Comments on: Rick Perry Agrees With Wife, He Has Been Brutalized for Christian Faith

By: Librarian53

Librarian53 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:27:00 +0000

It doesn’t seem that it is his religion, but the way he is pushing those values as the way we should be governed.
The Texas jobs subject is a bit overblown. Of course if one state lowers regulations and/or taxes on businesses, employers will come there to make more profit. But those jobs are simply being robbed from other states. Jobs aren’t being created, as much as being stolen.
We need a net gain in jobs country-wide to improve our economy, not states stealing jobs from other states. That is not a solution to our economic problems.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:44:45 +0000

BRYAN: “This country isn’t all conservative or liberal . . .”

Right, just mostly conservative according to the last few years of Gallup polls measuring ‘U.S. Political Ideology’:

Conservative – 40%
Moderate – 35%
Liberal – 20%

BRYAN: “Calling this place a democracy is a farce, one party gets to rule for 4-8 years with half the population NOT being represented . . .”

Wrong. The population is always represented by its collective vote. You just don’t like the tied is turning against your left-wing.

BRYAN: “‘Compromise’ is not a dirty word, its how this nation should be run.”

Is that what you said after Obama and Democrats had control for 2 straight years? Compromise happens naturally when the elected officials represent the people that voted them into office.

BRYAN: “As far as I’m concerned, if your not a moderate, your not really an American who believes in Democracy!!!”

Moderates are nothing more than arrogant people who claim to be better than everyone else because they are indecisive and usually uninformed. Indecision isn’t a solution or an ideology, it’s nothing at all.

By: whatever

whatever — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:39:40 +0000

He and his wife are playing to the christian belief that they are persecuted here in America. Its obviously not true. It doesn’t help that he’s an idiot. Unfortunately Molly Ivins isn’t around to point that out any more.

By: Tomwins

Tomwins — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:15:27 +0000

The sad part of this view is that Romney uses his religion to justify his own prejudices and discrimination and then cries when people call him on these views.

By: eolsen

eolsen — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:20:31 +0000

Perry had a chance to distance himself from bigoted reverand. He chose not to. Maybe Perry should get a dictionary and read what disavow means. Not that hard Mr. Perry. There is nothing wrong with disavowing bigotted remarks, unless of course you agree with them.

By: gippy

gippy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:06:21 +0000

Cloud – really? Housewives of Orange County – plastic…not real. Not worth much. Wow! I didn’t think that would confuse anyone. I see plastic people all the time. They don’t seem real. I don’t recall using that term in 1972.

By: cloud

cloud — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:22:18 +0000

Gippy
“Perry is plastic….if you can’t tell that then maybe you’re plastic too.”

Wow! I haven’t heard that term since about 1972.

By: arkie vet

arkie vet — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:27:28 +0000

OFFSUIT–”But when they REALLY believe in an imaginary man in the sky who supposedly created the universe and dictates morality to human beings with eternal damnation and torment as the consequences for non-compliance, while always ensuring the maximum level of misery and suffering to “test your faith” in Him, well, that’s not completely insane at all, is it? Religion, ALL religion, is a mental illness.”—- Let me play “devil’s advocate” here…. Lets see, its a mental illness to believe that a being, human or otherwise, was responsible for the creation of this planet and was responsible for establishing a human race that ultimately populated the planet. That all the living creatures on this litttle sphere were placed here by a superior being who came from somewhere else.. THAT is in your mind, INSANE.. BUT.. the belief that two inanimate objects which contained NO life, smashed together at incredible speed and the resulting explosion created not only our solar system and planet but also CREATED carbon based life as a side effect. THEN this carbon based substance “morphed” into a single celled “life form” which proceeded to evolve from the ameoba to current day humans with NO influences other than those of environment.. .. Okay so on the one hand we have the theory that we appeared FROM NOTHING due to an unspecified “Big bang”, and on the other hand, we have the theory that a superior being planted the seeds of humanity on this user friendly planet and civilization grew from that… WHICH SOUNDS MORE INSANE???

By: oonogil

oonogil — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:25:01 +0000

Perry isn’t the most concervative. He’s the most evangelical.
I was surprised to hear Perry say that Americans have a right to worship as they please. Most evangelicals don’t understand the First Amendment that well. Gingrich said that it allows Christians to practice their religion in public. He evidently knows as much about the Bill or Rights as Palin does about history.
Since most Americans perceive themselves to be Christian it is doubtful that they are persecuted because of their faith. Taliban evangelicals however are a different story. I hope the rest of America is as tired of them as I am.

By: gippy

gippy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:20:11 +0000

Perry / Hank Jr 2012 …LOL. That’d be a wild ride….& the end of the world as we know it.