Beware of Rick Perry, a counterfeit conservative from Texas.

Like a lot of other patriotic Christians whenever I hear an elected official mention the name of Jesus Christ or God in a public speech I begin to have admiration for them. Last week when Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy for president I started thinking about my dream team for the Republican Party ticket next year. Any combination of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin or Allen West seemed like a sure thing. I admit that I knew little about the governor from Texas except that he has gotten a lot of praise in conservative publications in the last few years. Then I read today a commentary by Steve Baldwin on WorldNet that yanked open my eyes. 10 questions Rick Perry must answer is one commentary that every Republican needs to read.  

Every one of these questions opens up a serious dialog on the genuine conservative credentials of this politician. For instance, why has it never been mentioned before that - Gov. Perry did not become a Republican until 1989 and served as Texas chairman of Al Gore's presidential campaign in 1988 – as Steve Baldwin asks in question #3? Or that Rick Perry joined the elitist Bilderberg group in 2007. Steve Baldwin correctly describes the Bilderbergs as: “The Bilderberg group is a secret society composed of hundreds of the world's most powerful elites, most of whom are hostile to the notion of sovereignty and support world government to varying degrees. They are strong supporters of the U.N., EU, and other one-world entities. Invitations are only extended to people who share their views.” I know this is fact because I have read about them decades ago and their secret annual gatherings promoting One World Government.

But then we all know that most of what we read comes from the liberal controlled news media and they were responsible for resurrecting the dying primary campaign of RINO Sen. John McCain because he was the weakest Republican and stood the best chance of losing. We have seen the hatchet job the mainstream news media did on Sarah Palin and is now doing on Michele Bachmann so it is not surprising to find out they may be protecting the sordid reputation of Rick Perry. The liberal news media pulled the rug out from under McCain after he won the Republican nomination and could easily do the same with Gov. Rick Perry if his popularity began to jeopardize their anointed Barack Hussein Obama.  

As if this wasn’t enough, the Baldwin commentary adds two more significant questions that convince me that Rick Perry is a counterfeit conservative. Rick Perry favors the government right to confiscate private land. Question 8) “Gov. Perry vetoed an eminent-domain bill that would have helped protect property rights for Texas landowners.” And Question 9) "Gov. Perry signed a hate-crimes bill." The Federal version of the Hate Crime bill grants protected legitimate status to over 500 deviant lifestyles to such a degree it was labeled the Pedophile Protection Act. As I wrote in this blog on Wednesday, December 9, 2009

An open letter to the group "Mom's Like Me" and parents everywhere.

You should be aware that conservative groups waged a tremendous battle months ago against a new law they had called The Pedophile Protection Act which gave official Federal recognition to every deviant lifestyle. The American Family Association said since "sexual orientation" nowhere is defined in the law, "this law will give pedophiles, voyeurs, and exhibitionists special protections, which is why the bill has correctly been called 'The Pedophile Protection Act.'"

In the House version, an effort to amend the bill to exclude “pedophilia” was defeated in committee along party lines. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), when confronted with a list of 547 paraphilias from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, including pedophilia, declared that “all of these philias and fetishes and isms that were put forward – need not live in fear because of who they are.”

Following the passage of the original Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 1913) a storm of protest caused the U.S. Senate to delay a vote because it would not have passed. But a Democrat took the House bill and added it to a National Defense Authorization Act as an amendment and it was passed on July 23 and signed into law.

Any one of these 10 questions is enough to raise concern and I am forever grateful that Steve Baldwin has brought these issues about Gov. Rick Perry to my attention. The Texas governor has no chance of winning any votes from those who consider themselves to be true conservatives. If we are going to win back America from the clutches of the Democratic Socialists who are raping our economy and plundering our treasury and trashing our Bill of Rights, we need candidates with true character and solid principles. My hope still rests with Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.