Posted on 05/07/2011 11:03:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Watch the video clip from this week's debate.
So did 99% of people here. There were no super Conservative options against Brown, it was just a numbers game at the time to kill the Dems super-majority.
Cain is eclipsing the likes of Ron Paul and Alan Keyes with ease. Which is why the flying monkeys from those camps are here in attack mode.
YouTube is a blog? Who knew?
And what does AOL Instant Messaging have to do with anything?
So I did not hallucinate? That’s most interesting.
Speak for yourself about his being finished due to his support for TARP. I support him. I know he supported the original concept of TARP: rather than underwriting worthless mortgage securities, the idea was to buy bank equity to prop them up financially. Later the program morphed into buying GMAC, AIG and a few other entities none of whom were mentioned during the law enacting practice.
I believe he did not support any of the 2 stimulus packages and had he done that, that would be a death blow to my support. The guy is on the right side of probably 95% of the issues even counting TARP as not correct. He is also in favor of the fair tax, a big one in my book.
He actually only made one statement about supporting one small part of what became TARP (temporary emergency loans through minimal stock purchases) but as soon as he saw TARP on paper, he was outspoken against it. It is a real stretch to say he supported TARP.
So what does that make Sarah Palin unelectable and not fit for the GOP nomination?
Also, I believe the original TARP that Mr. Cain supported was for the bailout of the banks. I believe that most of these banks have repaid their TARP loans. I can't find any other TARP programs that the man supported.
Right now Mr. Cain is high on my list of who I would want as my President.
It saddens me to say this because I really like him and was ready to get on board the Cain Train, but despite his support of the Fair Tax, unless and until Herman Cain issues a public statement repudiating his remarks opposing an INDEPENDENT audit of the Fed and pledges to vigorously pursue such and audit, I cannot support him. I’m sure he’s heartbroken at this news – NOT!
Herman apparently does not understand that the same folks who foisted the Fed on us understood the need to have a tax on incomes (for all but themselves, of course). There had to be a way to annually vacuum the excess fiat currency they would ultimately create out of the system lest the great unwashed (that’s us) catch on to their scam. The sort of inflation we’re seeing today — and will see accelerate — does NOT harm everyone: THOSE AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE (GOLDMAN-SACHS, J.P.MORGAN-CHASE, ETC.) GET THEIR “MONEY” FOR NEXT TO NOTHING while THOSE AT THE REAR OF THAT LINE (THAT’S US) GET NEXT TO NOTHING FOR OURS.
Unless Herman knows that the Fair Tax rate would need to float or spike much higher during times the Fed is running the presses flat out, I’m sad to say that his defense of the Fed while embracing the Fair Tax causes me to consider him the “double-minded man” mentioned in the Bible. Scriptures goes on to call that man “...unstable in ALL his ways.”
And we’ve already had our fill of unstable men in the White House. At least I have.
“a very successful capitalistic free enterprise private equity company”
So does Soros. He’s still an Anti-American leftist.
That really isn't saying much. Neither Ron Paul or Alan Keyes were ever candidates to be taken seriously.
Cain won the debate, seems like a great guy, is a fantastic role model and someone to be truly admired - but he still isn't going to win the Republican nomination. His candidacy serves to perhaps push the field to the right a little bit, but once the 1st tier candidates enter the race he will fade into obscurity.
Folks, we need to get over ourselves with TARP. It was a controversial issue with many conservative economist thinking it might be needed. Many conservatives with far greater conservative credentials than the average FREEP poster I might add. I’m not supporting it, I’m just putting it in perspective.
Besides, it has been paid back and with a big profit by almost every entity except Fannie and Freddie and GMAC.
Obama Care is litmus test. Stimulus is a litmus test. TARP as a litmus is just plain ridiculous. You would wipe out half the remaining folks from Reagan’s cabinet with that mindset.
Good luck convincing their supporters of that fact. I'm sure they are huddled in strategy meetings now - how to regain control of the second tier of GOP candidates after Cain smoked 'em in the debate.
Cain won the debate, seems like a great guy, is a fantastic role model and someone to be truly admired - but he still isn't going to win the Republican nomination. His candidacy serves to perhaps push the field to the right a little bit, but once the 1st tier candidates enter the race he will fade into obscurity.
Yeah, I feel the same way about him. But I find the flying monkeys from the crap candidates pretty reprehensible. Cain is outdoing their guys without breaking a sweat. They should be taking notes instead of taking aim.
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.
Info is kinda hard to find on the actual date but here is a FR thread on 2/3/08 where it is claimed Cain endorsed Romney. However that thread has now been scrubbed off the AJC website.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1964330/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964267/posts
Post #39 which cites the lone gone AJC article
You may want to re-look at the talking points regarding Cain and the Federal Reserve Audit. Cain actually supported an audit and praised Ron Paul for his stand on this issue. (probably the only thing Paul is right on)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Mqie_h9uU&feature=player_embedded#at=73
The “no reason” snip was taken from a larger series of comments in which he was going into the details of what audits are being done already and is highly out of context.
He kicked in a thousand bucks to Brown, too. I just went and checked.
I’m not interested in Cain.
And tell us exactly what the viable altenative was to Brown in MA (look up the word viable since it doesn’t seem to be in your vocabulary when it comes to political candidates). If you can show me Cain supporting Brown for president, you’d have a point. But otherwise, you don’t.
So did I. At the time there was no Conservative champion and it was about killing the Democrats super-majority. Did you support the Dems keeping their super-majority?
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