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DEWITT, Iowa -- Sauntering through snowy streets with a dozen cameras in tow, two sitting United States governors on Tuesday talked haircuts and football with the residents of an eastern Iowa town, population about 5,000.
Must be caucus season.
Gov. Rick Perry, accompanied by endorser Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, stopped in DeWitt for a tour with the mayor as part of Perry's last-ditch-effort bus tour of over 40 cities in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
Perry signed an NFL jersey, played with an infant, and even mimed giving a customer at Art's barbershop a haircut as he made his way through town, insisting on shaking the hand or slapping the back of everyone he met -- even a bystander absorbed in a frosted danish.
“Two things you don’t want from me: Singing to you and giving you a haircut," Perry joked with haircut-recipient Leroy Claussen, moments after holding the barber's tools inches from Claussen's head.
It's the retail campaigning for which Perry is known, and which his campaign team hopes will vault him above his conservative rivals to a better-than-expected finish in the Jan. 3 contest.
Jindal, who endorsed Perry in September, joined him on the road Tuesday for two days of the bus tour. At the first stop of the day, Jindal introduced his neighboring chief executive with a specific focus on Perry's leadership.
"I've seen Rick Perry lead," he said in his introduction speech at the Decker Hotel in Maquoketa. "I have seen first hand the difference between a man who's been governor of a state for 11 years and another man who gives a great speech, was a senator for a couple of years and then ran for president of the United States."
The Louisiana Republican's steady and deliberate delivery of five reasons he's supporting Perry came with a fluidity that often escapes the candidate that he's endorsed. At one point, Jindal even came to his rescue after Perry flubbed one of the details of his own tax plan.
"Thank you for correcting me on that governor," Perry replied when Jindal gently chimed in with the facts about deductions under Perry's flat tax proposal. "Not that I ever make a mistake. It's always good to have Bobby here to correct me."
With Jindal at his side, Perry largely avoided his usual daily attacks on rivals in front of Iowa audiences. But he told reporters that his "outsider" status differentiates him from Romney and Gingrich, both of whom formerly supported the individual health insurance mandate much-reviled by conservatives.
"[Romney] has a real problem with this issue of being consistent on this Obamacare/Romneycare issue," he said at a brief press conference outside his bus as snow flurries swirled above. "Newt's an insider. So the issue's going to be do you want an insider - whether it's Wall Street or whether it's Washington - or do you want an outsider like myself."
Perry, unlike Gingrich, has not called for a ceasefire of inter-candidate punches, and he said Tuesday that such contrasts are fair rather than wholly "negative."
"As long as no one's misstating the facts then I don't consider that to be negative," he said. "I think it's always in the eye of the beholder."
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Who here thinks Perry will be the nominee? Raise your hands!
Much more interesting story today.
It appears we may have an issue at the State Dept. Who vets these people?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/number-3-state-dept-kim-jong-il-smart-witty-problem-solver-humorous-engaged_614495.html
Who knows? Whatever goes around comes around. Parry/Jindal 2012!
Doug, i'ma guessing anyday now, Iraq(per Paul Wolfiwitz) will be Depositing a few Trillion $$'s into the coffers of the American Treasury Dept. Right? I'm sure somewhere in The Weekly Standards archives, they said that also.
Your Point Is?
Haveing been out & about today helping My Wife recover from the loss of her Baby last week(14 yearold Rat Terrier), with a New iPad2, I missed all the Hoopla of Speaker Boehner tripping allover himself in trying to explain away the reasons for the House of Rep. Failing to liveup to a Negotiated Agreement with his counterpart in the Senate, Sen.McConnel.
Speaker Boehner looked almost Helpless as he called on President Obama to save him from Rep. Eric Cantor, with this quote:
I need President Obama's help!
ROFLMAO here @
Occupy SoggyBottom!
Who is lighter in the shoes, Jindal or Perry? And they're holding hands? Oh, "lends" a hand...
The Iowa caucus has become a detriment to the GOP. Because it is so ultra conservative compared to the rest of the nation, Iowa only forces candidates to tack to the far right. Then who ever the nominee is will have to flip-flop even more to move back toward the center. Don't be surprised if the Iowa caucus ends in the future.
Doug: Are you serious? No wonder Obama has any support. Do you seriously believe that the State Department's job is to vet presidential candidates, so far as being capable of leading the country? No wonder this country is in such a mess. Had that been the case, then there is no way Obama could have been nominated, let alone elected. Heck, there wasn't even any vetting to show he had an actual birth certificate. They settled on being satisfied that the State of Hawaii said he was born there, so he must have been born there. Given your idea that it is the job of the State Department to vet candidates worthy of being president, why isn't Obama ruled out by the State Department for reelection? Clearly he has shown any abilities worthy of the office to date.
The BLIND giving directions to the DEAF AND DUMB. Jindal giving Perry a "hand" , THE HEIGHT OF EGOTISM. I wouldn't vote for EITHER OF THEM , in fact I would vote for JESSIE JACKSON before either of these two CROOK LOSERS.
(Perry and Jindal) Perfect for a Democratic landslide! Vote them in 2012
So much for Jindal's (perceived) integrity and career, eh?
When the Republican spin doctors started calling liberals bad names and associating progressive thought with evil, little did they know that the knife cuts both ways. Now, every time an American hears the word retarded, they think of Republicans. LOL Kinda like the old saying, "Live by the gun, die by the gun!"
Bobby Jindal, for all his conservative credentials, by supporting Perry over others, is betting on the loosing horse. Bobby Jindal and Ricky Perry are made for each other.
My point was who's vetting the state dept. That's ok. I know the FR crowd is largely made up of people who lack comprehension skills.
Romney will be the nominee. I think the interesting question will be the choice for VP. IMO, the choice that will seal the deal would be Rubio.
Hahahahahahaha! Yeah, this guy is totally qualified to be the leader of the free world . . . coyotes everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief ;)
Governor Jindal, how's the homicide rate in New Orleans this month?
Everyone is desperately trying to ignore an elephant named Ron sitting in the room.
I guess any help is better than no help..
Maybe Jindal can perform an exorcism and expel the demons holding the Perry campaign bacj.
Vote for anyone but Romney. Thank You
Since all the republicans are nobodies I'll vote for Obama again!
clwyd: Still a nobody, lesser degree.
Jindal and Perry: two wingnuts in a pod. I couldn't resist.
You think Jindal is regretting the endorsement yet? He wanted to be one of the first on the Perry bandwagon, little did he know that the freakin wheels would fall off and the wagon would catch fire. Maybe next time Booby will endorse someone with an IQ higher than 50.
Boy, that's a good pair. Frick and Frack! Bobby J. endorsed Perry because his IQ is about the same. Like two peas in a rotten pod. They deserve each other. Sooner they blow away in the wind the better.
Bobby Jindal is the leader of a state that is rated number 49th in Healthcare. Second to last in education, poverty levels. So, an endorsement from The Governor of Louisiana doesn't go very far me thinks. However, somebody, anybody for Perry is one more than I figured.
" ,,,,,,,the difference between a man who's been governor of a state for 11 years and another man who gives a great speech, was a senator for a couple of years and then ran for president of the United States."
^ ..... then went on to save America from a second great Depression, revive the Auto Industry, end the War in Iraq, expand access to health care and take down Bin Laden and Ghadafi.
Just finishing the thought for Bobby.
Vote for anyone but Romney. Thank You.
^ Voting for Obama in 2012.
You're welcome.
This probably too obvious, but was that a Tebow jersey Perry signed?
Gee! Dumb and dumber working together! Any brain f@rts yet?
I really liked Jindal until he got stupid.
For all his so called "faults" Gingrich has the balls to run this country.
And someone needs to rescue us from Obama soon.
It will not be Perry or Mitt.
What do you mean? "Got Stupid!" Stupid is forever!
Gingrich - now there's a Uniter! LOL
It is natural that Jindal supports Perry after he (jindal) supports a drunk - Rainwater - as his best public employee to make EssoKochs' dreams come true.
Republican's need to remember the old saying ( watch what you wish for you might just get it ). They want deficit reduction, come January 1 2013 they will get $6.2 trillion worth of cuts. $1 trillion dollars they agreed on just to raise the debt. ceiling. The $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts the super committee couldn't agree on ($600 billion in defense cuts and $600 billion in non-discretionary spending cuts ) and the $4 trillion in Bush tax cuts that expire on that same day. That all totals to $6.2 trillion and President Obama doesn't have to do anything to get them. Obama played the Republican's like a real pro and they didn't even see it coming.
Enter stage far right the GOP lapdog Jindal preaching accolades of neighboring GOV. Rick Perry for the Iowa audiences think the American people have forgotten his tepid at best but more likely designated utter failure of a response to one of President Obama’s very early addresses to congress. I forgot which one. Must not have been very weighty. I wonder, as an unemployed Texan, if they still are touting the Texas jobs miracle land of milk and honey in detail as they traverse the buckle of Bible belt country. I doubt it so let me fill you in with a report from the front lines right here in the big “D” with a personal report on the types of jobs this man counts as part of the miracle.
I am a 57 year old unemployed marketing professional who is discussed by the unscrupulous display of greed and usury from so called "entrepreneurial job creators" who are GOP/Tea People protected by the bought and paid for, no net for the middle class, bunch in Washington, DC. We are failing our kids (Sorry, Kids!) and kidding ourselves by allowing the bankers to go unregulated and unpunished, health care and education for profit pariahs to devour the least among us and Wall Street barons to cripple our great American economy and entire political system into submission or frozen in static immobility to their collective greedy wills through purchasing the peoples house.
Taking advantage of the unemployed is a hallmark of the Texas miracle. Slick websites full of promises to be broken and fake ‘positions’ posted on line to attract the desperate in this economy prey on everyone but young college grads are their target audiences (people to be used) and I've posted below my response to these predator employers after having had, in the last 2 days, both a phone interview with DALLAS ROADSHOWS (they quickly eliminated me) and an invitation for a face to face from I.G.D. Firm, a name so close to charitable food industry association IGD that it could be read as even more deception but they are not that smart. The only legitimate record I could find of IGD Firm was a new Texas Business listing. I have been around the block a few times and am old enough to know a right leaning crippled, dressed up and fully lipsticked pig when I see one.
The below is my response to their request to me for a face to face interview. No phone number to call and instructed NOT to reply to the email. Real professional approach…NOT! Read on for more of my dress down response to their faux outreach to a wise old Kentucky pig farmer:
Good Morning Erica,
Excited by your initial invitation for a face to face, I rushed to my computer to do my research and accidentally searched incorrectly, and went to the wrong site. IGD is a charitable food and grocery research and education association! They have an opening for which I would likely respond to, as I am anxious to find work, if I lived in the UK. I am encouraged, too, to have had my "Resume Reviewed and Approaved" (sic). Your proofreader should be fired BTW.
I then looked up I.G.D. Firm and found a plethora of listings on jobs sights with openings for every event marketing role incarnation in the industry and from shore to shore. MY! How American! There are blogs out there that don't paint a real pretty picture of IGD Firm, JDC Marketing Group, Smart Circle affiliates: Synergy Promotions Group & New Line Marketing Concepts, G.I.I., Dallas Roadshows,90-10, Inc., JSP Marketing Group, Pure Global Enterprises, MLM, DDM, and of all things, Divine Divisions. This list, of course, is not extant and continues beyond this mere listing. Pity it runs across the country on all job sites and taking advantage of the unemployed, especially of the young eager graduates, naive and desperate. First they are raped by the banker loan sharks for an education and now this. Shame on you, AMERICA, for allowing this to happen!
If I.G.D. Firm or any of the listed entities above are RU, I humbly decline to meet with you for any employment ‘opportunity’ you may be offering without longevity, opportunity to grow and learn ethically, common benefits, travel per diem/expense account and pay other than straight commission. These are industry minimums for degreed professionals.
With utmost sincerity and regret,
Missy Texas
I was instructed not to reply but did so on both the above response to the original phishing expedition drew me in; I replied to igdfirm.hr@gmail.com. The below was sent to the same after Erica called me; obviously she had not read the response and was so flummoxed by my interrogation that she hung up on me. I then wrote back again...
Dearest Erica,
I learned all I needed to know about your 'firm' when you hung up on me earlier as I was trying to ask about your origins and legitimacy. No America loving company would so disrespect a potential experienced & degreed employee in the desperate position of trying to find work.
I repeat at the risk of being redundant, you are below my distrust and, as an older unemployed Marketing Pro, wise enough to ask questions when caught in your web of deceit. I will work tirelessly to reveal your modis operandi to every on line audience I can post to. I am not as naive as your target audience (the young, naive and recently galvanized graduate).
I recognize the defined greed incarnate in your ilk and how dare you take such advantage of the least among us. At least a vulture contributes to the food chain; bottom feeders eat all without conscience, ethics or taste.
I pray for your proverbial collective heartless souls.
Sincerely, etc.
Perry and Jindal are in bed with these scavengers and neither need the others' hand in commiting political suicide.
Such a fun couple aren't they?
Missy Texas signing off with her report from Rick Perry country with the truth about his pardners in job deception creation on a big fine lake of Texas thin entrepreneurial ice.
Please don't take offense Missy TX but it is apparent why you are an unemployed marketing professional. You get 20 seconds to attract a reader to your comments and another 30 seconds to make your case.
I suggest you practice boiling your point down to 123 words before you revisit the forum.
Just trying to be helpful.
Point taken (w/o offense), Loyal T, on my obviously over written post above. l have not been on here for quite some time and do usually write with a bit more conciseness.
I had been focusing on my search and today became so enraged at these folks wasting my time and effort while listening to the Washington morass on MSNBC, I just had to vent and, being a Texan caught in Rick Perry's miracle, felt obliged to shine a light on the type of employers Ricky touts as job creators. Sorry fo the rambling rant. I'll try to be more to the point and focused on subject in future visits to the forum.
We seem to be on the same page regarding Ricky but I would be in agreement with Michael L. Marowitz below on Jindal. Neither have the gravitas of a national candidate. Broad traction will not find either since both tend to trip over their tongues.
Happy Holidays and I'll look forward to reading your futre posts.
an obvious scam based upon their job postings on careerbuilder and other sites; you should provide feedback to the sites that have their jobs posted if you want to cut off their supply chain of potential suckers; You're right in your assessment. They are bottom feeding blood suckers
Missy
Well done! Clear, concise and easily understood.
Teatards of a feather stick together........
Libtards in a group eat the sam soup..........
sam? Bad spelling and zero originality... Par for the TeaCourse.
Jindal had some National political traction. Too bad he jumped on Cowboy Ricky's honeywagon while he was just coming out of the gate.
An experienced politician would have held fire until Saint Ricky's bona-fides were confirmed.
No, Rick, the two things I don't want from you: (1) reading anything more about you and (2) seeing any more of your your smarmy stupidity. Leave the public stage; you've had a great deal more than the 15 minutes you actually deserved.
Jindal is pretty smarmy himself and, with all due respect, LOYALTEXAN, has no national stature.
With the new GMA polls out i dont see ANYONE beating Obama in 2012. With all of the infighting that is going on with the Republican nominees, Obama has a CLEAR path to President again.
Jindal's sand castles washed away.
The Texan---------is The Texan.
There is KOCH money to be had.
So moron # 1 is getting help from moron # 2. What a team!!!
Cowboy Perry the Outsider! Here is a guy in his 60's who has never drawn a paycheck not funded by the taxpayers. Along the way, he has amassed net worth of at least $1.1 million.
Whoa!! Circle the wagons.....Jindal has come out for Rick Perry...folks this could be a game-changer!
Since everyone else has so far shown sufficient restraint in avoiding the too obvious cheap/rim-shot, I won't: Talladega Nights II: Ricky and Bobby Do Iowa.
Is Jindal paying off a debt? This has to be an even worse career move than being being the official State of the Union responder.
How in the world can "little bobby" Jindal HELP Space Commander Rick Perry?
You can't "FIX" STUPID.
Soon, this entire TEAPUBLICAN CHARADE will be over and the RINO Mittens Romney will be annointed by the CRAZIES and their MARCH TO DEFEAT WILL BEGIN.
On to 2016, TeaPubbers - 2012's a lost cause...
We've all seen the difference first hand Rick.......still waiting for your great speech......