Posted on 09/30/2011 9:53:20 PM PDT by quantim
Edited on 09/30/2011 9:56:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Herman Cain thinks Rick Perry is a good governor, Newt Gingrich is brilliant and Michele Bachmann is a very nice lady.
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I took his mentioning Romney as a joke.
Cain was great, up to full rpm before he hit the chair.Leno let him do his curiam vitae and after hitting the kitchen to rattle those pots and pans Leno jibed, "At least people will be eating good."
Without a beat Cain said because I'll make sure everybody's got a job.
Speaking of which the shovel-ready joke Johnson told he got from Villanucci who once upon a time wrote for Leno.
It was Rush's line first.
Today he says the establishment is leaning on Christie because it's scared of conservatives.
I on the other hand see Cain beating Obama like a Hobart mixer.
Cain cannot pick Newt. Pres and VP cannot be from the same State.
Aren’t Cain & Newt both from GA?
Newt-
Residence Carrollton, Georgia (1979–1993, while in office)
Marietta, Georgia (1993–1999, while in office)
McLean, Virginia (1999–present)[1]
And Paul is a “grumpy old man”. LOL!
Newt and his wife are residents of Virginia. Newt was previously from Georgia.
Cain/Gingrich could be an extremely effective combination.
Cain’s strong suits appear to be strength of character, unwavering grounding in conservative principles and executive ability. He is a very effective communicator, motivator and “people” person.
Newt is strong in analysis, strategy and tactics but not always unwavering on principle and not necessarily a strong executive.
Perhaps a powerful combination.
Romneys hair color is just like him, Fake
I will never vote for a metro sexual. I don’t care what his stated positions are.
“If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all”.
Many people would take a “nice hair” comment as a compliment. He didn’t say he was worthless and stupid.
He is not "fake smooth" like the bamster and doesn't need a teleprompter to tell him what he knows.
I've said it many times, I'm a Sarah guy, but if she chooses not to run, I'm OK with Cain.
You could be right. It was certainly more lighthearted than serious. Isn’t it amazing, though, how the anti-Cain people have latched onto it. It’s good news, I guess. There isn’t enough actual bad things to say about Cain, so non-bad things have to be finessed until they sound bad. That’s more than can be said about the others in the race.
I meant he did say something "nice", that he was practicing that saying.
There is nothing in the Constitution that says they can’t be from the same state.
Technically, you are right.
But in practical terms one of the candidates would forfeit the electoral votes of their own state.
Article 12 says:
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves ...
So if two Georgians ran for President and Vice President on the same ticket, Georgia's electors couldn't vote for both of them.
In theory, you could get Cain and Biden as President and Vice President.
That, and the desire to avoid the appearance that one state was dominating the others, is why Bush and Cheney ran from Texas and Wyoming, even though Cheney had been living more in Texas than in Wyoming in the years before the election.
I’m probably riding the Cain train all the way.. Unless I take a detour to Palintown.
Newt is a resident of Virginia, not Georgia. Cain is a resident of Georgia.
Yeah, I'd get rid of the 12th Amendment (and Amendments 16-26, too!)
AMENDMENT XII
Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15, 1804. Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President ...
Newt isn’t a resident from VA, and that applies to the electors only.
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