Those in Texas know Perry better than the rest of us do.

A sign at Occupy Austin, that BradBlog featured.

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Ouch. Politico reporting. Do you see Christie seating Perry in the chair, Romney pulling the switch, or would you assign the roles the other way?

Chris Christie told reporters in New Hampshire that the Rick Perry campaign showed itself to be "beneath the office of president of the United States" by associating with a Texas pastor who criticized Mitt Romney's religion.

Christie's remarks came during a Hanover press conference where the New Jersey governor announced his endorsement of Romney.

"These type of religious matters have nothing to do with the quality of somebody's ability to lead," Christie said. "Any campaign that associates itself with that type of conduct is beneath the office of president of the United States."

Romney piled on, giving his strongest comments yet on Robert Jeffress's description of Mormonism as a "cult."

"I would call upon Gov. Perry to repudiate the sentiment and the remarks," Romney said, alleging that Perry had "selected" Jeffress to introduce him at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.

The Norm on the Romney train, the Timmy too, and now you can CC the support to New Jersey.

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My money is riding on Michele Bachmann declining to dip an oar into any such troubled waters, all things considered.


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Worth passing comment, I Googled "Robert Jeffress" and limit reporting of my findings to three items. First, the photo is from here (the item suggesting Jeffress feeds higher on the food chain than Mac Hammond, inheriting a ministry, although Hammond's converted warehouse might yet think to aim to equal Jeffress' First Baptist style and elegance (same photo source)).

Next, a perhaps too easy juxtaposition - so read the items and think for yourself.

Here, headlined "Robert Jeffress Trades Jabs with Newspaper Columnist Over Pedophilia in Islam," a story that mirrors its headline. With original quotes, and then reporting of a glide-and-slide event. Think of those CSPAN Congressional floor speeches, "... and I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks ..."..

Then this, curiously buried deep within a "christianbookpreviews" preview of the pastor's book,

"Hell? Yes!"

Just two hours northwest of Dallas, his thriving church has been described by Christianity Today as the new “Mecca” of evangelical Christianity.

Moving on --- Does any reader know of Gov. Perry taking any stand, publicly, over any of this? Has he no passions on the question?

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Does anyone know what's the thing with reactionary authors of works of dubious cultural value? And Red? It seems that when once sorted by gender, they look alike too. And of the gentlemen, it is kind of scary to see the two. As if there's some uptight Faustian core of kinship, perhaps of conviction too. And when I read that Amazon Kindle stuff about these works, it makes me think, "kindling." Any reader thoughts?

This link.

This link.

This link.

This link.

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Criswell, predecessor to Jeffress at the Dallas First Baptist business venue, was a segregationist during Eisenhower years when Dixiecrat was in vogue in South Carolina, and by 1968 had reevaluated his concept of brotherhood in Jesus, (with some doubting the latter being as sincere or as bedrocked in the man, as the former; this link). Criswell has his Wikipedia page, and sermons online. Jeffress seems an apt successor in business. Perry seems fine with both Criswell and Jeffress, intellectually, and seems disinclined to say a single thing which might lessen the esteem the Tony Perkins crowd has for Perry.