Posted on 05/21/2011 7:04:00 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
“Sarah will lose to Obama BADLY. I wish it werent true, but I really dont see any way she can beat him.”
Herman Cain has never been elected to anything. He lost badly in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in 2004 to Johnny Isakson—a weak candidate who wasn’t even an incumbent, by 27 points, 53%-26%.
Contrast that with Sarah Palin’s electoral performance; She defeated an INCUMBENT GOP Governor, Frank Murkowski who had been elected state wide FOUR times, by 32 points, 51% to 19%. Then she went on in the general election to easily defeat Tony Knowles, a popular two term former Democrat Governor in 2006, a big Democrat year in which many Republicans were going down to defeat. That, my man, is electoral prowess. Yert you have the temerity to say without a shred of evidence that she can’t beat Obama.
Have you checked on Obama’s approval numbers with the white vote? They are consistently between 35% and 38%. Obama got 43% of the white vote in 2008. If he gets less than 40% in 2012, he is almost certainly toast. If he gets 36% or less, he will lose more than 40 states, a landslide. Yet you see no hope for Palin. Get a clue.
The white vote is concentrated in the battleground states of the Midwest: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Your solution is to nominate an African American, who has the same issue positions as Sarah Palin but who has never won an election to anything, to challenge Obama in the hope that the white vote, which did not break for Cain In his home State of Georgia in 2004, will break for him in Ohio and PA and Wisconsin in 2012? Do you perceive how idiotic this formula is?
Herman Cain seems like a nice guy, but he is not going to be the GOP nominee for President in 2012 or ever. I doubt if he could win the GOP nomination for a state office, but he should start there first.
In a critical election as this, voters are going to support someone with credibility and a strong record in office.
Repeating that Palin quit only undermines your argument as a whole as your candidate has never been elected to squat to begin with
Now's not the time for vanity candidates running for POTUS to satisfy an ego trip or check off an item on some bucket list. This election is far too critical to fart around.
Watch MSM make Cain's medical history a major issue.
Palin called Obummer our “temporary leader.” She has definitely got the fire in the belly.
As Mark Levin says, for many American Jews, their primary religion is liberalism, not Judiasm.
Just today Abe Foxman of the American Defamation League came out in support of Obama. Unfortunately, many American Jews would praise Obama for being so liberal as they were being loaded into boxcars.
I don’t blame Cain or anyone for backing Romney in 2008. It was a race between McCain, huck, and Romney in the primaries and he was by far the best of the three. Huck was/is a big government social conservative statist. McCain is, well, McCain. Romney had a mixed story as MA governor, but a good business background and success with the 2002 winter Olympics. Of the three, I voted and campaigned for him in FL as to try like he’ll to keep McCain out of the nomination. He was a certain loser.
Now, I have completely written him off for 2012 because events have changed and we need a clear anti-obamacare candidate and solid conservative. In 2008 we had no conservative option.
The Health issue will be red meat for the Media and the Rats. They will build doubt and fear against Cain. The young dreamer versus the old guy with a history of Cancer.
If you want to see real discrimination, look no further than what the Liberals will do to a Cancer Survivor who happens to be a Republican. They will also make the argument that Cain received cutting edge treatment because he is rich, while the poor people Obamacare will help will be harmed by Cain's opposition to it. Bet on it...
Being Black, and Cain is a real Black unlike Obama, will not help a Conservative gain any traction.
I’ll give your prophecy the same odds I gave Harold Camping’s prophecy.
The Cain one basically has to account for a HUGE “unknown” due to his low name recognition. Lots of undecideds.
Even Palin has SOME room there on undecideds but it’s eerily close to 50% for Obama.
Of course she likes Cain she has absolutely no fear of the competition. But you're missing the larger point of why so many support Palin:
Herman Cain does not have a record of fighting corruption in government - Sarah does. She is uniquely primed to go after the corruption in the Obama administration and isn't afraid to call him out on it. Now you and Cain can argue all you want about how it's good that Cain is not a politician but this is a severe liability not an asset. You've got to have some degree, a working knowledge of government and how to negotiate and advance your agenda and Cain doesn't have that. He would be a lame duck the minute he's sworn in, and that's before if he's not done in by black liberals on orders from white liberals attacking and smearing him.
Thanks for that info. Perhaps that hill isn’t as high as some would have us believe.
If you think Cain or any other Republican opposing Obama won't be totally savaged by the media, you're sadly mistaken. Media bias today is far worse than it was in 1980 when Reagan ran.
In the Gallup GOP horserace poll last week, he has 29% name recognition among Republicans, which means about 12-15% overall. He polled less than 1% in the horserace.
There simply is not enough time or money to overcome that no matter how nice a guy he is.
O4P NY Meets Staten Island Young Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721858/posts
Palin and her aide Rebecca Mansour have already given the green-light, without officially announcing.
I've highlighted tweets that Rebecca Mansour has retweeted and other hints that Palin has given over the past few months (which I need to update to include her recent 5-point foreign policy speech and dumping of her neoconservative advisers):
Why a Palin 2012 Run is Inevitable
Most notably, her aide is pushing Organize4Palin. Check out this tweet from Rebecca Mansour:
She's also promoted it further by retweeting the link to the list of the Organize4Palin State twitter accounts:
States without a coordinator: Arkansas, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming
Is your state listed above? That means it's an Organize4Palin orphan! If you would like to adopt it, please contact us (editor@organize4palin.com) with some background info, and we'll talk.
Conversely, Satan could run as a Democrat and probably win. Heck, A KKK member could run as a Dem WITH HIS HOOD ON and black Dems in MD would still vote for him.
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