Rick Perry Is Not the ’5th Column Candidate’
For the modern left, the concept of political warfare abroad engenders a kind of squeamishness, if not revulsion; using propaganda to shape the public’s perceptions recalls outrage at the CIA’s information operations during the early years of the Cold War. While feigning shame for the history of robust promotion of America by the clandestine services in prior decades, inside the United States their desire to engage in sophisticated political warfare against their enemies is performed eagerly without the slightest hesitation.
One method of political warfare involves stoking a controversy and building a wedge between a constituency and an otherwise-favored candidate. As transparent an example you will find this year is Salon’s recent article “Perry: The Pro-Sharia Candidate?” — complete with the suggestive question mark. It was an attempt to divide a sizable portion of the GOP base from Texas Governor Rick Perry. By seizing on a local story highlighting Perry’s relationship with the Ismaili community in Texas, Salon’s Justin Elliott set out to create a fake controversy meant to alarm the millions of Americans concerned with radical Islam and homegrown jihad in America.
Elliott picked up his story’s framing from the Houston Chronicle, Politico, and other media outlets. As we’ll see, this manufactured dispute is intended to damage more than just Perry’s candidacy and the unity of conservatives ahead of the presidential election. It also benefits the Muslim Brotherhood groups many of Perry’s new critics rightly warn about.
Unfortunately, some conservative bloggers took the bait against Perry, bashing him for his links to the Ismailis and his support for the Muslim Histories and Culture Project, a curriculum co-sponsored by the Ismailis’ spiritual leader, the Aga Khan. In addition, some have seized on the endorsement of Perry in an earlier race for the governorship by Farouk Shami, a Palestinian-American businessman on the board of an anti-Israel group. Another is Perry’s sharing the stage in a program on taxes with Grover Norquist, whose troubling connections with Muslim Brotherhood groups are becoming better known. At their most generous, critics point to the sum of these associations as a kind of “proof” establishing Perry’s unwitting compliance with the agenda of the Brotherhood. On the other side of the spectrum, overheated words have overtaken level heads. Using the Salon report as a springboard, some have accused Perry of “systematic sedition” and, in a follow up, doubling-down with, “Yes, Perry is the 5th Column Candidate.” Obviously, based on the evidence provided, Perry is neither.
To those on the right who would criticize Perry for being too Obummerish on any number of issues, let me point out that the Texas Department of Corrections has four executions scheduled for September, 2011. That will horrify our lefties on the west coast and in our salons; in Texas it is justice.
Only so long as its not your family member whom you believe innocent…is it justice to you.
Stupidity on stilts, as ever, Thomas.
Justice is justice; no matter how perceived; or by whom.Subjective existentialism has no place anywhere; let alone in a court of law.
There is a percentage of criminals amongst us who act out at a subhuman level, and need to be executed. If your loved one is victimized by such an one you will be horrified if the court allows the prospect of recidivism. The recidivism rate for persons executed is zero.
Mr Gardasil should stay in Texas where the legislature can keep his Big Government, Obamacare style ways in check. Why would I vote for a Republican who wants Big Government all over my healthcare when I already have a Democrat doing the same? He should be groveling in front of Texas parents asking for forgiveness for requiring approval by the Texas bureaucracy to opt out their children of the process.
Michelle Malkin recently had a wonderfully written and researched post about Mr. Gardasil, his non-apologies and shady relationships, and why Mr. Perry should not be considered a viable candidate. I know I won’t spend one penny, donate one minute of time, or vote for a Big Government, Obamacare loving Republican.
which is what we need more of TexEd,
So he follows thorugh on one issue. That doesn’t make him a good candidate. His record on big government, illegals, etc. shows me he’s just anotehr political hack that will say anything tog et elected.
@T. T. Thomas I’m sure none of them got where they are for singing too loud in church.
A_Nobody….["I’m sure none of them got where they are for singing too loud in church."] Had you said ‘most’ rather than “none” I would certainly agree with you. However if you’ve followed the matter over the past 50 years you would know that a good percentage of them are convicted on ‘circumstantial’ evidence. You would also know that, somewhat routinely today, scientific evidence is proving erred convictions for some. How many convictions and executions of innocents is okay with you?
NOT executing them doesn’t work either. Crime always shoots up when they don’t have that fear lurking in the back of their minds.
I must admit, any indication of a politician’s friendliness toward Islam or Islamic mouthpiece groups makes me very uneasy. That having been said, I’m willing to give Governor Perry the benefit of the doubt until clear and convincing evidence should emerge that shows him willing to sell the country down the river for the sake of a few Muslim votes.
It’s hard to believe that the man who wrote this letter to Eric Holder could have much sympathy for shariah and jihad. There is an argument to be made that Perry would be the most pro-Israel president ever elected, sure to drive the Islamic world crazy. Read this:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/topstory/7632833.html
Francis you just described obummer,
Well, yes, but Obama would sell the U.S. down the river for a favorable mention in the Times, a really good tee time at Burning Tree, or just about any other consideration we might name — or none. Selling the U.S. down the river is at or near the top of Obama’s agenda.
Actually, he’d sell us down the river for a favorable mention in al Jazzera,
The problem with “moderate Mohammedans”, if they exist, is that they are not going to lead anybody. Mohammedanism is immoderate. The Koran commands ruthless war against all infidels. Unlike some parables in the New Testament, there is no believable interpretation of any passage which is moderate. Thinking moderate Mohammedans can lead a sizeable contingent of Muslims is like believing that the Archbishop of Canterbury commands a huge following of Christians anywhere.
According to a column by David Stein, writing in Front Page Magazine (Editor, David Horowitz)recently (Aug. 2011) Perry associated himself with Aga Khan in order to structure an element dealing with Islam in the Texas educational curriculum.
Now, I’m as resistive to Islam as you are, but Perry gleaned enough from associating with Aga Khan, to gain understanding re: Islam according to Aga Khan. The fact is, Muslims are here and they “ain’t” going away anytime soon. May as learn something about them via a source under Gov. Perry’s surveillance.
In David Stein’s column, it was indicated that Aga Khan is the leader of 15-20 million Muslims and as their leader Khan has been adjudged as an “infidel” by the two main divisions of Islam, Shia and Sunni. That isn’t good for his health,as you can imagine. These people are unlike the other Muslim groups.
You can take it from there,I documented where the information came from. Both Stein and Horowitz happen to be practicing Jews and pro-Israel. I think personally that there’s too darned much “conspiracy theory” going around about anyone announcing candidacy.
Surely, those same conspiracy theorists aren’t looking to perpetuate Obama’s hold on the presidency? That would be the same as national suicide!
That sure is not in my plans, Obama & Co. must be ejected! Let’s keep our sights on target.
I did set my sights on target today with a picture of Mr. Bill and blew his head off 20 times while also hitting his center mass 80 times with my Glock 26 both standard 10 plus one in chamber then two 17 round magazines 9x19mm.
Tomorrow I will do the same but with a different head placed on the target, guess who that would be?
Unfortunately, just like Obama, Perry would keep things we don’t like and don’t want, hidden until AFTER becoming president. By then, it would be too late. So you better do your homework and really VET this big time RINO BEFORE voting!!!!
NEVER cozy up to a muslim, or share a platform with a muslim. remember taqqiya! they lie to deceive because that is their warfare against the rest of the world. the whole rest of the world. you will never know when a muslim is telling the truth or lying.
Glad to see this, PJM was down to only three Perry Puff Pieces on the front page. . . that will not do.
Just proves Roger Simon & PJM are part of the Islamist movement /s.
Mr. Reaboi, I agree that Governor Perry isn’t the ’5th Column Candidate’.
In fact the more I learn about him the more convinced I become that he is the absolute last thing the GOP needs period!
Who cares about the GOP?
you are such a cute little troll! And the name “Republican” in your title to boot. So, pray tell, what are your reasons for saying that Perry has you hiding under your bedsheets?
“Taqqiya! Taqqiya! I love ya, taqqiya, yer always a day away!”
(Sorry, Man, I just couldn’t help)
It’s “only a day away”!
Very astute, David Reaboi. Nice to see such a well-reasoned piece illuminating the entire picture. Wish we had more new media – and bloggers – doing the same.
What I find hilarious is some of these same tin hat conspiracy nuts are pushing Chris Christie….who has INDEED appointed Muslim Judge that is tied directly to defense of terrorists.
But as for Gov Perry please SOMEONE name 1 single Muslim in 11 years that Gov Perry has appointed to any significant (or even insignificant) position in the Texas Governmet? To me that should say it all…at least to all but the most crazed fools. Gov Perry is the GOVERNOR of all of us that live in Texas-he does NOT get to pick & choose who he wants to be Gov of. But he does get to pick & choose who he appoints. Now name one appointment or shut the hell up.
attaboy girl. givem hell Victoria,
Meanwhile, some (including myself, at Commentary) have defended Perry’s relationship with the Ismailis, arguing that this Shia Muslim community represents a relatively moderate, minority sect of Islam in the United States. I wrote:
Rather than reaching out– as both presidents Bush and Obama mistakenly did—to problematic organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s expressly political agenda, Perry’s choice to engage with a more ‘progressive’ group is a good sign.
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Like the baha’i? New World Order Persian messianic muslims?
go to hell you ignorant moron… you people want to win so badly that you are willing to believe SOMETHING connected to mohammad can be good and true.
you have been warned.. go on and sell yourselves out for the big win..
stupid is as stupid does..
Guidelines check. Yo, Moderator! Garbage cleanup on aisle 9 please!
guidelines?
are you cracked?
this is the fricking fate of the world we are debating..
go on and refute me.. you have all sorts of lefty morons promoting ‘progressive’ values here.. and you want to single ME out as trash?
I have a stellar record of the promotion of the ideal that ‘Americanization is Salvation’
don’t you people ever dare doubt my love for freedom.. especially while you call for my censorship… hypocrite..
Since no US president since Dhimmi Carter, or perhaps since Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, has been genuinely islamo-realist, the last thing the world needs indeed is another oh-my-islam-is-so-wonderful-babbling dhimmi in the White House.
True, but be careful not to throw out a good thing.
Perry may very well be of the mistaken pluralistic stars-and-sunshine belief of coddeling up to the Muslim community and turning a blind eye to their ultimate objectives, and may have developed a habit of hopping over their not so unobtrusive agendas lying about in the middle of the road.
On the other hand, taking a really close look at events and his policies may put his attitude in context. Maybe it wasn’t the ideal policy but the best option he had when faced with the choice of alienating a large section of Texans. Maybe he did it with his arm twisted behind his back.
Worried I am but he is too much of a perfect candidate to hastily get rid of in as a result of obamalookalieaphobia.
In the beginning I was worried; that if he was so perfect than he was too perfect to be true. Now we just have to be aware and check the facts.
Btw islamophobia = fear of something dangerous that hates you and wants to destroy you… Possibly.
Then again maybe the spider that entertains your arachnophobic dreams isn’t really going bite you.. Possibly
vangrungy, I’m no Perry supporter – far from it – but you are doing your cause harm by your ignorance.
You apparently don’t know much about the baha’i. They are a LONG way from being “New World Order Persian messianic muslims”.
If you’d left off that last word, you’d be on target, but the baha’i are ANYTHING BUT Muslim! They have been murdered and tortured by Islam. The tenets of their religion are nothing like Islam. (Well, except in the fact that they are both wrong, of course.)
Saying things like that only discredits your position.
There is another set of problems unrelated to what the Left or Right have as grievances (real or imagined) against Gov. Perry, and that is: does he back up what he says?
He has said that he wants to get the federal government out of our lives, and now he must put forward what, in particular, we can do without. How about a list of the top 5 agencies or departments (not mere spending programs but entire bureaucracies) that are interfering with our lives and cost way too much. I would like to see Ag, EPA, Ed, Energy and Labor on that list… the FDA, FCC, BATFE and a few others also come to mind. Trimming ‘regulations’ leaves the beast intact to grow anew, the only sure way to end power is to end the appendage that has it.
Then he has floated the idea of repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments, for which I would gladly sign up to help with. He has been a Governor for how long? Has he pushed this through the TX legislature? Has he talked and worked with other States to help get this started? That would put action to his words and start the ball rolling and he could have done that years ago… words and concepts are nice, yes indeed, but where are the actions? And as this is a very stark view of the US Constitution and the balance of powers within it, not some set of spending programs, I would think that some work would have been started long ago to remove these two Progressive Amendments and start rolling back the Progressive State.
If he can’t do as he says on a core belief or even come out with what needs to go from government, then he has a problem. Why should anyone trust him on minor programmatics when he is unwilling to fill in the big picture? He has certainly been fearless on attacking others, but what does he have to say about himself? A fighter is nice, yes, but what will he fight FOR? I wait for him to fill in the first part and can only shake my head on the second as he has missed a grand opportunity to utilize his skill and power of persuasion to truly help the entire Nation from the Governor’s Office in TX. And that is worrying.
Read his book. If you cannot read, perhaps you know someone who knows someone who can read? He has explained himself on all the major issues, but perhaps in “big words”, which are problematical for y’all?
A cheap shot is more representative of your lack of any viable arguement then anything it implies about the poster you criticise.
Shouting out for help here. I just saw the Perry-heckler-kid-about-creationism vid. Somebody please tell me that Perry is not a creationist candidate.
If Perry has anything to do with elevating creationism to the status of a regular curriculum subject in Texas, my world is torn asunder. I will only be able to hope that this will not only stay private as president, but also stay hidden in the campaign.
Better yet, tell me not to worry and that I’m making a mountain out of a molehill.
Don’t worry, you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. A good majority believe that God created the universe, so Perry is in good company – the bulk of the American people. Absolutely nothing wrong with being on the right side of history and reality.
Those of us Tea Partiers with the humility not to claim knowledge of the origins of the universe have some numbers as well. I’m more into the health of the country than endorsement of others’ personal religious views, and don’t want the thorns with the rose.
Either you believe in Creation, or you believe in Darwin. Take your pick. Personally, I would not be seen dead with Darwin.
Fren – So which religion do you believe in? Creationism or Darwinism?
Last I saw they were Theories!. Do you know the difference?
Do you believe in Liberalism also?
Learn to think.
Here is the problem before you go:
There is a pond.
It has a single lily pad on it.
That lily pad doubles in size each day.
After 30 days the pond is completely covered by the lily pad.
On which day is the pond half covered?
Answer that and do not cheat. The clue will be further down the posts comments.
Science confirmed the “In the Beginning,” of the bible…..they called it the big bang.
Seeing as to how “creationism” has been the accepted explanation for a few milennia, only having been shoved aside in the last century or so as “mainstream”, what is wrong with a return to at least presenting it as an option, together with supporting evidence? If one wanted to weight the two options with solid scientific evidence, darwinism is found seriously wanting. To believe some transcendent and pre-existing being made all this when none of it was here is NOT a religious perspective. Hah, even the native indian peoples have their tall tales for how it all began, and many of these are taught in the schools. Talk about religions doctrine being “forced” upon the “impressionable” students.. ever hear of “snot boy”? Perry does not promote religious instruction in Texas’ schools. And the teahcing of creationism as a plausible exlpanation for how it all got here is NOT religious instruction. Not even Darwin has any plausible explanation for how something got here when nothing was.. and if all this has been here eternally, then HOW did it get here then? And don’t try that “big bang” theory fairytale on me, either. Einstain proved the interrelationship between matter and energy. So, if there was energy to make the bang, where did THAT come from? Remember E equals MC squared? E is energy, M is mass. Both are objects… if one originated from the other, then where did the first one come from? This has NEVER been explained by science. Talk about a religion…. complete with seminaries, high priests of knowledge and “truth”, rules of behaviour, excommunication, clergy and laity, cardinal sins, sacred writings, catechisms, creeds; its all there in this whatever you wanna call the substitute for creation.
Because Creationism isn’t science. Science has a defined set of assumptions and procedures that Creationism simply does not comply with. Talking about the divine origin of life is as out of place in a science class as talking about the divine origin of lighting bolts.
Yet most scientific discoveries were done in the hopes of “understanding the mind of God.”
I don’t have any knowledge about this incident, but I do love how the mere mention of someone believing God created the universe is enough to send so many people into a fit of terror and revulsion!
Please tell us that you are not a fool who believes that life and intelligence sprang spontaneously from inorganic matter? That we are only chance collocations of subatomic particles, with no inherent worth or purpose? That your kindred and the worms in your garden are of equal value? That the fantastic order in the universe is accidental? That we are each, ergo, entitled to do unto others as we please? That matter is eternal? That effects happen without causes?
Perhaps only moral morons, desperate to lead sinful lives, fight so stupidly to keep God out of the picture? Best shape up; eternity is an unending duration in Hell.
A few days after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, Governor Perry wrote the following (Islam is a religion of peace editorial) in part:
“I ask that all Texans be mindful that the attacks on New York City and Washington are not the work of the Islamic faithful, but the work of terrorists – of fanatics – who have HIJACKED (emphasis mine)the name of religion for their campaign of hatred…..Like most of the world’s major religions, the Islamic faith preaches peace, love and tolerance. Indeed, terrorism is the antithesis of the basic tenet to which the one billion Islamic followers all over the world adhere.”
Does Governor Perry still hold the same views? Does it matter to David Reaboi and the readers?
Given that pretty much every major Western political leader did this, in part to prevent any kind of guilt by association mob retribution on muslims living in the West, I have trouble getting worked up over it.
That pretty much every major Western political leader did this, is a large part of the problem is it not? Or are you so blinded by your partisanship, you think it is a good thing to mislead the public about the core teachings of Islam? To prevent any kind of guilt by association, mob retribution, etc., on peaceful Muslims living in the West, a good leader tells the public, “We are not going to tolerate guilt by association or mob retribution. A good leader does not lie to the public like Mr. Obama is doing, following George W. Bush’s example and then some. I have trouble with your defense of this kind of dangerous deception.
Remember the old saying? (Mark Twain I think.) One of the best ways to intelligently exercise your vote is to consult a well-meaning idiot and vote the opposite to what he (or she) says. Well, I’m uncertain whether the media and all the progressive press folks are well-meaning, but a good number of them are idiots. Why would the MSM – which is notorious for believing its #1 duty is to support the progressive/socialist/what-do-ya-call-it Democratic Party – write and publish any honest appraisal of a GOP potential candidate for any office???
Remember how, as the GOP primary tightened up in ’08, the NY Times came out for McCain?? Remember how so many of you Repubs jumped on that like a frog on a Junebug? Remember how McCain got beat like a red-headed stepchild in the election? Now let’s think: is the NY Times a right-wing paper? No. Does it even look like it might sometimes even be unbiased? Not a chance. So, why are we going to let the MSM – remember: “I felt a tingle in my leg” Matthews?? – endorse candidates for us????? I’m nearly 70 and I ain’t that senile yet.
As far as Perry not publishing a detailed list of “What I wanna do when I be President”, have any of the other candidates – including President Obama – done that? No? Then why in hell do you expect – nay, demand! – that Perry do that?? Get real. I’m gonna vote for Ron Paul in the primary if he’s still on the ballot. If he wins, I’ll vote for Paul. If he (Paul) loses, I’ll vote for Perry in the election. And if you had any sense, you would do the same.
Why would you vote for Perry if Ron Paul does not win the nomination? It does not make sense. They are a world apart!
Be consistent! Vote for Ron Paul!
Half-informed is very often much worse than stone ignorant. You’ve got homework to do.
The things Ron Paul doesn’t have in common with Rick Perry, Paul has in common with the hard left.
Now here is somebody after my own heart, thank you for your reasonable posting Ike. I am almost 77 and not senile either, although some former friends chided me over voting for or writing in Ron Paul in prior presidential elections. If Perry isn’t on the ballot I will write in Ron Paul again as I have no high opinions of any of the other current contenders. I like Perry and I consider myself a realist taking the good with the not so good, as long as Perry represents some of my concerns and philosophies. One person cannot possibly be 100% perfect.
So, you’re voting for Obama then?
Paul is fine as far as the economy. Foreign policy? Nope – he thinks everything wrong in the world is our fault and we deserve every hit and death of our people. He’s like the Chinese emperor – burn the ships and build a great wall to keep the insiders in and the outsiders out. A little late in the day for that policy.
OK, Perry is #1 in my mind. A question to all of you, if a good conservative were to get our nomination, whether, Bachmann, Cain or Perry, will you contribute at least 100 dollars? Are there 10 million of us out here who will do so? That alone gives him (or her) one billion dollars to match Obama’s more tainted dollars that come from only God knows where.
Yes. We have to, and I’ll double mine if someone else can’t.
I just contributed 100 dollars to Ron Paul, thank you very much!
That does not mean that you’re wrong spending your 100 dollars on whomever you feel like. It’s your liberty you’re putting your money on it!
Yeah, right! Cain – ex Chairman of a Federal reserve branch! Bachmann – ex tax attorney (good luck with voting for attorneys). Yeah, Perry – Bilderberg-er and CFR-er.
Live well and happy!
It’s not a question of voting for the R nominee; any of them have my vote. The question is can Perry win the swing states and the center. Conservatives seem to think they are 100% of the electorate, try 40%. That leaves another 11% to obtain. Bush had to literally hold everything and Ohio to beat Gore. Can Perry win any blue or purple states; WI, PA, MI, OH, NV, Colorado, etc. That’s what worries me about Perry, and he has started out very badly from the pov of the general election.
“any of them have my vote.”
Why? Why should any of them have your vote? Like McCain had your vote last time around?
The message we should send to the establishment is that “voting for the lesser evil” does not work anymore! This is what they’re counting on: that you will vote for the lesser evil and that’s why they’re putting in front of you the same good, same good ole’ boys.
If they only knew you’re not going to vote for the lesser evil… you would hear a completely different tune from them…
I wrote to the RNC and told them that my family will not vote for the lesser of two evils. We either get an conservative or we make write-ins. We are not even Repubs we are Independents, you know the category everybody believes put Obama into office. Not this family.
People like you said that about Reagan, too. He won in a landslide – twice.
Yes. My husband and I have already discussed this. Whoever gets the GOP nomination for President, we will support as best we can. It’s imperative we NOT have another 4 years of Barry. We also need control of the Senate. After that, we can starting weeding RINOs out in the 2014 and 2016 elections.
The author of the article is pretty good at lampooning also! To point fingers is a bit…….! Both parties have very long histories as does the media of what the author condemns the ‘otherside’ for. In 2016 the GOP will be employing the very same tactics after brushing up on ‘their own’ this election cycle.
“One method of political warfare involves stoking a controversy and building a wedge between a constituency and an otherwise-favored candidate.”
Right, such as the recent PJ LIfestyle offering that ridicules Gov. Perry’s past membership in the Texas A&M Corp of Cadets — comparing him to some “Animal House” super nerd because of it.
Is Gov. Perry the same person who wanted to secede from the rest of US? Why he wants to be president of a country that he doesn’t want to be part of? And why he didn’t announce his candidacy in Texas?
Federalism at any cost?
Perry was wanting to secede from the corruption and tyranny emanating from DC and the super-government that plagues us all and is destroying us. He’d rather remove Texas from it than go down with the ship. A sentiment that I find admirable. Now he’s taking a shot at the helm of the ship, with the intention to steer it from the iceberg so it WON”T go down…. the Big Question is whether, even if elected and TRIES to do it all right, he will be able to. The current pretender in chief has managed to usurp power on an unprecedented level in spite of the “checks and balances” and spheres of authority/function built into our COnstitution. This proves to me that the bulk of the rest of the government are complicit with the kenyan in his bid for dictatorship. Unless most of that “rest of the government” changes, Perry will find both hands tied behind his back, himself relatively powerless to DO much. I can imagine him signing an executive order stripping the EPA of all of its power, reducing it to a “suggestive” body requiring the approval of both houses to enact any of its stupid rules. Could ANYONE stand up to the power the EPA and other alphabet soup agencies now bear here in the US? He’d have to have the military solidly behind him.. something the present administration seems doubtful to have.
As Cain said in the recent Republican debate, “America has got to learn to take a joke.” I believe Perry found a very succinct way to jokingly remind the federal government that States’ rights will and should be defended. Personally, some Demo rats are starting to look like coyotes to this Texan.
Carla, when Texas joined the USA, part of the deal was that Texas could scede from the USA if its citizens so desired.Also, the public lands in Texas remained Stae, not Federal lands. If the USa does not repeal obamanism and return to a capitalistic democratic republic, the citizens of Texas may well, and legally, choose to secede. Who wants to live under a communist/moslem dictatorship?
Also, we are special just because we are Texans. True, a few wimps have infiltrated; but we’ll ship them north when and if we cut loose from the Pelosi-Reid-Obama,” unholy trinity” bunch.
There is no such thing as being just a little bit pregnant, nor is there any sense in just supporting the ‘good’ evil.
One must be able to tell the difference from deception and delusion.
As far as I am aware, the mormons are soft on Islam. This is not to their credit.
Just a little bit of sharia is way too much.
If Perry did not touch, he would not get soiled.
I admit that I don’t know much about Mr. Perry. I like what I see so far. However, one thing bothers me that is only tangentially related to Mr. Perry and that is the story reveals the extent of the incursions Muslims have made into America. Even a no-nonsense conservative Texan Governor is tangled up with it in some way. This coming right after Obama, the first American President with too much Islam in his background for comfort, only adds to it. I think that the influence that Muslims are exerting in America is disproportionate to their numbers and unapologetic with respect to their refusal to assimilate.
Before 911 most people thought islam was pretty much the same as Judaism and Christianity. After 911 people wanted to find out as much as possible about islam – that includes talking to them. Why wouldn’t Perry, logically, do the same thing?
Thomas Jefferson did so a couple hundred years ago and then wrote that no muslim should be allowed anywhere near a Western country.
Best thing to do is outlaw all brainwashing of children into any religion. When you turn 18, you can do what you want. It’s really not fair for children to be brainwashed at these early ages because they lose the intellectual ability to know real from imaginary and right from wrong. That solves the great majority of the religions problems. All of these jihadists were brainwashed at an early age.
You’ve just advocated the brainwashing of ALL children into the religion of darwin/humanist/secularism. A sure ticket to hell.
Try this – MYOB
Gov Perry is not my candidate, I’m holding out for Gov. Palin. But I would have to look very seriously at Gov. Perry should Palin not announce.
In that eventuality, I will look at the totality of Gov. Perry’s record and make my decision. The notion of mandatory shots for girls is very troubling at this point, I’ll need to know more about this. Additionally, the relationship with the Muslim community will garner my consideration. The red lines are the potentiality of Sharia Law and even the remove possibility of murdering of young women who don’t toe the religious line (Honor Killing).
Muslims must acclimate to the American culture not operate as an isolated segment of our population.
One other thing that I find annoying about the Gov. Palin campaign.
He has a political hack prominent on Twitter that practices the spreading of lies as tools of his trade.
For example, he is making baseless claims that Gov. Palin has secretly decided not to announce and plans to throw her support behind Gov. Perry.
I have confirmed by very well placed in Gov. Palin’s team that this is absolutely false.
This guy is going to end up turning people who would otherwise support Gov. Perry away from him. People are to well connected today for this practice to go on.
“One other thing that I find annoying about the Gov. Palin campaign.”
You did mean the Gov PERRY campaign, didn’t you? But dig deep & tell the truth…what do you find annoying about the Gov Palin “campaign”? That there is no campaign?
“He has a political hack prominent on Twitter that practices the spreading of lies as tools of his trade.”
Is this “political hack” paid by Perry’s campaign to spread lies & make baseless claims about Palin? Surely, Perry would want to take credit for another “job created.” Or is the “political hack” just another nobody among the millions who participate in America’s national sport of lying about Palin for free?
Mr. Potato Head, good name to go with your accusation. Doesn’t everybody have a nonimpeachable source within the Palin campaign? Puuuleeze!
Mr. Reaboi; you said, “the left will have lost this wedge issue. Let’s hope they do”.
Well, I fail to see how the Left has a “wedge” when their “charmer” in Chief has Muslim advisors in the WH that actively support the MB. Should they croticize Perry for his associations of any kind with Muslims; then perry can unleash a very real and devastating counter attack together with facts and examples of the influence if Islamists on O’s foreign policy decisions and also his cozy relationship with the MB.
It doesn’t make sense. Shia and Sunni muslims may disagree doctrinally in some instances but they are ONE when the SHTF. You are playing a very dangerous game meddling with this kind of subject matter. Perry probably hasn’t got a clue either; but will be a quick study if he runs into the need to “study up” a little. I would be comforted more if Perry eventually showed me unequivocally that he understands Islamic supremacy and the Islamists plans to take down anyone that disagrees with Islam. When Adminanutjob of Iran and his minions worldwide openly shout for the destruction of Israel and America; there is no worse idiocy than apologizing for Shia muslims. Shia and Sunni may have political differences but they share the exact same faith – both factions are dedicated Islamists. Bottom line:
Perry needs to ‘splain hisself.
Mr. Reaboi,
There is no such thing as a moderate or minority Muslim. They have ALL particpated in the Dhimmitude of infidels for the past 4,000 years of jihad against the world where there are now 1.5 Billion.
These simple and crystal clear historical (and occurring) facts don’t have to be gleened by each of us, they’re painfully spelled out where I’m rather curious and even suspicious of self-declared pundits who apparently are blind to it all;
Islam, peaceful Islam, is about destruction of all Kafir civilization http://bit.ly/nVoSOo
What Islam Isn’t By Dr. Peter Hammond http://bit.ly/62aHxu
“Islamism is not a movement to be engaged, it is an enemy to be defeated.” http://bit.ly/cCU5LW
Islam: The Religion of Peace ( And A Whole Bunch of Dead Bodies) http://bit.ly/cY94uX
Former Muslim Speaks Out http://tinyurl.com/25tztmy
Islam Permits Lying to Deceive Unbelievers and Bring World Domination! by Dr. Don Boys
http://bit.ly/KIwW1
“…Gov. Perry took an oath to uphold the U.S. and Texas constitutions, and the principles enumerated in those documents are what guide his leadership.”
There is one issue that Perry has clearly not upheld the principles of our Founding Fathers and the Supreme Law of our land. He has pulled at the glue that binds us together and makes us the exceptional country we are – American Sovereignty.
Traveling to Mexico for a speech which included “Si, si puete” (Yes We Can), the Texas Dream Act and the Trans-Texas corridor all rush the recent memory of our desperate fight against Bush, McCain, Kennedy, Reid and Pelosi from having them force the Shamnesty bill down our throats. And we nearly lost that battle.
Why on earth would ANY of us even think of nominating Perry with this firmly in mind?
Rick Perry not a true conservative by Tancredo http://politi.co/pv9OnW
Does GOP want Perrys DREAM act too? http://bit.ly/lmyB3R
We have lost the battle already, see Obama’s underhanded way of granting amnesty to the illegals that haven’t committed serious felonies. I like Perry and I will vote for him if he is on the ballot. Nobody is perfect but some come closer than others.
Censoring in the entire deletion of posts which includes links to critical and supporting information is simply asinine regardless of what mindless excuses can be invented.
To keep a clear perspective, I’d vote for the dog catcher in Peoria if I thought he had a good chance of ridding the country of Obama. Perry on stage looks good at the outset. If he picked Allen West to run with him, I’d feel more comfortable because West knows our enemies and how to deal with them. Sheriff Jo keeps coming up with brilliant ideas in his little bailiwick which projected to the national scene would be a delight. America had two problems, neither properly recognized: The economy and Islam. We added a third problem when we put Obama into the WH. He’ll be eliminated in a year but we need a team which will deal effectively with the economy and Islam.
i am a life long Texan. we love our governor. he will win the election and be our next president. get used to it.
A life long Texan, like you, urged me (a life-long Republican) to vote for George W. Bush in 2000. She loved her governor — that is, until she saw what he did as president. Bush won the election, thanks to me and millions of other conservatives who voted for him. He became be our next president after Clinton. We got used to it. We got used to the untruths he told about Islam (see Perry’s statement, #12 above) Too used to it. Let’s hope conservatives do not repeat the same mistake with Perry – if he is elected president, November 2012 – that we did with Bush. Because it gave us Obama; America’s worst nightmare. Silence, srk, is not an option.
And now Perry is calling for regime change in Syria. The lesson to take away, he doesn’t have to like W to share W’s flaws. Syria has zero strategic importance to the US, just as Libya and Afghanistan lack strategic importance. Iraq was the only theater that ever deserved more than a few special ops guys and a lot of well disperse ordinance. Our people are getting slaughtered “nation building” to fulfill the neocon illusion of spreading democracy.
If a people want democracy they had better damned sure fight for it themselves, because no one ever appreciated having it handed to them.
Personally, I think Perry knew his initiative to shut down the “sanctuary” cities in Texas would die in the legislature, it was just kabuki theater. The real Rick Perry is in favor of in state tuition for illegals, again, just like W.
Syria is one of the regions leading state sponsors of terrorism and a close ally to Iran; an inveterate enemy of Israel. Syria gives refuge to Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. If Muslim Brotherhood take over Syria, as it appears poised to do in Egypt, Syria will remain a state sponsor of terrorism, is my best guess. If MB takes over Syria we will probably see more persecution of Christian minorities and other minorities as we see in Iraq and increasingly in Egypt.
Like I said. Syria has zero strategic importance to the United States.
Perhaps my eyes deceived me, but I thought that was Hilary Clinton on TV yesterday calling for Bashir Assad to go. She was so strong and convincing in her white angel’s collar and blond hair flowing. I was touched and I am sure Assad will resign tomorrow.
Oh stop. Bush was NOT a bad president (as far as they go). He wasn’t great – but he wasn’t this nightmare we have in office right now. Shoot – Clinton wasn’t a bad president, either. Neither can compare to Reagan who WAS great but the closest you can come to barry was the black years of Carter – and Barry makes HIM look like a piker.
One method of political warfare involves stoking a controversy and building a wedge between a constituency and an otherwise-favored candidate.
When this President trots out his long list of people to blame for our lousy economy, he names Republicans/congressional obstructionists only interested in political POWER.
That is pure projection on Barry’s part.
For the next 15 months, Leftoids will be doing anything and everything in their power to diminish Rick Perry and Texas’ success under his stewardship.
They’ll have a tough road on this one, however, as any effective management, any fiscal responsibility, any employment…is leaps and bounds beyond anything that crowd of wild spending, statist, pick-and-choose-which-laws-to-enforce, government-by-executive-fiat MORONS in Washington DC has accomplished.
Liberals try to discredit the Lone Star State’s economic success
When I read about the Islamic judge appointed by Christie or any associations of Governor Perry, red flags go up.
Groups like CAIR, the Islamic Society of North America, and even the Muslim Students’ Assn. (and there are more) work on behalf of an explicit agenda by attempting to reach American political leaders with money and patronage.
The objective of such flattery and patronage is unchanged and unchanging, the religion exactly as described by Winston Churchill over a century ago…”a militant and proselytizing faith”.
And nothing has changed from the 1991 Ikhwan (“Brotherhood”) handbook:
“The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
The “Bloggers” who slapped at Perry with the “Fifth Column” meme used very, very thin evidence and went mad with it. It is embarrassing.
Anyone who watched the MSM destroy Palin because she is an outsider to the ruling elite expect the same to be done to Perry or anyone else who challenges the political class. The un-curious always fall for propaganda, despite the internet’s vast information on government actions.
In Perry’s case, he is also subject to non-southern feelings of superiority over the states that were part of the confederacy 150 years ago. (Hollywood has supported that viewpoint forever.) Most of the People will invent reasons to promote their own ideology/prejudices. (Remember how they claimed BushII was stupid? Any Texan who read Michener’s book “Texas” never got past the first chapter where he said Texas students in the Univ of Texas were stupid and that northerners attending the school were the only bright ones.)
Another case of ignorance is the assumption that the Bushes were Texans. They were northeastern liberals who co-opted ‘Texan’ to promote the idea that they were conservatives. They were part of the political class with faux accents. Assuming everyone from a state is the same is not exactly intelligent reason.
I knew little about Islam in 2001 and tended to buy into President Bush’s attempts to calm down the population by referencing it as “the religion of peace”.
10 years later and hundreds if not thousands of attacks perpetrated worldwide in the name of Islam later (not to mention all the attacks preceding 911, e.g., the 1993 “blind sheikh” attack on the WTC after which Islamists vowed to come back and get it right), having read the Koran a couple of times & studied Mohammed’s actual life as opposed to the hype…now I believe the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood around the 1920′s, Hasan al-Banna:
“It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
Well before that era, America’s John Quincy Adams had it right:
“In the seventh century of the Christian era a wandering Arab, of the
lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent
genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent
spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven,
and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the
earth. Adopting, from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the
doctrine of one omnipotent God, he connected indissolubly with it the
audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
Adopting, from the new revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of
immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by
adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the
gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human
felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex,
and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and
exterminating war as a part of his religion against all the rest of
mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the
brutal over the spiritual part of human nature….While the merciless
and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there
never can be peace on earth and good will toward men. The hand of
Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.”
David Reaboi may, or may not, be right about Perry’s connections, I have an open mind about that, but he (David Reaboi) is condescending towards legit bloggers and their legit concerns.
“… as more respected commentators dismiss the assertions leveled against Perry by these bloggers…”
Who decides who is the more respected? Reaboi sounds like the New York Times, elitist and manipulative.
all you conservatives and Republicans — Perry is much like Obama in 2008.
He’s telling his likely supporters out there exactly what they want to hear.
Sure enough, they swooned, and gushed, and fawned over him like crazy.
And now, it’s you, doing the same, swallowing it all, hook, line and sinker.
Pamela Geller, Michelle Malkin, and many others, are sounding the alarm.
Listen up!
I was in a chat room recently when somebody started asking about Perry and his ideas on immigration, I retorted back what about Obamas actions on immigration, he kept hammering away about Perry I kept hammering away about Obama, the room finally realized that we need to go after Obama and not our own!
What we need is to promote the best person for the job, not anoint Perry without question just because a clic of authors at PJM want us to.
We need to go after Obama with the best, not just the most popular. If the Perry worshipers can’t take it from other conservatives they don’t have much of a chance in the final round.
The most popular wins JustAl. Not always the best. Look at our current resident of the White House. The worst, but the most popular in 2008. It will be scary for conservatives to pick the realistically strongest candidate to overthrow the Obama regime. None of us will be 100% happy with any candidate, but we must not throw away our voices and our votes with pie in the sky dreams and write-in candidates. I myself will follow a poster above’s advice to donate $100 to the consevative candidates’ campaign no matter who he/she is. Conservatives must not allow the ass media nor quibbling to divide us. We are in the fight of our lifetimes. Our country and our culture stand on the edge of a knife.
So many conservative candidates so many cabinet positions to fill, maybe there is hope after 2012 after all.
The more the merrier on the debate stage. Barak Hussein Obama made all kinds of wonderful promises, transparency comes to mind, a great example of takyiia: tell your enemy whatever they want to believe, it’s ok to lie to advance Islam. So, yes we need to hear specifics from each and every candidate. No question is off limits.
I see a smarmy and well rehearsed presenter when Perry speaks…I don’t see anything genuine about him. Quite Honestly, in a couple of vids where I watch him as he speaks, he has MANY of GWB’s mannerisms…nuances (NOTICE the “I” here please read that for what it is MY opinion, my view.)Perry and Islam is but a fraction of who Perry is. Blessedly, we have time to do our homework.
Of great interest is the huge Perry Defender League that has sprung up!!! Haven’t seen it for Sarah Palin or Bachmann…conservatives are blessed to have a bounty of candidates to choose from…hell the left hasn’t dropped BHO because they have ndad, nyet, nothin…who would they run Hillary Weinergate Clinton? Pelosi’s name came up once…excuse me while I stop laughing…
We need principled LEADERSHIP, not a politician who will tickle our ears all day long. As much of a cliche as it may be, we need a man or woman who will follow the will of THE PEOPLE, who is a Patriot, and who will execute the job that he/she is primarily elected to do: defend and protect the Constitution of the United States from enemies both foreign and domestic.
This is a very important point: Islam is the biggest threat America faces DESPITE THE HORRENDOUS STATE OF THE ECONOMY – You smear Pamela Geller – a true hero standing against the abomination, we have conquered you mega-mosque in the title of your article…I don’t see her mentioned IN the article (did I miss it?) But read this and learn that Islam is our biggest threat:
http://catchkevin.com/islam-not-protected/
Islam and the West are incompatible. Muslims can swear allegiance to no one but their god, which is why they push so hard for sharia law, sharia financing, etc.
Let the debates continue. Let’s make sure the hard questions get answered.
“In other words, the curriculum on Islam is open to a very “Texas” interpretation, and an example of one such interpretation (PDF) needs a response from Perry’s critics.”
No. His critics need a response from him. The fact that Texas caught this and made appropriate corrections says nothing about what Perry’s views are on this matter. Where’s the reference to the PDF in question or should we just take your word that Perry is aware and approved?
Should we forget that in the run up to the 2008 elections there were questions (critics) concerning Obama’s connections with people with anti-American or radical, socialist views including Bill Ayers, a former Weatherman, his wife Beranadine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, the Reverend Wright, Louis Farakhan, Tony Rezko, George Soros, ACORN, the SEIU? What about his school records at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard, his long form birth certificate, etc., etc. Many of these questions remain unanswered because Obama took the approach you’re suggesting Perry take and the media let him slide. To suggest, now, that a candidate for any office should be permitted the same “courtesy” is to ignore recent history.
“(1) Perry brushes off the attacks against him from a small number of bloggers on the right, who continue to marginalize themselves with hyperbolic pronouncements about his ‘fifth column candidacy.’”
The “small number of bloggers on the right” are not marginalizing themselves, it’s people like you who are acting willfully or submissively to avoid attacks from the Muslim Organizations that come out of the woodwork at the mere mention of Islam by an infidel. Should you not know this, Sir, you might be among the billions of “infidels” (non-Muslims) the Muslims intend to convert, subjugate or eliminate. What is your religion?
This “small” but growing group of bloggers have woken up to the fact that Muslims, main stream Muslims that the media insists are a “small minority of extremists,” are an increasingly virulent threat around the world because people in or seeking a leadership position have been intimidated by organizations like CAIR and the alphabet soup of Muslim organizations, firmly entrenched in the halls of influence and power, in Europe and America who suggest that such criticism could result in violence and is the source of the Muslim hatred of the West. Odd, is it not, that the so called “religion of peace” always threatens or perpetrates violence. Burn a Bible? Ho Hum! Burn a Koran? Death threats; mob violence; riots in the streets; murder. The intent is to modify the 1st Amendment to the Constitution concerning the freedom of speech which should no longer include speech critical, in any way, of Islam or its adherents, Muslims. The UN and the OIC are hard at work.
So, Governor Perry, following your advice falls into this trap of dhimmitude. Look it up if you have to.
Our leaders, most especially the President of the United States, needs to speak out, forcefully, expose the face of the real threat, let’s call it “militant Islam,” that lurks like a snake in the grass waiting to strike at our throats. That there are peaceful, Westernized, non violent Muslims in America and elsewhere I have no doubt, perhaps even a majority, though their relative silence, while understandable, leaves it impossible to determine but how big a percentage of the 2.2 billion worldwide (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/27/2-2-billion-worlds-muslim-population-doubles/) would it take to put a wrinkle in your brow? And with polygamy allowed under Sharia, above average birth rates and the incentive of generous financial aid how long before that number doubles again?
The Left will continue to use this dispute to damage Perry as they will do to every non Democratic, non-RINO candidate. So then we had all just better shut up and stop asking for clarification on potentially critical issues? I don’t think so.
I stand by my first impression of Perry He’s a RINO.
Remember birds of a feather flock together. Muslim contact, muslim contact, muslim contact. Just be very careful.
Where there is smoke… I’ll believe his innocence when Rick Perry and the leaders of the American Islamic Leadership Council stand up and denounce al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other jihadist supporters. I’ll believe it when they also admit Islam’s desire to take over the world and create a one world Islamist state. Otherwise he’s guilty by association and nothing you can say will change that.
Perhaps Perry, whom no one can deny is a very astute politician, is just being canny. It could very well be that this is a step leading peaceful Muslims to publicly condemn the terrorists. The old “catch more flies with honey than vinegar” wise saying. If you aren’t with us, you’re against us. I believe Perry’s allegiance to Israel is a long and consistently proven fact.
I have a few qualms about my Gov, but (at this point), he is generating an awful lot of energy and enthusiasm among conservatives who just aren’t excited about Romney and others. I think the biggest problem is the national fatigue with Texas governors as President. I am joking here because it wouldn’t go over with the gun shy, but I enjoy the image of a T-shirt with Perry on one side shooting the coyote and Oblahblah on the other side riding a bike wearing that stupid helmet.
“It could very well be that this is a step leading peaceful Muslims to publicly condemn the terrorists. The old “catch more flies with honey than vinegar” wise saying.”
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Catching flies with honey worked for Sir Neville Chamberlain. He caught a lot of flies. Why wouldn’t it work for a President Perry?
What’s Chamberlain have to do with the price of eggs in China? Why not compare Perry to Carter, Churchill, Clinton, Thatcher, Gandhi? Pull any leader’s name out of a hat?
Catching flies with honey is what most politicians do, not just Chamberlain and not all as disastrously. Some astutely and with good consequences up the road. No one who knows anything about Perry would call him an appeaser the first thing out of his/her mouth. Similarly, no one who knows much about Perry would question his commitment to Israel. That’s a ridiculous stand. You can see our Muslim extremist enemy through clear eyes but try to work sensibly with ones you believe are just trying to have a good life in America. Most of us are uncomfortable about the Japanese detention during WWII. If Perry’s being politically correct with peaceful Muslims while perhaps earning their support against terrorism, what’s wrong with that?
I can’t imagine his supporting a mosque where the World Trade Center was.
The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic challenger Bill White agree that while plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero have stirred controversy, they don’t object to a local decision affirming the Islamic group’s right to build it.
A New York City planning commission voted this week to clear the way for a planned Islamic community center and mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks….
Rick Perry does indeed support the ground zero supremacist mega-mosque. He says it is a local decision or issue. He is wrong. It is a national issue. The 9/11/2001 Muslim-terror sneak attacks in New York and Washington were attacks on America; on all Americans. It is a national issue; not a local issue.
Well, IF, and I do mean IF he isn’t in bed with the muslim agenda I suggest he get some serious counselling from those in the know ( Robert Spencer, Bill Warner etc.) about the incredible danger that islam is to the USA. We cannot have another muslim butt -kissng potus in office, the country simply won’t survive it.
Two words: he isn’t. There is NO comparison between Perry and the butt-kissing, ass-in- the-air-before-an-Arab- king Muslim we DO have in the White House. Look at the facts of his support of Israel before you throw him into such despicable company.
How do you know she’s not referring to both former President Bush and Obama? Perry’s support for Israel is commendable. Bush was also considered to be a strong Christian supporter of Israel until the Saudis got to him. Between Bush and Rice it looked like good cop / bad cop, as Rice compared the Jews to white racists in the south and the Palestinians to southern blacks. Bush became the first American president to make the establishment of a Muslim-enemy state in Israel a “formal goal of U.S. policy,” within days of the 9/11 Muslim-terror atrocities in New York and Washington. Obama is pursuing the Bush “vision” with alacrity. Something seems to happen to a born again Christian when he makes it the White House. What’s to say that Governor Perry will not, like Bush, kiss King Abdullah and bow to his demands, thereby selling out Israel? Why shouldn’t we expect a repeat perfomance?
Profiling Texans, eh? If we’re engaging in “what if’s,” who’s to say any other candidate won’t do that? As I said earlier, it’s smart to throw the smelliest garbage out first (extremist Muslims). Fine tuning can come after that.
As for Perry’s invoking Jesus’s name as some numbnuts have griped about because it will offend Americans of other faiths; let Jews, atheists, Muslims and muskrat worshippers show the same tolerance for Christians we show for them–when they’re not blowing us up. Whose name should a Christian invoke? Zeus? Christians have a right to speak of God like anyone of any other faith can. Christians will be muzzled and discriminated against no longer.
Those offended can shut up and vote for the Muslim.
It seems to me the Marxists are busy little bees at work on these pages. We must not allow them to succeed. The harder the Dem o rats come out against ANY Repub candidate, the more we learn about who’s making OweBama’s bowing body part pucker.
And P.S. That’s who I’ll vote for.
I have no problem with a politician invoking Jesus’ name. I welcome it. But if you are going to invoke this Jew’s name, you’d better live by his name. You had better not be rubbing elbows with Jesus’ enemies like Bush did and Obama does, and it would appear Governor Perry does. If a politician says, “I am a friend of Jesus, he had better act like it.
The last time out, the left got a personally charming, good looking man, arguably well spoken, who is a powerful orator and tells them exactly what they want to hear. He claimed to be an ‘outsider’ while having been groomed in a partisan political environment by political activists and politicians. How’d that work out for them? For the rest of us?
Now, the right is enamored of a personally charming and good looking man, arguably well spoken, and who is a powerful orator who tells them exactly what they want to hear. By implication and other public statements,, he often claims to be an ‘outsider,’ after having spent over twenty years in a politically partisan environment and having been groomed by activists and politicians.
How’s that gonna work out for us? For all of us?
The only guy on either side of the ideological divide who is making any sense, constitutionally, is derided by both sides for being a nutjob. …and in some respects, those accusations are justified.
When the only, real, constitutional politician we have is a nutjob?
We are so screwed…
If you are talking about Ron (“Why stop Iran from getting nukes?”) Paul, he is a certifiable nut-job. On foreign policy he is indeed a nut-job.
Try as I might, I see no correspondences between the allegedly powerful orator selected as president in 2008 and the other allegedly powerful orator who declared himself a challenger one week ago today.
zip zilch nada.
This is also going on over at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/smearing_perry_on_jihad.html
and, in response:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/smearing_geller_on_perry.html
The original document appears to be at Jihad Watch:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/why-shouldnt-rick-perrys-islamic-ties-be-vetted.html
What Spencer is primarily saying is that Perry’s ties with Grover Norquist and with Aga Khan need to be thoroughly vetted.
Fren – Here it is:
Go check out the 29th Day. Google it.
Perry said this…
“On behalf of the people of Houston, and 21 million Texans, I want to extend our great appreciation to His Highness the Aga Khan, 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Muslims, and Her Highness the Begum Aga Khan, for your visit to our state and nation. AS YOUR FAITH TEACHES LOVE, charity and peace among men, certainly no one embodies those goals more than His Highness and Her Highness.” -Rick Perry (source:http://i.fat-wa.me/pcYWGh)
It makes little difference the arguments one makes about his connections to which Muslim group. Islam is Islam. There is no love in Islam. There is no GOAL of love in Islam.
If Perry was going around telling people the sky is absolutely not blue and it was never blue, what would people think?
Yeah, they’d think he’s a nutcase and needs a home and a padded room. Saying Islam teaches love is just as ridiculous and insane. I would question the intellectual fortitude of anyone who would willingly support someone who is so detached from reality, confused about the source of our national security problems, and is bearing the conservative banner while saying such psychotic things.
Typically, it’s the left who looses touch with the real world and plays in the land of emotion, pretty words, and hopes and dreams.
Any self-proclaimed Muslim that is for freedom and democracy is a mental patient. You cannot read the Qur’an and Hadiths, as a sane person, and come away with any other impression than Muslims are to wage war against the Kuffar and keep killing and terrifying until everyone gives up and becomes Muslim or is dead.
Getting in the corner of the supposed “nice Muslims” is to willingly accept the precepts of mental illness as your own reality. It’s nonsense.
Logic and reason are dead, the day conservatives start acting like libs. Supporting Perry is to do precisely that. He’s a nice sounding idea and is grabbing the emotional center of many people.
Truthfully, he would probably be a fine President, if our biggest national security problem was not the subversive ideology of Muhammad, of which he is wholly ignorant, obviously.
If Governor Perry is the Christian he says he is, he must loudly announce that Islam is an evil criminal conspiracy , anti-jewish, anti-christian and anti-moral. He must tell the world that Sharia is a vicous, inhuman, barbaric code of law which has no place in our country.He must denounce the Koran as the filth it is.
If he does, I’ll vote once for him in Texas. If he doesn’t, I’ll move to Chicago and vote 14 times for Oscumbag.
Yeah, they’d think he’s a nutcase and needs a home and a padded room. Saying Islam teaches love is just as ridiculous and insane.
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