God backs both Perry and Walker for 2016

[lutefisk]

At least according to Perry and Walker. This kind of dual endorsement could create confusion for primary voters.

Rick Perry:

"I truly believe with all my heart that God has put me in this place at this time to do his will."
Rick Perry, 2011 LINK

One of those financiers, who requested anonymity, told Daily Mail Online on Thursday – in advance of the governor's address to the conservative American Principles Project – that Perry is confident he can win. 'He and his wife believe they are touched by God, and that this is his time,' the donor said. 'It's like – they can't lose – that's the sense of it.'
Daily Mail, 2015 LINK

Scott Walker:

Walker said that God has told him what to do every step of the way, including about what jobs to take, whom to marry, and when to run for governor. When he had first met his wife, he said, "That night I heard Christ tell me, 'This is the person you're going to be with.'" He said he was trusting and obeying God when he took a job at IBM and then at the Red Cross. ""Lord, if this is what you want, I'll try it," he said. It was all about "trust and obey." ...
..."That morning Christ said to me through that devotion, 'This is what you're going to do. Look at me. Find that point on the horizon, and you're going to be just fine.'" He added: "God had a plan further down the road. Little did I know I just had to trust in Christ and obey what he calls me to do and that was going to work out."
The Progessive, 2011 LINK

"Part of me looks back and thinks that maybe God put me and my family through all this for a purpose – and it wasn't just to get things done in Wisconsin, and it wasn't just to win all those elections in a state that normally doesn't go Republican. Maybe it was to set us to ... help get our country on the right track."
Des Moines Register, 2015 LINK

[pkdu]

1. .."Oh , almost forgot, and Jesus told me to fuck the poor" nt

[lutefisk]

8. But with compassion

Walker: drug tests for needy 'about compassion'

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday defended his proposal to require drug tests of people seeking unemployment assistance and food stamps by saying it was an act of compassion, not an attempt to make it harder for people needing help.

"This is really about compassion," the Republican said. "It's not about making it hard to get government assistance, it's about making it easier to get a job."

LINK

[TlalocW]

2. Ben Carson has also claimed that he feels God telling him to run

These three won't be the last.

TlalocW

[2naSalit]

3. Looks like god's dance card is filling fast! n/t

[jberryhill]

4. After backing Bachmann last time, God is probably hedging bets

[Jim Lane]

22. God should've started hedging bets after backing the South in the Civil War.

The Battle of Port Republic, in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, was a victory for the Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson. As the defeated Union soldiers began to retreat, Jackson remarked to Richard S. Ewell, "General, he who does not see the hand of God in this is blind, sir, blind."

[charles d]

5. "Two men say they're Jesus; ONE of 'em must be wrong!"

Dire Straights' early stuff was the best.

[aka-chmeee]

9. Goodness Me! Goodness Me! nt

[postulater]

6. God told me she lied to both of them.

[RoBear]

7. hehehe

[Pakid]

10. I am willing to bet a lot of money that the voices in their heads

had nothing to do with God and a whole lot to do with Beelzebub

[workinclasszero]

11. Funny how this "god" these creeps hear

tells them to persecute and destroy the old and sick and poor.

Their god is in reality Ayn Rand whose evil philosophy they follow to the letter but they pretend to follow Jesus and do the total opposite of what he said.

[JoePhilly]

12. God is fickle.

[oldandhappy]

13. Sad, eh?

She told us to love our neighbors. Not a word about busting unions or taxing poor folk.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder which one is prez and which one is veep -- has God told them that yet?

[world wide wally]

14. Huckabee is going to be heart broken when he hears about this

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Gawd is a f/cking idiot, then.

[sakabatou]

16. God must be trolling them both

[Buzzardbait]

17. Reminds me of a book....

I read in an undergraduate psychology class: "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti." It was about what happened when therapists brought together three psychotic individuals who each claimed to be Christ.

[malthaussen]

18. Their god may have told them to run...

... he didn't tell them they'd win.

-- Mal

[kairos12]

19. Didn't we see this act with Shrub? Didn't work out to well, me thinks.

[lutefisk]

20. George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'

As the saying goes, it's Déjà vu all over again.

George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.
Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

LINK

Would it be hypocritical to say "God help us" at this point?

[Vinca]

21. God needs to send a bolt or 2 of lightning their way.

Idiots. I'm an avowed atheist and my values are far more "Christian" than theirs.