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Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign plans an aggressive television advertising push ahead of the Jan 3. Iowa caucuses, a massive effort aimed at encouraging voters to give him a second look.
According to a source with knowledge of the plans, the campaign has already spent more than $1.2 million on Iowa television ads and more spending is planned. The commercials will run from now until the first votes are casts in next year's presidential primary season.
A pro-Perry Super PAC, Make Us Great Again, is also in the process of placing orders, though it was not immediately clear how much the Super PAC is spending. The group spent about $280,000 last week to run ads in Iowa and South Carolina, which holds its primary Jan. 21.
Despite the financial strength of Perry's campaign, the Texas governor continues to lag in the polls, coming in fourth in a survey of likely caucus goers released Tuesday. Perry received 11 percent support from likely caucus goers in the CBS News/New York Times survey, behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
Rick Perry's gay bashing gets Arkansas amen
Rick Perry has rolled out the bedrock Republican base catnip — gay bashing — in an attempt to get back into the presidential race. It's the crack cocaine of the Iowa caucuses. The Family Council fundies propelled the Huckster in 2007, ousted stellar Iowa Supreme Court judges over gay marriage and otherwise demonstrate that fear and loathing is still a family value in certain circles in Iowa. Perry also has worked in a little of the war-on-Christmas message into his TV ads decrying gays in the military as part of a liberal attack on religion.
It gets worse. Much worse. Perry and other Republicans are also blasting the Obama administration for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's impassioned speech to a UN council that the U.S. would fight discrimination against gay people around the world. She was echoing an earlier Obama speech that promised U.S. support for a broad range of people — not just gays, but religious minorities, children and more.
Calling them an “invisible minority,” she said that LGBT people “are arrested, beaten, terrorized — even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even
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