Rick Perry continues the spread of dangerous lies about the LGBT community
By Dan Rafter • Wednesday, August 17, 2011

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/08/rick-perry-continues-the-spread-of-dangerous-lies-about-the-lgbt-community/

Recent statements of Rick Perry, Governor of Texas and presidential candidate, emphasize the anti-gay elements that have permeated this GOP primary season. Perry's views are largely out-of-step with those of mainstream Americans – including people of faith.

HRC has been tracking Perry and other presidential candidates closely this year. Perry's remarks at a Christian-only day of prayer, which was paid for by the American Family Association (AFA), epitomize years of anti-gay and even homophobic behavior. Here's a sampling of Rick Perry's attacks on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community:

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    Rick Perry says he unintentionally signed a bill into law that, through a loophole provision, allowed for transgender couples to marry if one spouse could provide documentation of gender reassignment surgery. A Perry spokesman later said the transgender language was "sneaked through on a larger piece of legislation" and that Perry wanted to clarify the "unintended consequences."[4]

If you want the backing of conservatives you gotta go with the tried and true God, Guns and Gays strategy.  Think of all the people in this country who subscribe to that ideology.

Besides, it's getting his name splashed across the media.

He's gonna self destruct.  He is NOT READY for Prime Time at all.  Plus (and golly-gosh it just so brightens my heart to see it don't you know) the Bush Crime Family hates - HATES - him, and has some sort of sworn vendetta against him and is going to work overtime to sink him.  But like I said to begin with, he's going to sink himself first.

There was an editorial piece I read a while back that amounted to Rick Perry has the skill set to BE president, what he lacks is the skill set to be ELECTED president.

Now if only I could find a link to it...

A very interesting article in "The Texas Observer" describes Rick and a group called the Army of God.  They are part of the "New Apostolic Reformation" movement.  You may remember some of them going to Uganda a couple of years ago to get a law passed giving the death penalty to homosexuals.  Google "Rick Perry army of god".  Sorry, but I do not believe that anyone who believes that only Christians have rights under the constitution has the skill set to be POTUS.  Truly frightening. 

It will only be a matter of time before someone comes out with evidence of what has long been rumored with Governor Goodhair...up until now, nobody really had cause to have done so.  Now that he has announced he was going to run, someone WILL speak up...

Rick Perry is the epitome of ignorant!

Ronald Reagan used to proclaim what he called the 11th Commandment of GOP politics: Thou shalt not speak ill of your fellow Republicans.  Nothing speaks the volumes of just how far the 'Pubs have drifted from being the Party of Reagan is to see them all junk that commandment right down the ->-bleeped-<-ter.  I mean the BCF (Bush Crime Family) trotted out the old big dog himself, Karl Rove, to - get this - talk about not getting to extreme on the right!  Oh god was I laughing when I read that.  Nope, they are going after Perry, I don't think he has traction.  Besides he shoots off his mouth.  And he's on record (joking or not) supporting secession and that kills him everywhere outside of the South.  All they have to do is roll that tape over and over and sink him.  And because I think Michelle Bachman out-right-wing-crazies him, and he's not going to take the non-idiot Republican vote (the guys at the country club) from Romney.  Because Romney is one of them.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.  I wouldn't write Perry off yet. He is a dynamic sort of guy. He's a lot better at handling rebuffs than Bush was.

He's got a lot of baggage, but money can spread any message that he wants to send.

Cindi

Quote from: Cindi Jones on August 17, 2011, 07:10:14 PM
He's got a lot of baggage, but money can spread any message that he wants to send.

it will be interesting to see if it overcomes his status as a closet queen...which WILL eventually be a larger issue than the whisper component of Austin life that it has been for the past few years...

Quote from: Ann Onymous on August 17, 2011, 09:11:11 PM
it will be interesting to see if it overcomes his status as a closet queen...which WILL eventually be a larger issue than the whisper component of Austin life that it has been for the past few years...

Nah. Mr. Bachmann will just declare him an official ex-gay.

Has it really devolved to the point where the name of the game is to simply say the most outrageous, polarizing thing you can think of?

Pretty much.  They ran out of ideas.  They ran out of steam.  They couldn't muster the outrage in rest of the electorate, people cared less and less about gays and lesbians and were even giving up on the DADT/marriage issues, legalizing marijuana all over the place.  And then.  Then.  They woke up and found a black guy had been elected.  They pretty much lost it.  They are only around another one or two election cycles anyway.

Ha-Ha! There's an early Rick Perry for Governor TV ad that highlighted an incident where Gov. Perry is stopped by a DPS Trooper and one his cronnies gets out of the Suburban and told the Trooper..."let's get on down the road"...

Oh by the way, Ted Nuggent is a buddy of his and has played at his ranch before!

Beware!

As an outside observer, what seems to be happening here is that Moderate Republicans finally seemed to have an opportunity to repair their reputations. Bush was astonishing in his stupiditiy. 

Sarah Palen shook the moderates rather badly, with her home spun attitude that was reminiscent of Regan. (Given that Regan is to Americans, what Churchill is to Britons. All back chills and sound bites, but the real work is done by others).

This created a caucus, within the Republican party, that lacks real substance. Whereas Regan had some pretty savvy economists and the rather convienent opportunities created by the enevitable fall of the Soviet Union, which had been predicted almost as it happened, in the late 70s, the Tea Party only has specious claims to be capable of returning to supposed past utopia.

Then, Palen got ahead of herself. 'I can see the Soviet Union from my back door.'

So the Tea Party backers are running around, looking for anyone who can fit the part. That means saying the right things, even when they are clearly reading from a badly written script.

The intelegent Republicans still can't find anyone to replace Nixon. The Dems are saddled with Obama, who makes a flag in a storm seem rigid. So the Tea Party has an open field.

Hopefully someone in America, with an ounce of common sense can come forward soon. There may not be a lot of time left.

Well if you want someone with common sense then pretty much you have that person in the White House right now.  He's the person who's 'doing nothing' while 'destroying the country'.  You know the black/white, Liberal Commie Nazi Socialist Black-Power, Muslim, Not American guy in the Oval Office.   

Assuming he wins re-election, and I think it's going to be a walk for him given what the opposition is up to.  He's either going to get one of the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time players, who can't win, or he's going to get Mitt for a 'gloves off tussle on serious economic issues' (Yawn), and I think the R base screws over Mitt because Jesusland don't cotton much to that Mormon deal.  And Mittens isn't going to offer some radical new vision that is going to sweep America off it's feet.  Nope.

That means, that old Barrack Obama is going to get that most awesome of things - two years of pretty much total power.  He's really done a lot already, he got the Rs hung up on a couple of big things and just floated everything else right under them.  Two years without any interruptions and no one worried about re-election, it's a mighty thing.

O has moved so far right he's forced the right to go even further to keep their distance.  Maybe this a brilliant strategy because the right seems filled with looneys now.  Or maybe O doesn't have much of a backbone.  What I do know is he's responding to the Tea Party cries and an awful lot of Dem voters aren't happy.

Yeah, Perry will most likely self destruct but running for president is usually a process of gradual advancement through several elections.  So, while he could get dumped early on, he may also return next round better supported and better prepared.

Something else, it seems the media is having more of an active role in playing puppeteer than before.  These candidates want media attention and they know crazy gets it quickly and often.  And the media plays them like a fiddle.

I used to consider myself an "Eisenhower Republican" which puts me into commie territory these days. Eisenhower, truly was our Churchill.  He favored a strong union workforce and I believe he would support a single payer health plan similar to what GB has. He warned us of our own military growing too strong and believed in cutting back that institution to pre WWII proportions. At least, that is my belief.

I tend to be on the human rights side of all the issues.  I'm surprised when I find anyone in the position that "we" are in, can be a libertarian. We don't stand a chance of survival in a world they envision.

I'm still not willing to write off the extreme right wing contenders this year. We are in a depression here in this country and all the media refuse to admit it. In all elections past, the working class who are not working, have tended to vote the incumbents out.