Too many self-proclaimed conservatives are politically illiterate and ill-prepared to win because they are always constantly bickering amongst themselves over minutia - while 'Rome burns.'
A good 90% of posters here have never once gone to their own district, much less county or state, GOP meetings. They talk big, but don't contribute a whit toward keeping their state and local GOP conservative. Hence, they learn little about what makes a candidate viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters.
Leftist media consistently work hard to split the conservative vote - causing nomination of the least conservative candidate, if possible. They pulled that off with McCain - and they hope to do it again with Romney... if they can somehow destroy Perry's chances.
Cain isn't going anywhere. No money, no organization, and little hope of building either, particularly with his 999 plan falling apart under close scrutiny. Lefty-media know this well - so of course they're going to give him as much play as they can in order to split conservatives.
Pay little attention to the gab on FR... because those falling into this media-orchestrated trap nationally represent a tiny fraction of conservatism within the so-called 'grass-roots GOP.'
Conservatism demands far more than wishful thinking. It demands daily action where the rubber meets the road, on the street and within the GOP in every state - and that action at the moment isn't in Cain's favor, it is thankfully in Perry's.
That’s very grandiose talk.
Thing is though Perry killed his own chances with his own crap style and crap views on immigration.
I go to all three. I'm an region where Democrats completely outnumber us at the local, county, and state levels of government. Right now, the GOP currently controls my local township (despite the Dems outnumbering us by a 60%-40% margin), but the Dems have total control of county government and virtually total control of state government.
I attend my local township GOP meeting monthly, and I was a delegate to both the county and state party conventions (state party convention was a waste of time and I learned these things are rigged in advance and how local delegates "vote" on resolutions doesn't matter because the big-wigs in the Illinois GOP have pre-determined the outcome)
Anyhoo...
I've seen dozens of elections in my time. Perry is exactly the opposite kind of candidate that would be "viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters". This guy lucked into getting his current job by default because he was Lt. Governor and he's fortunate enough to run in a one-party state where the Democrat "oppoisition" is a joke and never runs a tough opponent against him. Perry is totally unprepared for what Republicans in states with real Democrat machines and a non-stop lberal outslaught have to face on a daily basis.
If guys like him were the "most electable" nationally, then Bob Dole would have won in a landslide in '96 and John Kerry would have crushed Bush in '04. An drab establishment politician eeking through election-after-election in a state his party ALWAYS wins doesn't make them "electable" in the other 49 states.
I go to all three. I'm an region where Democrats completely outnumber us at the local, county, and state levels of government. Right now, the GOP currently controls my local township (despite the Dems outnumbering us by a 60%-40% margin), but the Dems have total control of county government and virtually total control of state government.
I attend my local township GOP meeting monthly, and I was a delegate to both the county and state party conventions (state party convention was a waste of time and I learned these things are rigged in advance and how local delegates "vote" on resolutions doesn't matter because the big-wigs in the Illinois GOP have pre-determined the outcome)
Anyhoo...
I've seen dozens of elections in my time. Perry is exactly the opposite kind of candidate that would be "viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters". This guy lucked into getting his current job by default because he was Lt. Governor and he's fortunate enough to run in a one-party state where the Democrat "opposition" is a joke and never runs a tough opponent against him. Perry is totally unprepared for what Republicans in states with real Democrat machines and a non-stop liberal onslaught have to face on a daily basis.
If guys like him were the "most electable" nationally, then Bob Dole would have won in a landslide in '96 and John Kerry would have crushed Bush in '04. An drab establishment politician eeking through election-after-election in a state his party ALWAYS wins doesn't make them "electable" in the other 49 states.