Cain: Perry camp sign 'just plain insensitive' (Cain pulls the race card)

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[balls]

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain criticized the name of a hunting camp once leased by Gov. Rick Perry's family as "just plain insensitive" in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain criticized the name of a hunting camp once leased by Gov. Rick Perry's family as "just plain insensitive" in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. The name of the camp — "Niggerhead" — was first reported by the Washington Post on Saturday. The paper said the name was painted on a rock at the entrance of the property. Perry reportedly began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at the secluded ranch early in his career. The offensive phrase has been painted over, but the Post's sources and the Perry campaign differ on when that was done. The Post reports that the name can still be seen through the paint. "My reaction is, that's just very insensitive," Cain told Fox. "[There] isn't a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country."

[TexasFreeper2009]

Worse than his endorsement of Romney in 2008 is the statement the other day where he said he wouldn’t vote for Perry in the general election, but he could vote for Romney if he were the candidate.

Cain will backstab us like Colin Powell did with Obama, if Perry is our nominee.

Cain is dead to me.

[shield]

I voted for McRino because of Sarah Palin. McRino is much more conservative than Mittens, but I still had to hold my nose to vote for him. My theory on voting for McRino, he said he’d only serve one term, then Sarah would have been in the perfect spot to run for President, if he’d won.

[Uri’el-2012]

Because this is the South and this is Texas and it isn’t against the law and we still have free speech.

I'm a Southerner however I've been Reconstructed

It seems you and Perry have your sheets in the laundry.

He is TOAST !!

[NavyCanDo]

A Perry fan with class would be saying “You know Cain is right on this one” and maybe encourage Perry to take the lead on this and work for a name change. If he doesn't, you can bet this question will be brought up at an upcoming debate and Perry will once again be caught off guard. But what I see from the Perry supporters is they are taking the opposite approach and using against Cain.

[TexasFreeper2009]

A bigger deal is that 70% of those using Romneycare are illegal aliens.

http://americaswatchtower.com/2010/10/27/illegal-immigrants-cost-massachusetts-taxpayers-38-million-a-year-under-romneycare-is-this-to-be-expected-under-obamacare/

[magritte]

Yes. Since the Federal government requires that all states much educate all students from K-12 for free, Texas and a dozen other states have decided that the cost of treating an illegal as in-state outweighs the social cost of having them drop out or end their education at graduation. Time will tell if that is true, but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to attempt.

State’s have the obligation of doing what’s best for their state.

[mylife]

Perry has given Cain nothing but praise in the past.
We shall see how this all plays out.

[shield]

Name Calling: The first person to resort to name calling, personal attacks or childish comments automatically loses.

[mylife]

Have you taken the matter up with your congress critter?

[Sequoyah101]

Congratulations.

Have a nice life.

[Student0165]

Cain jumps the shark.

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Ayup. Which is why I won’t vote for him. Color trumps everything with every black person. I don’t care who they are or what their policies supposedly are. They cannot get away from that Mt. Rushmore size chip on their shoulder, all the while screaming the white man is keeping them down. Sooner or later it always outs.

[Revolting cat!]

[Reagan Man]

So what. Reagan voted for FDR 3x and Truman once. Then at about 40 years old Reagan started to support and vote for Republicans like Eisenhower and Nixon. But for various reasons he wouldn't switch parties for another 10 years. Perry did support and vote for Algore over Dukakis in 1988, but later in the general voted for GHW Bush. That would be the same Algore who opposed federal funding of abortion, supported a moment of silence in schools for prayer, approved funding of the Nicaraguan contras and was against the ban on interstate handgun sales. Gore’s politics was something a a life long conservative West Texas Democrat like Perry could support.

Here's what Perry said about that 1988 primary and general election:

“Not only did I vote for George H.W. Bush for president, I switched parties the next year,” Perry said. “When I did that, I made both political parties happy.”

So, at about 40 Perry became a Republican. Good for him.

[mylife]

Here are the numbers from Texas Comptroller Susan Combs

[HereInTheHeartland]

Disappointed to see Cain fall for this.

[NavyCanDo]

“Perry just got a (hugh) second chance in this primary.”

You really think so? He better be well prepared for the next debate because you know this question is coming.

Debate #4 Question:

This question is for Governor Perry. Its been reported that you once leased a hunting camp known by the name “Niggerhead”. Tell us, where you not bothered by the name, and if so why did you not select another hunting camp instead?

Talk about a question that can make someone TOAST real quick.

[hocndoc]

What’s worse is that Cain was part of the media - as a talk show host in Atlanta radio. He can’t claim naivete’.

[headsonpikes]

Thanks for posting.

I always knew the term in the ‘logging road boulder’ sense.

[bray]

f the story is a long time ago, Cain should tell them to go find another non-story to get all Makada’d up about. The racist card is wearing a bit thin.

Pray for America

[heiss]

I saw him on fox news, doubling down.

Cheap shot. This may be his ‘heartless’ moment