tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24087625.post5706133913857508651..comments2023-11-05T00:19:30.325-07:00Comments on Seething Mom: Bush on steroids?Seething Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13589584407018948285noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24087625.post-5351001715469675372011-08-17T12:49:10.356-07:002011-08-17T12:49:10.356-07:00You vastly underestimate Perry. Bush was an awful...You vastly underestimate Perry. Bush was an awful President, but simply the experience he had growing up in a political family kept him within bounds and at least partially 'realistic.' Ues, unlike his father and St. Ronnie, he actually listened to evangelicals -- the others treated them the way their own preachers did, as cows to be milked, the preachers for money, the politicians for votes.<br /><br />But he didn't give them all that much -- and his 'Faith-based inititive' was another conning of them.<br /><br />Perry is far more 'in bed' with a group that is -- hard as it is to believe from your perspective as the mother of a gay child -- far worse than your standard evangelical. I'm not going to flood you with links, just suggest you read Rachel Tabachnik (on Talk2Action or Alternet) on the New Apostolic Reformation, or go to PFAW's <i>Right Wing Watch</i> and search under Perry or "The Response."<br /><br />These people are so crazy that one of them condemned the Statue of Liberty as a 'Demonic Idol." Another called Oprah a 'precursor to the AntiChrist.'<br /><br />And of course the whol;e thing was run by the AFA, who Bryan Fischer has turned into an all-purpose hate group (so named by the SPLC).<br /><br />And Bush would never have called Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, all financial regulation, pure food, gun laws, etc. 'unconstitutional usurptions of power.' (See Matt yglesias on Perry's book, FED UP.)Prup (aka Jim Benton)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08376467128665482055noreply@blogger.com