relaxing and taking it a day at time. I think he’s stopped listening to the critics and started calling on the Lord. He’s doing great this week and he needs only to keep it up: be himself, follow his heart, surround himself with trustworthy people, and most importantly, let go and let God.

To our Perry commenter here, federalfarmer, please feel free to update your education regarding Gov. Perry’s past record and current beliefs. Find them at his state website as governor, www.rickperry.org and www.makeamericagreatagain.com Read, listen, learn and you’ll see what we see very soon. With a groundswell of support, Gov. Perry will blossom in this campaign.

Just now, the very liberal FOX host, Shep Smith, talked about Constitutional Carry (and he didn’t sound in favor of it). Gov. Perry supports it and has already went to work with a number of Republican governors making it possible for Texans to carry their guns into those states. He’s also the NRA endorsed candidate: that’s the National Rifle Assoc., not the restaurant thing we’ve heard enough about in another campaign.

The Des Moines Register is reporting that Newt won’t release his records regarding Freddie Mac. Hmmm……..

IT’S NOT OVER!

that have a problem with a group of folks here that share news, support and encouragement, eventually you’ll know which names have probably made a comment you don’t want to read. retire05 expressed it well here that we don’t really have a ‘home’. Fox has been unnecessarily unfriendly to the Perry campaign, although his investment of nearly a million in advertising may help soften their edges. A perfect case in point about an apparent aversion came yesterday from Gretchen Carlson. She and the guys had a brief discussion about Perry’s proposals regarding term limits for judges, part-time Congressmen, etc. Ms. Carlson made a snarky comment that she thinks he only came up with that as a way to try and restart his campaign. Do ya, think, Gretchen? He’s in this to win it; he’s going to be rolling out policy proposals right and left and spending money. He will be in your face every time you watch TV or read something online. What do you think he should do, Gretchen? Sit back and do nothing and just hope he gets more exposure and friendly reporting on his behalf? If he leaves his campaign’s future up to the likes of YOU, he isn’t going to far, is he?

It seems no matter how many emails Fox hosts get, asking not for personal opinion, but rather just report the dang news and keep your bias out of it, they simply can’t resist. However, Hannity did give Perry some radio time this week during which the gov did extremely well. The big talkers on radio have often dismissed him and for some reason unknown to alot of us, have developed a sophomoric crush on Herman Cain. Some say its a circling of the wagons simply because he’s a talker himself; I think its because he jabs the media and that provides a great amount of satisfaction. The Right and Left media are in constant war with each other so any score on the other team is a victory. Consider also, Perry has a lapse of memory at a debate and all we heard was, ‘ITS OVER’. Cain does the same at an interview this week and he gets defended. Yet, none of them will come out and say, “Hey, folks, I’m announcing today that I am a Cain supporter so you’re going to hear alot of fawning and praise for him, 3 hours a day, 5 days a week.” Instead, they sit back and claim to have not yet picked a favorite. Rush has said he won’t make a pick because if he’s wrong, it would hurt his career, yet for the last month if he really thinks his listeners can’t tell where his affection lies, I’ll eat the Golden EIB microphone. We’re just being alot more honest. If you don’t like what Rush is spewing, you shut him off. If you don’t like reading positives on Rick Perry, there are many commenters here you should not click on.

So, for all of you folks that find it distasteful, uncomfortable or downright unacceptable that a large Perry following has found a home here at RS, all we can tell you is, again, avoid posts from names that you know going in are going to pro-Perry. It’s not just that we believe and support him, we (or most of us) are moving away from the formerly trusted sources of news and info. More and more of us are watching CNN (especially when EE is on).

The bottom line is, none of us knows how this will shake out. There is an enormous nation-wide effort underpinned with a boatload of money to get Romney on the ticket. At the same time, most Americans can’t even name one person running for the GOP nomination. Alot of money will be spent and alot of rhetoric will flow under the bridge before this is over. For Perry supporters, we saw our candidate come out of the shute getting slammed by the likes of Michelle Malkin and a few other high profile opinion-peddlers. He spent the first 8 weeks trying to dodge arrows. Just as Cain folks can find every excuse under the sun for their guy and the Romney supporters are unashamed to have very short memories regarding their guy’s moderate track record, we also feel a duty to put the best construction on our candidate. We will tell the story of his record and successes. We want people to know that he also has had one wife, has a wonderful family and a deep and abiding faith in Jesus Christ. We aren’t ashamed of that. We love it that he wants to send Congress packin’ if they can’t get their work done. I heard one member say yesterday its not just a full time job, but a double time position. Yet, when its time for a holiday or summer break or recess, they sure know how to hustle and get done so they can have their vacations. A whole bunch of them ought to spend less time standing in front of TV camera’s in the hallways of Congress spouting off and get to work instead. Sounds like alot of them have too much time on their hands for some ‘extra curricular’ activity, as well. Only in govt., whether its elected officials or otherwise, can people look so busy while doing nothing.

If I’ve offended anyone here with what has been construed as attacks on other candidates, I try only to report here what I learn from other sources, tell the truth for those that have blinders on and inject a little humor here and there. As Herman always says, “America needs to get a sense of humor.” We’d all do well to remember that. If you’re writing here and you’re a liberal trying to disguise yourself, it ain’t working. We’ll have a little fun with you because you ask for it. If you’re truly undecided about candidates and find comments here offensive, take ownership in your own knowledge and research. Join the Party of Know and dig and find out facts on your own. There are some of us here that invest basically the equivalent of a half time job (or more) doing research so when we opine we’ve got some solid information to back it.

Enjoy the lively exchange of conversation, learn, research, be informed, be polite and if you can’t do any of that, maybe The Huffington Post is calling you home.

just be aware you have to comment through Facebook, though. The ethanol lobbyists and libs in general are being pretty tough on Perry. Speaking of ethanol subsidies, there’s a story this morning at www.washingtonexaminer.com that reports Newt’s consulting firm works the crowd in D.C., to continue support of ethanol subsidies and that they did the same thing to pump up support for Bush’s Medicare Part D. At some point, when does one stop being a consultant in Washington and start being a lobbyist? Newt is going to have to come clean on this. He’s been asked to release his memo’s as a consultant for Freddie Mac and its reported that his campaign is refusing.

Ethanol is now a multi-billion dollar industry. They must go it alone. We cannot afford to subsidize this anymore. The world is starving and food prices are soaring. In my humble opinion, God made oil and coal for a reason and He made food for a reason. We can’t eat coal, now can we?