Posted on 09/25/2011 3:14:50 PM PDT by Marie
Sarah Palin likes Herman Cain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wix4k1VgJtE
"He's not a politician. I think that's why I like him so much!"
I’m sorry, I don’t normally respond to people acting like vapid idiots, so here’s the direct site for you:
http://www.hermancain.com/999plan
“•Individual Flat Tax – 9%.
•Gross income less charitable deductions.
•Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for those living and/or working in the zone.
•National Sales Tax – 9%.
•This gets the Fair Tax off the sidelines and into the game.”
Hermain Cain is for AN INCOME TAX AND A NATIONAL SALES TAX did HE say that loud enough for you, or are you to stupid to listen?
One problem that conservatives have is that we respond to liberals’ soundbites in paragraphs and books.
Herman Cain is the first person I’ve seen that can break complex, conservative ideals into easy-to-digest, understandable bites for the masses.
For two decades I’ve been looking for another Great Communicator. I truly believe that we’ve found him.
Palin is good and, if she’s the front-runner, she’s got my vote; but I really do believe that Cain can deliver.
Herman Cain is a boutique candidate. He won’t draw any money from major sources, and has limited appeal outside of his base with nil name recognition. He has no political experience other than a failed Presidential run in 2000 and a failed 2004 Republican run for GA Senate.
He, of course, has positive attributes and did a very nice Gospel album for those into such things. But this is the big leagues, and Republicans nominate name-brand candidates.
Obviously my conclusion is opinion, but these facts will be enough to keep him under 10%.
Now that is a brilliant analysis! (And a tad racist). IMO 999 is punchy, to the point, and memorable.
Remember my neighbor, the gas line live valve lineman? He'd done helicopter maintenance in Nam on several tours. His crew came with him to Northern Virginia and they are still together. But he's not.
One day he took his motorcycle trailer, with chromed bike, out on a vacation with his wife and son. They were fishing ~ I think it was either in the Sound or at Lake Anna ~ fly fishing, and he leaned back with his rod to throw a fly and dropped dead of a massive combined stroke, heart attack, everything ~ all at once it was over.
Down to the end he did the things he loved. They buried him in full riding leathers.
Now, what happened before that? Well, we'd had an ice storm in the Mid Atlantic. It was so cold water was condensing out of the natural gas in the lines and freezing valves. To keep the gas pressure up so families could keep warm they shut down the government in this area, and my neighbor and a couple of other guys with special expertise (and licenses) in handling live frozen valves went to work 24 hours a day for quite a long period opening those lines to keep the fires burning.
He saved lives at the expense of his own health. And it wasn't only the home fires, the national security apparatus in the DC area is enormous ~ he kept those guys on the job.
I kinda want a President who can live up to that standard, or who has done so, and is willing to step once more into the breach with as clear an understanding of God, duty and country!
Too be honest her voice has grown on me....but to also be honest Cain has the southern Baptist preacher delivery down pat which also grates on my nerves...I will learn to live with the messenger if I love the message....and I do with both of these people....
A balanced budget ammendment may be useful, but does not in and of itself fix the problem. A huge government outside the bounds of the U.S. Constitution canbfind ways to feed its spending, and still be a problem to everyone under its thumb, all while “balancing the books.”
But that doesn’t have anything to do with Herman Cain, I’m just addressing your post.
“and a balanced budget amendment would FORCE federal government to fit within 9-9-9.”
Being taxes at 18% (the reality) or even 9% (the sales pitch) is still too much by the standards of many, including myself.
She laid out some pretty solid ideas in her last two speeches. She certainly did well by Alaska.
Here’s part of Cain’s reasoning for Romney:
Mitt Romney has done that as a chief executive officer in business, as a governor and as head of the U.S. Olympics. He has done so while balancing political consequences but not compromising fundamental principles of the founding of this country or free-market economics. We have prospered as a nation by strengthening those principles; we will not remain strong if we allow those principles to become diluted with a lack of leadership.
Anyone who wishes to find a reason not to vote for Romney can find one. But the reasons to vote for him are far more compelling. He has successfully managed a real business with other people’s money and some of his own. He has balanced budgets. He successfully led a turnaround situation with the Olympics. And he has spent more of his career outside government than inside.
No, I’m not a bigot. If Herman Cain gets a boost from Sarah Palin’s comments, it’s because she has a connection to the base that Cain does not, and she wants to give an edge. She’s in the driver’s seat this election cycle.
Those that think she’s not running, or would accept VP slot are ignoring the facts, or in serious denial.
I like Hermain Cain’s conservatism (even though I perceive him as a show-boating business tycoon akin to Donald Trump) and would vote for him if there was no other viable candidate. However, like I said, that won’t be the case.
No, I’m not a bigot. If Herman Cain gets a boost from Sarah Palin’s comments, it’s because she has a connection to the base that Cain does not, and she wants to give an edge. She’s in the driver’s seat this election cycle.
Those that think she’s not running, or would accept VP slot are ignoring the facts, or in serious denial.
I like Hermain Cain’s conservatism (even though I perceive him as a show-boating business tycoon akin to Donald Trump) and would vote for him if there was no other viable candidate. However, like I said, that won’t be the case.
I would like Palin to come right out and endorse Cain. And Cain should endorse Anne Coulter’s book, “Demonic”, because it spells out how the Democrat Party has done everything it could to put a hold on the black community.
Frankly I’m in favor of returning the federal government to the size of the post office ~ but that’s just me.
I'd love Palin to throw her hat in and ultimately maybe pick Cain for VP...:oP
When a "poll" is taken among a small group of self-selected political junkies (a "Straw Poll" or an Internet poll), you get results that may or may not have anything to do with how the rest of the entire electorate thinks. The GOP activists in the Florida Straw Poll are far to the Right of the average voter in America.
Guess who was the debate winner by a HUGE margin in the FOX News post-debate Internet poll?
Ron Paul.
"Straw Polls" and Internet polls are Self Selection Bias polls and are worthless for predicting how the general population feels about any issue.
Guess how Cain fared in today's Michigan Straw Poll.
Mitt Romney absolutely CRUSHED Cain 50.1% to 8.5%.
Moral of the story: What flies with the hard core political junkies in one region of the country crashes and burn in another region of the country. Therefore, the results Self-Selection Bias "Straw Polls" are not worth a bucket of warm spit.
If you want to know how Cain is actually doing, wait a week or so until properly conducted polls take the pulse of the average voter and not the pulse of the political junkies that do politics for a weekend getaway.
Frankly I’m in favor of returning the federal government to the size of the post office ~ but that’s just me.
And let’s make that post office somewhere in the boonies and only open on every other Monday from 9-2.
Herman Cain will be Sarah Palin’s pick for Federal Reserve Board Chairman.
And the recompense for Helicopter Ben? A dry shave on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial followed by a swirly in the Tidal Basin.
Film at 11. [tape delayed to 11:30]
I like the flat income tax because then you don’t end up with all the problems with a prebate. Don’t take the money in the first place and you won’t have to give it right back. Listen to Forbes and Armey. They had to work out all kinds of problems.
One thing is for sure: we have to get rid of the system that we have now. If we just take potshots then we’re just going to get a few tweaks to the existing plan. The real problem is with the corporate tax. It has so many loopholes because of all the cronyism and contradictory public aims and it is very hard for a small businessman to deal with.
If you read about the 9-9-9 on his website, the plan is to transition to Fair Tax. The 9-9-9 is merely Phase 1.
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