Perry Pouts: Response "The Response" Is Deafening Silence

Rick Perry's big fall down on your knees and beg the old white guy in the sky not to kill us all event, aka "The Response," is coming up this Saturday at Reliant Stadium in Houston, a 71,000 seat football stadium. But the response to "The Response" has been pathetically weak. Organizers report only 8,000 people have singed up online to attend, barely enough to fill one section of the massive stadium. From CNN...

Organizers of the religious gathering, dubbed "The Response," say only 8,000 people have registered on-line to attend this Saturday's event at Houston's Reliant Stadium, a venue with a seating capacity of 71,000.

Eric Bearse, a "Response" spokesman and former speech-writer for the potential GOP presidential candidate, says attendance numbers are a non-issue.
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"We need God's help," Perry says in web video on the site's main page. The Texas governor goes on to call on Americans "to pray and fast like Jesus did."

Yeah, you need God's help getting anyone but a handful of wingnut lunatics and their idiot followers to show up. Perry's event has taken massive criticism recently due to the batshit crazy crap that falls out of the mouths of the preachers leading this flock of nutballs. Here, from ThinkProgress, are some examples of the creme de la crazy...

Preacher Mike Bickle says Orpah is a "harbinger of the anti-Christ" and “forerunner to the harlot movement.”
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Dr. Cindy Jacobs preaches that blackbirds are dying en masse in Beebee, Arkansas because of gay soldiers.
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John Benefiel claims the The Statue of Liberty is a “demonic idol” given to us by French Masons and homosexuality is a plot by the Illuminati.
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John Hagee has said too many crazy things to list here. Highlights include claiming Hurricane Katrina was divine retribution for sins of New Orleans residents and the Holocaust was the fault of the Jews and Hitler was a positive force herding Jews back to Israel.
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Dwight McKissic agrees that Katrina was God's vengeance because “New Orleans flaunts sin,” and the gay rights movement is a “satanic anointment…inspired by the anti-Christ that comes from the “pit of hell.”
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Mega-church mega-moron David Barton says Jesus opposes the minimum wage and the purpose of public schools is “homosexual indoctrination.”
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Jim Garlow says children of gay parents are just like the orphans of 9/11 and praises African Americans for haring teh gay.
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Domestic terrorist wannabe Jay Swallow is the Director of SWAT, a “Christian Military Training Camp” organized “for the purpose of dealing with the occult and territorial enemy strong holds in America.” Bizarrely, He also teaches his followers to pray for casinos on Native American land.
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Willie Wooten wrote a book claiming African Americans are cursed because of their tolerance of "immorality" and the Democratic Party begets “adultery, incest, children from incestuous union, children born out-of-wedlock, destroyed virginity, bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism.”
And that's just the stuff from the highest profile participants. Imagine the rest of the crazy. With all of this idiot babble about the retribution of a vengeful God, why is it you never hear about a busload of atheists going over a cliff?