Posted on 05/20/2011 9:04:00 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile
The country is dying, and your #1 issue listed is “affirmative action”? Are you serious?
He’s come right out and said he’s for the food stamp program. How does that jive with being a conservative?
Because there are people who actually need food stamps at one time or another.
Cain would not be “The Food Stamp president” as someone recently called 0bama.
I think you raise fair questions, which should be answered during debates and the primary vetting process.
I’m excited about him because I pretty much agree with what he has espoused so far. However, I fully expect that people will dig further into his positions and air them all for the world to see.
Should be an interesting year!
Really stretching there? It could be worse, he could be TrumpPaulRomneyNewtJohnson. Instead, he is... gosh, only 98% Conservative and he hasn’t answered some questions the way you want.. and another person ignoring he was strongly against TARP when it was launched. A lot of people and sites are twisting his one statement about one part of TARP made back when everyone was debating what to do.
I like him and I am going to vote for him. We must STOP “winner take all0” all primaries or this socialist from Massachusetts is going to do what McAmnesty did to our party. Every candidate should get their percentage of the delegates earned. Don’t let these liberals steal our party again. We will not vote for SOCIALISM!! Get these Globalists communists out of our party.
“The country is dying, and your #1 issue listed is “affirmative action”? Are you serious?”
The country is dying, and the #1 issue you have with my post is the order of my questions? Are you serious?
“Because there are people who actually need food stamps at one time or another.”
I need a car. Can I have the government tax you to pay for car stamps?
HE WILL BE ANNOUNCING TOMORROW AT 12 IN ATLANTA...THEN THE ‘GAMES’ BEGIN AND YOU WILL ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AND THEM SOME
Right on. Too many conservatives will vote against an otherwise solid conservative candidate because they disagree on one issue. It’s arrogant and not too smart.
Good news! Cain will weed out more RINO’s than anyone else.
What gets me is they keep repeating that TARP thing, ignoring how vocal he was against it. The article they posted mentions TARP no where in there, only one small aspect of what became part of TARP. It is almost like it is a talking point coming from somewhere.
It is almost like it is a talking point coming from somewhere.
You’re right. It’s kind of Troll’ish. Rush calls them Seminar Callers.
Also you can scroll down to 8:55 To ZOGBY POLL STUNNER..and the first or second post is a thumbnail autobiography of Mr. Cain
I can see how resoundingly you addressed the issues I raised there. I’ve completely changed my mind, he’s 100% conservative because you say so. Let me go get a rug so I can pray facing Cain.
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Look, George Soros is a money-making businessman. Barack Obama is black. Bill Clinton was from the South. Al Sharpton gives a good speech. I don’t care about that. want to know the guy I vote for is a principled conservative. You brush off these issues as him “not answering some questions the way [I] want”...but someone with principles beyond “I wanna get elected” COULD and WOULD answer them because they’d have firm beliefs, be able to enunciate them, and be able to educate people who are undecided middle types. If Cain can’t, he’s not going to be a good candidate anyway.
And I forgot to mention Kelo as another SCOTUS opinion where I’d like to hear from candidates. Where do they stand on eminent domain?
“I think you raise fair questions, which should be answered during debates and the primary vetting process...I’m excited about him because I pretty much agree with what he has espoused so far. However, I fully expect that people will dig further into his positions and air them all for the world to see...Should be an interesting year!
I hope these questions are answered. Too many candidates get to skate through on the hard issues during the primaries, in my experience. And the ones who don’t address the issues have in my lifetime always turned to big government after their election.
from Wikipedia
He is a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the civilian board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
That explains his reluctance to audit the Fed. If he were to come out and renounce his ties to them, I’d be ok with him.
“HE WILL BE ANNOUNCING TOMORROW AT 12 IN ATLANTA...THEN THE ‘GAMES’ BEGIN AND YOU WILL ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AND THEM SOME”
I hope you’re right. But to make one actual personal comment about the guy, he still sounds a little too much like Maya Angelou for me to ever fall entirely in love with him as a candidate. I have a similar problem with Palin’s, Mark Levin’s, and Mike Savage’s accents, because they simply grow irritating after a while to me.
“I like him and I am going to vote for him. We must STOP “winner take all0” all primaries or this socialist from Massachusetts is going to do what McAmnesty did to our party. Every candidate should get their percentage of the delegates earned. Don’t let these liberals steal our party again. We will not vote for SOCIALISM!! Get these Globalists communists out of our party.”
I agree entirely. I’m just not sure yet Cain fits as a candidate who is a constitutionalist conservative, which is why I’m asking the questions I am.
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