Posted on 12/19/2011 5:09:47 AM PST by no dems
Agree, jersey. And, by the way, the profits from Perry’s book went - not to him - but to his beloved Boy Scouts of America.
In this digital age, no matter how careful you are, chances are that if you ever run for public office, you will have something on the Internet that will compromise you or cast you in a poor light.
Consider all of us posting to this here Free Republic for example. Is anybody here proud of every single post they ever made here? If not, how do you think posting here would affect your chances to run for public office down the road?
I think my posting history is pretty respectable here overall but if I ran for public office and everything I ever posted here was exposed, well, there is enough there to make me a national laughingstock if I was ever a serious candidate for president. Even something as innocuous as my witty reply to a "Caption Helen Thomas" thread will make me seem like a hateful right-wing extremist son of a bitch if my liberal opponent decided to use it against me - and you can be guaranteed that they will.
Yes, it will be interesting to see just who we will find to run for president once the "Facebook" generation comes of age to assume power.
Good post and I agree.
And I really like the word, fustercluck. Can I have it?
Yes, well that was the point - that just saying something off the cuff was not helpful. The post also makes the point that such off the cuff remarks are only flamed upon by the lovers of the candidate in question - in this case Perry lovers.
The discussion began when a poster slammed ALL the other candidates in just such an off the cuff manner. I pointed this out - just as you have. To prove the point I put in some trash about the candidate in question.
See? It’s true.
You’ve been given any number of reasons for our support for Perry.
Your response? That he’s got an IQ of 70.
Please try to do better.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
IMHO, the accusers are quiet because they did their job and they were well paid for doing so.
Kindly point out where any Perry supporters here have dissed other candidates.
I haven’t. Normy hasn’t. As for Cain, he is not a candidate and I didn’t diss him, tho I totally agree he was never all that.
I get it now. You are a Cain man. My sympathies.
When did you start thinking that I didn’t support him? I don’t know what his IQ is any more than you know the other candidates’ motivations for running.
FWIW I don’t want someone who appears to be so dumb to be in charge. But I do have NO idea what his IQ is.
You ask a man to stand and fight but you do not see the cost to his family and loved ones. Slimy lies perpetuated by anyone with the “where there is smoke...” mantra would not stand and hold his arms up when he was tired. Blame yourself for not standing with Herman and saying fight on
Sorry I am just a heartless conservative who will NEVER vote for Perry in a primary
Sleeze merchants like you are the reason he dropped out....
On one of the Sunday shows, someone likened Cain’s withdrawal speech to a “reality show.”
But that got me thinking - is it too crazy to think that Herman Cain’s run was nothing but a shoot for a reality show?
All of the “dirt” on him seemed basically known from the git go - perhaps his wife already knew about the affair years ago. His run would be doomed. And it would all be edited down to a 8 episode mini-series reality show.
“Runnin’ With Herman - The Darkside of Presidential Politics” will be shopped around to networks soon.
You mean like this?
That's what kicked this off - me asking the poster to hold the phone on the down-talk of other candidates - to please assert whatever positives about one's favored candidate but hold off on the negativity toward the others.
I also indicated that usually down-talkers will only get upset when their chosen candidate is talked about negatively. That is clearly evident on this thread... the stick in the hornet's nest was a comment about Perry's IQ - used to demonstrate the point. It worked well.
I don't have a candidate yet but I like what Perry says.
I singled out Cain, who had run for President and lost and was doing a book tour while he was campaigning and the book was called "Mu journey to the White House."
I "slammed" Mitt Romney as being the "next in line" and he is.
I "slammed" Newt for running to up his brand which, while my opinion, seems pretty obvious. He rocketed to the top only after Perry faltered, Palin decided not to run, Cain dropped out. He has almost no ground game and no money. That is not a guy who was serious about running for President.
I even made a point that Bachmann and Santorum had a ground game a a plan.
I mentioned that Perry is running because of Obama. Perry had had first hand experience dealing with the oppressive Obama regime from suing it to joining lawsuits to having cancer screening money withheld as punishment for defunding planned parenthood.
Mitt, Newt and Cain have not had to deal with Obama at all except in print or on TV as pundits.
One of his staffers posted on Facebook he didn’t drop out because of the floozies but because his grandchildren had started to receive credible death threats. Remember he had gotten secret service protection a few weeks before as well because of death threats.
If true, he may have decided it was best to protect his family. It looks like he was willing to fight it out when it was just his reputation on the line and when he was being threatened but when it was his grandkids, things changed.
What? You mind-reading posters are not too accurate. Why would you think I'm a Cain man?
Is it that your world view cannot accept that someone is not up perry's but like you without some ulterior motive? Wow.
Well at least you qualified it “in a Primary”.
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