Rick Perry, Bad Idea 

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

I want to tell you why Rick Perry ought not to be President.

I'm an author of books.  Beside the books, I've written gospel tracts, in an effort to win souls for Jesus.  

I had a job in Fremont, CA, making pretty good money.  In my spare time, I wrote and published Christian literature.  

I contacted various Governors, offering free literature for prisoners in their states.  

There was one midwestern state in particular, that accepted a lot of the free literature.  

And then, some things happened.  I moved to a different area.  

Later, in Southern California, the idea occurred to me to again publish free literature for prisoners, in my spare time.  

I contacted various Governors, including Governor Rick Perry of Texas.  

I included a sample of my literature in the form of a gospel tract.  

Apparently, Rick Perry took offense to my tract, and he sicked his state Attorney General on me.  

The Attorney General of Texas said in his letter that they were investigating me for possible violation of the law with regard to what I had written.  

Of course, nothing ever came of it.  I had done nothing wrong.  In this nation, we have freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.  

It's a pity that Rick Perry doesn't understand that.

And what kind of Presidential candidate doesn't understand about our Constitutional Rights to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion?

A bad Presidential candidate, that's what kind.  

Now Rick Perry may have thought, and probably did think that my tract was politically incorrect.  But you see, it was not my intention to be politically correct, and I am not required to be politically correct.   

I don't have political aspirations like Rick Perry, and, as a writer of gospel literature, I don't have to be politically correct.  

It was my intention to write a good tract that would tend to win souls for Jesus and help people go to heaven.  

I don't know whether Rick Perry hates Christians, or hates God, or hates Jesus, or hates the Bible, or hates Christian Evangelism, but very clearly, Rick Perry is a bully who throws his weight around.  

And if he were to get elected as President, then as President, he would also be a bully who would be throwing his weight around.  And America doesn't need that.

Apparently, Rick Perry is not a God fearing man.  If Perry were a Christian, how could he behave like that toward a fellow Christian?

And I hope that whomever we get to be President will be a God fearing person.  

We also don't need that big mouth, Donald Trump, who, apparently, is a spoiled brat, who didn't get the spankings that he needed when he was a child.  

Trump apparently sees himself as this great wheeler-dealer and genius at business.  But is he really a genius at business?  I don't think so.  I've heard that he's gone bankrupt like six times.

Does a genius at business go bankrupt six times?  I don't think so.

And Trump's remarks to the effect that Senator John McCain is not a war hero are ridiculous.  McCain is surely an American war hero, while I've heard that Trump is a draft dodger, and so, an unpatriotic American.  Do we need Trump as President?

Of course not.  

Another candidate for President is Hillary Clinton, wife of former President, Bill Clinton, the Adulterer, who said, "I did not have sex with that woman." (Monica Lewinsky)

Bill may not have had sexual intercourse with Lewinsky, but his semen was on her dress.  What does that mean?  It means that he was fooling around with another woman instead of his wife, Hillary.  

What do they call that, "Free love?"

Or, perhaps that's called an "Open marriage."  

Whatever it's called, God is against it, and I expect both Bill and Hillary to go to hell, where their worms don't die and the fire is never quenched, where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, says Jesus.  

When that came out, it was a disappointment to me that Hillary didn't promptly divorce that bum, Bill Clinton.  

So then, why didn't she divorce that trash that was fooling around with another woman?  

I think it was because Hillary had political ambitions of her own, and believed that divorcing that garbage, who disgraced the White House, and disgraced the nation, would not help fulfill her political aspirations.

Bill Clinton's fooling around with Monica Lewinsky has given our American language a new word.  A verb.

Subsequent to the Lewinsky business becoming public, I happened to catch a program on TV.  

There was a court scene.  The woman on the witness stand was asked just what kind of sex another woman had with a certain man.  

The woman on the witness stand answered, "She Lewinskied him." 

And that is the legacy of Bill Clinton, husband of Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, which couple apparently doesn't have much in the way of moral values.  

Seems like Bill Clinton was Rhodes Scholar, and studied in Great Britain.  But, apparently, Rhodes Scholars are not taught character.  

Hillary Clinton also apparently was incompetent in her position as Secretary of State under Barak Obama, when she failed to provide proper security for her subordinate, the American Ambassador, who was murdered along with three other Americans at Benghazi.  

Later, when the issue was being discussed, Hillary said, "What difference does it make?"

The difference that it makes, Hillary, is that you were incompetent as Secretary of State.  So how then could you possibly be competent as President of the U.S., Hillary?

Candidate Bernie Sanders is apparently a Socialist.  Socialism is a lot like Communism.  Communism hasn't worked in the nations where it has been tried, thus Bernie Sanders doesn't know what he's doing.  

A Presidential candidate that appeals to me is Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.  

Beside his considerable experience as a U.S. Senator, Graham is also a military man.  Seems like he's a Colonel in the South Carolina Air National Guard.  

That's a big plus with me.  The President of the U.S. is also Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces.  

Thus, Graham is rather well prepared to fill the position.  

I served in the U.S. military myself, and appreciate the qualifications of Lindsey Graham.  

I believe Graham is an honest guy who doesn't tell lies.  

And our nation does need good leadership.

There are many problems that need solving.  

I hope that we can get a President that is a God fearing person, with a good grasp of the Holy scriptures, that will guide the next President in many areas.  

One time I quoted a principle to a man that I know.  I said, "He that won't work shouldn't eat."  

The man responded, "Oh, yes, William Penn of Pennsylvania said that."

Well, maybe so, but where did Penn get it?  From the Bible, of course.  

At the time of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."  

Right.  And where did Lincoln get that?  He was quoting Jesus, from the Bible. 

Dwight Eisenhower was a military hero, and then I believe he did a good job as President.  

I believe Harry Truman made the right decision to use the A-bomb against Japan.  If instead, we had invaded Japan with infantry, probably a million American lives would have been lost.  

Japan started that war with their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.  We finished the war that they started with the A-bomb.  

Chapter 2

___Proverbs chapter 2
 1 My son, if you'll receive my words, and hide my commandments with you,
 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding,
 3 Yes, if you call after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding,
 4 If you seek her like for silver, and search for her like for hidden treasures,
 5 Then you'll understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
 6 For the Lord gives wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous, he is a buckler to those who walk uprightly.
 8 He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the way of his saints.
 9 Then you'll understand righteousness, and justice, and equity, yes every good path.
 10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
 11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you,
 12 To give you deliverance from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things,
 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked,
 15 Whose ways are crooked, and perverse in their paths,
 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words,
 17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
 18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.
 19 No one that goes to her escapes, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.
 20 So that you'll walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
 21 For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be uprooted from it.


___James chapter 1
 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2
 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
 6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?
 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3
 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
 2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.
 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4
 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
 6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5
 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
 8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
 11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
 13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.
 14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.