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Yup, I think Perry is still the only legitimate anti-Romney with any staying power. Cain I suspect will flame out at some point, and we will be left with Perry to be the only real opposition to Romney. This assumes that Perry actually delivers some decent debate performances and becomes a much better candidate, otherwise Romney may just run away with it. Cain is a great guy, but electability will be a big factor and I suspect primary voters will have too many doubts about him.

I agree. If I was Perry’s campaign manager, I would tell him to focus almost primarily in Iowa and South Carolina...then Florida. Of coarse going other places for campaign money. Then I would avoid any long-winded answers in the debates. Appearing middle of the pack has it’s good side. I always hear great things about the people that lose, never about the people that win....

Cain’s not a bad guy, but he doesn’t quite have the organization to compete with Romney. And I worry that FR will be the stompin ground for a third party candidate if Romney wins. And while I don’t want Romney to win, I don’t think a third party would be at all wise. It would just mean four more years of Obama. Unless I see significant improvement in Cains organization and funding, I will continually support Perry.

Political issues aside, one huge problem with Cain is that it seems that his primary goal in this Presidential run was to duplicate Sarah Palin's financial success in the marketplace rather than actually win the first election that he has ever won in his entire life.

Conservatives should be very careful about replacing unquestioning faith in one public figure with unquestioning faith in a second public figure.

Don't just listen to the Sound Bites that a public figure throws out. Pay close attention to how seriously they are taking campaign logistics. Palin's total lack of attention to the campaign logistics infrastructure of a serious Presidential campaign (No staff, no courting major donors, no organization, no investing time actually campaigning and not simply at venues designed seek TV face time and enhance the "Brand") was an obvious Red Flag that was rationalized away as "creating her own rules" and "brilliant secret strategy".

In the end, all the talk about Sun Tzu was merely self deception.

Sun Tzu would have agreed with Omar Bradley:

"Amateurs talk about strategy and professionals talk about logistics."

Presently, Cain, like Sarah Palin before him, is not focusing on the logistics of a serious campaign. He is focusing on a book-signing tour.

Herman Cain's top Iowa staff resigns ..... Goff stated that she resigned because the Cain campaign refused to make a serious effort in Iowa, the home of the First-in-the-Nation caucuses.

Cain Campaign: Selling a Candidate or Selling Books? ..... But even as he enjoys the fickle embrace of the party’s social conservatives, doubts are being raised about the straight-talking businessman’s legitimacy, and even his motives. Instead of capitalizing on his newfound momentum by hitting the campaign trail hard, Cain this week opted to spend most of his time promoting his book, This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House, which just arrived in retail stores this week. Rather than visit diners in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire, he’s signing books at Barnes & Noble outlets in Texas and Washington D.C., although his tour does also include several stops in South Carolina and Florida, two key primary states. .... Steve Deace, an Iowa-based talk show host, posed the question on the minds of many people aligned with the Republican Party: “Is that guy running for president or just lining up a book tour?” .... But, as Block also said, the campaign has just 30 staff members spread across five states, fewer perhaps than one of Cain’s former pizzerias. The candidate this week was scheduled for six book signings and just three traditional campaign events. .... An e-mail that went out to Cain supporters the day before his upset victory in the Florida straw poll wasn’t about one of Cain’s policy positions but instead offered them a chance to buy a collector’s edition box set of the book, complete with a red case and gold trim. “Consider giving a loved one a copy of This is Herman Cain,” it said. “You wouldn’t be giving them just a book. You’d give them a gift to open again and again.” ..... One GOP strategist said he didn’t think Cain’s book tour was bad strategy – business strategy, at least. Cain knows he isn’t going to win the nomination, despite his recent rise in the polls, said Rich Galen, a Republican consultant and former aide to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also vying for the nomination. “It’s very smart to leverage his political surge to sell more books,” Galen said. “He’s a smart businessman.”

Those so called debates were not actually debates. In most of the cases, it was simply one attack after another. There have been attacks by media one after another too. Perry did not articulate his positions well, but I believe he will do better on the rest of them. However, he is still being attacked by liberal media who are terrified of what he would do to Obama. I will not vote for Romney, and I don’t think Cain has staying power. Guess we will see.

I agree with you. I have doubts about him (Cain)

While he was an interesting and fun fringe candidate he could get by with a lot of stuff that he is mistaken or uninformed on.

The vetting on Cain has just begun.

Perry has made some missteps but he has a proven record of conservatism to run on with only a few minor negatives.