So funny...if you really like someone you immediately become an idol worshiper...I really like my airplane too but hardly worship it...:oP
Where it becomes worship is when you close your mind to all reason.
Where it becomes worship is when, for months, you do nothing but gush and gush and gush about how your particular airplane is the greatest thing since the Wright Brothers.
Where it becomes worship is when you insist that every bad inspection report is not true because of (insert 534 excuses here).
If your aircraft required at least 43 gallons of fuel (Bill Clinton's winning percentage in 1992 with a strong third party candidate) to cross a body of water, would you insist on risking your life and your family's life in your airplane crossing that body of water if it only had 19 gallons of fuel?
If you insist that, yes, you would try to fly over that body of water with only 19 gallons of fuel and risk disaster because your airplane is (insert magical thinking here) .......
..... THEN you would be worshiping that airplane.
The number of people that think that Sarah Palin would be a good President?
19 out of 100.
Are you really willing to bet the life of America on "The Spirit of St. Sarah", crossing that body of water with only 19 gallons of fuel.
If your answer is "Yes" because of (insert magical thinking here), then you are dealing with worship and not dealing with reality.
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FOX NEWS Poll released on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
FOX News Poll: (August 7-9, 2011)
Question 25. Sarah Palin - Do you think this person would make a good president or not?
.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of
ALL...........19%.......75%.........4%.......1%
Dem ............7%........89%.........3%.......1%
Rep ...........34%.......58%.......7%.......1%
Ind ...........20%........74%.......5%.......1%
If you think 700 is bigger than 4800...you might be a Perry fan.
And this example has to do with "worship" exactly how? (and we Cessna 195 owners DO tend to gush about our airplanes even though they smell and leak oil ...and most choose them at the exclusion of all others..but it is still hardly worship which requires losing sight of all negatives...we are aware of its failing and like them anyway...) I don't worship anyone or anything but I like and love many things...
Perry said he’d invested government resources in cancer cures, adding, “I hate cancer. And this HPV, we were seeing young ladies die at the early age. What we should have done was a program that frankly should have allowed them to opt in, or some type of program like that, but here’s what I learned — when you get too far out in front of the parade they will let you know. And that’s exactly what our legislature did…
Just what we need in the White House... another President who signs a health related law without reading about it first. SIGH...
The following are 14 reasons why Rick Perry would be a really, really bad president....
#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.
#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year....
• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when "apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work."
Rick Perry has a record that should make all Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents cringe.
He is not the "conservative Republican" that he is trying to claim that he is. He is simply another in a long line of "RINOs" (Republicans in name only).
If Rick Perry becomes president, he will probably be very similar to George W. Bush. He will explode the size of the U.S. government and U.S. government debt, he will find sneaky ways to raise taxes, he will do nothing about the Federal Reserve or corruption in our financial system and he will push the agenda of the globalists at every turn.
Look, the truth is that another four years of Barack Obama would be a complete and total nightmare.
But so would four years of Rick Perry.
America deserves better than the "lesser of two evils".
Unfortunately, the American people have been dead asleep and have been sending incompetents, con men and charlatans to Washington D.C. for decades.
Hopefully things will be different in 2012.
The following poll numbers are Reagan’s against President Carter in May 1980, compared to a current Palin vs. Obama scenario.
Carter vs. Reagan: ABC Poll (May 1980)- 58%-40% Carter
18% spread
Obama vs. Palin: PPP (Feb 2011)- 55%-38% Obama
17% spread
Reagan won 44 out of 50 states on Nov. 4, 1980. 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49.
The Carter/Reagan example indicates to me that poll numbers can be overstated. Keep in mind that Palin has yet to declare she’s running. Add to that... I don’t ever underestimate Palin.