Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m not a Mitt Romney fan. His comment about the “47 percent” didn’t make me like him any more. It also didn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy about him possibly being the next President of the United States. I have however found something to make that idea at least a little more palatable.

He’s not Rick Perry. If you are all finished shouting “Thank you Captain Obvious!”, let me explain. While Mitt may be slightly richer than Croesus (look it up), at least he isn’t as scary crazy as Governor God-Botherer, from Texas.

Rick Perry is one of those special people who believe that everyone should live the way they want them to. In Scary Perry s world, everyone would live under Old Testament law. His latest gem was the declaration that the separation of church and state was an act of the devil. Here I thought that was an idea cooked up by the founding fathers.

You see, that’s a big part of what gets up my nose with Governor Slack-Wit and his ilk. They talk about how America was founded on “Christian” principles, then say the bits they don’t like are the work of the devil. The founding fathers were probably not wearing shiny black robes and sacrificing small animals when they agreed the country should be run by its people, and not by the church. It’s more likely they were thinking of the mess they left behind in Europe where church was intimately tied to the states.

A continent where heads of state were allegedly chosen by God and endorsed by the church. Where freedom and justice were determined by what a church backed Monarch felt like allowing, rather than constitutionally guaranteed rights determined by an elected and accountable government.

It would be so much easier for Governor Perry (is a nut-job) to push his hate and fear-driven agenda if his church was running the country. But that’s the problem with his church and state idea. He’s not talking about a moderate Christian church, or a Muslim church, or Hindu, Wiccan or (ironically) the church of Satan. Nope. He’s talking very specifically about his preferred brand of God-Bothering Evangelical Christian faith. That’s what the United States should be guided by.

Now you see why I prefer the stupidly rich guy. Sure he’s got problems with his brain to mouth filter, but at least when he says stupid things its a gaffe not his campaign platform. He may be okay with most of the nation drifting into unemployment and grinding poverty as long as he and his campaign contributors can continue to grow their wealth like literal cash crops, that’s fine. At least so far he hasn’t gone all Blues Brothers… You know… “We’re on a mission from God”.

Give me Mitt “Cash is King” over Rick “The Bible Psycho” any time. That’s the good thing about Mitt Romney….

Cheers, Winston