Posted on 10/26/2011 9:50:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
Maybe the reality show diva who quit her job as governor chased away most of the serious candidates.
As for the author’s critique of the Perry plan, it is spot on.
I have been posting from the get-go that we need bold and Perry’s “optional” plan in UN-bold. It is weaselly.
And leaving the old Fedzilla tax code in place is just despicably insulting. I have detailed my substantive objections to this scheme elsewhere.
Finally, the Perry plan does nothing to accomplish what is really at stake at this point in history: much more than economic revival, we must act to preserve our freedom!
Perry’s plan does nothing to make more nontaxpayers into taxpayers. Without that, no matter how many goodies you get under his “flat” tax (and he’s been VERY generous with the jellybeans), we are still going to shortly be outnumbered by the takers. At that point, GAME OVER.
Dittos....
Podwhore is a 1%’er hardcore Socialist. Invest in guillotines.
So he didn’t criticize Perry on every last breath he’s made? So what.
The author wrote a scathing take-down of what really matters at this moment in Perry’s campaign: his newly released, big, name-in-lights “flat” tax plan.
It stinks. The author said so in overwhelming turns.
I don’t see how the fact that he didn’t criticize everything else there may be to criticize about Perry is relevant to anything except time and space limitations in the New York Post.
A writer for the NYPost who hasn’t gotten a paying gig in Washington since Bush Sr was elected is an “insider?”
My apology for sounded harsh. But yeah, the current candidates have so many holes that journalists can cherry pick whichever fit their arguments. I’m not for Perry, as I’m still deciding, but I start to see having too many debates probably are not that beneficial for the eventual Republican nominee. There are just too many things that journalists can harvest.
Why so many on this thread so far insist we read the whole article? So he doesn’t like Perry’s tax plan. Are the reasons he doesn’t like them better than anyone else’s reasons? Not really. Cain, Perry and Romney all fail the cut cap and balance test. We don’t just need revenue neutral, we need to cut $1.5 trillion in annual spending.
The media will always be anti-GOP/anti-conservative. There are 50 things with which to paint the Obama admin. They recklessly spend other people’s money. They haven’t improved job market. First time ever we see a downgrade of our credit rating. They ruthlessly violate 4th amendment rights by stripping grandma at the airport.They sell guns to drug gangs who kill Americans. They sold out our allies in the Middle East. They gave $500 million to a solar startup that everyone knew would go broke just by looking at the 18 other solar companies out there. And on and on.
They want to complain our candidate has too little experience? Well compared to what we are experiencing now, I am pretty sure that is a good thing.
Oh, I’m not against debates. I agree that debates help us to decide. I just think there are too many of them. IIRC, there are still 13 debates in the future? Which means there are a total of about 20 something? I’d prefer to have at most 10 debates, with at least half of them are dedicated to certain areas, such as economic situation, foreign policy, immigration, and so on. That way, we can get more time for each issue, candidates are forced to shape their views on those areas, and not just journalists throwing things at them.
Nonsense. Cain said he didn't know what the 'right of return' was - so "I went to school" and boned up on it. He said he will have a team of experts who know the details inside and out, but that a president's job is to have a larger vision and LEAD.
John, it is not a TV commercial, it was shot for the internet and the TV cable newzies went berserk, then gave Herman thousands of dollars worth of free ad time.
Cain and his supporters are not embarrassed, in fact, I gave him another donation.
I smoked for 55+ years and my wife still smokes and as far as I know, it is legal.
John, go write an article about Israel because you know something about that, and don't tell the pubbie candidates how you think they should act.
Piss off, mate.
**** you john podhoretz... you commie whore scumbag slave to the progressive disease in DC!
LLS
Here is the well known neocon gushing over Obama.
This was never meant to be a TV ad. It was a video message sent from Block to supporters. It came to me via email, and it was a private link to the video (it is public now, obviously) Block explained all of this himself talking to Megan Kelly.
The media took it and ran with it and turned it into a TV ad.
Either way, the reaction to it has been pretty neutral - some love it, some hate it, most don’t care. It is a non issue
Folks should take a look at Cain’s foreign policy team:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798359/posts
ROTF!!
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