Posted on 10/13/2011 12:45:39 PM PDT by jakerobins
Herman Cain named Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) as potential running mates should he secure the Republican presidential nomination for the 2012 election.
Speaking Thursday on "The Steve Gill Show," Cain outlined the qualities he would like in a running mate, and then, unprovoked, offered specific names.
“There are some people in Congress that are very, very good, that I respect and admire and that I would love to have on my team,” Cain said. “Whether that would be in a V.P. slot or in a key Cabinet slot … I’ll give you a name — like Representative Paul Ryan. I’m not saying he would be the V.P. pick, he might be, but that’s the type of person I would want in my Cabinet. He’s the type of person. Sen. Jim DeMint — people who are not afraid to challenge the system
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So you want another beltway insider?
Quite frankly, I don't want anyone who has that kind of infectious disease. I want a businessman.
If we had principled people in DC for the last 60 years who believed in our Constitution, understood economics, accounting, finance, and business, we wouldn't be in this mess.
ZOT WATCH
See post 117
That WOULD be the ULTIMATE....to see conservatives voting for 2 African American's would blow the RACISTS out of the water...and maybe end the idiocy of affirmative action....doubt it will happen, but we can dream.
Zot Watch.
Just cleaning up the place a bit....again.
None of us know how he would vote...not even you. He doesn't have a voting record...so far, just talk about what he would do.
No, we should stab him with a pointy stick until he drops out so that Perry might, maybe have a chance. /s
Good names, Herm. He just keeps saying the right things.
>> No, we should stab him with a pointy stick until he drops out
Well, that’s certainly one option.
Or we could love him unconditionally until he doesn’t actually *gain* the nomination. Then the FR thug clique could switch to the *next* mutually agreed upon “conservative” candidate.
Hey, it worked with Sarah, right? :-)
Newt and Callista bought a home and have lived in Virginia since 2000!
I think some if not all of the newbies are retreads or multiple accounters. jmo
Where are you getting this from?
He is staunchly Pro-Life, against queer marriages, he wants an amendment to protect the sacred institution of marriage, and he's against affirmative action.
Solid, intelligent picks. Carry on, Mr. Cain.
Paul Ryan
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Ryan.htm
Jim DeMint
http://www.issues2000.org/senate/Jim_DeMint.htm
Herman Cain
http://www.hermancain.com/the-issues
http://www.hermancain.com/999plan
Allen West
http://west.house.gov/
http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/FL/Allen_West.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/allenwest/index?tab=articles
In 2010 Paul Ryan had a 96% rating for the year. 92.67% for lifetime rating.
In 2010 Jim DeMint had a 100% rating for the year. 98.67% Lifetime rating.
Meanwhile Michele Bachmann has both a 100% rating for 2010 and for lifetime.
www.conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/2010/House-Senate-combo.htm
Cain/Bachmann? I like it!
That said, he had shown a great deal of cool and has on many occasions handled himself with aplomb (I refer to the Larry O'Donnell attack/interview).
We will have plenty of opportunity to see how he handles himself because the attacks have just begun.
Regarding the painted rock...that is the one time when he really blew it IMO. He could have come out looking like a giant among men--a real racial healer--but he blew it.
In the final analysis, Cain has plenty of faults--he is certainly human--but he is still an excellent candidate and, so far, has been able to generate some genuine excitement and enthusiasm...and that is an essential ingredient if we are to win in 2012.
Just waking up and haven't had my coffee yet...but re: firing, Cain might start with the Dept of Ed and the EPA, and then move on to an almost limitless number of other useless agencies.
Unlike the false dilemma arguments of many Cainiacs on this site, my doubts about the realism of this type of comment does not infer I want a beltway insider as a potus
But I do wish people would temper their enthusiasm for this relative unknown man with realism about his role and responsibilities as a US president.
The structure of the US government is not the same as Godfather's pizza and it never will be. Period. Like it or not.
Cain would not have management flexibility and control to abolish cabinets and the EPA without the virtual neutralization the RINO elites and the entire democrat party and probbaly the help of the USSC to boot.
I have NO hopes this will happen because the rot in the soft underbelly of the GOP (McConnell, Boehner and many of our other entrenched RINOs) will take a generation to undo....if ever.
A guy like Perry was probably our best hope to take on the establishment. That is why they pushed on the emotion buttons of conservatives to destroy him on immigration, over policies any GOP president is going to accept, anyway. Newt Gingrich? Look who stumped with Kennedy over social issues. Newt got the catholoic religion along with the social guilt complex.
So with Cain conservatives are going to waste a whole lot of energy and political capital on a guy who already admitted he'd take VP to a RINO taxachusetts wanker like Mittens.
Not that Mittens needs a VP with business experience, since since that is about the only claim Mittens has on why he would do a better job than obama.
Mittens doesn't need Cain. He needs an acceptable #2 conservative with foreign policy and military experience to balance his domestic credentials and Cain's job as a military shoe clerk (ie, analyst) doesn't quite stretch into someone who can out-bluff Putin and China, and build meaningful alliances against a nuclear Iran and North Korea. But... a black VP "might" be useful once the MEdia starts reporting the quotes of the Founders of the Mormon religion on race. Which will be an hour after Mittens is nominated.
Sorry to rain on your parade. I was not a complete Palin fan but in retrospect I would have trusted her judgment during crises and her executive abilities much more than Cains.
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