Posted on 12/21/2013 2:34:33 AM PST by iowamark
Des Moines, Iowa - Vice President Joe Biden, widely assumed to be plotting a third presidential bid in 2016, shouldn’t bother booking any flights to Des Moines, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said.
“Biden is dead meat out here,” Branstad asserted Wednesday in an interview with CNN inside his office at the gilded state capitol building. “He is not going anywhere.”
Branstad, a 67-year old Republican, admitted his lack of familiarity with the passions of Iowa’s liberal Democratic caucus-goers, but he was unusually blunt when discussing Biden’s latest flirtation with the White House.
“Washington, D.C. is extremely unpopular,” he said. “Biden is so associated with this administration and all of its failures. He was unpopular before and he is even less popular now.”
Just 38% of Iowans approve of the job President Obama is doing, a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found, a number Branstad cited repeatedly. It’s the President's worst performance ever in Quinnipiac surveys of Iowa, the state that launched his historic presidential campaign in 2008.
The poll did not measure Biden’s standing.
Branstad was more charitable when chatting about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but he predicted that she, too, will be dragged down by her ties to Washington and the flagging popularity of the president if she decides to run.
“I am probably not the one to ask about a Democratic caucus because I have never been to one,” he said. “But in terms of the electorate here, I think that Washington D.C. is extremely unpopular, and she is associated with Washington D.C. and served in [Obama’s] administration.”
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Did Iowa vote for Obama?
I think the only hope that “good old boy” Joe could aspire to is president of the Yukville Chamber of Commerce. Even that would be a tight race.
Iowa has voted rodent in every Presidential election since 1988, with the lone exception of 2004.
He’s been brain dead for years.
“Iowa has voted rodent in every Presidential election since 1988”
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It must be something in the water.
Please, please let Biden be the nominee.... Please.
Just Iowa? :’)
In his defense, he’s not dead, he *always* smells that way.
Thanks iowamark.
Not the water, the corn.
Biden got “necklaced” by Obamacare.
And as he famously said, “That’s a big effin’ deal.”
Note: necklacing is the popular South African political method of torture....filling a tire w/ gasoline, throwing it around the neck and arms of opponents, then torching the tire.
remember the 'outrage' when Palin spoke of 'targeting' opponents in political races?
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“Not the water, the corn.”
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Thank God, I am no longer subjected to Iowa corn :)
What difference does it make
The runt will be cunning after the first caucuses in the nation
Personally, I hope every damn demodummie runs for president and completely burns up their coffers to the point none of them have a ghost chance in hell to win. Like most demodummies and liberals I hope they will tear each other apart, Old “plugs” included.
“Did Iowa vote for Obama?”
No. But some misguided people here voted for Obama.
Our Gov Branstad is one of the best governors in the country by the way.
He took over from a incompetent Dem governor; and has totally turned the states finances around in a short time.
“Personally, I hope every damn demodummie runs for president”
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The idea that plugs could be the Dimocrap nomination would be proof that the Dimocraps went over the cliff. Plugs is too stupid even to be a Communist, as Obumbo.
I was jumping up and down happy when Zero chose Slow Joe as his Veep. I thought, “How can we lose against that guy?” Boy was I wrong. I’m starting to think it’s impossible to underestimate the intelligence of the American voter.
If only.
It’s (Biden) called an insurance policy.
If biden landed inIowa he would think he was in Idaho.
You can’t cure stupid.
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