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 ...
The issues for Mr. Perry are:
1) Perry was taken from the DNC by Mr. Rove and
“made” into a Team Rove-Romney RINO.
2) Perry is FOR: open borders.
3) Perry is FOR: mandatory Gardasil (his Chief of Staff
was a Merck agent for Texas) and opposed the legislature,
which was furious at RINO Perry’s force of his Chief
of Staff’s company’s “medicine” down the throats of
chaste children (6th graders).
Perry helped create more jobs in Texas than all states combined...from 2009 unti the present.
He got voter ID passed.
He knows the private sector creates REAL jobs.
He is pro life unlike Mitt Romney.
He is pro Israel unlike Obama.
Fantasy article. This person has no idea what the christian right wants or thinks.
I’m not sure what’s not to like about Bachmann if you’re the religious right???
Jeremiah Wright salutes and praises Marxist Magazine and socialism
"The land of the greed and the home of the brave. Excuse
me, ....the land of the greed and the home of the slave."
The RINO Republican leadership is a boy's club, and since Myth's star is falling fast, Perry's the newest flavor.
The religious right...for example John Hagee are not the rino club.
Rick Perry is a very strong Christian .
Yep, gotta get one of their guys in there no matter what.
Do you think it is a good strategy for Perry
to HIDE BEHIND his religion to distract from the
real issues? like Mitt Romney does, in the Rove way?
No, I’d just say that Perry was made into a Team Rove RINO.
They’re a different type of RINO. I’ve never seen Romney spread hate about a conservative the way Rove attacked Christine. No need to muddy the issue. It’s just clear that Perry is not tea party and is a Rove creation from the beginning. That’s plenty bad, no need to talk about Romney.
I don’t think you should be saying that Perry currently is for forced vaccinations for std’s. It’s clearly true that he was.
You’ve forgotten Bilderberg and Trans Texas Corridor.
David Barton is a solid Christian. Rick Perry has the executive experience and the right social stances.
Downright eerie how Perry’s people talked about Merck product on same day Merck gave Perry money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790722/posts
Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor plan is a hard sell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961128/posts
Senators: Perry evading law with expired appointments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889198/posts
Texas Eminent Domain Bill Vetoed By Govenor Perry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852635/posts
Campaign to impeach Gov. Perry launched online
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884086/posts
Tempers Flare At Trans-Texas Corridor Hearing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969878/posts
Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1842676/posts
Karl in a Corner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_scott_ho_080408_karl_in_a_corner.htm
Second, Rove’s opponents would regularly find that they had suddenly become the target
of a criminal investigation, and details concerning the investigation would be
aggressively fanned to the press. Rove mastered this technique in a contest
for the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s post that he managed for now-Governor Rick Perry.
It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000569
1. Rove was hired to run the campaign of Rick Perry, the current governor,
for the powerful Texas office of Commissioner of Agriculture, then held by
Democrat Jim Hightower. Shortly thereafter, it was clear that a major
FBI investigation had been launched into the workings of the Texas Agriculture
Department (TDA), focusing on Hightower and his senior lieutenants, who had been
pursuing a populist, anti-corporate agriculture and pro-small-farmer agenda.
Jim Hightower talks about his new book, “Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and it’s Time to Take it Back”
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/21_hightower.html
HIGHTOWER: Rick Perry, back then (currently Texas Governor), was his client, so to speak,
and Perry had been recruited. He was sort of a nothing Texas legislator who had been brought
in — again as an affable fellow without any brain muscle. Perry was essentially sent to
wander around out in West Texas during the campaign so he would be out of the way,
while Rove worked this FBI agent and raised money from the chemical industry
and other corporate interests that opposed me. Rove had George Bush go on
television against me. Then Rove ran a series of television ads that
established a new low in negative advertising.
For example, they showed a long-haired guy setting a flag on fire,
and throwing it on the ground. And then my picture came up out of the fire, and said
“Hightower supports flag burning,” which, of course, I don t. But it doesn t matter,
you know. I had to go around answering: “Why do you support flag burning?”
Rove had another ad of me campaigning with Jesse Jackson, who I supported in 1988
in the Presidential campaign. And Rove ran this ad that essentially was a smear
on Jackson and then tying me to him. The ad so angered the Black Caucus in the State Legislature
that they convened their own press conferences in Houston and Dallas to assail it. But again it was too late.
All this was happening in the last three weeks of the election. So, I mean, that s just who the guy is.
Full disclosure! Just what is your payoff for this constant Perry nonsense????
He’s pro-life, pro-God, pro-guns and his state created 37 percent of the jobs in this country over the past two years. That’s good enough for me (as long as he doesn’t plan on running a Mr. Nice Guy campaign. He’s got to take it right to obama).
Jim Hightower?
You're promoting Jim Hightower?
Nobody likes Jim Hightower, but Jim Hightower.
You must be Jim Hightower.
You’ve nailed the “litmus test” for any GOP candidate -
they have to come out swinging against 0bama like Reagan did against Carter.
Lay it all at his feet. Question his ideology, ask if there is a hair’s breadth difference between 0bama’s ideology and communism.
How exactly is Perry responsible for the new jobs in Texas, which by the way undoubtedly come from a combination of growth through illegal immigration and a favorable state business environment?
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