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Perry:
‘If
it’s Halftime in America, I’m Fearful of What the Final Score is Going
to Be’
By Matt
Cover
February 9,
2012
(CNSNews.com)
– Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), referencing the ‘Halftime in America’
Super Bowl
ad, said that he was “fearful of what the final score is going to be,”
if
President Barack Obama is reelected in November.
“If it’s
halftime in America, I’m fearful of what the final score is going to be
if we
let this president start the second half as the quarterback,” Perry
said in a
speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on
Thursday in
Washington, D.C.
Perry’s
remark was a reference to a Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl
that
featured Clint Eastwood talking about “halftime in America.”
Perry
touched on several hot-button issues during his speech – the first
major
address since he ended his bid for the Republican presidential
nomination in
January – including the financial bailouts, ObamaCare, the EPA, and the
10th
Amendment.
Perry
opened by making the case for conservative change on a grand scale,
saying the
GOP “can’t tinker our way to victory.”
“What 2012
offers us is the chance to offer a starkly different vision for
America,” Perry
said. “We can’t tinker our way to victory – we’ve got to be bold. We’ve
got to
be clear. We must embrace constitutional conservatism.”
Perry also
said the debate could not be limited to how much to spend on one
program or
another, but should be focused instead on more fundamental questions of
centralized political power.
“The
argument is not just about how much we spend on various programs,”
Perry
argued. “The argument must be about whether we continue to centralize
power in
Washington or [whether] we return it to the people, and the states.”
Perry also
criticized the Obama administration’s contraception mandate, saying
that the
president was “attacking the Catholic Church.” The rule, as part of
ObamaCare,
would require all health insurance policies – except for those in a
church or
seminary – to pay for sterilizations and FDA-approved contraceptives,
including
those that induce abortion.
“Today,
even our religious freedoms are under attack from the Obama
administration in
Washington,” Perry said. “Now, though, this administration is
assaulting the
Catholic Church and people of faith across our nation by forcing their
pro-abortion agenda on religious hospitals, on charities, and on
employees.
“The Obama
administration’s war on faith must be defeated,” said the Texas
governor.
Perry
closed his speech by making a call for unity in the divided Republican
primary
electorate, saying that conservatives would not have to “settle” in
2012.
“This
election is about a smaller, humbler federal government,” Perry said.
“You
don’t have to settle, you don’t have to settle this election. You don’t
have to
resign yourself to the fate that this country is going to be less in
the future
than it was in the past.”
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