Governor Rick Perry unofficially kicked off his 2012 presidential campaign Saturday by staging a revival meeting in Houston, Texas. In terms of Faith and Values campaigning it was significant and unusual in a variety of ways:
Piety over Policy-In his thirteen-minute address Perry reversed the traditional script. Typically, those who are running for high office tinge their lengthy discussions of policy with a patina of piety. Here, everything was upside down. Perry simply preached with no substantive reference to any political plan or program.
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