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Intro: "Presidential wannabe Rick Perry is flitting all around the country - hither, thither and yon - spreading little 'Perry Tales' about himself and the many wonders he has worked as governor of Texas."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry campaigning for president. (photo: blogspot.com)

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+33 # Peacedragon 2011-09-10 13:15

There was a story here a while back that Perry took orders from a wierd religious cult. Does anyone know anything about this?

+46 # MEBrowning 2011-09-10 14:23

Perry is a member of the New Apostolic Reformation, which believes God needs help ushering in the End Times, and intends to infiltrate all sectors of society, including education and the arts. They're starting with politics. They call themselves "warriors" and boast that they engage in "strategic level spiritual warfare." They believe that some people will have to become "martyrs" in the process. They make Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson look like pikers.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/7022-a-wingnut-a-a-prayer

+33 # L H 2011-09-10 17:09

Is this New Apostolic Reformation a faction of "The Family" that Jeff Sharlit has written about? Being "warriors" for God or Jesus means that they can do anything, no guilt, no accountability. It is justified in the "for God" category. They can be cruel and evil and call it spiritual warfare. Mentally programmed and sick.

+4 # RLF 2011-09-13 05:03

Christian Al caida?

+34 # TrueAmericanPatriot 2011-09-10 21:17

Quoting MEBrowning:

Perry is a member of the New Apostolic Reformation, which believes God needs help ushering in the End Times, and intends to infiltrate all sectors of society, including education and the arts. They're starting with politics. They call themselves "warriors" and boast that they engage in "strategic level spiritual warfare." They believe that some people will have to become "martyrs" in the process. They make Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson look like pikers.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/7022-a-wingnut-a-a-prayer

Perry is neither APOSTOLIC OR CHRISTIAN! He is just another lying hateful scumbag that wants to finish pushing this nation over the cliff! These AGENTS OF HELL sicken me posings as "Angels of Light!" He CLAIMS he wants to take Texas and secede from the U.S.....NOW he wants to be PRESIDENT of a country he wants to SECEDE FROM. Go figure! Jesus WAS NOT a low-life slithering, sinister politician; PERRY IS? Perry would be one of MANY calling for Jesus' crucifixion if He was walking the earth today; so would the rest of the teathuglicans!! Because of Perry's double life, which I hope is exposed very soon, he is just another gop hypocrite! VOTE 2012!!! WAKE UP TEXAS, AND REVEAL MORE TO US ABOUT THIS SCUM!!

+10 # OpenMind 2011-09-11 20:19

I think we should start a movement to help Texas secede. Goodbye and good riddance!

+98 # fredboy 2011-09-10 13:15

Perry is yet another Texas honeysuckle, a reckless false echo of a man who earlier in life, afraid of contact sports but yearning to be around male athletes, became a male pom-pom boy. Like the previous Texas honeysuckle, daddy launched his career. And, similar again, he decries the poor and wants to risk the Social Security of all to please and bankroll Wall Street.

These honeysuckles have replaced the Texas swagger with chuckles and anger from all. And both are excellent reasons why we may wish to consider ceding Texas back to Mexico.

+42 # offgrid 2011-09-10 13:38

Mexico has enought trouble as it is.

They sure don't need to add the ownership of Texas to their list of troubles.

+96 # angryspittle 2011-09-10 13:17

The stupid average American voter, especially in the GOP primaries won't pay any attention to the facts.

+42 # Gootarama 2011-09-10 13:45

Governor Rick Perry can solve the "energy crisis" all by himself. Being a "Natural Gasbag", if we just tapped him, it would out produce the Marcellus Shale Reserve, and wouldn't contaminate the aquifer........ .

+32 # Alba_Sun 2011-09-10 14:15

Answer to Peacedragon: Yes, Rick Perry is said to be a member of the Dominionist theology movement, which is pretty scary in in it's own right. You can read about it in Jonathan Dane's article in the Godot section of RSN - http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/125-125/6763-the-war-on-america-part-ii-how-a-political-religious-movement-is-threatening-our-seniors-the-poor-and-the-middle-class. Hope that helps.

+20 # L H 2011-09-10 17:14

Thanks! We need to know what is going on behind the scenes. So, the Dominionist theology movement is part of "The Family" and "C Streeet" exposed by Jeff Sharlit? Seems the same agenda.

+103 # majorpayne 2011-09-10 15:16

Funny thing: Local taxpayers in Bell County (Texas) put me through public school for free; state and federal taxpayers financed my college education at the University of Texas, including Air Force ROTC, which prepared me for a 31-year career on the federal payroll, first in the Air Force and then as a government contractor, and now I have platinum health care and a generous pension from the federal government, plus a lot more. Unlike Perry, I appreciate what the government did, and I want to pay it forward so that my kids and everybody else's kids can have the same chance we did.

+9 # noitall 2011-09-11 09:03

Here, here, majorpayne! That's the problem with these bozos. What are they, the ME generation come full circle? That ilk is willing to use it all now and burn the template. Let those that follow pull themselves up by the bootstrap.

+21 # noitall 2011-09-11 09:15

Where does the GOP find these sociopaths? do they have a screen that they sift the total population through and this slime oozes out? Bush, Sarah, Perry Tale (that'll stick), Michelle, Mitt, ad nauseum... How can we expect the BEST of us to represent and lead us if it costs a Billion bucks to get there? Abe Lincoln, log cabin, "a country where anyone can be president", I think not, not anymore that is. We need to go to the ROOT and demand Public Financing of elections, take the personhood out of corporations (unless each corporation has one vote and they can get their asses sued off too), get the tax rate for these greedy bastards back up to 70-80% where it belongs, and install single-payer health care (that way people will retire when they want and millions of jobs will suddenly appear). This country was built on the backs of the workers and the tax dollars of those who benefit most. Now they want the working people to do it all while they lie in their hammock and sip the country dry through a straw. Where would they be without WAR? STOP THESE FOR-PROFIT WARS!!!!

+36 # Terrapin 2011-09-10 16:24

Another blow-hard Village Idiot from TexASS ... perfect Presidential Material ...

+39 # TomDegan 2011-09-10 16:36

Perry tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're Rick at heart

You rock, Hightower!

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan

+26 # ABen 2011-09-10 18:59

As a journalist friend of mine from Texas might put it, Perry isn't the quickest armadillo to cross the road. No more Texans!

+17 # EHopkins 2011-09-10 19:24

Perry is said to have told a bunch of ministers that he has done nothing in his personal life to be ashamed of. What did that mean? Why would he say that?
A commentator then said there were 'rumors' about him.
Does he need to be outed? The yahoos who like him might notice that!

+18 # Andrew730 2011-09-11 01:22

Perry has shown his eagerness to color the truth to suit his ambitions. Government is full of representatives like him. We need someone who will level with us. Not this!

+17 # artful 2011-09-11 10:14

So Perry is a liar and a republican . . . but I repeat myself.

+6 # susienoodle 2011-09-11 10:43

we need to educate the brainwashed. Pls start by emailing everyone of that persuasion the you tube videos by Thom (Tom?) Hartman. He actually reads from a book written by someone who participated in the tea party of 1773.
Maybe Reader Supported Network can start including Tom Hartman's stuff. It's really good info to have at the ready.

+4 # David Starr 2011-09-12 09:55

Perry, his "kind", and their ideological/religious/economic
"principles" rest on a (cracked)founda tion of antiquated myths, B/W "glory" and perhaps the most blatant of hypocrisies.

Their distortion on the role of government, e.g.: As Hightower revealed, Perry's reliance on funds to contribute to "making it" in life, but wanting to deprive the public of same. Thus, contradicting, at the least, government's role of "promoting the general welfare," while prioritizing a "limited" government of privilege.

It wouldn't surprise me if Perry is a Dominionist (or paying lip service to it.)

+2 # Alba_Sun 2011-09-12 17:05

Yes, Perry is a Dominionist. See my comment above and reference to J. Dane's article. Stay tuned for a new book release by Leah Burton, expert and researcher of Dominionism, called God, Guns and Greed (or, Guns, God, and Greed). I ordered my copy on Amazon. Release date is soon. Promises to be full of great info on the influence of Dominionism on our current politics. And, I understand she names lots of names.

+1 # boudreaux 2011-09-13 06:43

I'm from TX and I'll be the one who keeps hollaring, be careful of what comes outta TX, didn't we learn the last time with Bush...be very careful, there is evil all among us and this man would like nothing more than to become a prophet for all of the misguided....
He did nothing as governor of this state and will only bring harm to Washington....I can only keep hollaring.....

+4 # majorpayne 2011-09-13 10:41

Please keep in mind that the author of the op-ed we are discussing, Jim Hightower, is a Texan. Bill Moyers is a Texan who graduated from UT about five years before I did, and I was fortunate to have some of the same professors. Unfortunately, UT's state funding is a pale shadow of what it was back then, thanks in large part to Bush, Perry and their minions. A Texan might be presidential material someday, just not Perry or some other Bush protege.

+1 # David Starr 2011-09-13 14:44

Thank you Alba_Sun for clarification on Perry = Dominionist, and for the book plug.

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