One More Time, On Governor Perry

[WillyT]

Has there EVER been a bigger political whore... with my apologies to whores everywhere.

Rick Perry Recommits To Religious Right At Saturday Prayer-Fest
Benjy Sarlin | TPMDC
August 5, 2011, 6:05AM

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The wait is over! Rick Perry will host his much-buzzed about Christian prayer-fest "The Response" in Houston on Saturday, where participants will ask for divine help to overcome America's myriad problems.

"A historic crisis facing our nation and threatening our future demands a historic response from the church," Perry said in a video recorded to promote the event. "We must, as a people, return to the faith and hope of our fathers. The ancient paths of great men were blazed in prayer - the humility of the truly great men of history was revealed in their recognition of the power and might of Jesus to save all who call on His great name."

It's a far cry from the Perry of 2002, who was described in a Texas Monthly profile as reluctant to discuss his faith in public: http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2002-08-01/faith Asked how his religion informed his politics, he replied: "I don't think it does, particularly."

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More: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/rick-perry-recommits-to-religious-right-at-saturday-prayer-fest.php

:shrug:

[vercetti2021]

1. Well

He can be like the male Palin, the political attention whore but in the end, he won't win the nomination. He thinks problems can be prayed away, when they can't.

[TBF]

8. No he doesn't - there are many Texans who are critical of him for all of a sudden

becoming religious. That is an act for the fundies. After he gets the nomination he'll move to the center faster than Barack Obama.

[polichick]

2. He'll crash and burn in record time.

[MilesColtrane]

3. He'll win the nomination.

He no more believes that Rapture Ranger stuff than most of us here.

[polichick]

6. The religion stuff is a sideshow - he has said that Social Security and Medicare are...

...unConstitutional. That'll be almost as popular as Paul Ryan's budget.

[pscot]

4. The stupid just oozes out of Texas

like a toxic cloud. Is that a hairpiece? Itlooks like something crawled up onto his head and died.

[polichick]

7. Republicans are proud of stupid!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Pete Seeger put it best

OLD TIME RELIGION

Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion
It's good enough for me.

We will pray with Aphrodite,
We will pray with Aphrodite,
She wears that see-through nightie,
And it's good enough for me.

We will pray with Zarathustra,
We'll pray just like we use ta,
I'm a Zarathustra booster,
And it's good enough for me.

We will pray with those Egyptians,
Build pyramids to put our crypts in,
Cover subways with inscriptions,
And it's good enough for me.

We will pray with those old druids,
They drink fermented fluids,
Waltzing naked though the woo-ids,
And it's good enough for me.

We do dances to bring water,
Prepare animals for slaughter,
Sacrifice our sons and daughters,
And it's good enough for me.

I'll arise at early morning,
When my Lord gives me the warning,
That the solar age is dawning,
And it's good enough for me.