Rick Perry Throws the Anti-Gay Hail Mary Pass

Texas Governor Rick Perry has launched a new ad campaign attacking President Obama and his alleged "war on religion."

Unbelievably, Perry's campaign posted this video to YouTube, but forgot to turn off the like/dislike function. As of this writing, there were just over 4,000 "likes" and more than 200,000 "dislikes."

Perry, who finds himself unable to gain ground on his top conservative rivals since poor debate performance catapulted his poll ratings over a steep cliff, has done what Republican Presidential contenders always do when they are unable to gain even the smallest amount of traction - they throw the family values Hail Mary pass.

With a struggling economic recovery, a nearly unsolvable budget impasse, a dysfunctional Congress, and the Arab spring/awakening, you would think Perry would have plenty of critically important issues to focus on, and to his credit, he has made some effort to do so. After all these months on the campaign trail though, the lack of enthusiasm generated for Perry's flat tax economic plan is matched only by the absence of coherence in his approach to foreign policy.


With nothing else substantial to add to the nation's political discourse and a demonstrated inability to articulate even his most fundamental positions in front of an audience, Perry's televised campaign appearances have been reduced to ads and uncomfortable interviews (a short conversation with Wolf Blitzer is linked below as evidence).

Perry is predicted to have a poor showing in Iowa and New Hampshire in January, and those results may well be the death knells signaling the end of his campaign. Until then, he'll continue trying to rally the fringe elements of the Republican party with these ever-popular, but ultimately empty, far right soundbites that hype love for Jesus, hate for gays, and God Bless the USA.