Herman Cain is Right: You Can’t Take the Texas Democrat out of Governor Rick Perry

There is a big brouhaha setting up over Governor Perry’s family leasing some land that was used as a hunting reservation. The reason for the brouhaha is the land being leased had a name assigned to it.

The name was Niggerhead.

The name Niggerhead came to light because evidently there was a rock at the entrance to the hunting reservation that was painted with the name Niggerhead

In the reports, it sounds like the Perry family along with some others, leased a parcel of acreage within a 42,000 acre ranch that is owned by the Hendrick Home for Children. So the question has to be asked, who painted the word Niggerhead on the rock?

Did the owners of the Hendrick Home for Children put the name there or was it done by someone within the group associated with Perry’s family who leased the acreage from the owners of the ranch?

The argument on whether or not you could see the name is a red herring. The point is; it was put there by someone.

So the question is: who put the name on the rock and why? And if the rock with the name Niggerhead was there prior to the Perry family leasing the acreage, why would Perry’s family lease land from a group that would have the racist name on the rock displayed?

According to reports from Perry’s camp, the father of Governor Perry covered the rock with the name and hiding a name could have any agenda.

Interestingly, when the leasing of the property took place back in the 80’s, Perry was a Democrat who was lending his support to Al Gore and Al Gore praised Perry for his support and history shows Al Gore’s father was embroiled in a sensitive issue that dealt with race and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Back when the Civil Rights Act was being crafted, Gore Sr. opposed the Act and having grown up in a family of Democrats in Michigan, I saw my mother push the political ranks in the Michigan Democratic Party to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And knowing Michigan Democrat Representative James O’Hara was a proponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I find it common to see Southern Democrats who opposed their political brethren in the North over the Civil Rights Act.

This brouhaha over the rock reached presidential candidate Herman Cain and he answered with calling Perry’s actions insensitive.

Now there are Perry supporters crying foul and there are supposed conservatives attacking presidential candidate Herman Cain over his response to the news that Perry’s family was involved with leasing a hunting reservation that was named Niggerhead.

Cain called out Perry as being insensitive is correct.

Remember, it was Perry who called people who opposed his policy of school tuition for illegal immigrants as having no heart and it was Governor Perry who called Tom Tancredo a racist because he opposed Perry’s immigration policies.

From supporting Al Gore in 1988, to lending support in 1994 to Hillarycare, calling people who don’t support his immigration policies racist or not having a heart and now having his name embroiled in an insensitive leasing agreement with individuals who seem to have a history of having a racist view, it can be said Herman Cain is right and you can’t take the Texas Democrat out of Governor Perry.

The Herman Cain Proves the Pundits Wrong

There is something special that happened at the highly promoted GOP Florida straw poll that should leave egg on the faces of many political pundits who said the Herman Cain was washed up with only having a 50% name ID.

And contrary to pundits like Tony Lee at the Human Events, the Herman Cain won the straw poll because it was Herman Cain.

There were GOP delegates that bolted from Governor Perry so they decided to listen to a speech given by the Herman Cain and they became hooked. And laughably, Palin’s people are pimping on the conservative boards that Palin supporters voted for Cain.

That’s a joke, the Palinistas would go to their grave before voting for someone else. But hey if they want to portray themselves as gaming the system, have at it. Then there was the rumor that Romney instructed his supporters to vote for Cain. That too is a joke because it would put Romney further back and it doesn’t explain the huge turnout of people that showed up to see Herman Cain speak.

Having watched many speeches given by Cain, his speech before the folks in Florida was his best.

There is no other candidate or potential candidate that can come close to Cain and his ability to pull at the political heartstrings of voters.

The Herman Cain is a rare candidate in that he is not a politician but is a candidate that combines the speaking skills of Dr. King and President Reagan. In other words, Herman Cain is a presidential candidate like no other presidential candidate.

While pundits cast doubt on a Cain candidacy because he lacks political experience, tell that to Ross Perot who was pulling within striking distance until he went on how Bush et. al, was going to take pot shots at his family.

And then there is the famous loud mouth with the bad hair, Donald Trump who when he went public with a possible run, jumped ahead in the polls until his foul-mouth speech in Nevada pushed him out of contention.

The fact of the matter is, there is a double standard among pundits when it comes to Cain.

What will decide the GOP primary is who has the best solutions and doesn’t have the baggage of poor policy making. When you look at the current GOP field and potential list of candidates, Cain comes out on top.

Is this to say Cain will win? No. He still shows signs of not reading the political landscape and that was best displayed with a missed opportunity to hit back at president Obama and Romney by ignoring Michigan.

The primary in Michigan will be key in this election and as of yet, I have not seen Cain spending time there. If he had setup a deep infrastructure there early on, he could have followed on the heels of Obama’s visit to Detroit and would have garnered some press there. That in turn would have helped him in the recent straw poll where Romney came in first and Perry second.

The Cain campaign has now entered the Big Leagues and his staff need to study the political landscape so they can be better positioned to seize on opportunities that played out in Detroit. And they need to come up with some better answers on foreign policy like how do you deal with Russia and their support with Iran’s nuclear expansion.

As for Perry, he owns the comment on having no heart with school tuition for illegal immigrants and Cain can point to Perry and just say if that is how he and the citizens of Texas want to spend their tax dollars, so be it, but the federal government shouldn’t be in the business of subsidizing the higher education of illegal immigrants.

For the pundits who discounted Herman Cain and pointed to Perry as the second coming of Reagan, you have been punk’d by the delegates in Florida.

The Tale of One Typhoon in the Philippines

While most of the attention has been placed on Hurricane Irene, Typhoon Nanmadol hit the Philippines.

Having worked as a weather forecaster in the Air Force, using computer progs is fool hardy.

The headlines speak to this.

Typhoon Nanmadol expected to miss northern Philippines

8 dead as typhoon slams northern Philippines

There is no excuse for this.

The Lords of the Tea Party: Sarah Palin Ignores Senator Gollum aka McCain

Ohhhh – ohhhhh, the Hobbits are screaming mad at Senator Gollum aka McCain.

(note: I found the photo on the internet)

Senator Gollum has called the Tea party members Hobbits and Sarah Palin who helped put Senator Gollum in office had this to say to the Freshman legislators.

Out here in proverbial politico flyover country, we little folk are watching the debt ceiling debate with great interest and concern. Today I re-read the open letter I wrote to Republican Freshman Members of Congress in November 2010, just days after they were ushered into office in an historic landslide victory due in large part to the activism of commonsense patriots who are considered part of the Tea Party movement. I respectfully ask these GOP Freshman to re-read this letter and remember us “little people” who believed in them, donated to their campaigns, spent hours tirelessly volunteering for them, and trusted them with our votes. This new wave of public servants may recall that they were sent to D.C. for such a time as this.

The original letter is pasted below, with added emphasis to certain passages that I feel are especially relevant to the current discussion.

All my best to you, GOP Freshmen, from up here in the Last Frontier.

Sincerely,

Sarah Palin

P.S. Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries.

No word to Senator Gollum. Sharron Angle sent word to the Gollum, Palin didn’t.

I don’t want to hear the B.S. that she had to be loyal to McCain when she endorsed him.

The Tea Party has become fractured into factions that support candidates, it will be interesting to see how the GOP primaries play out and how the Tea Party survives.

Is Herman Cain a Bigot?

The press is having a field day with Herman Cain’s statements on banning a Mosque in Tennessee.

They are calling him a bigot.

Is he?

No.

The bigots are those who call Herman Cain a bigot.

Those in the press who espouse tolerance of the teachings in the Koran are the same who hold a bigotry against Christianity and the New Testament.

The bigots who call out Herman Cain as being a bigot, should look in the mirror, their attacks are based on their own hypocrisy.

Having grown up as a Catholic, I have seen the same bigotry aimed at Herman Cain, aimed at the Catholic faith for its teachings based on the New Testament.

Arguably those who attack the Church, are trying to shift focus from their own bigotry and intolerance.

Moreover, why is it that the bigots attack the Church (who is lenient when compared to the teachings found in the Koran), hold the Nation of Islam to a different standard?

Answer – the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

When it comes to Islam, Herman Cain is right.

He understands how Shariah law is part of Islam and Islam is not compatible with the teachings found within the United States Constitution.

And contrary to what the bigots say, Shariah finds its way into the United States courts and ultimately most cases are thrown out on appeal.

The appellate courts and their rulings in effect, prove Herman Cain right and in effect, our courts ban the actual worship of Islam via the Koran.

I found it interesting that when it came to burning the Koran, the press lauded President Obama’s decision to criticize the pastor by saying this:

President Obama was certainly right to be disgusted by "Reverend" Terry Jones's threat to stage a public burning of the Koran, a plan that was mean, stupid, intolerant, and spookily evocative of Hitlerian book bonfires. But I am also troubled by Obama's efforts to hector Jones into changing his mind. Everyone should worry when presidents invoke wartime security, or similar arguments, against constitutionally protected free speech, even -- or especially -- when the speech is offensive, outrageous and unpopular.

Strictly speaking, there was nothing unconstitutional about Obama's campaign, abetted by an all-star cast of national security officials, to get Jones to back off. Presidents have free speech, too. But when was the last time an American citizen got a phone call from the Secretary of Defense urging him to call off a political demonstration? Invoking his status as commander-in-chief, Obama accused Jones of, in effect, abetting America's enemies: "This kind of behavior or threats of action put our young men and women in harm's way. And it's also the best imaginable recruiting tool for al-Qaeda."

So burning the Koran according to the bigot is stupid, intolerant and spookily evocative of Hitlerian book bonfires?

What about burning bibles?

Just as has happened with the Florida church that promises to burn the Quran, Grizzard was warned by local officials that his church could be slapped with a huge fine, in his case as high as $25,000, because book burning would violate local ordinances.

So Grizzard and his people reconsidered; they had a non-book burning party, instead shredding the Bibles and other books that drew their ire if not their fire.

The few media who showed up had to take their word for it since it all happened inside the little church. Grizzard proclaimed the event a great success. And it was. A church with a membership of 14 got world-wide publicity.

Did the president come out against the burning of the bibles because it could become a National Security Issue? And where was the press calling out how stupid, intolerant and spookily evocative of Hitlerian book bonfires.

Did a majority of Christians condemn the killing of bin Laden?

There is a reason why you can burn a bible and not worry about a National Security Issue.

It’s because true Christians are tolerant and understand freedom. And when a group’s ideology goes against this, instinctively a true Christian knows when to act accordingly.

Unfortunately, the bigots have taken a tragic event in Norway and have started to lay the ground work to attack Cain.

What the bigots forget is: the terrorist in Norway, was a Freemason, a group criticized by the Catholic Church:

The most persistent critic of Freemasonry has been the Catholic Church.^[1] Since the early 18th century, the Vatican has issued several papal bulls banning membership of Catholics from Freemasonry under threat of excommunication. Currently, as reiterated in 1983, Catholics who become Masons are in a state of Grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,^[2][3] but the penalty of excommunication is not formally declared in the current code of canon law.

Moreover, the terrorist did not pray and found no support from the Catholic Church.

WASHINGTON – A review of Anders Behring Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto shows the media's quick characterization of the Norwegian terrorist as a "Christian" may be as incorrect as it was to call Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh one.

Breivik was arrested over the weekend, charged with a pair of brutal attacks in and near Oslo, Norway, including a bombing in the capital city that killed 7 and a shooting spree at a youth political retreat on the island of Utoya that killed more than 80 victims.

Piecing together Breivik's various posts on the Internet, many media reports have characterized the terrorist – who says he was upset over the multiculturalist policies stemming from Norway's Labour Party – as a "right-wing, Christian fundamentalist."

Yet, while McVeigh rejected God altogether, Breivik writes in his manifesto that he is not religious, has doubts about God's existence, does not pray, but does assert the primacy of Europe's "Christian culture" as well as his own pagan Nordic culture.

Breivik instead hails Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theories stand in contrast to the claims of the Bible, and affirms: "As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over biblical teachings. Europe has always been the cradle of science, and it must always continue to be that way. Regarding my personal relationship with God, I guess I'm not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic. However, I am a supporter of a monocultural Christian Europe."

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The terrorist also candidly admits he finds no support within either the Catholic or Protestant churches for his violent ideas.

Given the terrorist was a member of a Swedish Nazi forum, his humanist and pagan ideology is a direct contradiction to the press labeling him a Christian.

What is interesting is how bigots like to point to the terrorist as a “right wing” Freemason when his beliefs fit religious bigots like the KKK.

And it has clouded their own objectivity to ask who was the other gunman (according to witnesses) and who were his connections in Prague.

Throughout his manifesto of half –truths and contradictions, he thought about obtaining a nuclear weapon, studied the Oklahoma terrorist who according to witnesses had an accomplice and was just plain nuts.

It seems the thing the bigots calling out Cain have in common with the terrorist is, their bigotry of Christianity.

If the terrorist’s objective was to stop the Nation of Islam’s holding Norway's government hostage, he failed.

He killed the innocent.

As a Catholic, I was taught vengeance is a forbidden fruit and to know them by their works.

And this I know, Herman Cain is no bigot.

Herman Cain Wants to Ban KKK Centers or Something Like That

I hope the headline got your attention because I have a question for you: What does the KKK and the Nation of Islam have in common?

Intolerance.

In fact, when it comes to Jews and Catholics, you will find the enemy of my enemy is my friend motto used within the ranks of the KKK.

So when you see the Left screaming at Herman Cain with headlines here, here, here and The Herman Cain Doesn’t Believe in the First Amendment, keep in mind what they were saying when a pastor wanted to exercise his First Amendment rights by burning a Quran.

The headlines: Obama weighs in as plan to burn Qurans sparks debate and this one: Obama and the right to burn the Koran:

Strictly speaking, there was nothing unconstitutional about Obama's campaign, abetted by an all-star cast of national security officials, to get Jones to back off. Presidents have free speech, too. But when was the last time an American citizen got a phone call from the Secretary of Defense urging him to call off a political demonstration? Invoking his status as commander-in-chief, Obama accused Jones of, in effect, abetting America's enemies: "This kind of behavior or threats of action put our young men and women in harm's way. And it's also the best imaginable recruiting tool for al-Qaeda."

(emphasis added)

Okay so burning the Quran is a recruiting tool for the al-Qaeda.

How about Mosques being a recruiting tool for terrorism?

It seems there is a double standard there.

Moreover, which is more a national security risk, burning a book or having home-grown terrorist?

The hypocrisy of the Left is not surprising: to make banning something, just insert the KKK over Mosques and you will get the drift.

It seems Herman Cain is right about the Left and their intolerance.