And A Very Christ-Like Christmas To You, Too, Rick
Okay, I don’t wanna be picky but I got Rick Perry’s email Christmas card today and I think it’s a tad creepy.
I’m not saying he picked a rather odd Bible verse to celebrate the Prince of Peace’s birth. Click the little one to get the big one.
I mean really? You picked Jesus’s birthday to talk about battle and subduing people under you? Really?
This ain’t a Christmas Card, Honey. It’s a warning shot at Chris Christie.
Rick Perry — he ain’t just fartin’ around this time. He’s declaring a holy war.
Yeah, that’s a fairly belligerent & inappropriate Bible verse for a
1Christmas verse
When Republicans misunderstand stuff like that I wonder if they do it because they are uneducated, mean and hateful or if they are just mean, and hateful.
I’ve never met a Republican who can explain, with a straight face, why Ebeneezer Scrooge is a villain and Robin Hood is a hero.
2No loving embrace for his wife? Keep those hands in your pockets…….
3He’s running for POTUS.
Show all the other nuts who is the nuttiest of them all.
It really is inappropriate, especially with a little baby in the picture! And them all standing, no relaxing on Rick’s watch!
4@ John Peter – I thought the same thing immediately. Women have cooties – and Ricky is not going to catch any of those!
5In other news, Rick Perry sends YOU Christmas cards?!?!?!?
6Why in the world did he choose anything from Old Testament when the birth of the Savior ushered in the New Testament? Does he not know Old from New, East from West? Must be he did not watch enough Sesame Street when he was a kid. Oh, wait! Repugs ain’t fond of public teevee like the Mittster testified to on national hookup when he said he would cut Big Bird! Any little kids who saw that took it literally and began to cry!
7Well, you know, if you want to celebrate the season of Peace, then you damn well better be prepared to fight with might for Peace–it’s the only way to ensure it.
Sigh, it is sad that this family, let alone Ricky, cannot see the inappropriateness of such a verse.
8Also, is there some reason that he is not smiling? Forget his teeth that day?
9Geez! What ever happened to “Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Men”? Seems like he’s having his own personal war on Christmas.
(Oh, and let me be picky: who’s the clown that took THAT snapshot?)
10Sounds like a mid-life crisis to me.
11Could it be, Star, that he might have been photo shopped in? What a hateful face that is. The bile that forms in the stomach must be giving him (JJ said it) gas.
12Sounds like Perry wants to start a War on Everything That is Not Christmas.
13I think Perry has completely missed the point of Christmas.
14Of all the beautiful Psalm verses and he picks this one! There is something so mentally wrong with this guy!
15Rick looks mad/miserable, Anita looks stoned and the rest seem to understand this is a Christmas card photo, not a declaration of War.
The Republican nomination fight will almost be as entertaining as last time.
Buy Popcorn.
16Well Peace on Earth to you too pRick.
Thought bubble above Rick’s head: Can we just get this damn picture taking over with so I can get back to legislating against wimmin and teh poors and everybody that’s not just like me. And taking care of my bestest buds. Oh and trying to remember that third thing.
17Now that is how you go battle in the imaginary War on Christmas! If that president thing doesn’t work out for Perry, maybe he can appoint himself the Braveheart of Texas.
18(Hope Mel Gibson plays him in the film adaptation.)
Even if I had a smidgeon of like for Perry, he looks too much like Mitt in this picture. Smug, hands in pocket better than thou, I don’t care what you think.
19His is a look of haughtiness.
He and the Missus look like they just had a knock down drag out. No happy campers here.
20I love how it’s always praise Jesus when these evangelicals speak of their faith. But when it comes to dealing with those you oppose, it’s always the Old Testament verses that are put forth. Love those with whom you agree and smite those with whom you disagree. The irony is that they fail to see the hypocrisy with this mindset.
21Pocket pool in a family Xmas card?
22You think he sent this card out to Heathens and Democrats…. as a warning, and a more appropriate Christmas greeting to his Fundamentalist flock… and a third one to his cronies who contribute? I’ve gotten a fair share of “political Christmas Cards” over the years… this one is not only creepy, but tacky, ill-conceived, and simply ugly. To call this a Bush-League attempt at Christmas Cheer would insult Barbara and Laura Bush. No way anyone in the Bush Clan would send out something this bad.
23Just proves my theory…Republicans are good at talking about religion, talking about Christianity. But they wouldn’t recognize it if it smacked them in the face…which, hopefully it will one of these days.
24Mr Perry is the only person in the photo not touching anyone — okay — well, maybe himself —. He is removed from the rest of them. I’m not sure his own family likes him. He certainly doesn’t seem to like them.
25How about this jewel from Perry, in Jan of 2012!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcLUFrICcAEE_nZ.jpg
26I still think it’s a mid-life crisis. His mouth looks like YOU WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT? Maybe he’s afraid he isn’t going to get what he wants for Christmas. Bless all their hearts. It’s bound to be hard to be under the thumb of all the rich folks in Texas. Lotta hard work. I gotta get off here before I say something I’ll regret. Those cranberries might be boiling over. Did you know you can google JUANITA JEAN’S CRANBERRY RELISH and get her message from Thanksgiving? Oh, and if you’re not on Wendy’s email list, she and her family are having a white elephant gift exchange for Christmas, and nuts and oranges in their stockings. But that Scripture on the Perrys’ card….okay I’m outta here.
27@missprissybritches..If I recall correctly, a Christmas card from the White House during the Bush years had a verse that began “See how the mighty have fallen” , or some such. Referring of course to Saddam Husein. I thought that was bad enough, but Perry wins the tacky trophy.
28The Bible quotation is totally weird. So are the two white dresses. And one red. Is she the scarlet woman or something? Not a festive card for sure.
29Hey, wait a minute…where are his Clark Kent glasses?
30I don’t know the first thing about Bible verses, but having just watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” for the umpteenth time the other night, I would think that Linus has a better handle on “what Christmas is all about” than does your governor. Nevertheless, I am impressed that you are on the Governor’s Christmas email list, JJ!
31Growing up in a printing business household that was very OCD regarding names related to pictures, which idiot put the names in reverse order? If you want your name first, park your butt on the right side of the group photo.
If you have any concept of the magnitude of the gift of the Holy Child, a choice of scripture might reflect that.
This Season’s Greeting is appropriate only for the Jockeying for Position in the Primary Season, but is a very tacky example.
32Geee I’m sorry to be late for the party, esp since all the piling on has been done. Rick is illiterate. (At this point if you are any kind of Aggie – past, present, or future, you should be asking tough questions about academic standards at CS. If Rick slipped through a crack when no one was looking who else has/could wiggle by.)
I totally agree with those who criticized yanking an OT verse out of the ether in celebration of the birth of the sweet baby Jesus, when a NT verse likely would have been more on point.
Of course if Rick was ever on the point he might be successful in landing the GOP nomination in 2016. He won’t. That said I predict here and now that the the ramp up to the GOP nomination will be worth the price of admission.
33Well…here goes our Texas poster child for Clueless again. When I first moved to Austin George W. had just finished running for President. Left over in a (liberal) neighborhood was a sign: All of Austin has lost its Village Idiot to DC. We apologize greatly to state so, but we do NOT miss him. Additionally, we do not accept requests for refunds & returns…and refuse all returned large boxes from the White House.” I fear there are going to be more such signs when Gov’n Goodhair steps out again on a national stage.
34Coat hangar smiles sported by the 3 younger mortuary training dolls, the senior ice sculptures sporting gohmert grins. Baby Ella had the only natural expression in the group, “holy gohmerts, this is my family?”
35Oh no! When I saw the word “rock” in that scripture..I about that rock that had that horrible name, the one on the entrance to the Perry’s hunting camp.
36Micr, if you are an Aggie, you are too busy trying to figure out how counting out the number of your fingers and toes can help you along in everyday life to waste any thought on Former Students!
In all seriousness, Perry might as well have gone to a different Uni than the one I took my degree from! (no grammar corrections please, it should be “the one from which I received my degree” !!) I would not have been allowed to attend in lil’ Ricky’s day: my daddy was not an A&M prof! One of the major problems in the GOP is that it is chock full of folks who want to “go back to when fill-in-the-blank!” Time only marches (or flees!) in one direction; going back is not, nor has ever been, an option!
37–
“What a maroon, what an ignoramus.”
Bugs Bunny
http://www.hark.com/clips/nsvdjzkfdz-what-a-maroon
38Wow, at first I thought he was Mitt Romney and Ann had put on a few….Oh man, could they be one and the same?? Is this real?
39OMG, that is without a doubt the most inappropriate bible verse I have ever seen on a Christmas card! It’s like a verse Churchill would have used in a speech during World War II. A battle cry. No Peace on Earth Goodwill toward Men. No Merry Christmas from our governor. What a Bah Humbug! Kinda scary there, Rick.
40This is the most inappropriate Christmas card I have ever seen — really. And just in passing, I read on mediaite.com that the Republican Central Committee has been trying to sell shirts that indicate “Happy Holidays” is what liberals say and that Eric Cantor (a nice Jewish boy) had to squirm out of that one in an interview. Ah, what’s that saying? Something about “what goes around…”
41My first thought was a word I can’t say on a blog Momma reads.
My second is that that picture explains a lot – the top of Rick’s head is missing.
42White? At Christmas? I don’t think its Easter, yet. My momma said ladies don’t wear white in December.
43Rick Perry is approaching the craziness of the same caliber as the Taliban, Hamas and other extreme religious zealots. I guess that stands to reason with the adherents of Christian Dominionism, such as Rafael Cruz) who seek a “Christian” Caliphate.
44I got Stockman’s: http://liquiddaddy.blogspot.com/
45Exodus 20:16 would have been more appropriate since the biblical passage was added by someone other than him.
46Ohgod. He spawned children?
47At least he could have quoted the King James version of the Bible– so much more trenchant and elegant, even for such an inappropriate message at Christmastide.
It bothers me that these self-declared lovers of Jesus have not the will nor the cerebral contents to imbibe His word in its finest (indeed unsurpassable) English version.
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