Rick Perry: Shaped By Faith
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]It appears that Governor Perry has quite a challenge in securing the GOP nomination if the pettiness of the last GOP debate and the fear and loathing in the mainstream media are any indication.
Well here we are. We finally have an upfront, wear-it-on-your-sleeve, tell-it-like-you-see-it Christian running for President and you’d think Godzilla had just waded out of the Gulf of Mexico and was threatening us all with destruction. Have Conservatives gone mad?
Is the Right becoming as snarky as the Left? What is wrong with this picture? Have we gone overboard with rampant secularism and “flavor-of-the-day-phobia?” Are we ashamed of a man who says the same things publicly that we say privately? Can we handle the truth? If the issue is Social Security, States Rights, real job creation, or Faith, apparently not.
Apparently, if the terminology ain’t in the Establishment GOP PC-Lexicon, it ain’t allowed. Bring on the circular firing squad. Bring on the candidacy assassins Dick Morris and Karl “Rovesputin” Rove. Here Rick Perry’s crime: failure to genuflect to the Bush Family or seek approval from Rovesputin and Morris before saying anything. By actually embracing his Christian Faith publicly and often, Governor Perry is apparently too scary and extreme to be elected. The Founders are rolling in their graves. Ronald Reagan was treated the same way by the Ford People in 1976 and the Bush People in 1980. Remember? They all refused to accept Reagan as the real deal. The Establishment Left and Right tried to paint him as unelectable and too extreme.
What garbage! Reagan’s two landslide wins should have put notions like that permanently into cold storage within the GOP.
But here we go again. Many folks are deliberately trying to paint Governor Perry’s past positions, admitted mistakes, and his current narrative as threatening. They know better. Some folks just seem to like “chewing the rag.” It is as if Rick Perry were some totally wacked-out person, like a Jim Jones, a David Koresh, or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. I find this concept at once amusing and disturbing. Those folks fit the Left’s profile for being out of touch with reality. Conservative Evangelicals like Perry are anything but crazed suicidal maniacs. Jones, Koresh, Wasserman-Schultz, Democrat Progressives and the rest? ... Well, make that easy discernment on your own.
The secular, Liberal Press does not know how to process this either. Trying to discuss this Faith issue with them is like trying to tell a robot android what a human spirit is. Most media people’s psyche is too materialist to understand. Perhaps most people can’t define it themselves. Indeed, we all mostly talk around the word “spiritual” to describe the word. It’s all rather tautological. Many people never get out of the loop. The rest of us rely on our Faith in God that we are making progress towards a closer relationship with Him. We talk easily about the subject. But, Faith has has become an alien concept for most in modern day America.
Read more in the article linked above!