Posted on 10/25/2011 5:16:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Cain garnered 25 percent support of Republican primary voters in the poll released Tuesday, compared to Romney's 21 percent.
In early October, the two men were tied at 17 percent.
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“...squeaking past Romney...”?
Tied 17/17 in early October. Now Cain leads 25/21 in late October. Sounds more like a blow-by.
Yes, and I’m pulling for him to do well and I have faith we will. Herman Cain is honest and he will speak from his heart.
Nobody will care that he’s not a policy wonk.
He can hire and staff the best and most premiere conservative minds in his cabinet to advise him in areas he’s dealt with before.
Everyone also knows that Mr. Speaker is always the smartest guy in the room, so by shwoing up, Herman Cain is already a great man and winner.
I am absolutely shocked that no one has attacked Romney yet on the free healthcare for illegal aliens angle thru Romneycare.
Once someone lands that blow in a debate, Romney is done.
That is 10 times worse than the tuition issue, since it also touches on Romneycare.
Karl is in the tank for Romney.....
Fox News is the RSM (RINO Stream Media).
Bill O’Reilly leaned on his regular guest Bernard Goldberg about the “purists” as O’Reilly called them (Monday October 17th) who don’t want a Romney as the nominee.
Cain looks like the one to beat Romney right now.
Not my first choice but the last man standing after the debate meatgrinder.
I can understand someone such as Perot or John Anderson being called a spoiler, perhaps even Nader, but certainly not the front-runner.
Cain is leading in all national polls. He’s leading in virtually every state by wide margins. Heck, he’s leading in Texas by a huge margin.
When he’s being sworn in a year from January, will you still be dissing him?
WOO-HOO! Thanks very much, dearest Bray!!!
I'll notify BenKenobi!
The “mainstream” republicans just need to get out of the way and get on board the Cain train, because he’s the frontrunner...
isn’t that their logic?
actually they did their best to hide how far ahead Cain really is, the polls numbers at the top are of adults.... not even republicans, just adults. When you dig a little deaper you see that Cain is much further ahead with conservatives 32-18.
Ya beat me to it. I think demrat polling indicates Cain is the real thing. Palin Tea Party conservatives and indies have swung to Cain wholesale. These are real voters—not a gaggle of voting age people.
Cain’s continued success is his to lose at this point—IMHO.
The national GOP has a real problem now that Cain is undisputed front runner. It will have to capitulate to the conservatives or continue the fruitless Romney drum beating. As the demrat party controls the RINO-led GOP I don’t see the demrats allowing the GOP to be retaken by conservatives. Demrat Marxists know this is their last shot. I don’t see them giving up control of the GOP.
That throws the ball back in the lap of Tea Party conservatives snd enlightened indies. The question will be what are we prepared to do? If your answer is vote for the RINO you are part of the problem.
Must be Cain peaking again ... peaking at the TOP. LOL.
The RINO’s have always asked the conservatives to close ranks behind their candidate.
Can the RINO’s practice what they preach when the conservative candidate is a winner or will they continue to make claims that “purists” or “perfectionists” will allow Obama to win the general election?
And his people are so fanatically delusional they will keep on smearing Cain thinking they are helping their man but instead are helping Mitt.
Perry is so far behind the pack now he can only see the lead dogs’ poop.
But as usual the media are out of touch and dont understand the fundamental shift that has taken place in the party and the country since 2009 with the biggest political force in America in decades ... The Tea Party.
That graphic lost a lot of the punch the moment whoever created it spelled Rove’s first name with a “C”.
“IMHO...Cain is nothing but a spoiler....similar to Palin. The difference is...he declared. Is his following real?? Not sure because a HIGH majority of Repub voters are still not committed. That makes the poll...a $3 bill.”
I’m not sure what you mean by “real.” If you mean “committed”... perhaps not. But all the polls aren’t lying.
I mean, look at our choices (if you can stand it).
1. Mitt Romney... NO. Slick robocandidate who stands for nothing.
2. Michelle Bachman... NO. Pandering Mom (hey did you know she adopted children?) who just doesn’t seem either bright or charismatic enough for the office.
3. Ron Paul... ABSOLUTELY NO. Should be down on the street with the “Occupy” crowd somewhere.
4. Jon Huntsman... HAHHAHAHA. Yeah, right.
5. Newt Gingrich... NO. Brilliant man. Unfortunately, we’re not dumb, and we’re not going to forget him cozying up to Nancy Pelosi or the global warming idiots. I don’t trust him. You shouldn’t either. And even if we did, he’s unelectable because he’s HIM.
6. Rick Santorum... NO. Looks like a boy scout who stumbled into the Republican debates. Reminds me of a bland Dan Quayle. Ick.
7. Gary Johnson.... NO. A candidate so forgettable that I had to go look up his name because I forgot it. This is the guy who likes to make lame jokes just to get attention... and that doesn’t work EITHER.
8. Rick Perry... NO. The debates exposed him as not only a crappy debater, but inarticulate, unlikeable, and not very bright. It’s not for no reason that his numbers have gone down into single digits.
So... that leaves Herman Cain, doesn’t it?
Things I don’t like about Cain....
1. His 9-9-9 plan. Michelle’s right. Let the Government get another foot in the TAX door, and we’re just going to have another tax that will never go away... while all of the taxes that have supposedly been “cut” WON’T be, or will creep back up. End result... even less of our money in our own pockets. NO THANKS.
2. I suspect he had no serious expectation of winning, and wanted to run to promote his new book.
3. He’s obviously a bright man, but really messed up some really simple questions in the debates (referring to the people at Guantamamo, for instance as “hostages” at one point).
4. No political experience. While our gut reaction is “GOOD! There’s a reason 95% of American hate politicians...” it’s also true that the President will have to work with a pack load of smarmy, scumbag politicians (a.k.a. the Senate and House) in order to get whatever he wants through.... through. Suddenly political experience is looking like a desireable thing, to me...
So (whew)... all that said. Yeah. I support Cain (at the moment)... but I support him because there’s no one else I CAN support (thanks again, Sarah! >:-().
Really. Honest.
I’d suggest they go pollute the ‘rat party and try to bring it in line with their way of thinking and leave the GOP to the conservatives.
There is only one thing electability means...MEDIOCRITY.
Electability sets the lowest possible standard in order to get the most wide spread support. Conservatives have to set a higher standard than simple mediocrity. RINO repubs know their days are numbered.
heh
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