Posted on 10/15/2011 10:13:14 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
A pumped-up Herman Cain is promising a rock ’em, sock ’em takedown of Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney, saying he’s already got the Bay State governor on the run and can deliver a knockout at Tuesday night’s debate because voters “can’t get excited about (Romney’s) leadership.”
“He got a little defensive last time, so he knows Herman is going to come after him,” Cain said during a phone interview with the Herald yesterday. “We are in a contest here. We are in a battle.”
Cain, who has surged to the front of the crowded Republican presidential pack, already locked on to Romney during a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., last week. The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO asked Romney to name all of the 59 points in his economic recovery plan.
Romney struck back, telling Cain that sometimes “simple answers are inadequate.”
Cain said the unsatisfying response was “snippy and dismissive,” and said he will push Romney on his overly complex 160-page plan again at an upcoming debate in Nevada.
“I’m going after Romney only on his economic plan because that’s where he is a little weak,” Cain said. “I think it kind of caught him off guard a little bit. The problem with his 59-point plan is you’re talking about something that’s never going to pass.”
Cain’s Republican rivals have made the same charge against the Georgian’s famous 9-9-9 plan, which would eliminate different tax rates and implement a flat 9 percent tax on corporations, incomes, and sales. Voters in states where there is no sales tax, such as New Hampshire, would reject a sudden 9 percent hike, argued former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, another Republican presidential candidate.
“They are making an invalid comparison,” said Cain of the criticism. “It is a replacement tax for...
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I’m not sure he would bow out. I don’t think we’ve got another Fred Thompson here.
And, secondly, if he did have to bow out, why would he have to endorse anyone? He might support the winner, if only because it’s not 0bama, but endorse?
Why? So he can drop like a rock in the polls like they did?
No thanks.
I like his style - getting jabs in at the RINOS here and there without looking whiny and petty.
Now that Bachman has faded, her real role is to be the attack dog for Romney. She’ll ask the nasty questions of Cain so Romney won’t have to. This will allow him to get the attack questions out while remaining “above the fray”.
She REFUSES to ask any of her nasty questions of Romney while insinuating that Perry wants to make all eleven year old girls in Texas Gardasil Retards and that Herman Cain is in league with Satan.
She’s reduced herself to a side-show. But, to Romney, she serves a purpose. The payoff, I suspect, is a cabinet post should he take the cake.
Yea that was staying above the fray all right! LOL And her 666 comment. Snide is snide. :)
Then again, Cain has somewhat done the same thing: saying that Perry was the one of the candidates he wouldn’t serve as VP for, while claiming that he’s going to fault Romney.
IMO they were both nudged into the race by the Romney team, and Perry is merely the Establishment’s backup candidate if they somehow can’t force Romney on is.
The GOP and this election are rigged and rotten.
Perry has of the current field the best record of experience in governance and service to his country.
We should not use MSM standards to judge Rick Perry. Its exactly what the WAPO left wants to happen as it dismisses Perry outright. Yes Perry has conservative shortcomings in several areas of his record, on immigration policy for example, but he stands head and shoulders above all of them on governance experience and service to the nation and his sins are minor compared to Romney’s.
We shouldn’t elect a TV personna this time,besides, he often carries a Ruger .380 auto when he jogs, that alone earns my vote, LOL.
This says it all, Perry will beat the ass off Obama if he secures the nomination,he has nailed him before directly and has the balls to take Obama on face to face as a matter of official duty, unlike any of the other candidates:
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Perry is a good man, the best of the field:
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2011/09/c130_rick_perry_he_flew_the_wo.html
C-130 Rick Perry: He Flew The World Before Politics
Abilene Online
By Sarah Kleiner Varble
Rank: Retired as a captain
Hometown: Haskell
Crew job: C-130 aircraft commander
Served in the Air Force: 1972 to 1977
Dyess AFB tour: March 4, 1974, to Feb. 28, 1977
His story:Way back before he was governor of Texas, Rick Perry had two choices as a young member of the Air Force.
He could either follow his dream and work toward becoming an instructor pilot in the sleek T-38, or he could fly the hulking C-130, planes that affectionately were referred to as “trash haulers” by Perry and his cohorts.
“There was no telling what you were going to haul around on any given day, from high value cargo like human beings to the colonel’s kitty litter,” Perry told the Reporter-News in a recent phone interview.
He wanted to fly T-38s, but not badly enough to move to Selma, Ala., where he would have been assigned. So, Perry chose to stay in Texas and fly the C-130.
In 1974, he moved to Dyess Air Force Base, about 55 miles from his hometown of Haskell, and began a career that took him all over the world and shaped his political future.
“It was one of the great adventures of my life,” Perry said. “I had a fairly pedestrian life until I was 23 years old.”
Perry could count on one hand the number of trips he had taken out of his home state by the time he graduated from Texas A&M University, but everything changed when he joined the Air Force.
Flying C-130s, Perry lived in Germany and Saudi Arabia. He flew in Central and South America, North Africa and all over Europe.
“I saw all of these different types of governments and I made the connections to how the people acted and looked, and it became abundantly clear to me that, at that particular point in time, that America was this very unique place and that our form of democracy was very rare,” Perry said. “ ... That was the greatest gift I received from my years of being in the military, and they really shaped my outlook on the rest of my life.”
Perry retired from the Air Force in 1977 — but not without one last adventure.
As his final days approached, Perry was assigned to a mission to “haul trash” to Bermuda with a relatively inexperienced crew.
“I’m sure the young guys stayed up a little longer than the older guy, which would be me at 26 years old,” Perry said, and they fell asleep on the way back to Abilene.
About the time the plane reached Atlanta, a fire light for the No. 3 engine flashed once. And then it flashed again.
Perry poked his co-pilot as the light reappeared and held steady on red.
Using the headset, he asked the loadmaster to take a look at the engine from the window and about that time, the engine exploded and blew a tail pipe off the plane.
“He started screaming that we were on fire and that we were all going to die,” Perry said. “The aircraft operated as advertised and flies amazingly well on three engines.”
Perry and his crew were stuck at Pope Air Force Base while awaiting a new engine. With three days left in his enlistment, Perry called the command post at Dyess and informed them that they would have to send a new pilot along with the engine if they didn’t hurry.
“I said, ‘In three days, I’m not Captain Perry anymore, I’m Mr. Perry, and I’m going home,” Perry said.
The engine arrived and the plane returned to Dyess in time for Perry to retire Feb. 28, as planned.
He went on to be elected to the state House of Representatives, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and, finally, governor of Texas.
I'm so happy to accept your instruction, oh so wise. /s
This says it all, Perry will beat the ass off Obama if he secures the nomination,he has nailed him before directly and has the balls to take Obama on face to face as a matter of official duty, unlike any of the other candidates:
Balls, yes. Brains, no.
LOL...10 years a Texas governor and you say Perry has no brains?
You should examine yours closely.
RomneyCare, with all of its problems, should defeat Romney, just by itself. Romney being a RINO should, also, be enough to defeat him during the ‘12 GOP Presidential Primary season.
I agree the Love Taps between those two makes Pro Wrestling look realistic.
9, I agree with you. Perry has always impressed me as the establishment’s Plan B. An acceptable alternative should the grass roots refuse to vote Romney. I anticipate a full-court press to breathe life back into Perry’s campaign. He faltered too far and too fast thus upsetting Plan B.
Yep, exactly.
(Though his early rise may have contributed to keeping Palin out, so mission accomplished from that perspective.)
“Cain the TALKER has no record on fiscal and social issues “
He’s not been in government. One must look at his life to see his record on “fiscal and social issues.”
Get ready to laugh !!!! Coulter’s Romney-Cain Ticket
You don’t know who you’re talking to.
HHC’s husband.
The NRST shouldn't be that tough of a sell when properly contrasted with the existing abomination known as the progressive income tax, which:
And Congress will, sooner or later, bend to the will of the people, with appropriate Presidential leadership under Herman Cain.
I'd be happy to work on that "tough sell". The progressive income tax was a tough sell too, I suppose, but various lies were told in order to mitigate that Tyrannical piece of Marxist garbage, such as "it's only for the rich."
I am quite astounded at the apologetics I see for the current oppressive system, which could not possibly be worse, except if the rates went even higher.
Considering these facts, telling the truth about the NRST and its relative benefits shouldn't be that tough of a sell.
It is not hard to see why Cain endorsed Romney in 2008 and why endorse him again in 2012.
Romney owns the Largest Radio Newtwork in the USA, Clear Channel Radio Network and Romney is in a position to get Cain a lucrative Talk Radio Contract even if Romney does not win the Nomination.
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that Bain connection.
I hope they didn’t try to buy Palin off similarly but differently, if you will.
Yes, by endorsing Romney, Cain puts himself in a position to win even if Romney loses as a result Romney’s ownership of Clear Channel Radio Network.
The Clear Channel Connection also explains why Hannity is so high on Romney.
As they say, no matter how cynical you get you just can’t get cynical enough. What a mess!
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