Now that Rick Perry has inserted himself into the 2012 presidential race, all eyes are on the Texas governor to see if he can overtake front-runners Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney and win the party’s nomination. He’s already turned up the notch in terms of rhetoric, saying that military personnel don’t respect Barack Obama and criticizing the Federal Reserve as being almost “treasonous.”
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart thinks Perry looks and sounds like the GOP’s nominee…

For those that miss the days of George W. Bush, Dave Granlund thinks Perry might be right up your alley…

Although as Monte Wolverton points out, Perry might want to remodel the U.S. Capitol a bit…

But what does Jesus think of Perry’s candidacy? Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe imagines for us…

Taylor Jones thinks Rick Perry’s real religious devotion comes down to one simple phrase…



God spoke to me today. I was shocked in that he'd never spoken to me before, at least not this clearly.
You see, we in Texas have been suffering through the worst drought and heat wave in recorded Texas history this year. Our crops are dead in the fields. Cattle have been taken to market early lest they die of starvation or dehydration. Horses drop dead daily. Fish are turning belly up in our overheated reservoirs. Crop losses are estimated a more then $5 Billion and rising rapidly. Surface water is disappearing at an alarming rate. A high pressure area has stalled above Texas and there are no signs of relief in the near future.
I asked God why he had forsaken us and he said;
"I have not forsaken you, I am punishing Texas for unleashing the evil that is "Rick Perry" onto my favorite nation. Heretofore, I've left Texas alone, but the sins have accumulated to such a degree that I must take action. Through the demagoguery of Rick Perry, the false Christians of Texas have chosen to unleash their message of hate onto the world. I have always tolerated the extremist views of these of my children even though they ignore my message of peace, love and charity. But now they threaten to use government to spread their message of hate and intolerance and their abhorrence of charity onto the innocent and intellectually vulnerable of my great nation. They've been blinded to the evil imparted by the false prophet Perry onto his own people through his actions as Governor of Texas. I ask you:
Would any child of God reduce funding for public schools just to spread it around to his cronies?
Would any child of God promote a scam to buy dead peasant insurance policies on retired Texas teachers and then bundle the policies into securities to be sold to unsuspecting investors?
Would any child of God promote a scam to use eminent domain to rob Texas ranchers and farmers of their land only to turn it over to private investors to build an unnecessary toll road through the heart of Texas?
Would any child of God run up a $27Billion dollar deficit just before he's about to leave office and then fail to invest that money for the benefit of his constituents, but instead distribute it to his cronies?
Would any child of God command that all Texas school girls submit to HPV vaccine as a condition of attending the sixth grade, just to pander to a crony who happens to be a lobbyist for the only drug company producing the vaccine, and require the parents of those children to foot the bill to the tune of $250.00 per child?
Would any child of God allow thirty two percent of the children of Texas live in poverty without attempting to take some action to relieve the suffering, or deliberately place barriers to relief for the twenty-three percent of his constituents who live below the poverty line?
Would any child of God fail to recognize that eighteen percent of the children in his state do not have health insurance?
Would any child of God claim "success" at an 8.2% unemployment rate just because it isn't as bad as that of another state and then take no action to try and improve that number?
Would any true child of God try to exploit his supposed faith by staging a high profile "prayer" event exploiting the faithful just to launch a political campaign?
Would any child of God knowingly allow a falsely convicted man be executed merely because he thinks the person is a ‘bad, bad man’, ignoring the evidence that exonerated him from the crime for which he was convicted?
I say unto you, recall the "evil doer". Force him abandon this unholy crusade for personally glory and wealth or ye shall suffer further consequences. The heat wave and drought are just the early warnings of what I have in store for Texas should you persist in inflicting the false prophet onto my favorite nation.
When God had finished I wept for I know his message will fall on ears plugged by the determination to see evil inflicted on our nation in the name of God.