Yup, I think Perry is still the only legitimate anti-Romney with any staying power. Cain I suspect will flame out at some point, and we will be left with Perry to be the only real opposition to Romney. This assumes that Perry actually delivers some decent debate performances and becomes a much better candidate, otherwise Romney may just run away with it. Cain is a great guy, but electability will be a big factor and I suspect primary voters will have too many doubts about him.
I agree. If I was Perry’s campaign manager, I would tell him to focus almost primarily in Iowa and South Carolina...then Florida. Of coarse going other places for campaign money. Then I would avoid any long-winded answers in the debates. Appearing middle of the pack has it’s good side. I always hear great things about the people that lose, never about the people that win....
Cain’s not a bad guy, but he doesn’t quite have the organization to compete with Romney. And I worry that FR will be the stompin ground for a third party candidate if Romney wins. And while I don’t want Romney to win, I don’t think a third party would be at all wise. It would just mean four more years of Obama. Unless I see significant improvement in Cains organization and funding, I will continually support Perry.
Political issues aside, one huge problem with Cain is that it seems that his primary goal in this Presidential run was to duplicate Sarah Palin's financial success in the marketplace rather than actually win the first election that he has ever won in his entire life.
Conservatives should be very careful about replacing unquestioning faith in one public figure with unquestioning faith in a second public figure.
Don't just listen to the Sound Bites that a public figure throws out. Pay close attention to how seriously they are taking campaign logistics. Palin's total lack of attention to the campaign logistics infrastructure of a serious Presidential campaign (No staff, no courting major donors, no organization, no investing time actually campaigning and not simply at venues designed seek TV face time and enhance the "Brand") was an obvious Red Flag that was rationalized away as "creating her own rules" and "brilliant secret strategy".
In the end, all the talk about Sun Tzu was merely self deception.
Sun Tzu would have agreed with Omar Bradley:
"Amateurs talk about strategy and professionals talk about logistics."
Presently, Cain, like Sarah Palin before him, is not focusing on the logistics of a serious campaign. He is focusing on a book-signing tour.
One of the few times I agree with you on the details.
Those so called debates were not actually debates. In most of the cases, it was simply one attack after another. There have been attacks by media one after another too. Perry did not articulate his positions well, but I believe he will do better on the rest of them. However, he is still being attacked by liberal media who are terrified of what he would do to Obama. I will not vote for Romney, and I don’t think Cain has staying power. Guess we will see.
I agree with you. I have doubts about him (Cain)
While he was an interesting and fun fringe candidate he could get by with a lot of stuff that he is mistaken or uninformed on.
The vetting on Cain has just begun.
Perry has made some missteps but he has a proven record of conservatism to run on with only a few minor negatives.