[Kartographer]

This can’t be right! Why Cain and Mitt are in a conspiracy together! Cain wins the nomination and then hands it to Mitt.

[Carry_Okie]

Cain said. “I think it kind of caught him off guard a little bit. The problem with his 59-point plan is you’re talking about something that’s never going to pass.”

That was a dumb thing to say Hermann when a NRST is a very tough sell, either in Congress or the SCOTUS.

[EDINVA]

This is encouraging. I wasn’t comfortable with his comments that made it sound like he was interested in being Romney’s (or anybody’s) VP pick. You want to know Cain (and each of them) is in it to win. When all the votes are cast, if Cain ends up as someone else’s VP pick, that’s fine, but you sure don’t want to hear that before the caucuses/primaries even start.

[GOPsterinMA]

Just like the last debate...still waiting...

[jgge]

Oh please, last time he said that he was going after Romney in the last debate and he did nothing of any real or strong attack.

I noticed that Cain the TALKERS refers to himself a lot in the third person which is really stupid.

[Meet the New Boss]

Q20 If the Republican race for President came down to Mitt Romney and Hermain Cain, who would you vote for?

Herman Cain................................................... 48%
Mitt Romney.................................................... 36%
Not sure .......................................................... 16%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/cain-leads-romney-by-eight-nationally-perry-in-4th.html

[Fresh Wind]

Romney talks fast, uses up a lot of words, and says nothing.

[PhilDragoo]

Romney had slick brochures by the Niagara in 2008.

Robocalls-a-plenty from Michelle Bachmann.

No one takes a better photo than Rick Perry.

Yet the best chords have been struck in the stump speeches of the man without portfolio.

Plain as Cain: peace through strength; kumbaya is not a strategy.

Homosexuality is a choice and a sin.

The occupying folks should move their protest to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Romney at last has no more message than a tail fin, a shirt logo, a yellow bracelet.

Obama and Wright and Ayers are taking it to the streets and from there to Hell.

Mr. Cain aims to lead the push of the shining city back up on the hill where it belongs.

Just how did he get over.

Just how is it he's not one giving the hard look and the "watchoo doon awn mah shtreet"--

A, B, C: American, Black, Conservative.

[PapaNew]

My two cents on Mr. Cain’s economic proposals:

The "tyranny of the status quo" says if you're going to do implement a major change, likely to be met with fierce resistance, you do it quickly in the first 100 days or so in office. Reagan and Obama both understood this, especially Reagan because he had a hostile majority in Congress. Obama had a little more time because he had a leftist-friendly Congress.

Getting a law quickly is the key – implementing the law can be gradual. The key is to get the bill passed in the first 100 days and it must have a new flat sales tax AND complete elimination of income tax and all other taxes and most of the IRS. Implementation would of course be time-phased but it must concurrently phase in sales tax and phase out income tax and most of the IRS.

Failure to enact a law that BOTH abolishes income tax and most of the IRS AND creates a sales tax raises the spectre of getting stuck crossing the river after passing only a sales tax bill and drowning with BOTH federal sales tax and income tax - a Socialist’s dream. Implementation of course would be a concurrent phase-in and phase-out. Failure to have BOTH in the bill risks a parade of horribles.

He also seems to be missing a spending cut feature which I think he’ll need to sell this huge and essential tax cut. He might want to take a page out of Reagan's book and hire the best business minds to come to DC and noodle this and then come up with a sound proposal - shouldn't be difficult to see tremendous slashes in pure government waste.

That should all be Phase I. From there, maybe he can start pecking away at useless Cabinet departments.

[Personal Responsibility]

Complex answers lead to 2000 page bills with all sorts of hidden crap that costs we taxpayers billions.

[Grunthor]

Cain is not attacking in a way and manner that would help Perry. THAT is the crux of why Perry folks say “he’s a plant for Romney.”

It’s Cains’ campaign, he’ll run it in a way that helps him, thank you very much. It’s worked thus far and quite well.

[wolfman23601]

Cain needs to strike some kind of deal with Santorum and Bachmann. He needs to debate Romney one on one without those other two carrying Mitts water like surrogates.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

RomneyCare, with all of its problems, should defeat Romney, just by itself. Romney being a RINO should, also, be enough to defeat him during the ‘12 GOP Presidential Primary season.