Fear is for other folks. I don't fear anyone. Certainly not anyone here. Even the big cheese that runs the place. Why should I? Most Freepers are pretty cool folks. At times they can get wound up but at the end of the day all the lovers of our Republic are on the same basic page. Sure, there are some plants, stooges and zottables here. But the forum never blinks and after a time these types get identified or weeded out.
American presidential politics is a bare knuckled fist fight. It is a war. That is a fact. The presidential game is not for the timid and it should not be. The last thing you want is another wimp like a John McCain as your candidate.
Some folks looked at Perry and Santorum taking it to Romney's face as something less than desirable. As if they have to have tea with the RINO Romney. They don't. The candidates can set their own jaws and speak what they want. Perry made that clear to one debate moderator. It is a good thing when these people get visceral and real. The more warts revealed the better I say. And that goes to their records. I have bashed Perry many a time on in-state tuition and sanctuary cities. I can bash Newt on a lot of things. The same goes for Ron Paul who has been in Washington for decades and has never passed a law he has written that I know of. I can't bash Cain because he has no record. Because he has no record I won't support him unless he becomes the nominee. Remember Obama? He had no record to look at either.
Blowback? I don't care about that here. This place is warm and fuzzy to me. No matter what gets thrown my way. Actually, it is kind of fun. We peel back the onion here. As we do that no candidate will be a pretty and smooth and clean. Every one of them will make us tear up.
At the end of the day we need a scrapper. A street fighter. Someone who has gone to war in politics and has won. I'm betting that is what we will get and that we will put this great nation on an even keel. This country has not seen its best days. They are ahead. Obama is just a speed bump that we will soon be seeing in our rear view mirror....
Nothing wrong with debate on issues.
That’s not what I meant by blowback. The ‘out of control’ was referencing things that aren’t issues debates but what I consider the meanest of gutter politics based on the lowest of low personal stuff.
Things that, if when growing up in my home, had I ever said them about anybody, no matter who they were, my family would’ve come down on me like a ton of bricks.
We don’t speak of anyone like that, in this house...do you understand?
My about page makes that point, among others.
But if it seems like a rollicking good time to you, instead of sick, ok.
Again, thanks for the clarity of your thoughts.
When Perry first announced I was a big supporter of his.
Wow! A ten year governor of the most successful state in the union! And a big southern state at that!
How could he not be great?
And in fact, I think Perry does have greatness in him. I think he would make a great President.
I also believe that people have purposely misconstrued his support for in-state tuition and totally ignored Perry’s explanation and the facts. (It’s not something I agree with, but I think the facts support Perry’s explanation more than they do the very, very unfair charge that he his pro-amnesty or pro-illegal-immigration.)
But what I can’t get past is this: Perry’s inability to speak. His inability to argue. His inability to articulate. His inability to think on his feet.
I don’t see how you elect a guy like that, especially on the conservative side that has 95% of the media against you 100% of the time.
How do you see that as remotely possible?
Do you think Perry is going to change? He can change his policies, he can change his team, but he can’t change his inabilities. He lacks the ability to communicate.
He is the Great Non-Communicator.
He cannot win in 2012.
He cannot win the nomination.
He cannot win the presidency.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the guy. I STILL like the guy. I am deeply saddened that I can no longer support him.
And I actually liked the way he took it to Romney in the last debate. Liked it in the sense that I liked his HEART.
But it’s his head that I think disqualifies him. And I’m not calling him stupid. I do believe he would make an excellent president, possibly even a great president, certainly a better president than Cain or Gingrich (and anyone would be better than Romney... that goes without saying).
But he is the Great Non-Communicator, and this is the 21st Century.
In the 21st century you can’t be the Great Non-Communicator and win national elections.
You just can’t.
At this point, with all his money, which will keep him in as long as he wants to stay in, he is a spoiler.
That’s the most he can hope for at this point: spoiler status.
Stopping Cain (or maybe even Gingrich) from stopping Romney.
That’s the most Perry can be right now: The anti-Anti-Romney candidate.