you want fire? I'll show you fire. who do you teabaggers think you are?
Anyone who is for the complete replacement of the tax code cannot be allowed to win by the establishment. There are too many interests. Too many people who used hot shot lawyers and accountants to get the special breaks they wanted.
RINOs want to perpetuate the credit fiasco. Look at this economist’s take on it:
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com
The RNC called me for a donation the other day. I told them to stuff it and ditch the RINO’s. Same as I have been telling the for the last 6 or so years. If they put someone up like they have been I will set this election out and batten down for the revolt that will surely follow. Guns food and ammo will be my top priority. The GOP needs a serious flushing.
Yeah, I with you. If the Tea Party folks and other conservatives and independents stay focused on the issues and not allow themselves to be swayed by the media then Cain has a shot. However, if the Republican Rain Makers such as Karl Rove, the Bushes, NE Country Club Republicans, etc, are able to use their influence to persuade the conservative and moderate electorate to dismiss Cain as unelectable, then he won't win. So, the balloon is still in the air. We'll see...
After the fiascos the GOP Establishment engineered in 2006 and 2008 plus the way they scewed up what should of been 2 Senate wins in Colorado and Nevada in 2010, they should sit down and shut up in 2012.
“...but candidates who are spun as a “sure thing” often can’t win...”
This is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. McCain was the PERFECT Republican candidate. He worked across the aisle time after time, stuck it to conservatives - in short did EVERYTHING PERFECT - he was the perfect moderate, a voice of reason in troubling times. Then what happened...
...they (the establishment) saw he didn’t have a prayer against the most radical candidate in US history, so they put Sarah on the ballot. Initially that helped a lot, but then the media got to work on her (and McCain), and by the time November came, those “independent” voters trickled away, turned off by Sarah...and it was over.
In the end, the Republicans lost, in part, because they were FORCED to put a conservative on the bottom half of the ticket, just to get some enthusiasm going...and the bottom half of the ticket became the issue with independents (although McCain would have been clobbered anyway). The same thing nearly cost Bush-41 his first election (with Quayle on the bottom half of the ticket).
The idea that we can run a moderate, like Perry, and then hope to balance him out with a conservative is INSANE. We’ll end up in the same mess as 2008.
Just about any candidate with the right politics can be elected provided they don’t do something stupid that will alienate conservatives and independents. A good candidate has a thick enough skin to blow off sniping from the right, the left, and the establishment, and he doesn’t get distracted from getting his message out, even at the risk of looking occasionally like a hypocrite. A loser is petty, insecure, and keeps an enemies list, even if he gets elected. Facts have more staying power than perceptions do. Another type of losing candidate is one who is the kind of ideologue that is more like a ticking time bomb than a real candidate. There have been lots of also-rans who deserved better because they help to shape the GOP agenda instead of trying to become the leader of a new cult.
Cain scares the established political leadership because they haven’t been able to co-opt him.
They have read his words , but don’t understand (or want to understand) his message.
They want one of thier own hand-picked candidates, who will follow the same BS line of the last eight -twelve years.
Expect to see more bogus allegations of bigot , racism , defeatism from the liberal mainstream media .
Did you ever notice Cain reading from teleprompter ? No ! And you won’t because it comes from the heart, and his very foundation; it’s called “commitment to principles “ something that the political leadership understands , but is fearful that it can’t control .
I have no confidence in the electorate, and little in the field candidates.
The lesson for 2012 is that the best candidate is often the most conservative one.
That succinctly sums it up - and I agree. No RINOs, this time!
BTTT
you want fire? I'll show you fire. who do you teabaggers think you are?