Not me. I'm voting Ron Paul.
"Religious event may pose risks for Perry" August 04, 2011
With only 8,000 RSVPs for a stadium that seats 71,500 people, virtually no politicians planning to attend, and a slate of organizers who hold out-of-mainstream views on religious freedom, gay rights, and even Adolf Hitler, the event has become a potentially risky political gamble....
A key pastor speaking at “The Response’’ is televangelist John Hagee, the preacher who suggested God sent Adolf Hitler to hunt Jews so they would go to the Promised Land....
The Christian Zionists in lock step with Israel (until later).
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"Perry’s prayer rally draws a big crowd — and criticism" August 07, 2011|By Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press
HOUSTON - Governor Rick Perry asked Christians to turn to God for answers to the nation’s troubles as he held a national prayer rally yesterday attended by thousands of evangelical conservatives, an important constituency should the Republican seek the GOP presidential nomination....
The Republican hosted what he has called a national day of prayer before an audience filled with people who sang with arms outstretched in prayer - and wept - as Christian groups played music on stage.
Imagine if a Muslim held one of theses. The press would be hollering Sharia law soon.
Perry has said the event is not political but rather aimed at rallying the nation to a Christian unity during difficult times.
Can't we just do the right thing as caring human beings without ragging in the religion?
Still, it gave him an important platform as he weighs whether to run for president. His words reached thousands of religious conservatives in Texas and nationwide; the event was being shown live in 1,000 churches around the country.
Evangelical conservatives are an important voting group in GOP presidential primaries, especially in the early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Critics of the event have argued that it inappropriately mixes religion and politics, and protesters picketed outside the arena.
Perry dismissed the criticism, saying that public leaders needed to keep their faith close at hand....
I would RATHER THEY DID NOT! That's another area where JFK was such a shining star.
The event was Perry’s idea but was financed by the American Family Association, a Tupelo, Miss.-based group that opposes abortion and gay rights and believes that the First Amendment freedom of religion applies only to Christians.
Great, another group of supremacists. Just what we need.
Attendance had been in doubt when only about 8,000 had registered. But that number was quickly eclipsed shortly after the doors opened, and buses continued throughout the morning to deliver people to the daylong event....
Perry, who has said he is considering a presidential run in part out of a religious calling, is expected to announce his plans soon.
Oh, no. Maybe you better PRAY FOR US, readers!
He is expected to travel to South Carolina Saturday, when several of the declared Republican candidates for president will be in Ames, Iowa, for that state’s presidential straw poll, a closely watched test of campaign strength in the leadoff caucus state.
Some Republican strategists have said Perry would be better off to identify himself as a fiscal conservative, highlighting Texas’s recent job gains.
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They heard the calling. Let's hope you do not, America.
Related: The Wrath of Bush
Do you really want George Bush back, America?
