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Posted on 10/19/2011 9:44:30 PM PDT by Clairity
His business acumen, his conservative credentials and his plainspokenness drove his popularity up quickly.
But as with many politicians on both sides of the aisle, the more the public sees of him, the less appetizing he becomes. He has repeatedly revealed his lack of understanding of key issues.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Cain if he could imagine as president giving in to an al-Qaida demand to free all of the hundreds of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for freeing one American soldier.
"I could see myself authorizing that kind of transfer, but what I would do is, I would make sure that I got all of the information, I got all of the input, considered all of the options," Cain replied. "And then the president has to be the president and make a judgment call. I could make that call if I had to."
Hours later, Cain denied that he had said what he said. Moderator Anderson Cooper asked him to explain his answer to Blitzer.
"Let me say this first, I would have a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists," Cain said. Cooper pointed out that authorizing a transfer of Gitmo prisoners with al-Qaida is negotiating with terrorists.
"I don't recall him saying that it was al-Qaida related," Cain said.
So what's worse: His willingness to free all Gitmo detainees in a negotiation with al-Qaida, or his denial that he said what he had just said?
Cain's "I-didn't-say-that" routine continued on illegal immigration. First he said he would build an electrified fence all along the U.S.-Mexican border. He later said he was kidding. Then he doubled back and said "It might be electrified. I'm not walking away from that. I just don't want to offend anyone."
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
Charlotte, NC, home of the Democrat National Convention, unless they back the wrong horse.
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2011/04%20April/Wechsler%2004-12-11.pdf
It is at least one study by the DoD to appear that the DoD wants to move the war on drugs under the banner of the War on Terror. It is probably the right thing to do and I suspect that the next President will be sending troops into Mexico. That will place one of the battle ground on our front porch and is going to have incredible ramifications on Texas, Arizona and California. That should scare the hell out of everyone and want to make sure the next President can handle fighting a war a few miles from American cities and even deep into our own nation.
Yep.
No, that’s not what I meant either.
My thought was that no matter what, the elites will get their way and Romney will be in ‘til the end. Here’s what I’ve read about the candidates..... Bachmann is broke and will be out soon, Newt won’t last because of baggage, Cain isn’t organized enough and is nearly broke, Paul is too out-in-left-field and Santorum is broke, boring and a bully. That leaves Perry and Romney. According to those folks in the focus group if it comes down to those two they would unanimously vote for Romney over Perry.
Maybe what I should have said is that the unrelenting push for Perry will be a win for Romney.
At any rate, the thought of Perry trying to debate Obama gives me hives. As lousy as the big 0 is without his tele-p, Perry still couldn’t out-debate him.
Perry has created more jobs for illegal aliens than all of the other states put together. Unfortunately, this also means that the unemployment rate for Texas citizens is at a record high.
Go to this link and learn something about jobcreation data in Texas:
http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?s=perry
From watching the debates since the Iowa Straw poll just over a month ago, here are my thoughts......
It is over the top obvious that the Lame Stream Media is totally pulling for Romney. Now give Mitt some credit, he is totally smooth in the debates. He is the poster child for "CONSUMATE POLITICIAN". At most of the debates I have seen moderators steering their "GOTCHA" questions at his opponants while giving him soft balls.
At the Iowa Straw Poll, Michelle Bachman was at her high water mark. Why? It was her vs Romney, the other canidates were hovering at 10% or lower. Iowa siad they didnt like Romney either.
At the time of the Straw Poll the news of Rick Perry entering the race was a major buzz and the next day it was official. Now I will admit I leaned heavy for Perry once he joined the race. Why?
1. I do not like Rommney, PERIOD
2. I do not think Michelle Bachman is ready for primetime
3. Rest of the field was too shakey IMHO
But I will say after a few debates I have come to the conclusion that Rick Perry SUCKS at debates. Granted he was going to be attacked by his opponants and the moderators would hit him with gotcha questions. But for crying out loud this is the deep end ofthe pool. He should have looked better than that. He honestly has that "Deer in the headlights" look.
I think after those few debates most Republicians backed off Perry and started looking again......ENTER HERMAN CAIN
Herman Cain seized the moment, his 9-9-9 plan is bold, weither or not it can or will pass is an argument for another time. Its BOLD. People want somebody bold. He is articulate, he can think on his feet. Thanks to his time doing a radio show he is a great speaker. Plus when you look at his full bio. Damn what a success story. Yes he is not a politician, well guess what! I think many people agree with me that POLITICIANS got us into this mess to begin with!
Now that being said, Herman needs to be carefull, he has defended his plan very well, but he cannot spend every waking moment doing just that. When a reporter or opponant tells him that "their" economist ran the numbers and this, this, this is the results. Herman Cain should simply respond. "I have run the numbers, I know they work, the American people can run the numbers themselves"
Only a liberal would respond with "Americans are too stupid to do the math"
He needs to "round out" his positions on things. He almost got trapped with the "Electric Fence" comment. But guess what? I asked the people I know and people are so angry at nothing being done about the border they would go for ANYTHING including an electric fence.
Now the rest of the field is as such IMHO....
Newt has come up some in the polls, at the last few debates he has acted as the sole adult sometimes and spends allot of time kinda reminding people that Job #1 is put 0bama on the unimployed list.
Bachman, I dont think she is ready for Primetime and she lost all of my respect when last week during the debate in the north east, when it was a free for all on attacking Cain's 9-9-9 plan, other went after it legitamatly saying in their opinions it will not work, their plan is better. But Michelle's response was "The devil is in the details turn 9-9-9 upside down"! WTF!?! Are going to start rewinding music listening for satanic verses?
Ron Paul, he has that 10% very vocal following. I like most of his libertarian views. I think it would be wonderfull to get there but I know the reality we as a nation cant do it COLD TURKEY. As soon as he started the cry baby media and entertainment industry would demonize it and nothing will happen. And he tends to follow a very insightfull comment in the debates with another that makes you go "HUH?"
Santorum, give him credit he gave Romney his 1st black eye in the debates. But he sounds too whiney to me. He comes across as a wimp sometimes. Maybe it just me.
Thank God! Cain will inflict pain to the socialist train...wreck!
Is that the rats deserting Obama or the rats deserting Perry?
Hmmm - Cain raised $2 million in the two weeks after the third quarter closed and the donations don't seem to be slowing. He is rapidly expanding his organization. He has a new mega-PAC supporting him. By the way, Newt is $1 million in debt.
The real question is why does the RNC agree to set up virtually all of their debates with far left moderators that hate them and work for ‘commander zero’?
I know he’s raising money but you wouldn’t know it by the anti-Cainites on FR and in the media.
Cain is an illegal lover that won’t adequately secure the border nor deport all the illegals mooching off the government.
In this regard, he’s just barely better than Perry. Barely.
No more illegals! No to Cain!
Yeah, everything you said.
Cain needs to be clearer that 999 abolishes the current tax code with it’s myriad arcane embedded taxes. I know he’s said that, but it hasn’t been sufficiently stressed. All the spin keeps circling around the national sales tax portion, ignoring all the hidden taxes that it replaces.
Still favoring the Herminator at this point.
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Mr. Cain has also been all over the map on abortion. None of his positions has been clear enough for any future position to be called a flip-flop, but failure to take a clear position isn’t going to help him. His history of not being able to say something clearly until he’s gone back to his team and gotten something put together makes him look bad. The “anyone but Romney” crowd is suddenly scurrying to him because Rick Perry is clearly a failure, but they will be scurrying somewhere else when Herman Cain fizzles. When they leave Mr. Cain, his campaign will once again deflate.
What they are selling:
Cain simply can’t cut it as a candidate which is why he is leading in most of the polls.
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