Rick Perry Has Some Explaining to Do

Godfather Politics ^ | August 16, 2011 | Da Tagliare

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’ve often been told that you can accurately judge a person by the friends that they keep. Using this premise, let’s take a look at some of the friends Presidential GOP candidate Gov. Rick Perry has kept and still keeps.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan had already served his two terms as President and was ineligible to run again. The Republican Party ran then Vice-president George H.W. Bush after a hard fought primary campaign against Senator Bob Dole. The top Democratic candidates included Gov. Michael Dukakis, Sen. Al Gore and Rep. Dick Gephardt among others. At the time of the 1988 campaign, then Democratic Rep from Texas Rick Perry served as the Texas campaign head for Al Gore. After Bush handily defeated Dukakis for the White House, Perry switched parties and became a Republican in 1989, but still kept ties with Democrat Al Gore – inventor of the internet and crusader for a one-world economy and government.

In 1999, Perry became Lieutenant Governor of Texas and Governor in 2000. As Texas’s governor, Perry has openly courted relations with a number of Islamic leaders.

One of Perry’s friends with Aga Khan, the multimillionaire head of the Shi’ite sect of Islam known as the Ismailis. As governor, Perry has used his association with Khan and other Ismailis leaders to establish cooperative programs with them and the state of Texas, including an education program to help teach children that Ismailis Muslims are peace loving people.

Perry has also been known to be friends with Grover Norquist. Norquist is married to a Palestinian wife who is the director of communications for Norquist’s Islamic Free Market Institute. He has been on the Islamic payroll before and after 9/11. Just fifteen days after the 9/11 attack on the US, Norquist arranged for President Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic leaders who were supposedly rejecting violence and terrorism. However, a number of those Islamic leaders have been supportive of Hamas, Hezb’allah and the Palestinian cause to eliminate Israel from existing as a nation and who have called for the destruction of all those nations who support Israel, including the US.

Gov. Perry claims to be a conservative Christian, just like Obama claimed before he was elected President and we have seen Obama’s track record of supporting Islamic peoples and nations while distancing the country from our Israeli allies. One can’t help but wonder if Perry is following a similar pattern

Let’s face facts. Islam considers Christians to be infidels and peace loving or not (heavy on the not) does teach that infidels should be exterminated. Many Islamic leaders have taught the same and have vowed a Jihad – Holy War – against the US for being a nation of infidels.

So why would a professing Bible believing Christian be friends with people who have openly supported the destruction of Christianity, Judaism and the United States? I know Scripture says to love your enemies, but it does not say to make them your friends and to court their ways.

The Republican Party needs to pin Perry down and find out exactly where his allegiance is and whose side he’s on before any more voters head to a primary, unaware of his background.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[RC2]

From what I have heard, Perry never worked for Al Gore. That makes the rest of the info suspect also. Someone is afraid of Perry and is attempting to smear him. Let’s wait and see what comes out in the next month.

[unkus]

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[KJC1]

I have some hesitations about Perry, but dang there sure are lots of “sources” (not you, but the cite you linked) I’ve never heard of before.

Godfather Politics? I’ve never heard of that site before.

[nhwingut]

I’m getting awfully confused from the Perry broadsides...

He’s a liberal; he’s a RINO; he’s a rightwing nutjob; he’s too Christian; he’s a secret Muslim; he’s a neo confederate; he’s too Tea Party; he’s establishment....

Head is spinning.

[laconic]

They spewed the exact same crap about Ronald Reagan.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>From what I have heard, Perry never worked for Al Gore. <<

Whoever told you that lied to you.

[basil]

I share your hesitation. I am a Texan, and I’ve never really warmed up to the man. He tried to do some things that would have really harmed our state, but luckily didn’t get away with most of them.

If he gets the nomination, I’ll vote for him. (If an eggplant gets the nomination, it will get my vote)—but I think we have better choices than governor goodhair.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Thanks for the info.

[GunRunner]

Perry was a Captain in the United States Air Force. I don’t think he needs to ‘prove’ anything to anyone with an axe to grind.

[World'sGoneInsane]

I’m getting awfully confused from the Perry broadsides...

He's getting the Palin treatment. Here is his website:

Rick Perry Champion of Conservative Principles

[Rembrandt]

“Godfather Politics? I’ve never heard of that site before.”

It’s headquartered between Obama’s castle on the South side of Chicago and the ACORN HQ. Location is just a coincidence, of course.

[DRey]

I don't know if he ever got a paycheck, but he worked for the Texas leg of Gore's first presidential campaign. I'm a Perry supporter and a Conservative. I know him. He's a good man. He's a Conservative man. And that's the problem. See, in Texas, the Conservative party wasn't Republican until Reagan. From the Civil War up to that time, Texas farmers only recognized the Democrats as Conservative. And Gore, at the time that Perry supported him, was pro-life, and a moderate candidate. Perry had spent his life as a Democrat, doing what he felt was best for his country. He served as a pilot in the Air Force, and he towed the Conservative line. After that election year, Perry finally gave up on the Democrats. Gore was starting to talk "funny" about the environment and things were really changing -- namely REAGAN, but it was all over. Anyway, Perry switched from conservative Democrat to conservative Republican and has never looked back. Even Palin endorsed him as the "real deal" when it comes to conservatism. That's the truth. You can check it out at his website, www.rickperry.org, or you can listen to the Perry haters on this website for your info.

Perry 2012!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Perry was a Captain in the United States Air Force. I don’t think he needs to ‘prove’ anything to anyone with an axe to grind.

And John Kerry was an ensign on a guided missile frigate in a combat zone. I'm not saying anything good or bad about Perry - I don't know enough about the man - but military service does not give him a pass on the kind of questions other candidates have to answer.

[ExtremeUnction]

I’m in for Perry. Face it, despite all the talk for the next year, it will be Perry. It’s so obvious.

[smoothsailing]

The smell of fear is palpable on the establishment left and the establishment right. I remember Reagan being treated this way in the runup to the ‘80 election.

[Sudetenland]

Just another "twist the facts to imply guilt by association" hit piece. The Perry haters are really out in force with their lies, half-truths, and distortions.

Of course Perry worked with the Arabs, he also works with the Israelis, the Chinese, the Mexicans, and every other nationality he can find to generate jobs and wealth in Texas . . . just as every other governor of every other state and every member of Congress has done.

Lies in the guise of truth. Perry was a Democrat yep and almost every conservative in the South was as well up until the mid to late 80's. The Republicans were the only electable party in the South and if a conservative wished to hold office, he had to run as a Democrat.

Perry switched parties right after that run by Al Gore and has been a Republican longer than he was a Democrat. While he was a Democrat, he was a member of "the Pit Bulls," a fiscally conservative group of budget hawks who fought against big spending.

It appears that some people just can't defend their own candidates so they lie and smear their opponents . . . used to be only liberals were that cynical and dishonest, but now with the libertarian movement, we are seeing the same behavior.

Where did the Agha Kahn story originate? Why that well known bastion of conservative thought, Salon Magazine, of course and we all know how truthful Salon has been in the past./rolleyes Try learning the truth instead of just parroting what you have read on some hack attack website.

Here is a counterpoint to this garbage.

Debunking the Rick Perry "Pro-Sharia" School Curriculum Myth

First, who IS this “Aga Khan” fellow? The worst that Geller [and others who are making these allegation] can say is that, in the past (the very distant past, by the way – the 11th Century, to be exact), the Ismaili Muslims (the sect led by Aga Khan) “gave rise to the Assassins!” Yep, and in the 14th Century the Vatican was forcing Jews to convert or flee Spain.

But back to the present, ‘kay?

These days, Aga Khan and the Ismailis are seen by other Muslims as friends of the U.S. and Israel, and they are often persecuted. They reject burqas and gender apartheid, as well.

Here's another little gem for you. Perry’s friendship with Khan did not deter the Israelis from presenting him with the Defender of Jerusalem Award.

Don't we get enough lies and distortions from the left, do we now have to have conservatives engage in the same sort of dishonest behavior? It's like reading MSM articles about George Bush or Sarah Palin, the same smears, the same veiled allusions, the same guilt by association.

I tell you, the Perry haters are real quality people . . . sort of like Keith Olbermann and RAchel Maddow with the same allegiance to truth.

Oh well, haters are gonna hate and liars are gonna lie.

[q_an_a]

he was the campaign manager for Gore’s first pres run in 1988. he is no conservative - he is a lime light politician - he loves it and he “hogs” it. He spends money like it is his not the taxpayer - look into his 200,000,000 Tech fund which looks a lot like the Obama green jobs funds.

[Tucker39]

Colin Powell was a general. But in my book, he has turned out to be one of the biggest airhead dip$hits I ever saw!