Posted on 09/24/2011 5:33:36 PM PDT by Steelfish
A No Confidence Vote in Orlando SEP 24, 2011 • BY WILLIAM KRISTOL
Having watched the debate Thursday night, and having heard the candidates speak and having mingled with them over the subsequent couple of days, 70 percent of the activists attending the Florida Republican gathering this weekend cast a vote of no confidence in the two GOP frontrunners.
So, with all the usual caveats about not over-interpreting straw polls, I’d suggest:
1. There is resistance to both Rick Perry (15 percent) and Mitt Romney (14 percent). Perry’s poor debate performance hurt him—but it doesn’t seem to have redounded to Mitt Romney’s benefit. Perhaps neither Perry nor Romney will end up as the nominee. After all, the two GOP frontrunners in national polls in late September 2007 were Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. The Democratic frontrunners in a Gallup poll on September 24, 2003 were Wesley Clark and Howard Dean.
2. Herman Cain (37 percent) will obviously get a new, more serious look. Still, with all due respect to Cain, to some degree voting for him is voting for none of the above.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Herman Cain’s campaign is a lot more energized and positive than your posts. You seem to be more comfortable sitting around and complaining. Your choice.
I’m not complaining. I’m criticizing.
>>> You sound like a Democrat accusing Krystol of racism here.
That was more or less the whole point.
The interesting thing to note is that you won’t hear Cain using the color of his skin to strike fear into the hearts and minds of his critics.
Another thing you won’t hear is the NAACP or the likes of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson complaining about Kristol’s remarks as racist.
Yeah... Kristol said “Santorum too”... but Santorum did NOT come in over Perry and Romney. So one could argue that Kristol used his mention of Santorum to disguise his racist remarks.
The RINO’s want to switch horses to Christie now. lol.
LOL--Not complaining just like your half empty glass. The past several years have been difficult for all of us. Sitting around and being a grumpy lump won't rid this nation of Obama and his ilk.
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