Posted on 10/14/2011 9:01:22 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
“I will not be a candidate for the REPUBLICAN nomination...”
Mine has always been ‘Conservative.’
She said she was not supporting a third party AT THIS TIME.
He never held office in Georgia, so how could you "vet" him?
He ran for office, but lost with only 26% of the vote in a primary. Hopefully, that isn't what you meant by "vetted", because he'll need a bit more than that to win the nomination.
The other poster is right. Cain sounds good, but a lot of candidates sound good -- the argument is over their record in public office. Perry would sound like the perfect candidate if he wasn't talking about and explaining actions he took when he was a successful governor for 10 years.
Cain has some business executive experience, but not only is that entirely different from government executive experience, it also is private -- you have little visibility into the decisions he actually made.
A private executive, even one who runs a subsidiary like Cain started with and has to answer to superiors, is a dictatorship. As president, he made decisions, and they happened. He didn't have to compromise, didn't have to sell, didn't have to get someone to vote for most things. He may have had to convince a board of scared office-holders who thought their company was going under.
We already know that conservatives are scared to death of a President of the United States who acts like a dictator.
Anyway, "The elites are scared of him" is both a meaningless statement meant to sound serious but it isn't, and in fact it doesn't appear to even be true. Romney, who by any measure is the elite's candidate, LOVES Cain, and says nothing bad about him. I haven't seen any "elites" attacking Cain. Maybe they will later when he's the only candidate left other than Romney.
So, having "vetted" him in Georgia, how does Cain handle things when he has to compromise? We have no real evidence. We have ONE clue:
Cain supports the FairTax. Fairtax eliminates the income tax and replaces it with a sales tax. But Cain doesn't think we can pass the Fairtax. So before day one, before he even TRIES to push the plan he supports, he came up with a bastardized, hybrid version called "9-9-9", which he readily admits is sub-optimal, and is a compromise of what we CAN do. He hopes to get to the Fairtax later.
And then, within the 9-9-9 plan, whose biggest selling point is supposedly that we ALL have skin in the game, he exempted sales of used items, because the poor people can buy used things and not pay taxes. And then he added 'enterprize zones', where some preferred localities (based on I guess their ability to lobby for it) get to be tax-free, while their neighbors have to pay taxes.
This will "revililize" run-down places, but encouraging businesses to pull out of healthy, productive areas of the country and move to the places that couldn't support business. It rewards failure by giving it a tax break.
That is the ONE clue we have as to how Cain handles not being able to dictate his way.
Cain sounds great. He's a conservative talk show host on conservative radio, and he knows what his audience wants to hear, and so far as I can tell he truly believes everything he says. But we don't know how that will translate into governance, because he's never governed anything.
Very important to remember this: if you count all the Democrat sinners and all the Republican sinners, you come out equal.
I believe Cain knows it.
I wonder if God told her to change it from Republican to conservative?
I don’t think those are her exact words.
I think it was more like she had no intention of initiating a 3rd party run.
That leaves a bit of a door open for her to run as a candidate for an already established alternative party.
Do you really wonder this?
Lets ask her to. I don’t see why not. Start sending her PAC and office e mails and posting on her Facebook she needs to endorse the top Conservative in the race now, to stop Romney, and that would be HERMAN CAIN.
Can you do me a favor and give an example of a decision or a duty inherent to “governing” which is beyond the capabilities of a leader from the private sector?
I ask the question because it’s not always clear when a person is using sarcasm.
If your post was honest, it’s a fair question although in my opinion God doesn’t get involved in questions of such a politically specific nature.
But if you ask in sarcasm, you’re mocking God. Please don’t do this.
Glorify God, always.
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Significant?
Is she saying “I’m done with the lousy backstabbers?”
I understand she got standing O after standing O at a speech to women at Liberty last week.....Christian content.
Wonder what’s happening?
Speaking as a dirty rotten sinner myself, saved by grace of The Lord Jesus Christ alone.
I still find it a easy decision to not vote for candidates/parties that support infanticide and removal of Christ from the public square/classroom. So I do not understand how someone could attend such a Church as Cain does.
Her saying that she “assumes” those things would be the case.
She might get more info that makes that assumption invalid.
Assumptions are not facts.
LOL - okay.
BTW, I will not vote for Romney for any reason.
My guess is the GOP pulled some shenanigans against her ability to run by moving her filing forward, or something to do with her family.
Payback IMHO will be a "Beeotch" when she endorses a Conservative not a Republican...
The NE Checkpants Republicans will rue the day they messed with Sarah....
My guess is the GOP pulled some shenanigans against her ability to run by moving her filing forward, or something to do with her family.
Payback IMHO will be a "Beeotch" when she endorses a Conservative not a Republican...
The NE Checkpants Republicans will rue the day they messed with Sarah....
Did she really say assume. Interesting that little caveat.
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