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DUBUQUE, Iowa -- So what's with the Tebow thing?
Gov. Rick Perry earned a chorus of jeers, groans and cheers (depending on one's views of the Bible and/or the AFC West) after last week's debate when he compared himself to Denver Broncos quarterback and outspoken Christian Tim Tebow.
Perry's analogy during the Sioux City Fox News debate focused mostly on critics who said that Tebow's ungainly throwing motion would ultimately make him a benchwarmer in the NFL (much like, Perry claims, those who say his own debating flubs preclude him from an Iowa comeback). But on a tele-town hall Monday night with the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Perry made explicitly clear that his kinship with the Bronco is rooted in their common "pulpit" to spread the word of God.
"He's got a great opportunity being a professional athlete to influence a lot of people. And the way that he has chosen to do that is to express his faith in a public way," Perry said of Tebow. "And from that perspective, he and I are alike in the sense that we know that we've been given this opportunity, we've been given a pulpit."
Perry said that he once struggled to understand God's "mission" for him in life before he went into government and that both he and Tebow are "flawed" in the eyes of detractors.
"I'm all about just doing God's will. And I know that's what Tim's about," Perry said. "I don't have all the answers and TIm's not going to win every game, but I do know that God's got a plan for us. Both of us."
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Perry has nothing in common with Tebow except a misguided belief that the Adjustment Bureau, er uh God, intervenes on his behalf. What Perry does have is an odd attraction to other men's beards...weird.
God's plan:
Step 1: Get a man with no brain elected Governor of Texas
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit! (especially for Halliburton)
Wash, rinse, repeat.
If Perry didn't have those brain farts , I think he could have done well......
Perry's recent brain farts are god's gift to the American Electorate....
Altogether now,,,, THANK YOU LORD! (or whomever you give thanks too)
First read editors, slow news day on politics? Are you bored? Like reading no value comments from the left?
Do you believe it was helpful for Perry to compare himself to Tebow in the last debate or not? The entire GOP/TP primary has been in the news non-stop to the point of absurdity, but the question is not completely without value. Stop blaming the "left" for the circus that is the GOP/TP primary.
Start questioning what has become of the Republican Party -- Why it has moved so far to the Right with ultra conservatives like Perry and Bachmann saying God has called him/her to run, saying the president is attacking religion, and other off-the-chart nonsense.
Conservatives are "unsatisfied" with their "average" (at best) candidates because they want someone as ultra conservative as they are. The problem with this is if they nominate an ultra conservative candidate, that candidate will be so far out of the mainstream, he/she could never win in a general election.
Our system is dependent upon having at least two viable parties. If conservatives want to pray about something, they should pray for the return of sanity in the GOP.
LMAO LOL ROFL Yeah ricky and timmy , they both talk to god lmao rofl . or was that the jewish folk tale ?
Perry's relentless religiosity makes me tired. We need a president, not a preacher.
Do these Republican candidates actually believe they hear God talking to them? I remember when Perry was doing all that praying for rain when Texas was burning, I don't believe God heard him. BTW what language does God use when he talks to these people?
Perry seems to think that we're voting for bishop or minister or priest. We are not. We are voting for President of the USA, a country whose people rely on the Constitution for their laws. If I want someone to share a pulpit with, I will go to church and do that.
Good point "Mata Harry" It makes me want to say; "Governor Perry, I have watched Tim Tebow play football and you sir are no Tim Tebow."
Wow "True Patriot" the conservatives should put your post up on the locker room bulletin board. Well spoken!!
Perry is an idiot. I don't begrudge Tebow for being a religious person , but the sports field is not the place for him to be demonstrating it. Isn't there something that says to not give grand professions of faith for all the world to see but to seek God in the quiet of your room?
Chris
I suspect you are referring to the Pharisees who Jesus said loved the best places at the feasts and the chief seats in the synagogue. The Pharisees, while attempting to honor the Word of God and manifesting an extreme form of religious observance, were actually the farthest from God.
Matthew 23:13-36. False religion and pretense are always the worst enemies of the truth and are far more dangerous than immorality or indifference.
In verse 14, another woe is indicated, in which the scribes and Pharisees were charged with devouring widows’ houses and making long prayers to impress others.
they could be sharing a brain! Delusional BS is bad for you.
All I got to say is please let Mr. Perry stay in the game. You're going to keep hearing him say things that Newt and Mitt are going to be pissed at.
Cowboy Ricky is too modest. He should be associating himself with Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, John Adams, Winston Churchill or even Saint Anthony Romo.
Gov. Perry's debating skills and overall intelligence, are evidence that God exists, and that He still loves us.
(with apologies to Ben Franklin, who said it about beer)
Republican's need to remember the old saying ( watch what you wish for you might just get it ). They want deficit reduction, come January 1 2013 they will get $6.2 trillion worth of cuts. $1 trillion dollars they agreed on just to raise the debt. ceiling. The $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts the super committee couldn't agree on ($600 billion in defense cuts and $600 billion in non-discretionary spending cuts ) and the $4 trillion in Bush tax cuts that expire on that same day. That all totals to $6.2 trillion and President Obama doesn't have to do anything to get them. Obama played the Republican's like a real pro and they didn't even see it coming.
Perry. I don't care about much else except the fact your are a first class phony and a first class moron. You are George W Part II with a big mouth and an obnoxious personalty. Next, you'll be telling us you are God, or that God talks directly to you. I don't care about Tebow either. He's a first year quarterback in the NFL and he wins and he displays his faith. Good for him, whether he wins or loses, and oh yeah, he'll lose. But he isn't running for president and he isn't telling us how to live. It would one thing if you had some moral character and some self decency, but you are just a big mouth with no brains. Next time your car breaks down, don't call a mechanic, becasue the mechanic learned how to read and write, and learned how to read technical maunuals and repair complicated machines, whcih required education, and since you don't believe in education, you don't need an educated mechanic, all you need is God. So, sit and wait, and if God wants you to have a car, he'll give you one. And by the way, the Texas economy is good, thanks to the millions in oil profits the oil company's are making, EVEN THOUGH they receive WELFARE HANDOUTS from the federal government, which is MY TAX MONEY, which you don't seem to say much about. IF you and Tebow are the same, THEN Tebow is a moron too. But Tebow is NOT a moron, so you and Tebow are NOTHING ALIKE.
It's easy to play the republicans and their tea party masters. All this right wing mumbo jumob worked for a while The 9/11 attack united the country behind the president and the congress and senate who supported him. but they used that to shove God, Country, and Family down our throats while telling us not to ask any questions while they got rich through war and held onto to power thru fear of not being a real american. It fell apart when the republicans got their butts kicked out and the dems took over. Unfotunately, the dems don't have a clue either to we got the republicans back in the house. However, favorable public opinion of the house is something like 9%, which is almost 0%, and even thought the president's rating is low, it is WAY ABOVE the house. But the republicans don't care. All they want is power to do what they want, which is to take care of them and their connections. The democrats are the party of no ideas BUT the republicans are the party of bad ideas and against everything. Why come up with ideas or solutions when you can just undermine everyone else or complain. Keep bible thumpin and flag wavin. All that works for a while. As PT Barnum said, you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but NOT all of the people all of the time.
All I can say in my best Stewie Griffin voice is - Oh My God He's an Idiot!
Somebody has a man-crush.