On Tuesday Texas Gov. Rick Perry compared the peaceful but exciting Iowa caucuses to the 1944 D-Day landings and to the 1775 ambush of British forces outside Concord, Mass.
“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. … this is Concord, this is Omaha Beach,” Perry declared at a rally with roughly 200 of his supporters in West Des Moines.
More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in the Omaha Beach battle, which ended when battleships blasted a path through German bunkers for surviving U.S. infantry.
At Concord roughly 49 U.S. colonists were killed in the daylong battle that successfully attacked a British unit and drove it back into Boston.
The over-stretched comparisons were made as poorly-ranked Perry rallied his supporters during the high-stakes vote, and were reported by MSNBC’s First Read website.
Perry is widely expected to trail the leaders, despite his high-impact entry to the race in August.
His support fell sharply after he flubbed several candidate debates. In one performance, he told GOP activists they were were heartless for opposing subsidized education for the children of illegal immigrants. His support also fell when a study showed that the vast majority of new jobs created in Texas during his terms actually went to legal and illegal immigrants, not to natural-born Americans.