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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- With a sense of history on the biggest political day -- to date -- of the 2012 cycle, Texas Gov. Rick Perry today compared the GOP's quest to defeat President Barack Obama to one of the deadliest battles of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944.
"This election is about stopping a president of the United States and his administration that is abusing the Constitution of this country, that is putting America on a track to bankruptcy," Perry told a hotel ballroom packed with more than 200 volunteers.
"It is a powerful moment in Americans' history, and you are on the front lines," he added. "This is Concord. This is Omaha Beach. This is going up the hill realizing that the battle is worth winning."
Those supporters, who represent 32 states, descended on the Perry team's nerve center at the West Des Moines Sheraton after the Christmas holiday. About 500 of them will fan out to caucus sites today across the state to advocate for the Texas governor.
Introducing her husband, an emotional Anita Perry thanked supporters for their loyalty in a campaign most recently scarred by a Politico article rife with quotes from anonymous staff members who savaged their colleagues for the team's early disorganization.
While Perry has gained few endorsements since his famously devastating debate performance in Michigan back in November, several of his early backers have made the journey to frigid Iowa for the governor's final push.
South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal are among the allies on hand.
And they remain loyal -- and on message.
"I will leave it to the pundits to look at polls and campaign staff," Jindal told NBC News. "To be honest with you, I didn't endorse Rick because of the polls. I didn't endorse Rick because of his campaign organization. I endorsed him because of his executive experience and his fiscal conservatism."
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I find his self serving comparison of a bunch of corrupt politicians, him in particular, to the incredible sacrifice and loss of life at Omaha Beach to be disrespectful and as stupid as I've come to expect from this moron. I understand the point he was trying to make but he's an out of contention candidate campaigning in a backwards state that isn't even actually selecting a candidate.
Get over yourself, Rick. Everyone else has.
So, when will the voting public wake-up and realize with all the debates and debates and, well you get the picture, the ONE PERCENTER's are still spouting their ideas on how to control our lives. AND, WE ARE LISTENING! Political pundits are eating it up, "hook, line and sinker!"
235,809,266 eligible voters and in the last presidential election 132,618,580, 56.8% actual voted.
We have the numbers to realistically remove every politician and do this every election until they get the message. We, the American voter, will not put up with career politicians who do not represent the 99%.
Multimillionaires have only one thing on their minds; getting more money. That, and getting reelected. It's a disease, a compulsion, like a nervous tick that will not go away. Every two or four years, we are held hostage to a blizzard of debates, political commercials and promises of "better things to come" only to get more of the same.
Political aspirants feed us fodder and all we "harvest" comes out the other end. Time for the voter to stand up and be counted.
Tell politicians "we are mad as he** and not going to take it any longer!"
For all you lost souls that say jobs aren't being created under the Obama Administration... read this.
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Congratulations GOP great job of shoving Romney down every ones throats.Now Perry can go back to Texas and do his his meet and greets for all the illegals coming across the border.Bachmann can go back and drive congress aproval ratings even lower.Newt can write a book on how he offered himself up as the savior and was crucified.
I done think he was talkn bout' pismo beach. Cause'n him n his wife thought the beach was in Iowa. Oooooo wee! Lord hav mercy on his soul.
I cannot believe the totally dimwitted comments that these Republican candidates make. One by one they got up last night and proceeded to say one stupid thing after another. There seems to be a void of any real intelligent thought and their humour ranks with that of a goat. They're all about the business of being a parade of fools.