Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich agree to Lincoln-Douglas style debate in The Woodlands

Houston Chronicle ^ | 10/24/2011 | Richard Dunham

[07Jack]

Awesome analogy, especially on the heels of a long awaited Win by my man in the 33.

[cookcounty]

"Let’s hear some real ideas and some real discussion."

Hear, hear. Why are others not jumping at this? I would think Perry would want to try a different approach.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"But after giving it some thought, I changed my mind. Newt is the best debater of the candidates, and he could destroy Cain, but will he? I doubt it. He’s too smart to get overly aggressive. Remember how he likes to steer debate conversations toward Obama?"

BINGO. Your thinking paralleled mine exactly. I first thought "uh-oh" for Cain, but you're right. Newt would NOT make Cain look bad. First, because Cain's a pretty darned good debater himself. Second because he wouldn't want to alienate the Cain supporters. And third because, as you said, he's clearly made a decision (for lots of reasons I imagine) to focus on Obummer.

I PRAY this is televised somwehere, somehow.

I'm about a 5 hour drive away (in Longview, TX) and am seriously thinking about driving down!

Hank

[Cobra64]

I, for one, would love to see the old Senate dogs have to defer to Gingrich presiding over the Senate - and breaking any tie votes.

Me too! He'd slice and dice 'em.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"I would presume that Newt is going to debate Romney?"

Ummm... no. The topic is:

"Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich agree to Lincoln-Douglas style debate in The Woodlands"

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OK, but surely you can see how that would be confusing. ;-)

Hank

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Agree. Nothing I’ve seen from Cain tells me that’s his style. Besides which, it would be stupid at this point and in this venue...and Cain’s not stupid.

Hank

[taterjay]

I do hope it happens. I think at some point the Repubs (the organization or 2 people of Republican persuasion) have to do something like this to break the MSM stranglehold on the format. It does need to be live and unfiltered. If directed the proper way, which is towards deficient liberal policies first and then each one’s ideas, it could be successful. Throw out the attacks on who mowed who’s yard and who had a graffittied rock at their place, and let’s debate ideas.

[guitarplayer1953]

the only thing Cain will need to bring up is Newt's liking to eastern repubics and how to give money to a non conservative non electable like he did in 2010. Newt can kiss my grits.

[no dems]

Wow! Thanks for this Post S&F. I'm two hours from The Woodlands. I'm driving over. Are tickets required? How can we get additional information on this?

[no dems]

OOPS!!! Guess I won’t be going after all. Ticket Prices: $200, $500 and $1,000.

[no dems]

Well, my tagline says it all: Gingrich/Cain: The Dream Ticket in 2012

[lquist1]

“If Cain spends his time detailing all the well documented moral deficiencies of Newt, and describes in gory detail how Newt has been corrupted by the Democrats in Washington, Newt’s campaign may be finished.”

Interesting theory, but I’ve yet to see Cain go hard after anyone. He’s been a perfect gentlemen up there in these debates. So I highly doubt he would drag up Newt’s past personal issues. They do like each other, and Cain said a few debates ago that he’d choose Newt out of anyone on stage for his VP. I just don’t see either one of them attacking each other. Their on the same team.

[Netizen]

I think that has been posted to that person before. And probably will be again! LOL

[Netizen]

Do you really think Gingrich would accept the number two spot?

He already said that he would not say no. I guess it would depend on who is asking.

[Netizen]

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/05/would-newt-gingrich-consider-a-vp-slot/

BLITZER: One final question. Give me a yes or a no. If one of the other Republican candidates gets the nomination and asks you to be the vice presidential running mate, is it a yes from you or a no?

GINGRICH: Well, it wouldn’t be a no.

[Netizen]

Me too. That’s been my dream ticket since Sept 17th.

[Netizen]

This give them both a chance to flesh out their ideas and give more in depth explanations.

[Moonman62]

The Cain-Gingrich event, sponsored by the Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC,

Does this mean the Tea Party is still racist?

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, “boxers or briefs?” Such nuance and high intelligence from our journolist media.

That was followed, IIRC in the first so called debate when Cain was asked, “deep dish or thin crust?” I clicked off and haven't watched their silly manufactured food fights since.

Cain/Gingrich in substantive debate will set the marker for presidential media events. It should mark the end of baloney formats on ABCNBCCBSMSNBCCNN . . .

[ScottinVA]

Actually, it may be a brilliant move, as it`ll force Cain to up his game .. especially in the foreign policy arena.. against a superior debater. If Cain plays this right, he`ll gain from it.