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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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My 23 yr old daughter told me something after listening to Perry: 'He memorizes his lines like preparing for a test and then just forgets them. He really don't know this information.'
But I thought this man had cue cards. Looks good for a cowboy photo, but I don't know how he has made it as a Gov in TX for so long.
You've never been to Texas, have you? I couldn't get away from those ignorant loudmouths fast enough.
Ease up there gravis. The entire state is not a bunch ignorant loudmouths like Perry anymore than the people in Minnesota are as stupid as Bachman, and that list could go on to just about every state in this union.
Perry even exhibits the same arrogant mannerisms as Dubya. Texas, can't you do any better than these ignorant hayseeds?
What a Gomer!
Everything is bigger in Texass. Including the DRAMA!! What a jerk.
Mr. Perry please just take your clone of DUBYA's voice home and stay there.
They voted you in..let them keep you.
gotta love all the over-the-top hyperbole from the republican candidates-what a bunch of nonsense.
Perry indirectly called Obama a Nazi.
Rick Perry is a loser and a complete non-factor in the Republican primary at this point. Whether he is being serious or is just trying to stir up the GOP base, his comments comparing our President to Hitler are absurd, insane, offensive, and anti-American. What is this idiot thinking? Likely not thinking at all, given his level of intelligence. Rick Perry owes President Obama, our D-Day veterans and every single American an apology for using such hateful language. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
Sure glad that Perry is part of the bottom of the pack. His metaphors make NO sense at all. Rick does not live in the reality that the rest of us do. Where was he during the Bush Administration where we entered into 2 unpaid wars and implemented a prescription drug program with no means of paying for it? I guess he makes things up as he goes along. There must have been a ghost writer for his book.
Well, if Perry wants to compare the GOP to the Nazis defending Omaha Beach, let him go at it. What a dufus.
Perry was correct. This is "Omaha Beach" and he is the enemy!!!!!
What a fool, the only comparison to the election is a war battle from almost 70 years ago. This man is wired badly he needs to go back to Texas and blunder on for the benefit of the Texas people who richly deserve his blundering because they elected and re-elected his dumb ass.
I was proud of our country when a serious and intelligent candidate like Obama was elected, after suffering eight years of an embarrassing buffoon. But I have to say a little of that embarrassment has crept back when ignoramuses like Perry are still considered serious candidates for the presidency. Haven't we moved on?
Another reason to not vote for perry.... the Texas school system failed him as well.... the man skipped history class.
My former husband was on that beach on D-day and this comparison of politics with that horrific and courageous battle insults every person who has ever served in our armed forces. Perry's military "experience" flying cargo planes doesn't hold a candle to anyone who has ever served under fire. The GOP's illicit affair with the military/industrial corporations is paid for in blood - literally!
You suppose he thinks Omaha Beach is on the Nebraska Ocean?
It is going to be a long year until the elections.
If Iowa is Omaha Beach...NH must be the battle of the bulge, SC someone's Waterloo, and Florida Armeggedon.
Next time we tell ya someone from TexAzz should Never ever be POTUS.......pay attention!!!
Rattle brain Perry should just stick to what he does best
Fking up Texas government and executing people
Incidentally - Governor Rick Perry served in the military. He meant no disrespect. I'm guessing a lot of the posters here never had the courage to serve. Oh..........and before anyone plays the hypocrisy card...........I served between 1967 and 1971. Some may recall there was a war going on at the time.
Thank you for your service Rick. Perry served as a cargo pilot - a very necessary job but not the same as being under fire. His comparison trivialized his own service and made light of one of the greatest military offensives in history.
Thanks for your service Rick. Carry on.
Congratulations, Governor Perry. I am invoking Goodwin's Law. You automatically lose. Thanks for playing.
Every "war" we've entered since WWII has been a mistake. Our soldiers put their lives on the line as willing political pawns. The true heroes are people who refused to participate, and stayed home to protest.
This is beyond despicable. Implying that he - or ANY politician, from any party - is worthy to be compared to the brave people who actually SERVED our country, just shows you how out of touch these people are with reality. What a bunch of useless, self-important fools.
This is Perry's Waterloo. Read our lips, No new Texans.
Spoken like a true right wing nut job, trigger happy, war mongering, Texan FOOL. Civil War...again. Go backwards a few years. Go back to the days before civil rights. Stop the Obama progressive moves. Keep Americans down where the right wing believes we should be. Pretending it's all about a love for his country while continuing to show complete contempt and disdainful disrespect for the man who was ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as our PRESIDENT, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE U.S.A. Yep. That's how it's done. He's pathetic.
I see.
So my country is a place for you to INVADE, is it? My President is the enemy, is he? My nation is to be made war upon, by you and your fellow parasites, is it?
Fock you, Perry. You want war with America, motherfocker?
Bring it.
Refer to post #74.3.
To..Thomas"""
Well we can see the mess created when repubs controlled the congress ..the senate and the Whitehouse from Jan 2003 to Jan 2007...and you want them back in power again ...the funniest thing is republicans complain you can't raise taxes on the job creators in a recession ...when we have a historical record to look back on over the last decade of bush tax cuts ...where are the jobs ...what makes you think their gonna create jobs now with more tax cuts ..are repubs really that stupid or is it on purpose...and the other insane idea from them is to cut spending and programs for the very people that are the actual ones hurting from the bush job killing tax cut failure recession ..
"the transformation to socialism is almost complete"? lol. Yeah, all those industries that are nationalized, the 90% tax rates for the rich, etc...
Thomas.
I grew up in a socialist state.
If you think the USA is a socialist state, you are either a complete blithering idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about, or a rank liar trying to provoke viners into anger.
Either way, you seriously, seriously have no real understanding of what a socialist state really is.
blithering idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about, or a rank liar trying to provoke viners into anger.
Ha! FR sent....