Posted on 10/02/2011 6:14:50 AM PDT by Billlknowles
A new poll released by Fox shows the national frontrunner is still former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney who is maintaining a lead over Texas Governor Rick Perry. Former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain has vaulted out of the second tier of the pack to be in the 3rd position while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has almost four times the support he had just one month ago.
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Contrary to your claims, 0 is a proud product of that same professional political class. He has never been anything else but part of that same political/media class.
You do realize how incredibly stupid it is to keep hiring election after election these same set of political Establishment drones and expecting DIFFERENT results?
Obama had no track record, he had voted "present" more then anything. That is not exactly a record to run on.
Reagan was an actor and a radio announcer, but he had run California successfully for years before running as President.
I like voting for a governor who has a track record of taking on the entrenched interests feeding by graft and corruption...that’s a good idea...
Just quit wasting the time trying to tell the same nonsense to those of us who know better
OK and you keep telling yourself that hiring a guy with no real experience is going to be able to get legislation passed that will save this country and ignore the fact that we’ve got one of those guys in the WH right now.
And then you wonder why you NEVER get any different outcomes?
The president of the USA is the Chief Executive. Having successfully managed several mufti billion corporations is the best possible experience for the job of President.
Yeah, you have a point, I always thought of congress as a Burger King. And the fact that he likes Romney enhances his resume so much, and the race baiting thing really makes him attractive to republicans, so you’re right. Let’s all get behind Cain..........as far behind him as we can get.
You keep kidding yourself Perry bot. Don’t try to lie to those of us who know better
Go ahead and inform us, what lie are you talking about?
I expect Dems to go heavy for Romney in open primary states as a reverse Op Chaos. Unless by some miracle there’s a Dem challenge to Baraq in the primaries. It’ getting pretty late for that.
Agree totally.
Apparently, the latest Gallup poll has Perry in a double-digit lead. On the other hand, the poll predates N*ggerheadgate.
Well, when the strategy for the past month has been to find every excuse in the book to attack Perry and Romney and Cain tag team to attack Perry, what did you expect?
I have warned for weeks that this would happen.
Romney and Cain have been playing conservatives like a cheap fiddle and the name of the fiddle tune is "Romney/Cain 2012"
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Herman Cain in 2011
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Herman Cain's Endorsement of Romney Two Days Before Super Tuesday, 2008
Romney has the leadership qualities United States needs,
By HERMAN CAIN
Published on: 02/03/08
The dynamics of political party connections, the political process itself and public perceptions have once again yielded the top two contenders of each major party in the 2008 presidential race. And once again, the public can only hope that the ultimate winner of the White House will be a candidate with the most leadership substance.
My vote is for Mitt Romney.
History is important, but the future is more important. The success of this country in the future will be shaped by the leadership abilities of the next president.
Our success will not be based on pandering to uninformed voters, promising emotional quick fixes over common sense or nitpicking of opponents' past records. Success will come from focusing on the right problems and solving them. That will mean making tough decisions about some problems that have been with us for decades. It will also mean taking a tough stand on new problems and challenges.
That's what leaders do.
Mitt Romney has done that as a chief executive officer in business, as a governor and as head of the U.S. Olympics. He has done so while balancing political consequences but not compromising fundamental principles of the founding of this country or free-market economics. We have prospered as a nation by strengthening those principles; we will not remain strong if we allow those principles to become diluted with a lack of leadership.
Anyone who wishes to find a reason not to vote for Romney can find one. But the reasons to vote for him are far more compelling. He has successfully managed a real business with other people's money and some of his own. He has balanced budgets. He successfully led a turnaround situation with the Olympics. And he has spent more of his career outside government than inside.
On the other hand, John McCain has spent more of his career inside government than outside, and the reasons not to vote for him as the Republican nominee are very compelling.
He voted against letting people keep more of their money in 2001 and 2003 when President Bush pushed through his tax cuts. He has been part of the escalation of the federal debt during his 20-plus years in the U.S. Senate. He showed questionable leadership on a failed immigration bill. And he showed no leadership by failing to support the president's efforts to establish personal retirement accounts — a proposal that would have started to fix the coming financial train wreck in the Social Security system.
That's not leadership.
I do not question the character, integrity or sincerity of either Mitt Romney or John McCain, nor do I question their desire to do what's best for the country. I do not worry that they would fan the flames of social and religious differences. My focus is on their prospective leadership relative to national security, the economy, federal spending, free-market health care solutions and the elimination of dysfunctional programs.
Mitt Romney's history is more indicative of the substance needed to make major progress on critical issues, and not just to make more politically palatable incremental changes in Washington.
Media momentum and campaign funding aside, there are several other Republican candidates who would not cause me to worry about our grandchildren's future. The two leading Democratic presidential candidates, however, cause me great concern because of their severe lack of leadership substance and their policy proposals.
This is despite Barack Obama's appeal and strong public perception but entirely consistent with Hillary Clinton's self-proclaimed but quite invisible experience.
Great leaders are born, and good leaders keep working on it. We are not favored with an obvious great leader in the 2008 race, as is apparent from the primary process and the results thus far.
But Mitt Romney's leadership credentials offer the best hope of a leader with substance, and the best hope for a good president who could turn out to be great.
I had not actually read the endorsement before - I thought Cain just said a word or two in passing, not that he went on for paragraph after paragraph about the glories of Romney. Hmmmm...
I’m a little mystified by Cain, anyway, who certainly has some good ideas but has absolutely no experience in politics or in governing. Of course, I think that many people are feeling they want to have somebody who has no Washington experience, someone they believe comes “from the outside,” who will be pure because they have never governed anything or been in politics in any form, and this is the secret of Cain’s attraction. But still it’s a little odd that Cain should have been quite so ga-ga over Romney, and odder still that people should be willing to overlook this.
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