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Opening Arguments

There's a call for you

If God really cared who won the Republican presidential primary, wouldn't he pick just one?

Those predicting that Texas Governor Rick Perry will run for president in 2012 can claim a prominent like-minded ally: God. Perry fueled speculation that he will run in Sunday's Des Moines Register when he said, "I'm getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I've been called to do."

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Bachmann, too, says she prayed to God about her potential candidacy, which gave her a "sense of direction." (She is being only slightly more oblique about God's role in her political calculus than in 2006 when she declared: "God called me to run for Congress.") 

Herman Cain, who is also seeking the Republican nomination, has said he interpreted a text message from his granddaughter as divine instruction. "I know that God was speaking to me through my granddaughter that this was something I've got to do," he said.

I guess that means he's going to be far too busy to help the Colts win another Super Bowl.

Comments

littlejohn
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:22pm

Be careful, Leo! You may be offending your base. You know, the ones who think it's a miracle when a child survives a plane crash that killed the other 200 on board. A guy like you might ask why God didn't just prevent the wreck in the first place. But as Bob and Tim know, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

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