We need a rebel, an outsider, not a sociopathic career politician to save this country. That means Herman Cain, who has never been a politician, or a citizen-politician like Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann. Those 3 are the real conservatives in this race. Do not be fooled.
I love Herman Cain but it is obvious that he isn’t a contender.
Some of us HAVE looked into the stories. I’m not sure who the hell I’m going to vote for.
Some repeat the same stories that they have seen through the eyes on one or two bloggers interpretations of the events.
Want to have an impact? Take your discussion outside of FR. Buy ads in newspapers and TV telling the rest of the story according to your view of the events. Write letters to the editors of your local papers.
It’s a marketplace of ideas. If you win, I’ll vote for the Republican nomination for president. I’d just like to hear something NEW.
you forgot being in bed, or seeking the favor of the Globalists, which long term would lead to a bigger crime against this country. There are some interesting articles in this direction as well. Rick would have no restraint as president (unlike in Texas), we are seeing this with our current dictator and his executive orders. I truly pray that the 2012 election happens, as the balance of power with the 3 branches has been all but destroyed!
Just my 2 cents.
Amen
As Meatloaf would say, “you took the words right out of my mouth”...
How do you know? You're taking it on faith.
I notice you dismiss Santorum outright but he's got a clearer record than some you hold up as "the real conservatives."
Cain's got a business record but there's no record on immigration and all these other issues to tear apart and examine. He's also got an obvious knowledge gap as we saw on the "right of return."
You don't seem the least bit troubled by Bachmann's exaggerations, missteps or inability to get an agenda moved forward. She says "never raise the debt ceiling" and signed a pledge to do the exact opposite. She's promising things like gas under $2 that only happened because of a financial meltdown. She's never explained taking farm subsidies or the farm income she denied getting but declared on her financial disclosure forms.
No one has explained her husband's degree from a school that wasn't offering that degree when he was there. She's talked about starting a charter school but leaves out that was promptly removed for trying to make that public school into a religious one. She's moved no major House legislation forward and uses as her one example an education bill when she was in the State Senate.
For all we know about Sarah Palin, we don't have a deep record to go on there either. With immigration, for example, we have her support for McCain's amnesty plans which she gets a pass on yet hasn't walked away from even last year. She's supported McCain in 2010 against the Tea Party candidate. She supported the reviled repugnant RINO Rick Perry in 2010 as well. She gets a pass. Delaying entry, missing debate after debate? She gets a pass.
With Romney we have a clear record of being everywhere on nearly everything. With Perry we have a huge long record with some bad stuff (as with Reagan too) which people are magnifying while ignoring any positives.
Do not fall into the trap Democrats did with Obama of taking on faith who and what the candidate was without a thorough review of their record. By the same token, don't hold it against a candidate because he or she has more experience and actually has a record for examination on an issue.