Posted on 09/15/2011 1:10:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gov. Rick Perry at Liberty University - speaks of how he grew up, about liberty, freedom, military, 9-11, evil, "we must engage allies and build alliance for freedom and be like Ronald Reagan and speak past the rulers and directly to people by yearning to be free," his faith, his path, trust in God......
****Perry’s record as Texas governor proves that he is callous and lacks compassion for the poor. The WaPo article quotes William Martin, a professor at Rice University: “I looked at his policies, and they didn’t seem to be something that would flow from a heart full of Christian love, so I was thinking he had found religion conveniently.*****
Well, isn’t that special.
p.s. Billy Martin: Confiscating other people’s money (taxing) is theft and controlling the poor with tribute is not Christian charity - it is slavery.
We’ve seen what the Harvard and Yale “intellectuals” have done to this country.
Alex, I’ll take nation’s most corrupt governors for $200.
Social Conservative creds are important, but focus on jobs, Rick.
Republican Presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, answers questions after a speech
before a Virginia Republican fundraising event in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011.
You have got to wonder who the idiot was who decided “this year we’re going to call people who believe in God dumb” in a country where 83% of the population identify themselves as Christian and thinks that will work out for them.
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Simple enough -- but wrong. Romney's no stronger on this front than Perry, the frontrunner in the polls. The core reasons: Perry's support among the party's base, and his strength on the key issues of the economy and job creation.........[big snip]............Perhaps in a normal year, the more moderate candidate would be the more electable one. But in these times, the GOP needs bold colors, not pale pastels, to win. "
I think the last real intellectual left this world sometime in the last century.
admittedly...I don’t know much about Perry. why do you say he’s a rino?
You have to wonder at the term “anti-intellectual” as well.
The left wants it to mean “opposed to smart/thinking people”, carrying on the meme that liberals are just by definition smarter than anyone of conservative ideology.
Sowell’s definition of “intellectual” is a person whose only product of effort is in the realm of ideas and is someone who never has to face judgement based on the consequences of those ideas; an elitist.
Yes, in Sowell’s definition of “intellectual”, most of us ARE “anti-intellectual” because WE are the ones to bear the brunt of their bad ideas. Their ideas, for the most part, are self-stroking, so they get to feel good about them and we get to pay for them.
The GOP needs a real conservative rallying point, someone who will stand in contrast to the social, moral, educational, political, and economic rot.
That standard bearer will have simultaneously to engage rotten teachers' and government-employee unions, rotten gay-PAC and child-molester NGO's, abortion-pushers, crony capitalists, outright neo-Stalinist Communists infesting the Dim party, and Yacht Club poseurs who think everything is okey-dokey as long as they still have enough money and income to keep themselves high above the water level and well out of the rain.
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.
I read that quote this morning [the paragraph before that: "William Martin, a professor at Rice University who studies religious conservatives, has questioned the compassion of Perry’s health-care and socioeconomic record."]
More on Professor Martin and is study of religious conservatives:
I wish we could have a “Rick Perry Caucus” as compared to articles on Rick Perry. Then, maybe, we could avoid running into the usual fanatical Perry enthusiasts.
“I think the last real intellectual left this world sometime in the last century.”
Bill Buckley passed away in 2008
Rick Perry giving a speech that focuses on his spiritual convictions is a part of any politicians campaign for president because as a nominally religious nation, people care about such things. However, giving Governor Perry the full benefit of the doubt that he is 100% sincere in his Christianity, which I approve of, we’re not electing a Minister-in-Chief or a church Elder but the Republican candidate for president. No politician is going to govern via a theocracy in a nation that has always maintained a secular government, and this is how I, as a Christian, like it. So, although I’m pleased to learn that a potential president holds Christian beliefs, that is simply not my criteria for voting for him. I prefer Sarah Palin, who is also a committed Christian, but that aspect of her life is not why I would support her if she runs. It’s political positions that determine my choice to vote for a specific politician, not their views on the Trinity. However, I appreciate Rick Perry and any other candidate stating what they believe and why, even if I don’t consider such a statement a requirement for office.
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