Posted on 05/20/2011 10:17:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Right Scoop, I’m not nearly as sure as Kraut is that this is true. If Palin surprises everyone by staying out, Iowa will be wide open for a “true conservative” to emerge. And if Cain finishes well there, he’ll be well positioned to surprise people in his backyard of South Carolina. Doesn’t mean he’ll be the nominee, but it’s very easy to imagine him being a factor in the nomination given his grassroots support. If Palin does jump in, I don’t know how the base goes about trying to decide between them. Palin has held public office and Cain hasn’t, but Cain doesn’t have the sort of image problem out of the box that she has to overcome. How does the vote split between the two of them and Bachmann in Iowa? Somewhere Romney and Pawlenty consultants are reading that question and thinking: “Hopefully very evenly.”
I guess Kraut figures that since he’ll soon be alienating the base by criticizing Palin after she announces, he might as well go the whole nine yards and tweak Cain too. Speaking of which, the Herminator is now officially in. His formal announcement will come tomorrow.
And what was the Bamster’s candidacy when he announced in 2007 Charles?
A very real and dangerous, possible scenario.
Ditto but Palin or Bachman would be acceptable to me. However, the very thought of Romney/Huntsman/Paul/et al, as candidate makes me ill.
Krauthheimer, Rove, these are just the old establishement GOP than cannot seem to evolve.
Herman Cain: C’mon, Charles Krauthammer’s remarks are for entertainment purposes only.
Perfect!
Using your example, Perot destroyed his own campaign by being an inexperienced campaigner. Polls don’t transfer to votes. People don’t give too much thought when asked who they support in a poll, but they do try to be serious when they vote. If Cain is serious about holding public office, he should run for Congress, for Mayor, or something to prove he can win an election. No political party will take a chance on an unproven candidate for President no matter how good they sound.
Obama was inexperienced and unaccomplished but he had proven that he could win elections. To beat him we need a candidate who also can win elections and has proven it.
DrK, DrK......YOU are a TV pundit for entertainment purposes only. Get over yourself.
Your point is taken, but I think we need not fear businesspeople because one performed poorly in the past.
Well, again, he’s a true neocon; a new conservative. He was a liberal then and has become progressively more conservative along with Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, etc.
Hunstman makes me want to wretch. Good thing he has no chance.
But the GOP Nominee will necessarily have won a string of hard fought, bitter primary elections state by state. That will make whomever the nominee is, “experienced”, and enough campaign savvy and knowledge to take on the Kenyan and kick his royal butt in November 2012.
Me, too!
Sometimes Kraut is too condescending to endure. He has no clue who the GOP nominee is going to be.
You are making me do a search. ;o)
BRB
Here is where the rubber meets the road, and the very day that I fell in love with Hermain Cain...HillaryCare killer.
Watch the video. I remember that night like it was yesterday.
Herman Cain is a numbers man. I bet you can’t say that about those you mentioned.
Thanks for the news on Cain. he is eloquent in speech and has organized ideas. I think he’s a bit more sharp/people person, probably from his talk show, easier to listen to than Perot. Granted I liked Perot for reasons besides running for president but I sense the “phenomenom” you described is probably true, maybe a month or two of fame but he’ll fade and i hope we have a well established someone to knock Oburkha on his keister by that time once and for all for all time, for good, done, kaput, finis, gone.
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