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To: montag813
Gravitas?,...or No Gravitas?

I have been, since the start, and continue to be to this day, puzzled as to why anyone would see Herman Cain as a potential President. After screaming at the top of my lungs in 2007 and 2008 to the four winds that Barry Barack Soetoro was the LEAST qualified person EVER to be ELECTED (lesser qualified have run!) it seems odd that Conservatives(??) and Freepers have knowingly backed a person with 'perhaps' even less qualifications.

I have no animus with Cain. Everyone should be able to run, and seeing a NON-politician ascend the runway is heartening. But I fail to see the measure of GRAVITAS required to lead America as President in this man.

These days one tends to focus so much on the purposeful destruction of our economy that we forget a leader must have a world view and some world expertise. You can see what the lack of such ability and vision has done to us as a nation under a two-bit Chicago street thug and bagman for the Daley machine.

Who has gravitas? I don't believe Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Huntsman, or Santorum have it. Paul may have an once or two. Mittens has a teaspoon or two. And Newty probably has a half-cup. I don't even find Palin to have the requisite amount although I love her combativeness in the political arena.

Out of all the people in this country the ONLY choices we can offer up are Obama, Biden, Gingrich, Romney, Paul, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Santorum and Huntsman. What a sad statement for America.

I find no choice! And so once again we Conservatives, a minority to be sure, find ourselves stuck with the lesser evil. Would any of OUR candidates be better than the two Communists currently ensconced at 1600? Yes. But once again we will find ourselves with Bob Dole, Bush 1 and Bush 2 and having to go along with it because,...

...ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN 4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA. So get prepared to 'settle'. Every election we swear we won't vote for a RINO but every year the option of allowing a DemonRat to be elected overwhelms us.

But Cain? No. And I simply can't understand what you guys see or have seen in him that you would want to elevate this guy to President. As for me, there is NO choice. So I sit here feeling empty and frozen. A sad commentary.

52 posted on 12/03/2011 8:45:14 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Doc Savage
But Cain? No. And I simply can't understand what you guys see or have seen in him that you would want to elevate this guy to President. As for me, there is NO choice. So I sit here feeling empty and frozen. A sad commentary.

BTTT

58 posted on 12/03/2011 8:49:00 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: Doc Savage

Less qualifications?

He’s more qualified than Obama for the simple reason that he’s done what Obama has never done.

Cain has actually held a job.


68 posted on 12/03/2011 8:55:27 AM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Doc Savage

You sir, are horriffically misinformed. LESS qualified? You bought into the racist leftist spew about ‘that pizza guy’...check out his resume and you will be amazed. If not, then you have other reasons that you don’t like him and are just propagandizing. Either way you are entitled to your opinion, but please, at least be intellectually honest in your arguments. Mr. Cain is without question one of the most qualified candidates in recent history.


76 posted on 12/03/2011 8:58:24 AM PST by thatdewd (I'm tired of watching stupid people do stupid things stupidly.)
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To: Doc Savage
...ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN 4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA. So get prepared to 'settle'. Every election we swear we won't vote for a RINO but every year the option of allowing a DemonRat to be elected overwhelms us.
But Cain? No. And I simply can't understand what you guys see or have seen in him that you would want to elevate this guy to President. As for me, there is NO choice. So I sit here feeling empty and frozen. A sad commentary.

Who would have been your choices to run?

My candidate didn't run, but you already dismissed her in your statement.

I also like VA's governor, but he didn't run either.

87 posted on 12/03/2011 9:04:24 AM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC:DONATE MONTHLY! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: Doc Savage

You fail to see the issue. The problem with Obama is not that he was unqualified, it’s the fact he’s a MARXIST and he has been successful in putting those policies in place!! Professional politicians have not served us well, so what use is it to be ‘qualified’?

You’re well-named; you whine as much as that self-absorbed windbag on the radio.


398 posted on 12/03/2011 10:35:07 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (Give 'em hell, Herman!)
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