, justice and the American way. Oh, that’s right, it might have upset the Mexican government!
Would YOU have remained silent, as Rick Perry did?
You cannot get around the fact that NO ONE OTHER
than RINO Perry mandated the forced innoculation
of innocents with drugs made for my his
Chief of Staff’s company, Merck.
Shame on Perry.
Shame on you.
Gardasil is a good vaccine, (effective, ethical -made by recombinant DNA and not in human tissue cultures like the chicken pox, Hepatitis A, and Measles vaccines, all mandated in Texas, without any Legislature intervention). It’s proven to be better than we thought in the last 5 years since the conservative Bush committee at the FDA put it on the recommended lists.
Until then, the State Department of Health Services had full authority from the legislature to put vaccines on the mandated list. Perry, as head of the Executive Branch, appoints the Secretary of Health, and is responsible for the Department. He directed the man he appointed and included the directive to put the documents on-line, in order to make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccines, after the Texas Medical Association had coerced the Legislature to make the process near-impossible.
Today you don’t have to “excel” to get into college. The system will take anyone. Moreover, we now have valedictorians who need remedial work.
But to your question...I would award him a bus ticket to the Mexican (Salvadoran, etc.) university of his choice. His scholarship would be not charging him for the education and other services he received from American taxpayers.
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