This guy is just painfully ignorant. Rick Perry needs to jump back in the limo and ride right on out of town. I can understand misspeaking but his lack of understanding cause and effect simply illustrates he is not capable of running for the presidency. I wouldn’t even want him on the Board of Supervisors.
Most of us can forgive getting centuries mixed up. That’s an easy mistake to make, especially when you are tired. But to apply such foolishness as a cause of the Revolutionary War just illustrates that he needs to go back to Texas and enroll in a couple of history courses. Until then, he just shouldn’t discuss history.
One can only do BS for so long. Then it should start to hurt.
The Reverend Robert Jeffress introduced presidential hopeful Governor Rick Perry this past weekend at a conservative gathering, the Values Voter Summit. Unfortunately, he was asked about Mitt Romney who is a Mormon. Jeffress declared that while Mitt Romney was a moral, decent person, he wasn’t a Christian because Mormons are a cult. He further stuck his foot in his mouth by declaring that most of mainstream Christianity felt Mormons were also a cult.
He spoke the following words about Rick Perry describing him as: “a proven leader, a true conservative, and a committed follower of Christ.” However, he just wasn’t a Christian.
Supposedly both Rick Perry and his campaign have repudiated Jeffress’s words.
So will the GOP now fight it out over who is a Christian and who isn’t? I have a problem with anyone declaring someone else is not a Christian, especially when that someone is a member of a church called Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Was that a different Jesus? I think not. It is interesting that Jeffress doesn’t elaborate on WHY he doesn’t feel Mormons are Christians and just what makes a ‘cult.’ He seems like a decent man. I haven’t figured out why he would say such a thing.
Is it just me or is a person’s religion sort of personal and not something you attack them on unless they are being jerks about it? Mitt Romney has been rather quiet about the personal side of his religion and that is his right. His personal beliefs really are not our business. Mormons are Christians if they say they are Christians. It is not up to us to question an entire religious movement.
There is no religious test in America. A person can be Christian, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Catholic, Presbyterian, Hindu, Atheist, Agnostic…or plain old nothing. I guess really, there is a religious test and there should not be.
Meanwhile, between Mormons, N-head rock, and immigration, Rick Perry’s ascent to the stars seems to be over and he seems to be in free-fall mode.
President Obama is in a very delicate international situation right now as Palestine prepares to ask the UN to recognize its statehood. The United States will vote against this measure in the UN Security Council and in doing so, will piss off most of the Arab nations. However, Palestinian Statehood must come about through peaceful negotiations with Israel, not a UN decree.
Meanwhile, candidates Romney and Perry really need to back off political commentary during this critical period. There cannot be two or three heads of state. Both men, embolden by a recent win in NY-9, are obviously pandering to the normally democratic Jewish vote in an attempt to lure votes away for the Republicans. The posturing needs to stop until these negotiations are over. Further instability in the middle east is not needed so Romney and Perry can pick up a few more votes.
The most striking part of the first full-blown debate in the Republican primary was the total rejection of science.
In a surreal scene near the night’s end, Gov. Rick Perry likened the people denying global warming science to Galileo. To observe that he has that history exactly backwards — it was the Church that accused Galileo of heresy in 1633 for scientific theories which were on the right track — is merely to observe that Perry’s substantive errors come with their own stylistic snafus. Perhaps that is fitting. More consequential, however, was the answer that Perry failed to provide.
The original question asked him to name a single scientist that supported his views. None of his opponents seized on the gaffe, since apart from the exception-of-the-night, Gov. Huntsman, every other candidate was aiming for the same conservative turf on which Perry stood. And unlike Gov. Palin’s famous inability to name her sources, the media is likely to put Perry’s problems aside, in order to focus on the “fireworks” that finally broke out between top tier candidates.
First off, let me say that I cannot ever see myself voting for Michele Bachmann. Her world view is so far from mine, I would probably just stay home from the polls. I could never vote for an anti-science president. However, I am going to defend Bachmann against Rick Perry, who spews just about the same nuttiness, in my opinion, as does Bachmann.
You have to respect Bachmann for her work ethic. She has been out there since day one, preaching her message, rain or shine. She makes a gaffe, she picks herself up and moves forward. She is spunky. At first I thought Palin was going to come roaring in, in all her glitz and glamour, and kick Michele aside. To her credit, I think, she did not do so. Palin has never seen a spotlight she didn’t like. And no one has ever accused Palin of waiting in line or playing by the rules.
It isn’t Palin pushing Bachmann aside, it is Rick Perry. He came roaring in to town, in all his male glitz and glamour, and basically shoved Bachmann aside. He might not even have noticed. Huge egos rarely notice who they step on. I feel badly for Bachmann. She is a true work horse. She isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty and she has been out there for months, socking it to the world and giving her message to anyone who will listen. She has done the work. Now in swoops Perry to claim his prize. The little woman has prepared the way. I hope Bachmann is furious. I hope the base notices. Bachmann should not be slighted. She has done the work, not Perry.
Rick Perry arrives in Iowa and immediately stepped in it by speaking ill of the Fed, an independent, non-political agency. He continued his offensiveness by suggesting that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke would be treasonous if he printed more money. He furthered his comments by saying:
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”
Eeeewwwwwww….Rick Perry. Just swagger that smart-ass mouth right on back down to Texas. He must have had one too many corn dogs once he got off the plane to start up talk like that. Mr. Shock Jock himself needs to learn that stuff doesn’t fly once he leaves Texas.
Perry didn’t stop there. He went on to say he’s running to restore military ‘respect’ for the presidency. He should know better, as a veteran, that one doesn’t speak ill of the commander in chief while uniform. There are clear rules about that sort of thing, speaking of treason.
