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Rick Perry will be in Iowa this week, February 27-28, with four stated objectives.

(1) To help his “great friend” Governor Branstad with his re-election campaign;

(2)  To meet with business leaders;

(3) To “make some shows”  (aka Rick Perry presidential campaign videos, corn dog anyone?)

(4) To make a pitch to send some of Iowa’s jobs to Texas.

Really?  That last one was a little odd.  You wouldn’t think a presidential candidate coming to Iowa would want to alert the caucus goers that that is his plan, to steal Iowa jobs…  But that is what he said on the TV.  So, what was up with that?

How political lying works

The part he said about making a pitch to Gov. Branstad about taking Iowa jobs back to Texas?  He wasn’t really saying that so the Iowa crowd could hear.  He was directing that particular lie to the Texas crowd and the Iowa crowd was just supposed to cover our ears and hum during that part, which to be honest, Americans in general are really pretty good at.  We have to be or it would be just too damn hard to function on a daily basis so lost in despair for our country we would be.

But I digress.  The simple truth is, he’s not actually here on a job-stealing junket for Texas, so everyone can chill.  He was in fact just saying that (lying) for cover, so that disgruntled Texas constituents who happened to be watching Morning Joe, would at least now have the story, if implausible, that their governor is here  in Iowa conducting official gubernatorial business for the benefit of the great state of Texas. And what does he care really, because zero Texas Republicans even watch Morning Joe.

Yes, America, it is really that easy to lie and get away with it.