Why I Want To Be Your President: Republican Round-Up

Because it’s about God, stupid!

Texas Gov. Rick Perry got “the call:”

Austin, TX (CNN) – For Republicans who are dissatisfied with the current presidential field for 2012, it could be divine intervention.

GOP insiders see Texas Governor Rick Perry as a potential game-changer. As his state's longest serving governor, the pro-business Perry appeals to both tea party activists and Christian conservatives, all with a Texas swagger.

At a press conference Monday, Perry confirmed what he recently told the Des Moines Register. He is feeling called by his faith and his friends to run.

"I don't ever get confused. I am a man of faith," he added.

The governor resisted the suggestion that his comments meant he is being called by God to jump into the GOP race.

"There are a lot of ways to be called. My mother may call me for dinner," Perry said.

God. Wednesday spaghetti night. It’s the same thing.

Business man Herman Cain is very concerned that Mitt Romney is not doing a good job of explaining his religion:

Businessman Herman Cain was third in Iowa polls a month ago but has lost ground in the wake of various controversial comments about, among other things, attacking Iran, blocking mosques in the U.S., and now, Romney's Mormon faith.

“When he ran the first time, he did not do a good job of communicating his religion,” Cain said. “Unfortunately - it doesn't bother me - but I do know that it is an issue with a lot of Southerners."

Well, thank heavens it’s not an issue for him. I would be so shocked if it were.

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann may be church shopping in your neighborhood, soon:

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann quit her longtime church shortly before her presidential bid, potentially because the Lutheran church was part of a denomination that calls the papacy the "Antichrist."

CNN reported that Bachmann's request to leave Minnesota's Salem Lutheran Church was granted on June 21, roughly one week before she formally announced her presidential bid. She and her husband Marcus Bachmann, who also withdrew from the church, had reportedly been members for more than a decade, though they had not been attending services for the past two years.

Bachmann's campaign isn't commenting on the decision to leave the church, but it might reflect concern that her membership in it could anger Catholic voters. The church is a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, whose website says in part, "We identify the anti-Christ as the papacy. This is an historical judgment based on Scripture."

A conservative, Protestant Church that identifies the anti-Christ as papacy? Never heard of such a thing…

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is very concerned with reining in anti-religious bigotry from the judiciary bench:

"Radical secularists" who have worked to undermine First Amendment rights and coerce their own policy preferences onto the public can be brought to heel by abolishing their positions in the judiciary, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told audience members in recent campaign appearances. His proposal is built around legislation President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison advanced in 1802 to reassert the authority of the elected government agencies, Gingrich explained in an interview.

Throw the bums out. He also says he wants to eliminate the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in California. Activist judges, you see. Read it all at The American Spectator, here.

And finally, how former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s “Minnesota nice” might look like “good Samaritan,” when what the base really wants is “fire and brimstone.” A good read, here.

More next week, for sure!