You think we all don't wish we had another Ronald Reagan? You think some of us don't wish we had a super solid conservative who could actually get elected?
I agree with Bachmann more than any other candidate, but she just doesn't come across well. I wish she did. I wish we had a candidate with her views who seemed presidential, but Michele comes off poorly and the polls reflect that. I like Santorum too, but again, he doesn't make a good impression and he lost his home state of PA by 18 points last time around. As for Cain, he's a happy warrior and a good motivational speaker - but the guy doesn't seem to know much about...well...anything other than 999. Not only does that not cut it, but I don't even like 999 because I oppose the consumption tax. Herman is too much of a novice anyway, he's just nowhere near ready for a national presidential general election. He'd get crushed and take our House majority down with him.
We need to support the most conservative candidate who CAN win. This is not the time for a national version of Christine O'Donnell - a good conservative who had absolutely zero chance to win statewide in Delaware. I'd hope people have learned their lesson with the miserable failures that were CoD, Angle, Miller, etc. Bad candidates don't win no matter how right they are on the issues.
So we all agree Romney isn't even a conservative. That leaves us with only 2 candidates, Newt and Perry, who have a reasonable shot at knocking off Mitt. I've tried to support Perry, I hoped he could get his act together, but it seems to me he just doesn't have the communications skills needed for the job. So as best I can tell, that leaves us with Newt.
“So we all agree Romney isn’t even a conservative. That leaves us with only 2 candidates, Newt and Perry, who have a reasonable shot at knocking off Mitt. I’ve tried to support Perry, I hoped he could get his act together, but it seems to me he just doesn’t have the communications skills needed for the job. So as best I can tell, that leaves us with Newt.”
It is looking like Newt or Perry, but I wouldn’t count Cain out just yet. He’s raised a ton of cash and if he can turn that into a first rate organization, he’s still got a shot.
I also wouldn’t count out Perry. Yeah, the debate flub was pretty bad, but he came back with a pretty strong performance on Saturday, and he’s got some pretty good policy proposals that people can get behind.
It’s a shame for Perry that he didn’t get into the race with the campaign team he has now. His current team seems to have him much better prepped for the debates. If he’d had the right team in place from the beginning, he might still be in the top tier in the polls.
Newt was just on for a short 8-minute segment with Mark Levin. Mark grilled him on global warming/cap and trade. Newt said we don’t know enough right now to say whether or not man is causing global warming/climate change. Certainly not enough to put forth a cap and trade “solution.” If we are to spend any money it should be for research. Newt answered the question in a reasonable way though he was only forceful with not spending more for a cap & trade solution. Mark asked him if he would come back on and answer more questions and Newt said he would.
Newt has more baggage than the other candidates but he is the smartest, knows the most and is the best debater by far. I think a combination Newt/Cain would be a good election mix.
You are correct. Newt is the only one to take on Obama and win. Independents will vote for Newt to get rid of Obama. That means we win.
Hey, I like Herman Cain. I think he would be a great VP, or SecTreas, or any other national level role dealing with fiscal and regulatory policy.
But for the top of the ticket - no way I'm voting for him unless Mitt is the only other name on the ballot. Cain just hasn't done his homework, particularly on foreign policy.
My nightmare is him getting a 98 mph fastball in the debate with Zero....
"Ahhhhh....... how about you go first, Mr. President?"
Cain is the latest beneficiary of the Angle/O'Donnell/Palin mindset which is very, very strong on FR. It's the mindset which holds that naivete and artlessness are not only acceptable in a candidate, they are downright required. Even a hint of scholarly attainment in a candidate is despised.
This is an understandable reaction to the we-know-better-than-you hyper academicism of the Obama administration. But it's an overreaction, and in my opinion it's gone way too far.