Posted on 10/11/2011 7:42:03 PM PDT by LesDowrey
Mark Halperin's Grades from the GOP Debate:
Romney: A Cain: A- Gingrich: B+ Santorum: B+ Huntsman: B- Perry: C Bachman: C- Paul: C-
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I think he’s running for higher speaking and personal appearance fees, at minimum. He’d love to be POTUS and would, I think go for VP and be a good one, but it’s all upside for him.
I’m not sure. Maybe State Dept.
Winner: Gingrich (if it wasn’t for his baggage and Pelosi loving he’d be a legitimate contender)
Other winners: Cain, Santorum, Romney (to the uninformed who don’t know his record)
Treading water: Bachmann, Santorum, Paul
Losers: Perry, Huntsman
It is getting easier for me to forgive NEWT, as I know he can hit the Presidency with a running start.
My choice is NEWT, and let him pick his VP.
As these debates continue, there’s little doubt in my mind Gingrich is making up the most ground.
Cain=President
Palin=VP
Newt=Chief of Staff
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It’s kinda boring but Newt is best early on. Cain steps in some pooh with the fed chief question and Perry is somewhat medicated. The tilt is with Romney. He did pretty good, but it was geared that way.
“Some have posted there is a Constitutional impediment to a Cain/Gingrich team as they are from the same state”
As far as I know Newt Gingrich’s current residence of record is McLean, VA and Herman Cain’s residence is Atlanta, GA so there should not be a problem with the electors from GA voting for President and VP from GA. Its a problem if both candidates currently have their residence in GA.
Just how simple does it have to get for you to understand "simple"?
Agreed. The process played out and I am going all in for Newt.
I don’t think Newt lives in GA anymore. I think he and his wife live in VA.
Yes this is true. The President and Vice-President cannot be from the same state. That is why Cheney moved his residence back to Wyoming before he could become Bush’s VP.
IMHO...
Bachmann has the best stances on issues and represents the best bet for a President that would cut whole departments.
C-Span is an excellent place to see her speak on the House floor. I can tell that many people who are conservative in their views but seem very turned off by her have not heard her speak at length on the House floor or on the campaign trail. A review of her Congressional record bears out that she is uncompromising and always on the right side of issues - she has never in 5 years voted to increase government control of citizens’ lives, expand the government’s role, allow government to needlessly interfere in business or in citizen’s lives, etc., etc.
Cain is the next best thing, followed closely by Santorum and Newt. If one gets into the details of Paul one finds quite a few surprisingly sensible stances, but of course he does not project that he would be a President comfortable with kicking butt militarily.
Therefore I’m hoping for Cain/Bachmann for 8 years then Bachmann/someone else for 8 years.
That, combined with a solidly conservative Senate and House is the best combination with which to achieve a permanent end to all this “green” scam, bailouts, government spending of borrowed money that must be someday paid back through future taxes, government-sanctioned promotion of immorality, etc., etc. In short, a return to Constitutional government.
As long as Mr. Cain sees the light on cutting departments and cutting the government by 90% being far more important that what tax scheme we use, and as long as he sees nothing good coming out of appointing liberal judges to “balance things out”, etc., he would hopefully bring back responsibility and duty, faithfully executed, to the office.
I think he does see the light on this and is simply touting his 9-9-9 plan as a “simple” marketing campaign to gain traction. He can always amend that down the road, but it is important for candidates to establish in voter’s minds that they do in fact have some sort of plan other than to simply occupy (cough, cough) the White House.
I believe Bachmann is 100% ready to be President. I favor Cain for President because of two main reasons, a) a conservative woman in the lead role would not be as easy an election to win, though quite probable, and b) having the ticket be Bachmann/Cain makes no sense because of his age and the unlikeliness of Cain being up for 8 years of VP followed by 8 years of President, where Bachmann’s age makes that scenario much more realistic. The VP, of course, is always usually selected based on their ability to take the reins and run again as President, since they are then making use of political capital gained as VP, instead of a new candidate having to start from scratch.
Just loved Newt giving it to the media...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/11/newt_slams_media_for_not_demanding_transparency_of_federal_reserve.html
His campaign headquarters are in Atlanta so I could have been wrong about him leaving GA.
I am sure though that I read somewhere that he and his wife live in NoVA now, but I can’t find anything online.
what on earth? Newt opening the kimono. LOl
Let the leftists post unflattering pictures of our conservative politicians.
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