Herman Cain Still on Top Among Republicans for the GOP Primary Win but Newt Gingrich Surges

PRNewswire ^ | 11/21/2011

[South40]

NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The candidates may be spending Thanksgiving in Iowa or New Hampshire instead of at home this year as the primary calendar quickly comes to an end with just six weeks until the first votes are cast. As noted last month, each month the story line seems to take a new shift, and yet again this month we have another new story with the rise of Newt Gingrich.

Among Republicans, one in five (19%) would vote for Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain in the GOP primary while 16% would vote for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and 15% would vote for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Other candidates are all under 10% including Rick Perry (9%), Ron Paul (5%), Michele Bachman (2%), Jon Huntsman (2%), Rick Santorum (1%) and Gary Johnson at less than 1%. Three in ten Republicans (30%), however, are still not at all sure who they would vote for in the Republican primary.

[justsaynomore]

Cain is hardly afraid to make appearances. He almost daily enters the lions den, such as going toe to toe on the liberal jackwagon Letterman. He has been all over the place

Exactly!

[justsaynomore]

Can we get this in breaking news (since there are other poll results there?)

[federal__reserve]

Much has been made about Cain's lack of foreign country details. That does not bother me. The president does not deal with all countries simultaneously. There is a cadre of advisers and the huge State Department always around at the beck and call of president. The president needs to have a basic philosophy on foreign policy, not every detail. The president does not get on the phone or read newspapers to gather details. He is briefed daily by a slew of people.

What is Most important is that the president be looking at ALL issues wearing the conservative hat and wearing conservative colored eye glasses. A great president is never a micro-manager of details. He/she provides the vision and direction. Cain has that by the tons. There are literally thousands of people working in the executive branch to carry on his/her orders.

[BagCamAddict]

"Some people want to say, well, as president you are supposed to know everything in advance, and off the top of your head. No you don't. I believe in having all the information. As much of it as I possibly can get my hands on before I make a decision. Rather than making a decision or making a statement about whether I totally agree or didn't agree when I wasn't privy to the entire situation as a citizen who doesn't have Top Secret clearance to know all the classified intelligence at this time."........."Who knows every detail of every country of every situation on the planet off the top of their head? Nobody! But as President, I will ask the questions and get the answers on each specific issue before I make those decisions. I will not, as a Candidate, pontificate about what I will or won't do as President, without having ALL of the facts and intelligence that are available TO THE PRESIDENT."

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There.... fixed it. As Mongrel said, now do you understand what he was saying?

[Darkwolf377]

I’m not sure how many times I have to repeat that I don’t expect Cain to have this high level of intel—it’s a straw man, because no one—no one—expected him to have that.

It’s intelligence, of the thinking kind, not ‘intel’ that I’m talking about.

Now do you understand what I am saying?

[BagCamAddict]

I understood what kind of intelligence you were talking about.

Here’s what I don’t understand, not just specifically towards you, but to everyone:

Who is the perfect candidate?

What does the perfect candidate look like?

Would you rather have a candidate who has the perfect answer to everything that the LSM throws at them, or someone who is a leader with values? (I’m not talking about Cain, I’m talking about an Ideal Candidate.)

Besides Jesus Christ himself, who is this perfect person that everyone seeks?

There is so much negativity on FR about various candidates. Yet I don’t see anyone offering up a better alternative.

If the perfect person doesn’t exist — and I think we can all agree the perfect person doesn’t exist, since Jesus Christ isn’t running — then what are our choices?

We can pick “the best of what we have to choose from”.... Or we can be stuck with Obama for 4 more years.

And if anyone thinks it won’t get exponentially worse if Obama is re-elected, they are sadly mistaken. At least now, Obama has some fantasy hope of a second term. But if he is elected to a second and final term, then he can pull out all the stops and go for broke, because he knows there will be no third term.

We must, repeat MUST, choose a Republican candidate, and ALL of us must get behind him/her, whoever it is. Or we will lose this Country.

So I ask again, who is the perfect candidate that all of the nay-sayers would rather have?

If it’s not Romney, Perry, Gingrich, Cain, Bachmann, Santorum, Paul, Huntsman, or Johnson.... WHO ???

Because come election day, we all need to be on the same page, even if it means a write-in. We have to put up our best, even if they aren’t perfect.

[Smokin' Joe]

Outstanding! I agree fully!

[Darkwolf377]

Who is the perfect candidate?

Why is this even being asked? I've yet to meet someone looking for a perfect candidate. I surely am not.

[BagCamAddict]

Why is this even being asked?

Because the way a large number of people post on here, they imply that there IS a perfect candidate. The bashing that goes on is so...... Left. So juvenile. I can't stand it.

I'm not saying you do it -- I haven't looked at your posting history -- but there are certain people who definitely spend half their day going to threads for candidates that they "hate" and bashing them with such venom. Do they think that builds up their preferred candidate? Hardly. And it certainly lowers my respect for that poster.

At any rate, I'm not looking for the perfect candidate. I wish it were possible, but we are all human, and none of us makes it to the age that we can run for President without having done or said things in our lifetime that are regretful. I know I have plenty of regrets and skeletons. I don't expect a candidate to be any different. I only expect that they learn from their life experiences and do better next time. They will all make mistakes, even in the White House. We just have to vote for the one who is likely to make the best choices, based on values and (as you said) intelligence.

[SunkenCiv]

Cain-Gingrich? Thanks South40.

• Gingrich 'prepared to take the heat' with talk of amnesty ("Let's be humane in enforcing the law")
• Newt Gingrich won't appear on Missouri ballot
• Gingrich to teach free online course from White House if elected
• Five myths about Newt Gingrich (the candidate WaPo fears most)
• Don't Buy The Hype: The Newt Gingrich 'Boomlet' Isn't A Real Thing
• Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney seesaw in South Carolina, New Hampshire polls
• Newt Gingrich claims he is not a member of bohemian grove, a freemason, or for world government
• Gingrich out on his own on Child Labor, for now
• Surging Gingrich claims top spot in new GOP poll
• Goldberg: Sizing up a Gingrich-Romney showdown
• PD Composite: Romney 26%, Cain 26%, Gingrich 21%
• Gingrich Over Romney 26-22 in NEW Quinnipac Poll
• PRUDEN: Newt Gingrich: Another flavor at the GOP soup kitchen
• (New Hampshire) Union Leader Editorial Board Meeting with Newt Gingrich (1 hour video)

[SunkenCiv]

I like it!