First, let me be clear, hunting at a camp named n-head, certainly should be disqualifying since he also apparently had quite a lot of input at the camp. That said, this is what I find interesting.
Just before his campaign he had a national day of prayer featuring a bunch of hand picked nut bags who said all of the following things:
John Hagee: Hitler was doing God's will when he targeted Jews in Europe, Catholicism is a godless theology of hate
Bryan Fisher: Hitler discovered he could not get straight soldiers to be savage, brutal, and vicious enough but that homosexual soldiers had no limits in the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on anyone Hitler sent them after. Homosexuals are disqualified from public office since they practice sexually abhorent behavior.
John Benefiel: The Statue of Liberty is a demonic idol because we got it from French Freemasons.
Mike Bickel: Oprah Winfrey is the Harlot of Babylon preparing us for the anti-chirst
and these are just some of the nutbags who spoke at Perry's invite and on his dime and only some of the quotes.
Hagee courtesy of the Last Word, rest courtesy of Hardball both Aug 5, 2011
My problem is that here is an example of the coverage of that event
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/rick-perrys-positive-response/2011/08/07/gIQAg4kQ1I_blog.htmlThe religious gathering spearheaded by Texas Gov. Rick Perry this past weekend in Houston amounted to a major political gamble that paid off for the Texas Republican, who is widely expected to run for president in 2012.
Perry had begun organizing “The Response” — as the event was known — long before he started to entertain the possibility of running for president.
But with Perry now widely assumed to be a candidate in the not-too-distant future, a small(ish) crowd or a weak — or too heavily political — performance by the governor would assuredly have subjected him to criticism.
Instead, the crowd at Reliant Stadium was estimated at 30,000 — not too shabby — and Perry played a largely behind-the-scenes role in the event.
Mark McKinnon, a Texas-based Republican consultant unaligned in the 2012 presidential race, called the event “a pretty bold move for a guy about to throw his hat in the ring,” adding: “There were so many ways the event could have gone wrong ... it came off pretty smoothly overall.”
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This was an event that was a couple of hours of n-head brought to life. How is that hate fest event any different from hunting at that ranch? But they are treated very, very differently.