Gov. Perry wants everyone to pray and fast for the nation
Note: Perry's revival stunt no doubt will steal the Best Groveler Award for the Christian vote in the primaries, should he decide to enter the race for God's top political apostle. Problem for Perry is, poll after poll is showing that the country's voters (those on the ground, that is) are suffering from presidents-from-Texas fatigue.
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There’s Gonna’ Be a Revival — the religious revival was Perry’s brainchild say the event’s organizers. A spokesman for the American Family Association, the group putting on the massive August revival at Reliant Stadium (in Houston), says the AFA began planning for such an event in December at Gov. Rick Perry’s behest. Which is all sorta strange because the Governor has insisted for months (before he changed his answer to — I’m too busy with the Lege to think about it) that he absolutely, positively, wasn’t running for President.Houston Chronicle religion reporter Kate Shellnutt and Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac report on Perry’ latest bid to build his profile with evangelical Christians, a key block in Republican presidential primary politics: “It’s a continuation of his so-far successful effort to keep his name in the papers. He’s been maintaining a high profile — some think to run for president, others think for different reasons. This is surely that,” said Bruce Buchanan, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, whose specialties include presidential politics. “It also bespeaks the kind of constituency that he wants to reach and address — what he thinks his base is, for whatever purposes he may have.”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, called the rally “an obvious appeal to fundamentalist Christians, who comprise 60 percent of the turnout in the Iowa caucuses. It could be even higher in South Carolina, another early primary.”
Sarah Posner, author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, said she understood how some Republican Christians may be holding out hope for Perry to join the race, particularly after Mike Huckabee announced he would not run in 2012.
Huckabee, who also used the restoration movement during his campaign, had been a favorite in Texas. “A lot of religious activists are looking at the field right now and wondering if there’s a candidate for them,” Posner said.
9 comments:
The idea for the revival came after Perry's plan to secede from the Union and create a new Republic of Texistan failed.
While were at it, why don't we invite the head of the Taliban to come and talk to the people who would attend this event. It seems like they would have a lot of interest in recruiting the people who would attend.
Next we are going to hear that Jason Isaac is going to propose legislation that women in Texas must dress like a Nun when they are within 100 yards of a church.
Right wing female-phobes like Perry and Isaac are such shameless ass kissers to the christian Nazis, they makes Mitt Romney look like Ron Paul.
I got an e-mail from Karl Rove saying Rick Perry is the new Midnight Cowboy. So who is Karl Rove working for now?
You got dat right. I got PERRY FATIGUE and I'm a Texan. The boy needs to find another mission in life. The nation's calling by God does not include him as president.
I had thought I was past being embarrassed by Governor Good Hair, but no, he has risen to new levels in the embarrassment arena.
Shouldn't that be sunk to new lows?
It pains and disgusts me no end that Rick Perry is making Texas a laughingstock not only in all of the U.S., but around the world.
Whenever I go to another state from now on, I think I might even say I'm an Okie or an Arkie -- and I certainly never thought I'd say that!
I applaud Perry and urge him to run for President in 2012.
First, Texas then would be rid of the worst governor in the past century.
Second, his revival and secession mentality will ensure his defeat in the GOP Primary.
Including Obama, there is no worthwhile option out there for the manager of our nation. Americans are doomed to mediocrity.
There are polls that state more than 50 percent of Americans believe we are headed for a major depression sometime next year. That does not show an optimistic future view for our nation collectively.
I think it really might turn out well for Pres. Obama if Ricky Perry were to be the Republican nominee for president. Perry might look pretty on a poster, but I doubt he would "show" well in a debate. When he was on TV touting his "Fed Up" book recently, he evaded many questions put to him, and the interviewers let him get away with it, but they won't go so easy on an announced candidate.
Perry loves to proclaim how good Texas is for business but questioners will point to Texas' low rating in almost EVERYTHING else -- mental health care, teen pregnancies, class sizes in schools
(esp. when the current Lege gets through with education bills), average teacher salary, percent of
high school grads who go to college, and on and on.
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