Posted on 05/07/2011 11:03:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Watch the video clip from this week's debate.
Lame? Sounds like a pretty clear answer to me.
I did not support Romney, but Cain's answer is not a bad answer.
I think it’s a great answer. You can disagree with Romney’s positions, but he worked as a consultant for BCG, then started and built Bain and Co., a very successful capitalistic free enterprise private equity company. Anyone who denies his business experience is a fool. Mr. Cain certainly is not one.
Considering his support for TARP. Cain is finished, just no one has informed him yet.
I’m of the opinion that the pubbies screwed up royally by putting up McCain instead of Romney, Romney might have been a pretty good president over that last couple of years.
However, I really mean that, over the LAST couple of years. He’s not the guy for the NEXT few years.
I was curious about this the other day so I checked the Google news archives on when he came out to support Romney. It was June-July 2008, after most of the primaries were over and only a couple left. At this time the choices were down to Romney, McCain, Paul and Huckabee.
It would be a lose, lose, lose, lose situation if you wanted to hang it on the guy. No matter who he supported, folks would damn him for supporting a liberal.
Sorry. I hallucinated the word “lame” from the OP.
The little bit I have heard from Cain has me at least interested.
by contributing to the splintering of the conservative vote in ‘12, he will be supporting Mitt Romney again.
With all the anti Cain threads popping up here, one may wonder if someone is worried about him being too good a candidate. So, he supported Romney in 08 and does not now. Gee the darling of some here, Trump, supported Hillary. Finally, would Romney have been that much worse a candidate the McCain was...I don’t think so and would have rather he was the candidate between the two. In any event, to point to Cain’s support for one of the final GOP candidates in 08 and make that a bad thing makes me wonder why it is so important to cite that as a negative.
So, EV, who is the AIP putting up for 2012?
The link is to a YouTube video. What is your problem? We are not supposed to carry personal grudges from thread to thread. You probably just forgot.
Ooops. That’s gonna be a deal-breaker for a whole lot of conservatives.
The thread title included “lame excuse” originally.
He supported the election of Scott Brown in Mass. too.
Not someone who would support a guy who single-handedly instituted gay marriage, homosexualized state government and the public schools, pushed through socialized medicine complete with $50 co-pay abortions, and banned guns.
Of that, you can be sure.
“In 2008 there were no good choices on the GOP side”
Basically, it was a choice between Romney and McCain. QED.
Sad.
Romney has killed his chances with me and if Cain suupported him knowing, but not caring, about Romney's dismal history on RKBA he will go on my list as well.
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