On Saturday night, Texas Gov. Rick Perry became the latest Republican hopeful seeking to secure the GOP nomination to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. Perry enters on the heels of polls showing him to be a top-tier contender for the nomination.

Perry told a gathering of conservative activists meeting at a conference sponsored by the Red State blog in South Carolina and he told them, “I full well believe I’m going to win.”

Perry started the speech with pointed criticism of President Obama, saying, “this President’s unbridled fixation on taking more money out of the wallets and pocketbooks of American families and employers and giving it to a central government"...